Comenius Partnership 2013-2015 On the
Wings of Friendship
Minutes from Meeting Thursday 4th
June
Present
partners from: Sweden, France, Italy, England
Notes taken by: Emma Gorman
Meeting Opened: 1300
Meeting Closed : 1800
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Welcome
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Sharing of Travel Logs / Carnet de
Voyage
England:
Children from Nursery to Year 6 took part in a local study of local rivers,
Dartmoor and the school environment and created a travel log of their learning.
Nursery – Water, Reception – Rivers, Year 1 – Whole Comenius journey linked to
the journey of the river, Year 2 – Coast and the seaside, Year 5 – Dartmoor.
The travel logs included examples of the children’s writing, artwork, geography
and poetry. England also presented to Sweden a wooden box containing artefacts
from Dartmoor and a recording of a child’s story which played when the box
opened. On top of the box was an Aurasma.
Sweden:
Printed a book telling the story of the character of Zlatan who travels with a
football through all the countries and eventually scores the winning goal!
Children (4 and 6 years old) painted pictures and made nests. The travel logs
included the story that had been written especially for the project which was
illustrated by the older children from the pre-school.
Italy:
5 classes each produced a different travel log based around the whole two years
of the project. This included: the migration of the swallow and the crane; the
planning of the logo; letters to and from the English pen friends; pictures
from a festival of dances with a dance from each partner country and the bird
games that the children had designed. The travel logs included examples of
children’s writing, artwork and pictures from geography field trips. Italy also
shared that there was a film for each project that was available on their
website.
France:
One travel log with three stories – ‘Three little books for a long journey’
1st
story: Made by 4 year olds – each page contained single words in French and
English that are linked to the project which were then illustrated by the
children. There was a page for each country.
2nd Story: Made by 5-6 year olds – A crane’s journey across all the partner countries. Contained illustrations, images and artefacts from each country collected throughout the project
3rd Story: The crane in Sweden. Each page contained images that had been taken from the first visit.
2nd Story: Made by 5-6 year olds – A crane’s journey across all the partner countries. Contained illustrations, images and artefacts from each country collected throughout the project
3rd Story: The crane in Sweden. Each page contained images that had been taken from the first visit.
France
(Luc): Find the crane! Based on one of the children’s favourite class stories.
Sandra the crane starts from Sweden to reach France and goes through Italy and
England. On each page was an image that the children had selected from
photographs that had been taken throughout the projects visits to each partner
country. The reader has to find the picture of the crane which is hidden on
each page.
2nd book: Based on the idea that a crane flew over the school and a feather fell down. When you picked it up, the feather told the story of the journey of the crane who flies through each partner country. Mireille will send this as soon as it is complete.
2nd book: Based on the idea that a crane flew over the school and a feather fell down. When you picked it up, the feather told the story of the journey of the crane who flies through each partner country. Mireille will send this as soon as it is complete.
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Writing the final report for the
project. All partner countries to complete. One section ( section A) of the form needs to contain the same
information for each country.
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All countries to complete a survey
using ‘Survey Monkey’ analysing the responses of children and teacher from the
partner countries about the project. Most countries have completed. Kate Lee to
collate the responses and analyse the results and produce a final report.
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All partner countries to submit the
final report by September and publish a description of the project on to the
EST website. This needs to be a ‘Selling Summary’ of 250 words containing
concrete examples. E7 also needs to include examples of how the original plans
changed and why (France to lead on this). E8 needs to include examples
communication. E10 conclusions including examples and summary from the survey.
E5 all about the key competencies
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Things to include in final report to
ensure all the original objectives are illustrated and examples are given:
- What the children have learnt about Europe
- What the children have learnt about the partner countries
- What the children have learnt about birds and the local environment
- What the children have learnt about art
- What the teachers have learnt from visiting the schools including new technologies
- What value has been added to the project by working with partner countries
- What the children have learnt about Europe
- What the children have learnt about the partner countries
- What the children have learnt about birds and the local environment
- What the children have learnt about art
- What the teachers have learnt from visiting the schools including new technologies
- What value has been added to the project by working with partner countries
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