Playing for Chance Erasmus Project

Project Title

Playing for Chance

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: Creativity and culture; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Due to the increase in the unemployment rate, a consequent number of disadvantaged families, a growing number of foreign families, there is a need to make the school a place to prevent disease, build a confident and collaborative mood, enhance the students’ resources in order to avoid early school leaving. In this context we think that our project can meet these needs. Furthermore, it is shared with our partners because it provides the implementation of creativity, activities and subjects and the awareness of being the part of the European community. Last but not least, the project greatly innovates teaching. The main theme of this project is music because we are sure that music is a really effective way to connect people from the whole world and that it encourages people to communicate in foreign languages and to improve their social and cultural skills.

This project consists of the cooperation of five countries and it is aimed at realizing the international Erasmus+ CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA . All the schools already have an experience of partnerships and most of them have already worked together. As a matter of fact, the project was precisely outlined thanks to a previous experience of three partners from an Erasmus+ music project called „Together to Enjoy, Join to Learn”. 20 students from each country at the ages of nine to sixteen will take part in foreign mobilities to become a part of an international choir and orchestra. They will rehearse together, play concerts, learn more about author rights in each country, experience different culture, way of living and other aspects of spending one week in a host family abroad. On the other hand, groups of students of each school will be involved in the project without participating directly in the students mobility. There will be hundreds of students engaged in the partnership. The partners will choose songs on which the pupils will work and produce materials. These songs will be used for the international concerts with all the involved students and teachers singing and playing their musical instruments side by side. The students will work on these songs, discus the themes, research information about authors, biography, curiosities, music genres and they will record and make special videos of their national folk songs. The inspiration to do these videos comes from a worldwide project called “Playing for Change” (you can see an example of the way we would like to do the videos here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM).

The outcomes and results of this students’ activity will not only be a “songbook”, five “Play for Chance” musical videos and other learning and teaching materials but also the implementation of English language and the development of ICT, music and European citizenship skills. There will be a continuous action of preparation and evaluation of all materials, and the analysis of the results covering all the aspects. We will measure the process, outcomes, musical competence, digital competence, language competence and European competence. The expected impact on the students will also be visible in the improvement of emotional competences and other capabilities concerning life-competences, such as cooperation, integration and contribution to mutual respect to fight prejudices. Moreover, teachers will greatly benefit from the activity because they will enrich and innovate their teaching and will definitely learn to communicate in foreign language better. The authentic experience created in international classes, the cooperation and preparation of music and singing together will allow everyone to adopt a holistic approach. As a result, it will facilitate the learning process in the students, increase their motivation by making them be part of an educational and inclusive project. All the activities, documents, learning/teaching materials will be published in a project website, twinspace, facebook page and Erasmus + Project result platform.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 135006 Eur

Project Coordinator

Zakladni skola Bodlaka a Pampelisky,o.p.s. & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• CELFF Centro de Estudos Línguas Formação Fogueteiro SA – Colégio Guadalupe
• Szkola Podstawowa im. Wladyslawa Jagielly w Tenczynku
• IES Padre Moret-Irubide
• 1 Gymnasio Volou