eTwinning - 2009/10
First doings of “Score a goal” project
We have made the paper scarf of football fan as for the Football cup in Africa is concerned. It is the first part of a scarf. Next ones are being made by children from Slovakia, Spain and Portugal. It is going to symbolize our solidarity with kids who cannot go to school. It is being sent to the Prime Minister in Great Britain in order to remind of financial promises for the children.
eTwinning is 5
We have celebrated eTwinning’s birthday at our school on 5th May. We have had much fun: we have decorated the school room with colourful balloons with signing: “eTwinning is 5-Happy Birthday”. We have also made the birthday card with birthday wishes- for eTwinning action-so for pupils, teachers, school headmasters who join eTwinning. We have had the birthday cake: yellow and blue one. It was with yellow and blue roses and with “eTwinning is 5 years old” signing. This birthday party will be remembered by us for long.
New eTwinning project SCORE A GOAL
We want
- to help children who cannot go to school,
-to have lesson about education importance
-to make a paper scarf as a sign of our unity with poor and uneducated children
-to send materials to sir Gordon Brown to remind world leaders about their financial help promise to all kids who cannot go to school.
eTwinning project blog
Here is the link to our joint Polish- Slovakian- Spanish and Portuguese etwinning project SOUND AND PICTURE DICTIONARY- twinblog.etwinning.net/9535/ We are ready to sum up the project.
What are the benefits? The Quality Label is concrete recognition to teachers and schools of the high level of their eTwinning activities. For pupils, this offers a boost to their work efforts, and for the school in general, a public affirmation of their commitment to quality and openness in European collaborative work.
Who grants the national Quality Label? The National Support Service (NSS) in each country evaluates applications from schools for the national Quality Label.
What are the criteria? A project has to broadly achieve excellence in the following areas: (1) Sustainability, (2) Use of ICT within the project, (3) Results and benefits, (4) Curricular integration, (5) European dimension, (6) Innovation/creativity, and (7) Overall quality.
Easter wishes for Europe and Canada
We have sent the best Easter wishes for our friends from Europe and in Canada. We have used e-cards to do so. Here is one of them-without sound and movement. The original ones are only for receivers.
Using our Picture and Sound Dictionary during English classes
The fifth grade pupils from Slovakia worked with our joint Picture and Sound
Dictionary. It was created by pupils from Slovakia, Spain, Portugal and Poland.
They were very happy to see their work effects. Look at them.
And here are Polish second graders. They are very enthusiastic about this project.
Xmas wishes for Europe
We want to wish you all the Best and the Best european cooperation for the coming Christmas- for schools in Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Slovakia and the Czech Republic- from children and teachers in Poland, Janowice.
Wishes from Ponferrada, Spain
La comunidad educativa del CEIP
San Andrés - La Borreca de Ponferrada,
os desea a todos
una Feliz Navidad y un Próspero Año Nuevo.
The European Project „Picture and Sound Dictionary”
We are finishing the European project made together with our partner schools from Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Spain, Portugal and Turkey. Look at our joint work- it is presented on the school wall board. We are looking forward to the Czech and the Turkey work.
eTwinning- the European Partnerships of schools- is the educational programme of European Union. It promotes the usage of ICT technologies in European schools. Pupils and teachers use Internet to cooperate beyond borders. They change information and teaching aids. eTwinning motivates to learn and be tolerant for every European citizen.
eTwinning is a project aimed at schools. It provides virtual space and organizational support to help teachers find partners in European countries to work together and share mutual interests and develop mutual understanding between young people. The project gives learners opportunities to develop a board range of competences: linguistic, intercultural and technical, in a natural, extended learning environment. The difficulty of the selected project theme must be similar to the pupils’ intellectual and linguistic level. They learn how to communicate in writing and speech in various languages. Their motivation to learn selected languages mainly English as a global language, and the need for them increase, because vocabulary and grammar are acquired for immediate, and not future use. The topics are selected by both the teachers and by their learners according to their interests and aims. Thus, learning becomes more individualized and emotionally involving. Working in groups, both in- class and with partners abroad, creates many occasions for exchanging views and opinions, organizing and presenting them with a clear communicative aim. By using e-mail, chats, for a, creating and publishing web pages, multimedia audio and video files (for example in Power Point) they develop reading and writing in genres characteristic for digital means of communication. ETwinning helps schoolchildren no only learn about other cultures, but also understand their native culture and its values better. They have a chance to discover common universal human values in broader than local context. Searching for such values is a main feature of growing up during school years. Children learn how to identify cultural similarities and differences and accept both of them in a non-judgmental way. They also learn how to differentiate behaviour accepted in another culture, which may be odd in the native culture, from behaviour which is unacceptable in any culture. Knowledge of the eTwinning partner’s culture and intercultural experiences gained in the project build openness and tolerance towards other cultures in general. A positive attitude to people speaking different languages and having their own customs raises curiosity and helps to reduce the concept of foreignness and strangeness. Young people become “global citizens”.
The school European cooperation coordinator- Marlena Niemczyk-Handzlik