SLOVAKIA - Variety of nations and ideas
Friday and Saturday of the second March weekend all etwinning collectives have an opportunity to meet with the best realised school projects in Europe. After the Friday party we know the winners and runners-up in three age categories and Math and Science category.
At the workshop we saw the variety of approches to the real cooperation between schools. In the first age category 4-10 years pupils it was project My town your town primary School, UNITED KINGDOM and
CEIP Virxe da Luz, SPAIN. They have very similar idea as many other partnership – know each other better, to show some cultural typical events and customs. What was different – great enthusiasm, great motivation, very good planning phase where children can decide and choose what they prefer and cooperation with parents. Teachers spoke about their common work and use various technical tools, but very simple suitable for beginners. They prepared many materilas and very nice Calendar of events.
The second category 11-14 years old pupils won partnership of Sweden and Germany schools. Two wooden dolls project was very original way how to help children from migrants groups to join to their new homes and communities. Dolls were made by children and illustrated two nationalities who find their place in new life ,new situations. It was project focused on playing and telling stories and children used animation tools, very intensive collaborative methods. Really interesting for everybody who works with migrants and minorities in the classroom.
The third category 15-19 years was represent by the French,Belgium and Italy schools in the project Planete @dos
which connected students from different environment by technical tools like podcasting, videoconference , blogs, creating stories tohgether.
All these projects brought the most important feature – children learned everyday things very differenta and amazing way. They are very interesting about project work and they have great motivation for study and cooperation. Etwinning have the great chance for the future!
Gabriela Podolanová,NSS Slovakia, gabriela.podolanova@etwinning.sk