Mens sana in corpore sano Erasmus Project

Project Title

Mens sana in corpore sano

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Health and wellbeing; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

At the end of our project, as a summary and with regard to the achievements and concrete results, we can say, we have carried out our main aims in a very high percentage. That means, over the two last years, we have developed our contents, we have applied the different methodologies that we proposed, we have carried out all the tasks and activities that we designed and we developed the three transnational meetings and the four short-term activities, just how we planned in the initial project and timeline. There haven´t been any significant change in the initial agreements and the respect for the agreements between the four partners has been maximum. This reality has got a very high participation, dissemination and impact in our schools and environments.

More specifically, and talking according to the blocks and objectives whom defined our initial project we can say:

With respect to the first block, “ME AND MY IDENTITY”: during our four visits each other and with our tasks and activities planned to carry out during the school years, we worked two of our main objectives: to improve our personal well-being (physical, affective and relational), through the work of the intrapersonal intelligence, the value of our personal and cultural identity and the work of the live healthy habits. The different tasks and activities that the four schools develop to work these aims were: videos describing each school and country, activities and tutorials about traditional games and dances typical from each country, recipes and cookbooks about the different cuisines, audiobooks with traditional stories of each region and logbooks showing the ecological heritage of our countries. Everything with the intention to show how we are and get the appreciation and respect for the different identities. Without doubt, we got it because our relationship and respect has been amazing. Also, we carried out different workshops about emotional intelligence, social and teaching abilities, assertiveness and empathy, everything in order to get an integral health (social and emotional, too).

In our second block, “ME AND the OTHERS”, we worked these aims: to take part in different sports, traditional games, dances and activities in the nature, as a proposal of healthy free time and for improving our interpersonal intelligence through activities related to assertiveness, empathy and social skills. Also, we have exchanged good practices and experiences in the learning of a foreign language (English) using the “Content and Language Integrated Learning methodology” (CLIL). The achievement of these aims has been very high, as well. Beside all activities which are mentioned before, very useful to know and accept the other one, in our project has been a mass participation and intense interaction between all the participants: students, families, teachers. All of them have taken part in the different initiatives. The method of work adopted in all the decisions and actions had been cooperative, collaborative and inclusive. This way, all the pupils from the different levels and educative stages (from three years to fourteen years) took part in the tasks elaborated in each school and later these tasks were showed and shared in our mobilities.

Likewise, in each short-term activity all the pupils, teachers, families and other institutions have been the main actors and actress during theirs weeks as host, with the develop of workshops, school trips, visits, performances, activities, celebrations, etc. Without a doubt these weeks were the most intense and enriching time during these two years.

We have been very careful with the activities and actions to prepare our meetings, specially about how to select our students for the short-term activities, our host families and how to get a perfect relationship between them: interviews, letters, videoconferences, sending previous information to the families, using social networks for the first contacts… Everything in order to get a perfect living together. In fact, our families and students keep the contact with pupils and families from the different countries and they have visited each other during the summer holidays.

English has been our principal language in all our communications, activities, workshops and visits. Also, we have developed a pair of workshops to know the “Content and Language Integrated Learning” methodology to use it in our classes and subjects. In the same way, we have done different activities and tasks in order to use, learn and share our mother tongues: using our multilingual dictionary and learning traditional songs and stories from each country.

Finally, about our block “ME AND THE ENVIROMENT” and its objectives: to know and value the ecological environment of the different countries of our association and share experiences and good practices related to the protection of the environment, we have carried out activities with a real contact with our environment, visiting natural parks in our four countries, with different workshops where we knew our biodiversity in each school, planting different typical species from each region and with the elaboration of our logbooks (with the most common animals and plants) and our activity about the The three “R” (reduce, reuse, recycling). It is possible to find all our experiences, documents and tasks mentioned in our blog and the results platform and also, in a lot of published articles in different mass media in our four countries.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 113210 Eur

Project Coordinator

C.E.I.P. Los Olivos & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Congregação Religiosas Escravas S.Eucaristia e Mae Deus
• Istituto Comprensivo G. Nosengo
• Szkola Podstawowa im. I Batalionu Saperow Kosciuszkowskich