“A small choir for a great continent” Erasmus Project

Project Title

“A small choir for a great continent”

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

For all of the schools involved in this adventure it´s clear that the power of music is endless, the school choirs are a path that leads to educative inclusion and knowing our own and other countrie´s folklore as well as culture, help us to promote emphaty, it changes our view of the world, provides us the chance to get a broad cultural diversity and to appreciate our own culture and to get a better understanding of the present by knowing our past time. All in all, adding the importance of improving our school body linguistic competence and the responsible and concious mastery of new technologies has pushed us to design this great project called “A Small Choir for a Great Continent”.
Our project´s vehicular axis are both, the school choir and the inclusion at the school. Through school choirs, we work on respect, appreciation, tolerance, patience, self-esteem, cooperation, sensitivity, discipline, organization, success after a great effort and love towards music as well as the enjoyement of its ludic nature. Everyone is important within a choir. We all develop a especial role and can contribute to get a good result. A choir is the perfect place to achieve inclusive education.
This project is composed by six schools: two of them are from Spain, one from Greece, one from Italy, one from Croatia and one from Poland. We all have our own school choir, and we all want to make an European School Choir made up with children from our six schools to perform our common repertoire at different international gatherings. Our shows will be aimed to public audience as well as specific groups such as elderly people, especial education pupils, nurseries, schools, etc.. Our young artists will bring happiness through music.
It´s our desire to reach the whole education community across our schools borders. We want to develop musical and cultural activities related to the countries idiosyncrasy, increasing the use of ICT as well as the competence at English as a foreing language since this will be the language used along the project. The activities will be suitable to our students age and there will be set different leveled activities according to competence to make them more varied and rewarding.
We will do, in addition to the choir’s own activity, the following activities: learn typical dances of the countries we are going to visit, virtual contests on folklore, creating a logo for the choir t- shirts, build popilar instruments, research on European culture, exchange letter, , among others…And A EUROPEN MUESEM OF FOLKLORE IN EACH SCHOOL.
Each of our international gathering will meet 4 students and 2 teachers per center. It will let us relish all we have researched and learnt in a distance and provide us the opportunity to experience in first person such unforgetable and rewarding memories to pass on our coworkers back to our schools.
We´ll use eTwinning as a tool to allow our students to get international contact with children from abroad. This supposes a very important tool in our project since there will be developed an eTwinning project and an Erasmus+ one which will be linked each other and will ease the coordination and dissemination of the project. Besides, to get a further impact, we´ll use also Facebook and we´ll design a blog to show everyone our project and track it.
Our project will be very rewarding to all the participants involved in it. Teachers, children and families. Also hometowns and regions will benefit from it involving local associations, authorities, other schools, etc.
Thanks to this project, some children will have the opportinity to travel and get an open mind. This way the may visit places they may never go otherwise with their families due to the low backgrounds they come from. This will be a great experience in general since they all will get a critical thinking, they will learn to appreciate and respect different people and they will realize how important is the team work to reach a common objective, which is singing better.
The participant teachers will get trainings to improve their teaching practice, they will take a Choir Conducting Training at the first gathering, they will assist to a ICT workshop and an online course about eTwinning to provide them some tools to ease teachers and student´s work from a distance. Each country has different tasks assigned because we all together make a great team and we all make a valuable contributions. Some os us contribute some experience, others add their musical background, others provide their mastery of eTwinning and ICT, etc…
It is shown that music has positive effects which can be extrapolated to the rest of the school competences which benefit the full development of a child.
Music brings everybody together and it is present at the most important times in our lives so due to its kindness it must be present at our students development. And thanks to projects like ours, we want not to make it present but to be the main axis of it.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 194100 Eur

Project Coordinator

COLEGIO PÚBLICO DE EDUCACIÓN INFANTIL Y PRIMARIA JOSÉ MARÍA DEL MORAL & Country: ES

Project Partners

• CEIP LUIS COSTA
• Szkola Podstawowa im. Jana Kochanowskiego w Witkowicach
• Talijanska osnovna skola “Galileo Galilei” – Scuola elementare italiana “Galileo Galilei”
• Istituto Comprensivo “Luigi Pirandello” – Comiso (Rg)
• 35 primary school