Author: Liah Jade

Erasmus Newsletter

Romania
8th & 9th October 2015

Our fourth meeting in Romania, at the Technical College of Electronics and Telecommunications „Gh.Marzescu” of Iasi was an excelent opportunity to continue our work on the project and to check, develop and improve the materials already created by our students.
We felt more and more that the project ideas were crystalising and the collaborative work of our team was becoming really efficient.
We spent a couple of hours in a city tour guided by two Romanian teachers, so we could get a glimpse of the history, art, culture and daily life of Iasi.
We are really happy about the aspect, content and facilities of the project website and we have started to create materials for the new topic. Even if we are in the middle of the term and our students are busy with their study for different subjects, their commitment for working in the project is stronger and stronger.

England
For Topic 1 our KS2 pupils particularly enjoyed thinking about their aspirations for their future. Charlie Glover as well as other pupils shared videos and photographs of their homes in order to show pupils in other countries what our houses look like inside and outside. Year 2 videoed a typical playground game played by pupils at Great Malvern and have created instructions for pupils in other countries to follow. Lola-Rose Fuller and Lizzie Whitfield created beautiful books on Story Jumper. We are beginning to prepare resources for Topic 2.

La Linea
We could say many things about this trip to Iasi in Romania, but the team from La Línea would mainly like to thank the hospitality and kindness from all teachers in our visit. They were fantastic to us. Kids in that country are so inspiring, you realise how much they want to do with so little and such big learning spirits. Amazing trip, we will never forget you all!!

Greece
Hello everybody,
We really had great moments and fun while preparing our learning materials for topic 2 “local area”. We really enjoyed the day we visited the city center trying to capture with our cameras the beauty of the most interesting places and monuments. The best of all, however, was the souvlaki break time we had after we had finished with the photographing and the videotaping. We also enjoyed the brainstorming in order to create our story jumper and popplet for our city! We are looking forward to preparing the next topic.
All the best to all of you

Romania
The meeting held in our school was a great event for our students and teachers. They could talk to foreign teachers, exchange ideas, share good practice, broaden communication and establish new professional contacts.
Our students involved in the project became more motivated in their work and the visit of our foreign guests strengthened their awareness regarding learning and speaking English. They understood how important is to be part of and to be active in the European educational and cultural space. They were proud to take part in this project and shared all their good experiences with their colleagues.

Turkey
First of all ,everything was great in Romania and we had really fun. After meeting, we immediately started to work on topic 2. Our pupils are really eager to work on the webpage. They are having fun while watching the videos of the other countries’ pupils. Now, they are working on making a video about shopping in a local area. Watching them, helps them understand the value of knowing a foreign language. They also have the chance to see and experience different cultures. We are looking forward to meeting in Greece for the preparations for topic 3.

Poland
After meeting in Romania, our working party is making changes to the learning materials about our local area. A second year student Agnieszka Duraj is making a short video about pupils of Junior High School in Wieprz. We have also started to prepare materials for third topic, 'National area'.
Everyone is really excited and waiting for the webpage for our project. We are also looking forward to the second Skype session, this time with Turkey and Greece.

Croatia
We are busy preparing materials for our second topic Local area. Pupils from the 7th grade made the video “Shopping in Gradac” and pupils from the 8th grade are working on Popplet and Story jumper. The videos “A Day in the Life of Gradac” and “Leisure Time in Gradac” will be prepared from video clips shot by pupils from various grades.We are looking forward to launching our project web page.

Barcelona
Starting Erasmus+ second year with a team of Erasmus+ Ambassadors.
There are 18 first year compulsory secondary education students working as project disseminators.
The meeting in Iasi has been fruitful and rewarding since we agreed the overall aspect of the project website. Both Romanian teachers and pupils were very friendly . We are looking to forward implementing the third topic, ‘National Area’.

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