happy school has happy students Erasmus Project

Project Title

happy school has happy students

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: Pedagogy and didactics; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal)

Project Summary

Our project has been prepared on the purpose of preventing peer bullying among primary school students, of reducing anger and stress of students and providing them to get a better relationship. The peer bullying is such a prevalent problem that it occurs in the almost whole world and in each grade of educational institutions. The project partners came together in the E -twinning project “Happy School” that the coordinator of it constituted on 4 September 2018. The partner countries participated in an online survey which the coordinator prepared about extents of peer bullying at the schools. The results of the survey has been uploaded in the “Happy School” project 175228 ID numbered on the platform of e-twinning. The aims of this project are to prevent peer bullying, to reduce factors of anger and stress that are seen in the students, to bring the empathy literacy, to develop friendship skills, to promote group works and cooperative works. The project partners are Turkey that set up the e-twinning project with the coordinator school and so the structure of partnership improved on it, Estonia, Lithuania and Romania. During the project process, five LTT activities will be realized and transient exchange of students’ group will be done. Four students and two teachers from every country will participate in each of LTT activities. It has been agreed that the age of students who will participate is ten. The criterions of selection have been constituted for participant students. These are;

-to have skills of self-care
-to have characteristic of cooperative work
-not to have any perpetual disease
-to express him/herself well
-to accurately and carefully perform the responsibilities that s/he gets with the project at the school.

Besides, these are considered as section criterions of the participant teachers;
-to get proficiency of foreign language
-to be able to take on responsibility of the students participating in the activities
-to be assigned actively in the e-twinning project “Happy School” that is the resource of forming of the Erasmus Project
-to have been tasked with the works about safety of internet.

In the content of LTT activities, there will be anger management, stress prevention works, mindfulness activities, education of peer mediation, training of literacy of empathy, outdoor activities which will support cooperative work, yoga works for kids, classroom techniques developed on positive behaviours, activities of writing story that develops the consciousness of friendship. As a local performance, we include in generating an attitude against bullying at school, informing students’ parents and school staff about the topic, doing actions that boosters the relations among students, writing scenario and slogans, activities implemented with parents in order to create conscious awareness. In project’s layout, developmental characteristics of primary school students are analysed and organizations appealing to those z generation called students’ interests and needs are arranged. Holistic approach is adopted as the methodology used while carrying out the project. The reason why we chose this methodology is that there are active roles of the school staff, students and their parents on
struggling with peer bullying. As we think that the peer bullying is not only in the classroom but also everywhere that the students are, in the project activities we will inform the school staff except from the teaching department. The application responsibility which has seven sections including avoiding stress and mindfulness home-based exercises, will be given to the students’ parents. For the dissemination of the project, e-magazine in digital media and empathy literacy kit will be prepared. Mindfulness activities which prevent the stress and family participation exercises will be published. The activities will be shared by creating social media account (instagram, twitter, facebook). A project blog and website will be formed. Among the targeted results of the project, there are increasing the positive attitudes, preventing the students’ physical, oral and social bullying to each other, constituting a common strategy among project partner schools against bullying. The schools are the holiest places where the basic values such as love, togetherness and sharing are taught to children. By application of our project, peer bullying at schools will be hindered substantially and a long term sustainable strategy development against bullying will be ensured.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 118854 Eur

Project Coordinator

NEF ILKOKULU & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Zubeyde Hanim Ilkokulu
• Vilniaus Pranciskaus Skorinos gimnazija
• Scoala Gimnaziala Lucian Blaga
• Sauga Põhikool