Become aware of others through doing theatre. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Become aware of others through doing theatre.

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: Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

The project “Become aware of others through doing theatre” falls within the intention to develop the European opening-up of school establishments based on students’ artistic work with the objective to reduce the percentage of poorly performing students.

The educational objectives concern knowing one’s own cultural heritage and that of the partner country, the linguistic skills of everyone (French being the first language or the language learnt), the numeral subject skills and of course the oral and artistic expression abilities.

The project involves about 80 pupils in total, aged between 6 and 9 years, i. e. 2 French classes and 2 Italian classes. Its main purpose is to co-present a piece of theatre in French at the Children’s Theatre festival in the French language, organised by the French Institute in Florence. The Italian and French pupils drawn from 2 classes out of the 4 participating, i.e. 35 to 37 pupils aged from 7 to 9 years, who will present their piece of theatre during the 2019 and 2020 productions of the Festival under the heading regarding mobility.

The main activities are the following: writing followed by creating a piece of theatre in French based on an Italian tale, a regular correspondence in French about the project on the Twinspace, and envisages an exchange on the work done around the piece of theatre, what everyone discovers about the local heritage, as well as the common one. The work of the artistic creation done with the teachers, will rely on the help of local theatre groups.

The expected results will be an improved knowledge of the pupils in all aspects of the intended educational objectives, therefore consequently it is also expected to see a reduction in the percentage of poor school performance.

In the long term, the schools hope to perpetuate the fruits of this project by maintaining the proposal of artistic work of a high level for the pupils and to participate in new European projects, virtual or not.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 35805 Eur

Project Coordinator

ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Istituto Comprensivo Don Roberto Angeli