ABOUT our project
The project is a partnership of four primary schools (from Poland, Greece, Italy and Spain) that aims to develop students' creativity, interest in science and language skills using innovative activities, gamification and group work strategies.
Project is divided into four main parts - challenges dedicated to a chosen by each school representative, genius - outstanding scientist from participating schools countries. Students know the scientists' lives, follow their way to success and complete the challenges connected with the branches of knowledge the following scientists worked on. Students also meet some scientists and interview them to find our how it is to be a scientist. Everything is shared via Twinspace, where the students work in international groups and improve their English language skills. Work on Twinspace is a preperation period for students' exchanges as this is an Erasmus+ project and students meet online and in real life as well.
Our objectives are:
- to develop key competences (verified tasks will motivate students to develop all eight key competences in an interesting
and easy way)
- to develop basic skills (letters exchange, videomeetings, meetings, ICT tools use)
- to motivate students and teachers for learning English online and in real life
- to increase teachers ́ language skills
- to share ideas, methodology for teaching science, physics, chemistry, maths, history and English.
TEAM
SP9 Dzierżoniów, PL
CEIP Atenea, SP
IC 47° Sarria Monti, Napoli, IT
Primary School of Lakkoma, GR
Szkoła Podstawowa nr 9
im. Mikołaja Kopernika in Dzierżoniów in Poland is a middle-sized school with pupils aged from 6 to 15 in 25 classes (Years 1-8) located in a mountainous region in south-west Poland in Lower Silesia. It was established in 1962 and has a lot of school traditions including international cooperation, sports classes and healthylife actions.
Currently all the classes learn English as a second language. From Year 7 students learn German.
The school has been involved in numerous projects. Our school is a part of the network of Health Promoting Schools, a project supported by the Ministry of Education. Pupils of our school have participated in eTwinning projects being awarded with European Quality Labels, National eTwinning Awards and European Prize 2022.
Since 2018 the school has been taking part in Erasmus+ projects, what let the students and teachers visit their project partners as well as improve communicative skills in English and know the countries culture and traditions.
Atenea Infant and Primary School is a public school with 25 teachers and nearly 470pupils. There are 6 classes for the Infant school (3-5 years old) and 12 classes for the Primary school (6-11 years old).
CEIP Atenea is located by Los Álamos promenade in Torremolinos, a tourist town in Málaga, in the south of Spain. Torremolinos was the first tourist town of the Costa del Sol to be developed and is still the most popular in the region.
Regarding the socio-cultural background most of the inhabitants of this area belong to the middle-class and therefore to the secondary or tertiary economic sector.
The school follows the National curriculum defined by the Ministry of Education and promotes the development of the individual, good social skills and kindness. CEIP Atenea is involved in these educational projects: Equality, Peace, Bilingualism, Healthy Styles of Lives, ICT, Eco-schools Project and Reading and School Libraries Programme. The Bilingual programme is developed in the subjects of science and physical education with specialists in bilingual science and one assistant teacher. The first foreign language is English and French is the second one. Some relevant activities are The Cultural Week, the School Carol Competition, The Talent Show, and Drama. The school magazine is La Marea.
Infant school offers classes for 25 hours per week (from 9:00 am to 14:00 pm). Primary school offers classes for 25 hours per week (from 9:00 to 14:00 pm).
In Infant school, pupils have fields of experience to develop their full cognitive, emotional, social and physical potential.
In Primary school pupils study Maths, Spanish language, English, Science, Arts, Music,Physical Education, Religion or Civic and Moral Values. French is offered only in 5th and 6th year.
There are some students with disabilities who work with specialized teachers together with the teacher of the classroom, or with Special Educational Needs.
Istituto Comprensivo 47° Sarria-Monti is a public school with about 700 pupils and 100 teachers in all. There are 4 classes Kindergarden (3-5 years old), 18 classes primary school (6-10 years old) and 14 classes lower secondary school (11-13 years old).
The school is located in the neighborhood San Giovanni a Teduccio of Naples, in the east border of the city, a very disadvantaged area. In many cases, the context of origin of our pupils is characterized by conditions of deprivation and socio-cultural and economic discomfort. Naples is the biggest and the most important city of the South of Italy.
The school follows the national curriculum defined by the Ministry of Education.
Kindergarten offers classes for 40 hours per week (from 8am to 4pm).
Primary school offers 4 classes for 40 hours per week (full time classes from 8am to 4pm) and 14 classes for 27 hours per week (from 8am to 1.30 pm from Monday to Thursday and from 8am to 1pm on Friday).
Lower secondary school offers classes for 30 hours per week (from 8am to 2pm).
At the kindergarten there are not subjects, but “fields of experience”, to stimulate children and start them socializing and schooling. At Primary and at Lower secondary school there are the following teachings: Italian, mathematics, science, technology, history, geography, English, French, citizenship and constitution, physical education, music, art and image, religion.
There are several students with disabilities who work with specialized teachers together with the teacher of the classroom, or with "Special Educational Needs".
The Primary School of Lakkoma is a small public school in the district area of Chalkidiki-Central Macedonia in northern Greece, near Thessaloniki (20 Km to southeast). It serves 2 neighboring rural villages (Lakkoma & Nea Gonia) with 90 pupils and 11 teachers. There are 6 classes, from Grade 1 to Grade 6, with children from 6 to 12 years old respectively and an extra integration class for pupils with special needs. 15% of the pupils are immigrants coming mainly from Albania. Regarding the socio-cultural background most of the people belong to the working class and they are either employed in factories or in fields. During the last decade the economic crisis has affected the area enormously since many families face major financial problems which have subsequent impact on our students. The school follows the national curriculum defined by the Ministry of Education. It offers classes for 30 hours per week regarding the following subjects: Language, Maths, Environmental Studies, Science, History, Geography, English, Arts, ICT, Physical Education, Religious Education, Skills Workshop and Citizenship Education.