FLYING WORDS Erasmus Project

Project Title

FLYING WORDS

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 : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Creativity and culture; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

“FLYING WORDS” PROJECT SUMMING UP 2018-2020

The primary aim of our project has been the union between different schools in the world, by writing stories starting from an image.
To appreciate cultural diversity, we have used the word’s creativity, learning without discrimination and sharing experiences.
This project has been innovator for the implicated schools because new technologies have been applied.
The results have been positive, improving educational methods, students’ linguistic competence and social attitude.

PROJECT PROGRESS:
It had two main parts:

1. Teachers’ methodological innovation: The infant-literature expert (Eva DiagoEgaña, teacher at Ceip “El Cruce de Castilla” Spain) has taught us the Robert Schwartz methodology in a seminary. It is about how creating stories and we have improved students’ creativity, linguistic competence and critic thought by collaborative work.

2. Students’ behavior: we have achieved a strong union between students from different schools through the writing competence.
Students have created short stories by starting with the same image and using a critic thought. By doing this, students have used collaborative learning, because they have helped each other. Finally, they have created comics and endless stories.
In order to work with different kind of language, we have used the abilities proposed by Robert Schwartz, improving our students’ creativity, linguistic competence and critic thought.
Moreover, this project has had the additional European value. We all have worked over the same necessities and objectives, regardless of the geographic location, the educational system or the methodologies used. This way, we have created a global project between different cultures and different schools.

The objectives achieved have been:

– To promote the awareness and the multicultural incorporation of students from 3 to 15 years old, teachers and local communities in the different countries that have participated through the creation of stories.
– To develop the values of European citizenship based on understanding, mutual respect and tolerance with other nations.
– To develop children’s imagination and initiative using collaborative participation strategies and thinking routines.
-Develop interpersonal communication skills: teamwork, responsibility, negotiation and cooperation in a project in which students and teachers have identified with each other
– Our students have been able to value the cultural differences of other countries and have awakened interest so that through knowledge, they can grow as people.
– Students with social and cultural needs have been included, integrating them in a project where the differences are an added value, due to the existing diversity
– Different experiences have been shared on negotiation methods and teaching in the participating countries about creativity, problem solving, initiative, use of ICTs and cultural traditions.
– Stories have been created that convey universal values and promote intercultural and multicultural inclusion.

THE WORK PROCESS:

Three of the four transnational meetings between partner countries have been held, (the fourth meeting was cancelled due to the crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic). In these meetings we have carried out a training of the seminar of literary creation and a sharing of each planned activity, we have given guides for the development of the work, and we have used digital tools to show each activity of the project.

The results of the project have been disseminated in different media by the different schools and have been published on the schools’ websites and in Etwinning.

Web of the project:
• http://portaleducativo.educantabria.es/web/proyecto-erasmus-ka229-flying-words-/project-flying-words-2018-2020

Etwinning:
• Project: “FLYING WORDS”
Twinspace
• https://twinspace.etwinning.net/121142/home

Web schools:
• http://portaleducativo.educantabria.es/web/c.e.i.p.-jeronimo-perez-sainz-de-la-maza (Cantabria-Spain)
• http://ceipelcrucedecastilla.centros.educa.jcyl.es (Palencia-Spain)
• https://1ou-berk.com/ (Berkovitsa- Bulgaria)
• www.sp1pszczyna.pl (Pszczyna- Poland)
• http://www.kistaltos.hu/ (Kómaron- Hungary

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 60371,54 Eur

Project Coordinator

CEIP. JERONIMO PEREZ SAINZ DE LA MAZA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• CEIP FRANCISCO ARGOS
• Komáromi Kistáltos Óvoda
• 1. OU ”Nikola Yonkov Vaptsarov”, Berkovitsa
• Szkola Podstawowa nr 1