play to learn Erasmus Project

Project Title

play to learn

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: Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; Pedagogy and didactics; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

Our 4 countries are faced with the same difficulties with our students in terms of lack of handling and lack of attention in the classroom. We all welcome students with disparities in school due to social and educational differences as well as a lack of motivation. The inclusion of some students also requires that we question our pedagogical practices. Advances in neuroscience and a children natural incline to play, allow us to implement ways to successfully learn. The main objective of this project is to see our students progress in the fields of science and reading comprehension. In order to do this, we want to implement games (associative, cooperative, symbolic, role-play or construction set) to stimulate the attention of our students and lead them onto the path of learning. Games provide us with a visible feedback on the student’s choice, path and strategies. These information make it possible to identify successes, to differentiate learning and consolidate knowledge. The goal is indeed to distance oneself from the game to reach abstraction. But the latter remains in the child’s brain as a referent to succeed in his task. Leading such a project on a European scale is a great motivation not only for children but also for teachers. It is stimulating and allows new exchanges on our practices. It is a great motivation to innovate and to organize meetings to set didactic principles and compare our preoccupations. Opening up to Europe is also an opportunity for some of our students to discover neighboring countries, different lifestyles and it allows children to travel and discover each other.
Participating children are between 6 and 10 years old. It involves 4 schools each differently organized, which is all the more interesting. Each of our schools welcomes children with disabilities, but also with difficult family backgrounds. This project will allow many children to communicate in unity around a theme that means a lot to them. We really wish to make numerous children travel. Beyond the joint implementation of the project, they will be the ambassadors of our Europe, so severely criticized nowadays. Being a part such a project will raise our students awareness of belonging to a same entity.
Our activities will be numerous. We will have co-intervention when handling games in the classrooms or when away. Children will make games and their rules for the younger students. Exchanges between students from the same school or from different countries will take place throughout the year.
When away, visits will be organized to get to know the area and the lifestyle of our fellow students. A great game to discover the other, inspired by “trivial pursuit”, will be entirely designed and handcrafted by the students. The kindergartens will be in charge of painting the board. The older ones (9-10 years old) will be responsible for the design of the game as well as the questions on sports, history, geography and arts whereas the 6 to 9 years old will be in charge of the questions on fauna and flora as well as on leisure. A pedagogical and fraternal bound will be experienced during these exchanges. Kindergarten teachers will give their insights into the different phoneme games and early counting activities.

The various games (battles, memories, riddles, construction sets, association games, cooperative games) with the best evaluation will be collected in a case. This kit will be intended for years ahead but will also be supplemented and shared with other schools during observation and sharing workshops. It could also be used to create bonds between “CM2 ” and “6ème” students.
The games will be developed around concepts chosen at the very beginning of the project. For the 6 to 8 year olds, the games will be based on phonemes, word families, vocabulary, sentences, understanding sentences as well as short texts, in the mathematical field, around the numeration and number of tens and hundreds.For older children, the games will be used to set up automatisms in conjugation, grammar and reading comprehension, in mathematics, counting, mental calculations and understanding of problems.

Concrete achievements expected:
-collection of games for primary school students;
-CDs, DVDs, short films/videos, brochures, photo exhibitions, travel diaries, portfolio for students.
Impact on students:
– motor development of students;
– emotional and social development
-development of intelligence
– to teach children adequate behavior and the respect of certain rules;
-to build our team spirit
– encourage children to become active adults.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 111935 Eur

Project Coordinator

Association education populaire ecole primaire privée la pommeraie & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Istituto Comprensivo Don Roberto Angeli
• Ecole Primaire St Sofronii Vrachanski
• Scoala Gimnaziala Hurezani