Building Resources and Innovation to Develop Global Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Building Resources and Innovation to Develop Global Education

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

Context/Background

This project grew out of an earlier Comenius project called “Spirit of Hope”, the partner schools have remained largely the same. We have lost a partner school from Denmark and Turkey, but acquired a partner from Slovenia. This project grew out of a wish to sustain the earlier project, to maintain a partnership which collectively, institutionally and personally was characterised by a warmth and sense of collaboration between us. We extended our earlier project to start looking at topics which interested us and excited our students.

Objectives

Our proposed project had three primary aims;

1) To encourage disaffected students to remain in school
2) To provide project activities which stretch the most able
3) To promote girls’ awareness of opportunities beyond school

and it had three secondary aims:

•To promote a sense of European citizenship and an awareness of European institutions,
•To holistically develop the participant’s lifelong learning prospects through building a range of transferable skills such as entrepreneurship, communication skills, engagement in mobility, self-organising, independent and collaborative learning and a healthy lifestyle,
•To strengthen the academic achievement of all participants.

The vehicle through which these diverse and ambitious objectives was realised was by linking them by through the creation of a series of magazines.

The partnership agreed to produce 9 editions of the newspaper during the lifetime of the project but we added 3 supplements which focus on the following: society, science and change.

Eurocity: this was to a project which placed the emphasis on designing a new European city, although largely a town planning geography project it was to examine the linguistic diversity of Europe, European institutions and study what made a city a place to live as opposed to a collection of buildings.

Science in Europe: This supplement was planned to look at the scientific development of Europe from Al-Murad to the CERN, each partner was to focus on one scientist/mathematician from their own region and one from a partner region

Revolution in Europe; The emphasis on revolution was to be less associated with the overthrow of kings and tyrants and more concerned with the development of thought, commerce, technology, science and culture.

The remaining “newspapers” were planned to follow a format that would see each school assuming overall editorial control for that edition of the newspaper and would be dated to embrace a key period from that country’s History.

The UK would edit the 11th century edition, a date which would include the Norman Conquest of England. The headlines regarding the lead up to, the event itself and the aftermath would be reported by the UK school as headline domestic news.

Simultaneously, all other partners would create an article about the events in their countries, during the 11th century.

Topics which were covered were Art, Culture, Science, Belief Cookery, Technology.

The first edition of the newspaper was originally planned to introduce the partnership and spotlight each the schools within the partnership including links to the school website.

It was also intended to feature the results of the project logo designs competition.

We wanted the newspapers to represent as far as possible, the format of most modern newspapers and some or all to include the following sections

The newspapers would include sport. previews and reports of mini Olympics, It was planned that our students would form an Olympic committee which would devise sports that catered for everybody through changing rules to embrace mixed ages and mixed abilities and to include a “fair play” award. The participation in the sports event would include students who would either be competitors or journalists.

Cuisine: Each newspaper was to have a recipe section where students from the one country would deliver the recipes from their country.

Business News; It was planned that the magazines would report on Young Enterprise schemes in various schools.

Obituaries; Puzzles/fun corner, climate studies, education, Competitions;

We planned to stage a series of events such as:
Art Exhibition Mock Parliamentary Debate
Simulation of competitive tender for buildings for Eurocity
Drama Show
Music Show
Sporting Competition
Cookery event
Photographic exhibition
Creation of school Euro parliament

Educational Workshops
Writing for publication
CLIL
Weather Analysis and data recording
Star school at Kielder observatory
Visnjan observatory School for gifted and talented

Documentary results
Recording weather data
Hydrology issues in each region
E books featuring cuisine
Publication describing best practice for CLIL
Publication of sporting coaching manuals
Records of parliamentary debate and conclusions
Scripts and analysis of drama shows
Good practice guides for young enterprise in schools
Information pack

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 364774 Eur

Project Coordinator

academy at shotton hall & Country: UK

Project Partners

• OSNOVNA SOLA PIVKA
• Tranevågen ungdomsskule
• I.I.S. “Alfonso Maria de’ Liguori”
• Osnovna skola Podrute
• LEONARDO DA VINCI
• Zespol Szkol Budowlanych
• Lycée LGT Dupleix