Play Together to Learn Together Erasmus Project

Project Title

Play Together to Learn Together

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: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Social dialogue

Project Summary

Entitled ‘Play Together to Learn Together’, the theme of our project is learning through cooperative play, allowing our children to work together to design, produce and share a ‘pedagogical suitcase’ of games. These games will be expressly made to enable the children to develop better life skills, especially those children for whom there are barriers to learning.

Our project will involve five primary schools and one kindergarten, all with the common aim of providing the best possible chances for our children to learn. This project will be a learning resource and a teaching support and all members within this partnership see the project as a great opportunity to broaden the options available to our children in the future.

It will follow a cycle of activities over three years:

Year One – communication to all stakeholders about the project, followed by preparation, conception and development of the ‘pedagogical suitcase’ of games.

Year Two – evaluation, adaptation and development of the games through teaching, implementation and integration of the games into lessons and through pupil and staff teaching exchange visits. Promotion of the project to the wider community.

Year Three – legacy, evaluation and dissemination of the project to all stakeholders and duplication of the games as necessary.

The main objective is to improve the life skills and therefore opportunities, for our children. Furthermore, we aim to produce resources which will be used within schools for many years to come; resources which may be developed and renewed with ongoing cooperation with our European partners and may also be shared by schools locally and more widely where possible.

We want to educate our children on the importance of being responsible European citizens equipped with the necessary life skills. We will include partner school ‘pupil exchanges’ in our programme, so that a number of pupils can travel with staff to teach and share the games and their experiences – reporting back to their peers. Teachers will also watch an example of innovative teaching in each of the partner schools and bring back best practice to their schools.

Our project will help pupils to:

– understand new and innovative ways of thinking
– develop basic mathematic and literacy skills
– develop their life skills to become responsible citizens
– work with others to share ideas and gain confidence
– develop their knowledge of other European languages
– create real resources for learning support, now and into the future
– become more confident in communicating in a foreign language
– use ICT and social media responsibly
– develop independence and improve emotional intelligence

It will help staff to:

– develop teaching standards through understanding new and innovative ways of thinking and working
– create real resources for teaching support, now and into the future
– work cooperatively with European partners and staff in their own schools
– develop their knowledge of other European languages
– raise confidence and develop skills in communicating in a foreign language

Through European cooperation we believe we will see a positive impact on our whole school communities and a legacy of good practice for years to come. Strong European partnership will enable innovative teaching to be developed for the benefit of all.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 136845,94 Eur

Project Coordinator

Sherborne C of E Primary School & Country: UK

Project Partners

• Stichting PCOK Gaspard de Colignyschool
• Ecole élémentaire Ferdinand Buisson
• itü gvo özel dr. sedat üründül anaokulu
• BEC DE L’ÀGUILA
• Szkola Podstawowa nr 42 im. Jana Brzechwy w Czestochowie