The wonderland of languages Erasmus Project

Project Title

The wonderland of languages

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; Social dialogue; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

With this Project, we intended to contribute to foreign language education in our partner institutions. Foreign language education is a process seeking activity. That is why, we thought our project as a three year project in the planning stage. We started out with 9 partners however when Germany and Croatia left the partnership, 7 primary schools from 7 countries contributed to the project to the maximum and successfully carried out the responsibilities of the institutions that have left the partnership along with their own responsibilities.
As a result, we can say that we have reached the objectives of our project after three years. However, we need to add that 3 years is a very long time for a project. We face various unexpected problems during the implementation of the project. Teachers, head masters leave their schools. Such changes are not an obstacle to reach the objectives but can sometimes slowit down.
Aim in short: The aim in this project was to make language learning and foreign language learning inclusive and accessible to all children and educators.
Number and profile of participating organisations:
Taubeskolan (922328963) is a primary school opened in 2012. It is situated in the local distict Lundby in Gothenburg city and it is beautifully situated on Färjenäs Park in Västra Eriksberg. This is a newbuilt, modern area located next to the river. The residents of Eriksberg are mainly high income earners and well educated, but the pupils of Taubeskolan come from different parts of the local city district Lundby. The total amount of pupils in Taubeskolan is 284 and 29 teachers are working in the school.

Cobden Primary School (930040269) is an expanding school ( currently 360 pupils ) situated in the Hastings ward of Loughborough in Leicestershire. The catchment area is in one of the most deprived areas of England. Many families are unemployed and many are single parent. Many children enter school at a very low level and there is a high rate of pupil mobility. Despite this, the school’s expectation is that children leave school at age related levels of education. As many children have English as a second language, or have very poor language and life experiences, Cobden school staff work hard to enrich the quality of the childrens lives. The school places great importance on oral story telling and most staff have undergone training in Talk for Writing story telling techniques.

Zakladni skola (923066939) is situated in the residential part of the town of Usti nad Labem. This school is 50 years old.. Nowadays there are about 600 pupils of the age 6 to 15 attending to this school. Lessons include foreign languages: English, German and Russian. They have participated in some international projects, e.g. they have been in a long-term partnership with the Montessori-Schule Chemnitz in Germany.

Izzet Bezirci (919877385) is a state primary school opened in 2005. It was founded and named after Izzet Bezirci, a benefactor and education volunteer. The school includes a nursery and the grades from 1 to 4 (primary education) There are 60 teachers and 1300 students aged between 4 and 11. The school is situated in Karatay, which is one of the biggest of the three districts of Konya. Konya is a city in the Middle Anatolian part of Turkey. Karatay is the oldest settlement of Konya; in other words, it can be called, “ancient Konya”. It is highly populated with migrants from East Anatolian part of the country.

CEIP Portal NOU (943601451) is a public school (3-12 years old) with around 230-240 students and 21 teachers. The school is in the center of Ibiza town. We are specialized on working with special needs students. We teach with alternative and augmentative communication systems. They have pupils from all around the world, but mainly from Romania, South America and Morocco. They teach English from 3-12 years old pupils teaching arts with CLIL (content languages integreated learning).

Agrupamento de Escolas de Vieira de Leiria (943011691) is located in the municipality of Marinha Grande.This school consists of schools from Pre-school, 1st Cycle, 2nd Cycle, 3rd Cycle and Secondary education. Students come from the parish, nearby location, including some migrant children from Countries of Eastern Europe, China and some Portuguese-speaking countries.
There are seven classroom teachers, two educational support teachers and two for special education. The school has 3 operational assistants and other staff who help clean and maintain garden spaces

The 17st Primary School of Heraklion (931971636) is located in Heraklion. The school itself has 180 students aged 6-12 and is staffed by teachers both in morning and afternoon zone. Our school belongs to the schools with an extended program, which means that their students have the opportunity to attend english – computer ,art and theatre courses during their six year attendance in Primary School. In addition , there is also a class and a teacher specialized for stu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 172165 Eur

Project Coordinator

Taubeskolan & Country: SE

Project Partners

• Zakladni skola Usti nad Labem, Vojnovicova 620/5, p.o.
• 17th Primary School of Heraklion
• Cobden primary school
• OS fra Ante Gnjeca
• CEIP Portal Nou
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Vieira de Leiria
• GrundschuleGlane