Comenius Portugal - Program

Wednesday 22nd April

For this day youll need comfortable clothes and shoes and towel from the hotel, and slippers for showering,
if necessary.
You can bring it with you and change it when need it, if you want.
8.15am

Bus will pick you up at hotel saying

COMENIUS GROUP
Arrival at the Yellow house
Session1
Welcome to the Yellow House!
Visiting 3 services of the association:
Early child support service
Day care center
Center for family support and parental
counselling
Lunch with staff

9.15am
9.30am 12pm

12pm 1.00pm
1.15pm
1.30pm 4.00pm

7.15pm
7.45pm 10.30pm
10.45pm

Bus to the hotel

5.00pm 6.00pm

6.00pm 7.00pm

All staff of the yellow

house

Bus to a regular school

Session 2
NS association on schools
Visit to a 5th to 9th level school and its
special units (for children with special
needs)
Introduction of the Portuguese School
System
Break (fruit, juices, water, snacks)
Experience a play of Boccia (a precision
ball sport)
Bus to NS association Residential house
Our house
Session 3
We are moving!
Meeting the staff and users
(adults with special needs)
Dancing and fitness time!
Time for a quick shower if needed!
Healthy Break (water, tea, snacks, fruit)
Visiting the house
Bus to restaurant Mar da Palha
Dinner

4.15pm

Transport

Vera, Gil, Bia

Representative of the
school

Ana Bela

Renato and school

team
Vera, Gil, Bia

Staff and users

Silvia, Rita
Vera

Silvia, Rita
Vera, Gil, Rita, Silvia,
Bia,

Thursday 23rd April

We will be walking at the end of the day and night so bring comfortable shoes
8.15am
9.15am
9.30am 11am

Bus will pick you up at hotel

Arriving at Special Education School
Session4

Transport

Beyond our eyes

Experience some moments of daily routines
and sessions
Visiting the Special Need School of NS
association and head office
11.00 11.30am
11.30am 1.00pm

1.00pm 2.30pm
2.40pm
3.30pm 6.30pm

6.45pm

7.10pm - late

Staff of the services and students and

possible parents
Vera, Silvia, Renato

Break (fruit, juices, water, snacks)

Session 5
Other skin
Experience a Portuguese Comenius
session
Viewing a shot film
Discussing the film and the earlier
experience
Lunch
Bus to the association journeys
Session 6
The association journeys
(open to the community)
The theme: Happiness - what makes us
happy, to feel belonging in a place, work,
city?
Rudy De Jonge
Vera Silva
Mario Pereira (Gentle Teaching)
Teresa Freire (World Book of Happiness
author)
Dr. Mario Durval (City of Affection)
Pick up to boat station
by Bus, van and car
Boat to Lisbon
By foot from boat station to
Mercado da Ribeira (Cais do Sodr)
30 minutes walk
Dinner at Mercado da Ribeira
Nearby bar A Penso do Amor (love
pension)
To the hotel its 35 minutes walk or go to
Cais do Sodre station and go by metro to
Rossio station

Vera, Silvia

Translation is
provided

Vera, Guida, Silvia, Bia, Claudia,

Romi, Mario and
Teresa Freire

Get a ticket in a machine at the station

Friday 23rd April

Free morning
12.40pm

Bus will pick you up at hotel

1.45pm

Arriving at the recently opened services

building A City for All People
Visiting the Center of occupational activities
Visiting Autonomous Residences
Session 7
Smile Dance

2.00pm - 2.30pm
2.30pm 2.50pm

Transport

2.50pm 3.00pm
3.00pm 3.15pm
3.15pm 4.15pm

4.15pm 4.30pm
4.30pm 6.00pm
4.30pm 6.00pm

6.00pm 7.00pm

7.00pm 8.30pm
8.45pm
9.00pm 10.30pm

10.40pm

Tool built on a neuroscience-base for

school heath
Break
Session 8
Booklet of small motivation techniques
Session 9
Final chapter of the book
Session 10
Evaluation of the project
Break
Starting the final report of the project
Sesson11
Getting to know Barreiro!
Team building activities by foot through the
city and its special places
Break at the bar Portuguesa
(a special place decorated like a typical old
Portuguese house)
Dinner at 100 Espinhas

Cristina Baptista (mentor)

Alain
Rudy
Rudy
Just coordinators

Gil, Hugo, Rita, Bia,

Gil, Hugo, Ana

Bela

Pick up by Bus
From Us to You Event
Little entertainment made for the Comenius
group and workers, users, volunteers and
their families
Bus and van to the boat station

Saturday 25th April

For the morning session, its advice comfortable clothes and shoes, also beach towels, so that we can seat
in the sand. If you are comfortable with, please bring clear clothes, preference not black. Bring also
something warm if its cold this day.
7.30am
Bus will pick you up at the hotel
Transport
8.40am
9.30am 11.00am

Bus will pick you up us at Barreiro

Vera, Silvia, Rita, Claudia, Ana

Isabel

Discovering the other side of the river

Tagus: Arrbida
Session 12
Meditation and Reiki

Surya Association
(alternative therapies)

Note: If someone doesnt want to do this

session it can walk on the beach during it.
Feel free to feel

11.00am 11.20am
11.30am
12.20pm 2h10pm
2.20pm
2.30pm

4.00pm

Meditation sounds concert

Bhajanjot Singh
(Kundalini Yoga master and sound therapist)
Enjoying the beach
Depart to restaurant Dona Isilda (Palmela)
Lunch
Depart to Moinhos Vivos
Moinhos Vivos (Alive Windmills)
walking tour
Depart to the Jose Maria da Fonseca Winery

Rita

5.00pm
6.00pm
7.30pm

Jose Maria da Fonseca Winery

Depart to Barreiro
Farewell Dinner

23.20pm

Depart to the hotel

Offered by staff, users, families and

volunteers of NS association

Sunday 26th April

Departure of partners