YOUR HISTORY IS OUR HISTORY! Erasmus Project

Project Title

YOUR HISTORY IS OUR HISTORY!

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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

The project ‘Your History Is Our History’ implemented in 2016-2018 to strengthen students’ social and civic competences and their cultural awareness. By learning about the history of their own country, promoting patriotism and finding a European historical context, children can identify themselves with national culture easily and European roots easily. The project also emphasized the usage of information and communication technology as an attractive form of learning. Mutual cooperation and the necessity of communicating in English factored into language competences both students and teachers.Six primary schools took part in the project. The children come from diverse economic and social environments. In the majority, these are children from families with lower or medium economic and social backgrounds. Students spend most of the day at school. It is the only place that gives them the opportunity to develop their skills and abilities through participation in extra extracurricular activities. Children with special needs also attend these facilities. Each school uses a variety of working methods to involve young people in the learning process. Participation in this type of projects gave students motivation to learn about their own history and to improve their English speaking skills.Due to project’s schedule we carried all the tasks out. The school Erasmus + Team coordinated and implemented planned actions. We have familiarized the school and local community with the subject of the project and planned activities. To inform about our Erasmus+ Project we had an information project board. We also posted information on Facebook and eTwinning platform. To teach history creatively, without sitting at school desks and to put students’ attention on learning cause and effects, we have prepared an exhibition “Day with our national hero”, a school competition as part of the celebration of the Days of Ancient Times, a carnival ball with a presentation of medieval figures, historical reconstruction “One day in the XVIth century Poland, a carnival ball with great historical figures, an exhibition showing life in communism times in Poland. Due to parents and children cooperation, we conducted historic picnics where our students presented history and culture of Erasmus+ partners’ and learned about their cuisine traditions. They had opportunity to try all the different dishes prepared by their parents. We also performed drama shows about important historical events related to polish national holidays. Students participated in school competitions to improve their historical knowledge. Both parents and students created the “Historical Corner”, a place where students spend their free time at school, surrounded by a gallery of historical photos and paintings.Students have made didactic board games for their colleagues from abroad. They had to practise their knowledge of history and English speaking skills. They also created presentations of family trees, took part in the “Inter-National” Historical Competition using gogle drive forms, created a film presenting educational trips to historically important places and regularly corresponded with each other. All the tasks practise their linguistic, historical and ICT competences. Thanks to the exchange of students in Lithuania and Poland, participants of the project practiced communication skills and learned about their habits and culture. They participated in historical outdoor activities. Teachers at project meetings learned about foreign culture, the functioning of different educational systems, and exchanged new methods of teaching modern teaching technologies. The students have significantly improved their “key competences”, especially communicating in English, the usage of ICT technologies, the ability to learn, their cultural expression, but also creativity and innovation in learning. Thanks to the cooperation between schools and the exchange of experiences, we were able to adapt examples of good practices and use them in everyday work with students. Our teacher training meetings enriched teachers’ workshop and as a result enriched and diversified lessons conducted by teachers. We also created historical didactic games that are now used in classes to learn and teach through play. Together with our Erasmus+Partners we made some kind of historic chronicle or magazine, which now is a guidebook of our activities. The “Historical Corner” organized at school, is a place where children spend their free time and the place which “promote” the history of school, the area where we live, our roots and our polish tradition.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 139025 Eur

Project Coordinator

Szkola Podstawowa im. Kardynala Stefana Wyszynskiego & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Pilisvörösvári Templom Téri Német Nemzetiségi Általános Iskola
• Istituto Comprensivo Statale “Elio Vittorini” via Dusmet 24 S. P. Clarenza CT ctic85300t
• Hijas de la Natividad de María “CPR San José”
• Utenos Vyturiu progimnazija
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Frazão, Paços de Ferreira