Rhythms of success – music movement to improve literacy and other key competences Erasmus Project

Project Title

Rhythms of success – music movement to improve literacy and other key competences

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills

Project Summary

The Project “Rhythms of success – music movement to improve literacy and other key competences” will be carried out within two years and will involve three countries (Poland, England, and Germany) and teenagers aged 11-18. Around 100 people, both visitors and the community of host school will take part in meetings. The effects of their work will be publicized locally and in media registered in the EST database and other educational portals.
The main aim of our project is to develop of key competences through music. Organizing attractive eurhythmics, music, singing and dance classes for pupils through implementation of pieces from the canon of fairy tale/film music and using these pieces to improve competences in different fields of knowledge. Improvement of communication skill by stimulating students’ openness and self-confidence in a conversation. Practical use of Mathematics and the native language as school subjects through attractive methods and teaching aids. Encouraging students to make music and to study
Within the selected subjects – eurhythmics, native language, English as the language of communication and mathematics – the most important areas will be specified on which we shall work. As for eurhythmics, movement, dance and body coordination will be used. As regards the native language, work concerning the lexicon and text structure will be in focus. Mathematics will be used to systematize measurement units concept, location, direction, size, geometrical figures and special relations on a plane.
Within the framework of the project we have planned four short students meetings, one short training session for the Staff, one international Project meeting, workshops, training, demonstration lessons, thematic trips, reportages and regional legends. The project will involve using attractive teaching methods, which will enrich teaching resources with interesting and innovative lesson plans, which will enable achieving the curricula objectives in a manner attractive to students.
Discussions, workshops and trainings will serve the purpose of raising qualifications of the teachers involved in the project implementation. Common educational activities as well as music-movement games will enable integrating the participants and developing their communicative skills. The students involved in the project implementation will have the opportunity to gain thorough knowledge thanks to project’s interdisciplinary character. Inter-subject correlation used in mathematics, native language, eurhythmics classes will make it possible for the students to develop comprehensively and improve their communicative skills as regard the English language.
In the course of the project we will be working on a fragment of a film/fairy tale performance. This will advertise and promote the international project in the region, it will encourage students to work on similar undertakings, enable sustaining international contacts, integrate both the students’ community and the local one.
The final effect will include innovative teaching guide, lesson plans, multimedia chronicles, fragments of a film/fairy tale performance. The most sustainable effect of our work will be cyclic St Valentine’s Day and Christmas concerts as well as a fairy tale played by the staff to celebrate Children’s Day, which will make use of the developed methods of dance, movement, acting, singing, recitation, playing on instruments, working on text structure and scenario, etc. Teacher’s resources will be enriched with the innovative teaching guide, recording of series of tutorials and participation in international competitions.
The aim of our activities is also to overcome social and mental barriers between Europeans. It is worth noting that the ideas covered by the project are complementary with school curricula. One of the effects of the project will be gaining knowledge of European cultures and promoting the visited regions. Thanks to such actions we have a chance to educate citizens of Europe who are self-confident, open, communicative and who respect one another. Thus, personal and civic competences will rise.
The Project “Rhythms of success – music movement to improve literacy and other key competences” will allow us to accomplish aims which are timeless in the process of education by improving competences concerning various areas of science, by international integration of school communities, by raising teaching staff competences and by providing school with a European dimension.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 79650 Eur

Project Coordinator

Zespol Panstwowych Szkol Muzycznych & Country: PL

Project Partners

• St.-Bonaventura-Gymnasium, Dillingen
• Sir Robert Pattinson Academy