1,2,3- play and learn with me! Erasmus Project

Project Title

1,2,3- play and learn with me!

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: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills

Project Summary

This project aims to bring schools from 6 countries together. While the official language of the project was English, the partners agreed to encourage all stakeholders to communicate well in other languages of the partnership. We wanted to open our children to the World. The project was based on word games. G.A.M.E.S.=GO.ATTEMPT. MIX .ENJOY .SKILL IN. The word GAME has a huge capacity and in this project we would like to use this for educational and social reasons. We started from playground/sport field and then via classrooms to the ICT virtual world. The project first phase was to revitalize old traditional games played by parents and grandparents when they were young. We invited families to schools to share their knowledge and through this, they also were part of the project. The second phase was teaching via games, exchanging and sharing ideas. We also encouraged pupils to create their own games. The project second phase was devoted to “teaching& learning through games” and “hybrid- learning & teaching”. Teachers from each country created and shared games through which their subjects can be taught better. We exchanged our ideas via the Internet and during international meetings when participants (teachers and students) had the opportunity to take part in lessons conducted in the new way. In the second part of the project each country was obliged to teach in modern way, what means teach skills that aren’t in curriculum so as to wider children’s curiosity and knowledge.
The project third phase was entering virtual world and try coding, robotics, etc. We had robotics and coding workshops, which were shared through the Internet and during transnational meetings. This goal was achieved by formal and informal learning/teaching. All the phases of the Project were based on GAMES. Our project was mainly a project for our pupils. Therefore it was very important for us to involve them as much as possible in all steps of the work. Each involved class chose two representatives that met in project groups to collect and exchange the ideas of their classmates. The pupils decided the most relevant topics they wanted to work on. Secondly they selected the materials and the way to present the information appropriately. Teachers helped them to organize the work, evaluate the results and also plan the next steps. On project days, pupils presented the results and learnt to work with different methods of presentation. During the year, pupils also partly joined the pedagogical conferences to exchange their ideas with teachers and plan together. Every four months pupils got in contact via Internet conferences with the partner schools, to exchange their impressions, results and also get the chance for active language-learning. Twice a year pupils were also involved in special parents meetings, so as to present their work and discuss their ideas. Pupils had the chance for a pupils-exchange during project meetings in one of the partner countries. This was one of our important points during this project. Pupils can motivate other pupils to learn a foreign language, feel the “European spirit” and work intensively through personal contact on the project theme. Mobilities and virtual meetings for students and adults alike, in the framework of this partnership, was a unique experience to discover the lifestyle of each other and share experiences of our country. Students developed their sense of belonging to the EU by observing and integrating the similarities and differences between partner countries and their characteristics. The reports after each mobility gave a concrete picture of the countries visited and feed new representations of these countries. Meetings and encouraged collaboration, daily reflections, common synergy, emergence of new ideas and shared development of products was adapted in order to better understand the school reality. The teachers involved in the project improvde and broaden their knowledge and teaching practices which are then transmitted into their colleagues institutions (new interdisciplinary approaches, ICT…). Participation in such a project with a European dimension added value to the curriculum for children who were mobilized. Experiencing the complexity and diversity of education environments, training and work, helped to promote and strengthen European cooperation in institutions so as to understand the unity in diversity of the European space. Finally, this project, through viewpoints, comparisons, approaches and practical contributions aims to the promotion of European values and priorities such as gender equality, fight against violence and discrimination to solve problem and propels respect for diversity.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 148435 Eur

Project Coordinator

Szkola Podstawowa im. M. Kopernika w Czaslawiu & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Darica Namik Kemal Ilkokulu
• 201st Primary School St. St. Kiril and Metodiy
• Elva Gümnaasium
• Istituto Comprensivo “Militi”
• PALEKASTRO PRIMARY SCHOOL