OVER THE BRIDGE Erasmus Project

Project Title

OVER THE BRIDGE

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Access for disadvantaged

Project Summary

Over the Bridge(OTB) will use teacher and pupil visits together with shared lessons via Skype to compare two traditions of after-school education in the UK and Romania. OTB will investigate how these traditions have different impacts on excluded or socially disadvantaged pupils in each school. After-school education is used differently in both countries, and reflects differing attitudes towards education, attainment and inclusion. OTB will enable staff and pupils from both schools to experience differing after-school provision and to make observations and draw conclusions that will influence subsequent teaching practice and school policy. The project will make use of methods of ethnographic observation and analysis that are learned through training in the preparation phase of the project. Both staff and pupils will learn how to use observation as the starting point for developing concepts and theories about the impact of after-school provision on excluded or socially disadvantaged pupils in both countries. The work of observation and analysis will be inspired by forms of ethnography that emphasise a combination of visual, spoken and written work, and combine expressive and analytical writing in creative ways. Participant pupils in each school will be drawn from those who are at most social disadvantage or at most risk from exclusion. Support for their participation will be provided, including support for pupils’ mothers who experience shows are the most important factor in supporting their child’s education. The project will result in the creation of a set of resources, including portfolios of work created by the participants, videos of shared after-school sessions, analysis and theories about the impact of after-school provision on inclusion and attainment, and pupil-led and parent-led explorations of the factors that promote or prevent inclusion and attainment .There will be a conference presenting the findings held by the school for invited teaching staff in both cities, and a whole school presentation that will allow participating pupils to present their findings and narrate their experiences to their peers. Project work will also be made avaialable to university education departments and on teachers’ websites in both cities. The project will involve the direct participation of 15 members of staff and 30 pupils in each country with the indirect participation of 635 people in total who will benefit from the findings of the project or attend the dissemination events of the project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 40210 Eur

Project Coordinator

St. Ebbe’s C of E (Aided) Primary School & Country: UK

Project Partners

• SCOALA GIMNAZIALA NR 195