Writing across Europe with Dahl Erasmus Project

Project Title

Writing across Europe with Dahl

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The title of our project is: “Writing across Europe with Dahl“. This two-year project will focus on literacy and ICT. Having proficient Literacy and technology skills provide learners with power and the ability to transform lives.
The aim of our project is to enhance these areas through several activities that will provide, at the end of the project, a new method to teach literacy through ICT for Primary schools. This well-planned programme will adopt a skills-based approach and provide real-life opportunities which will apply Literacy, technology, Art and Thinking. This learning will be integrated into our curriculum, and will be effectively coordinated by members of staff at each school. The pupils will be encouraged to use their previous knowledge and skills, and to use their own initiative to successfully complete the activities, which will include problem solving and team working opportunities and to write their own books.
Our project outcomes will be for our pupils to enhance their literacy levels through traditional and ICT skills, their first language proficiency and foreign language skills, to learn and explore the culture and daily life of other European Countries, learn new vocabulary related to the different areas approached in our project and raise awareness of multiculturalism and European citizenship. All our learners will be supported by dedicated staff that will also be developing their Literacy and ICT skills further.
There will be six European countries participating in the project. Pupils, teachers and other school staff will be part of the project. We will also include our school Governors, Local communities, authorities, publishing houses, libraries, ICT experts and schools in our areas. Local media will always be informed.
During the first year of the project, the Primary students of the participating schools will start by reading the following books from Roald Dahl:
-1st – 2nd grade: The Enormous Crocodile
-3rd – 4th grade: Fantastic Mr. Fox
5th grade: George’s Marvelous Medicine
6th grade: The Witches
These books will be in the L1 of the learners and through their reading, the learners will improve their L1 reading comprehension. Several activities of the 1st year will stem from the Roald Dahl books, such as designing infographics, videos classroom escapes, mascot creation, kahoots, writing and representing theatre plays. During the 2nd year, the children will begin their venture, which will be devoted to learn the whole process of how to write books (write the text, draw pictures, digital book design) and a publishing house and guest speakers from each country, which have already been contacted and agreed on their participation, will support and aid in teaching the children about this whole process. This project will also deal with entrepreneurship: the participants will learn how to design posters and create videos in order to publicize the books they will write. At the end of this 2nd year these books will be printed and sold in a fair that will take place in the last trip in England (C6).
The internet will always be used for research purposes such as finding information from Roald Dahl and also to find and locate information on European countries within the project. Each participating school has already asked for the collaboration of their town local libraries throughout the whole project and these libraries (visited once a year),will display the books created by the students (1 or 2 books per school) at the end of the project. Literacy will also be enhanced by the writing of the books and reading them aloud in several workshops and displays will show the outcomes and the impact of the project. In addition, Literacy and ICT workshops conducted by local experts on these fields will be invited to work closely with teachers and students. Relevant guests will be invited into the schools in order to introduce and develop the power of literacy and ICT to the pupils. Possibly secondary students with excellent ICT skills will be invited to support and teach the Primary children, too. There will also be online encounters through eTwinning to communicate and participate in workshops.
The project will be continuously be evaluated during the two years through online questionnaires for each visit and at the end of the 1st and 2nd year.
The project will have a positive impact on our pupils, teachers and the local community, opening doors for new ideas and exciting ventures for the future. All results will be published on our website, eTwinning, Facebook and school’s websites in order to hopefully benefit other ventures in long term. All activities will also be displayed in the Erasmus corner from each school for all visitors to view.
We are very hopeful that our project will change our pupils’ thinking, embed a positive attitude and develop their literacy and ICT skills to become successful in any area in their future lifes.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 162245 Eur

Project Coordinator

Col·legi Igualada, SL & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Agrupamento de Escolas Fernando Casimiro Pereira da Silva
• Dimotiko Scholeio Axou
• Metsäkylän koulu
• Mordiford CE Primary School
• Circolo Didattico Statale ” A.De Gasperi”