Connecting Pupils to the European Space Erasmus Project

Project Title

Connecting Pupils to the European Space

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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Creativity and culture; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

Our Connecting Classrooms to the European Space Project aims to develop teaching resources which enabled partners to engage whole school communities in the European curriculum. The Project developed a Skills Audit Tool which assesses knowledge and understanding of Europe. This tool is able to be used with whole school communities. The project also produced European Learning Materials and resources which can be accessible on line to enable the delivery of a European curriculum in schools. The Learning Materials are themed around key topics such as family, local and national heritage, traditional cuisine, and celebrations.

The partnership consists of 8 partners from 7 countries. All partners are schools and pupils range in age from 3 to 18 some having identified special additional needs. As a partnership we believe that all pupils in our school have benefited in some way however within each school there is an identified target group. As a result pupils aged 6 to 16 were the key focus as beneficiaries of the project. All partners have been committed to developing a formal European curriculum and so each partner developed their own European Development Plan which will ensure the sustaining of the project activities. A Project Website has been developed as a key tool for sharing information within and out with the project partnership, each school website has been utilized to share information and to signpost where to access information and a E twinning teachers room https://www.up2europe.eu/european/projects/connecting-pupils-to-the-european-space_105107.html has been opened where information relating to the project can be accessed.

THE CORE OBJECTIVES were to:

– develop an understanding of what it means to be a European Citizen
– encourage our pupils to be sensitive to different cultures
– develop a respect of the local, national and European heritage
– encourage our pupils to be open minded and thoughtful towards others
– celebrate similarities and be tolerant and understanding regarding our differences
– develop independent learning skills
– encourage our pupils to become self motivated learners
– improve reading and writing skills – including the learning of English as a second language
– integrate the use of Information Technology into the curriculum and improve pupils’ competency with ICT
– developing an understanding of being part of the the wider European Community amongst the wider school community eg parents, Governors, local dignatories
– provide opportunities for staff to experience different cultures which will enable them to see things from a different perspective
– enable staff to experience differencing approaches to teaching and learning
-creation of a communication network during the Project which is accessible on an open access basis and can be sustained following the completion of the Project

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 163667,96 Eur

Project Coordinator

Mercian Educational Trust T/A Great Malvern Primary School & Country: UK

Project Partners

• Institut Valldemossa
• TEPECIK ORTAOKULU
• Colegiul Tehnic de Electronica si Telecomunicatii “Gheorghe Marzescu” Iasi
• Osnovna skola Gradac
• Szkola Podstawowa im Jana Klicha w Wieprzu
• EIDIKO EPAGGELMATIKO GYMNASIO ACHARNON (ex TEE Acharnon School of Special Education -A degree)
• CEIP VELADA