COURSE 97-98 

    We are going to work in five activity blocks: 

      1. Presentation. The educational communities that integrate the project. 

When two or more people meet them each other, the first thing to do is introduction. Because of this, we think this could be the beginning. When someone works with you it is important to know Who it is, What it is like, Where it lives...  

  • Objective: To know the communities involved in the project. 
  • Contents: 
    • The country, village, town, city. 
    • Geographical situation.
    • Means of communication. 
    • Climate.
    • Population.
    • Economy. 
    • History.
    • Free-time.: Sport associations and culture-associations.
    • Interesting places.
    • School: Pupils, teachers, the building, our Educational System, etc.
  • Work Calendar 
    • April 98.- Sending material (1).
    • May 98 .- Showing of the material we have received at the school..

(1) Each school will make material (murals, videos...) to send to all associated schools. This material will be shown at the schools in order to know each other. 

      2. Correspondence: We write to ... 

It is very important that pupils know the project as a reality not as an abstraction. Because of this, we must do activities with this aim. It is sure, that pupils are going to ask a lot of questions about the partners schools and people from there, that we must answer.  
 

  • Objective: To have direct relation to the others classes of associated schools. To satisfy their curiosity , we must give the answer to their questions and interrogations.
  • Contents:
    • The questions and their answers. 
    • Each group can write whenever it wants, when it has got something to explain or to ask the others. 
    • The first letter must be an introduction of the group (class). It could be a photograph of the teacher with the pupils and everybody's name.
  • Calendar: From November we will try to write to the correspondent groups of the associated schools monthly. When the project progress the oldest pupils could send personal letters to theirs new foreign friends. The co-ordinating school takes charge of organising the correspondence and making a summary table for all associated schools.

  

3. Curious camera.  

We should motivate the pupils' curiosity, so that they get used to making questions, staring at the images received about concrete aspects of the daily life.  

  • Objective: To know different aspects of the daily life of each associated school by photographs. 
  • Contents: 
    • DECEMBER: My house at Christmas. Christmas Decorations. 
    • JANUARY: My toy. 
    • FEBRUARY: It's hot or cold. ( A photo of boy or girl wearing dresses of this season). 
    • MARCH: I'm hungry! (A typical food). 
    • APRIL: How we go to the school. ( Means of transport used to go to school) 
    • MAY: Holidays! (Where do pupils spend their holidays?)
  • Calendar: Each school will send photographs about these topics to other schools monthly.

 

4. International Newspaper.  

We make a material so that the children realize that the schools are really together in one only project.  

  • Objective: To know the work and the studies that each school does. 
  • Contents: Texts made during the daily work of class. The texts are sent in the own language and in English. 
  • Calendar: One publication by term. All the schools will send the texts the last fortnight of the second month.
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    Italian school is going to make and distribute the newspaper to associated schools. 

        5. Festivities and traditions I: Which are the most important festivals and traditions? 

    Festivals and traditions are one of the things that defines better the way a village is. That's why they are so important in our project.  

    We are going to work in three different blocks:  

    • The first one, in the course 96-97, we'll prepare a festivities and traditions calendar. 
    • The second one, we'll work deeply, explaining how we live these festivals without entering details, about its origin. 
    • The third one, Why do we celebrate this traditions? We can elaborate this project for one course more in 99-00, this course we can study in depth their roots ; which are very interesting and the pupils can discover the common origin 

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    • Objective: To know our more important festivals and traditions (in the schools that are taking part in this project) 
    • Contents: The festivals' date, and a short explanation about them. Next year we'll study it deeply. 
    • Calendar: 
      • May 98. Sending the different festivities-calendars. 
      • Course 98-99, every centre will send material, explaining how the festivities and traditions are celebrated in its country.

     
     
     

    COURSE 98-99 

      We are going to study in depth, the second, third and fourth block of the project that we developed the previous year, (97-98). We'll continue with the fifth block and we'll start two new blocks: seventh ( What are you going to do on the...?) and eighth (Evaluation I) 

        6. Festivities and traditions II: How do we celebrate our more traditional festivities? 

  • Objective: To know which our festivities and traditions are, how do we live them, in the village and specially at school. 
  • Contents: Festivities and traditions. 
  • Calendar: It would be very interesting, that the centres could have the material about festivities on the dates they are celebrated in the other countries; for instance, before Christmas, each school could have the information about how the other schools do celebrate Christmas: holiday at school, holiday in the country, if Father Christmas comes, or the three Magic Kings, or we decorate the Christmas tree; "l'home dels nassos"( the 31st of December we'll expect to see the man who has so much noses like days are in the year that is finishing), etc., This course, we can prepare these things thinking that we are going to need them properly, in time to send them.
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        7. What are you going to do on the...? 

    Until now, we've presented and known our town, village or city, we also are giving information, BUT, WHAT IS ONE DAY IN OUR LIFE LIKE?  
     

  • Objective: To know how is a day in each country(2).
  • Content: Any day in a pupil life. 
  • Calendar: 
    • October 98. The first day of the course. 
    • November 98. Tuesday, 24 of November 1998 
    • February 99: Saturday, 20 February 1999. 
    • April 99 . Sunday 11 April 1999.

    The works ( murals, texts...) must be sent before the date in order to all the schools are able to do the expositions the same day. 

        (2) Along with the material we will include the explanation, what a boy and a girl do during a day. We will agree pupils' age. 

     
     

        8. Evaluation I: What have you seemed our project?  

        All projects need a reflection.  
         

      • Objective: To value the development of the project from analysis of the participants' opinions. To make the changes and improvements. 
      • Calendar: Each associated school will do the project evaluation in its centre before the annual meeting. We will talk about this topic in the meeting. 

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      COURSE 99-00 

      During this course we'll continue with numbers 2,3 and 4 blocks; we are going to study in depth number 6 and 8 initiated the previous year (98-99) and we'll start one new block: 11: Report (Memory). 

        9. Festivals and traditions III: Which is the origin of our festivals and traditions ? 

    Through the project the pupils can have observed the similarities between the festivals in Spain and some of the associated schools (Italy) and the big difference with another ones (Finland).  
     

  • Objective: By studying the origin of our festivals and traditions and the comparison with the others schools to discover the reality of one Mediterranean Europe and one northern Europe. To learn value and respect the diversity. To value the advantages of the plurality in the unity. 
  • Calendar: During the two first terms of the course, every school will do an investigation and a subsequent reflection about the topic with its pupils. They will make material (texts, murals, bibliography...) with the results obtained. At the beginning of the 3rd term these works will be sent to the school that will take charge of publishing them .
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    10. Evaluation II: What do you think about our project?  

    At the end of the process it is important to do one final evaluation.  
     

  • Objective: To evaluate the objectives, we want to know as our pupils have been benefited of them. 
  • Calendar: Each associated school will do the project evaluation in its centre a month before the annual meeting. We will talk about this topic in the meeting.
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    11. Report of the project :" How do our neighbours live?".  

    Until now, pupils have done works in class, they have studied and known other countries and other people. We must place the project on record. We'll make a report- publication.  
     

    • Contents: 
      • Introduction. 
      • To introduce associated schools. 
      • Technical cards of festivals and traditions more importance in each country:
        • Festivity date. 
        • Contents. 
        • What do you do at school? 
        • Origin.
        • Project valuation.

    If we carry out this proposal we must to seek for economic help to obtain a good publication.  

    Materials 
      • The final purpose of all these materials would be: easy and not very big expositions, and for this, we propose: 
          • Work with Murals, stick on a card, which size could be 50x60 cm, more or less. 
          • There would be a lot of visual material more than writing: painting, pictures, photographs... 
          • When we write, the sentences must be short and non difficult sentences,. using the languages that we approached.