“Once Upon A Time… European Children All Together” Erasmus Project

Project Title

“Once Upon A Time… European Children All Together”

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: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Reading comprehension is a key and primary skill. Thanks to this ability, it is possible to gain some knowledge and improve important life competences. Reading and reading comprehension belong to the basic skills which are developed during different subjects at school. They are also included in the European Curriculum. The most recent internal evluation at school shows that young European students have huge difficulties in reading and reading comprehension and low motivation to reading with pleasure. This troublesome situation is a challenge for those who get very low results/marks. They are exposed to social exclusion caused by a lack of these basic skills.

This is the reason why Primary School in Dlugie together with partnership schools from Spain, Italy and Slovakia elaborated a project “Once Upon A Time… European Children All Together”. The main goals of the project are developing students’ language competences such as reading, storytelling, interpretation or writing, increasing a motivation to reading with pleasure, partnership learning, exchanging the experiences, improving a school offer and quality of work, enriching teaching methods and solving problems of a lack of tolerance, undeveloped imagination, antisocial behavior, low motivation for reading, discrimination of weak students, computer technology addiction, violence at schools.

Around 3000 participants will take part in the project ( direct or indirect). The project is addressed to students, teachers, parents and local community. It activates not only talented students but also those with difficulties, from different social communities. Low students’ results and marks have an influence on their success, education, creativity and entrepreneurship. These aspects lead to impose the risk of unemployment or low financial status in the future life and make their participation in social, cultural, economic, democratic life harder and harder.

4 European schools decided to decrease this risk and improve reading and reading comprehension through equipping students with basic skills, activating them during all stages of the project, promoting responsibility for being a European and also improving foreign language and ICT skills.

A wide range of activities will be taken to motivate students to look for fairytales and legends, get to know the texts from European culture, analyze texts in order to notice some similarities and differences. All these planned activities will give students a chance to organize their own ideas, develop their creativity and independency and improve language skills within a mother tongue and a foreign language.

The most important intellectual outputs are „Anthology of European Faitytales and Legends”, “Dictionary of Fabulous and Legendary Figures”, interactive presentation “The most beautiful places in the region and legends connected with them”. The methodology which will be involved in the project will be very innovative. Thanks to it learning will be a great adventure and fun. Students will work mainly with a project work which will use subject integration, literature, theatre and art. Foreign language skills will be practiced through ICT and interactive technology.

Partnership meetings are a huge chance for improving communicative skills in English, overcoming a language barrier, becoming self – confident, believing in oneself, having new experience connected with travelling abroad, getting to know the reality and way of life in different culture or making lifelong friendships.

The main result of the project will be the improvement of reading and reading comprehension degree either in the mother tongue or foreign language and higher motivation to reading with pleasure. An expected effect of project activities is changing a lifestyle from bad habits to a better ones. Fairytales and legends will develop students’ inquisitiveness of world and their character will mould the right hierarchy of values. What is more, partnership schools also plan to follow described activities after finishing the project and cooperation with partners through creating a special group and future experience exchange.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 93010 Eur

Project Coordinator

Szkola Podstawowa w Dlugiem & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Istituto Comprensivo ‘S. Pertini’ Martinsicuro (Te)
• ESCOLA BERNARDÍ TOLRÀ
• Zakladna skola, Ing. O. Kozucha 11, Spisska Nova Ves