Interesting examples - Primary schools

(There are more examples when you click the names of schools below:)

• Vrije Basisschool De Leeuw, Belgium
• Ceip Marià Galí, Spain
• CEIP Santa Anna, Spain
• Ramsgrange Community School, Ireland
• 2° Circolo Didattico, Italy

URL to the school website:
http://surf.to/gvb.deleeuw

School name:
Vrije Basisschool De Leeuw

Number of students:
400

Number of teachers:
30

Level of education:
primary school

Experience with international projects:
2 comenius project - Real time cooperation between European schools - Eurokids go forward 1 Comenius network - The Treasure Within Probably 1 School Improvement Plan - Think Fresh

How many computers/per 30 pupils?
3,5

Is your Internet connection:
good

Title:
€urokids go forw@rt

Theme:
Sending artboxes to each other about the senses

URL to the project website:

http://forward.to/forwart

Age and number of the students involved:
2,5 until 12 years - 400 pupils

Activities: what did students do
Making artboxes

Integration into the curriculum, - other. Which areas of describe of the curriculum?
- Art - Creativity

Is participation compulsory for the students?
Yes

Type of partnership:
Comenius

Which technology did you use:
video conference, chat rooms / messenger chat, e-mail, websites

Describe the technical equipment in your and the other participating schools. What use did you make of the technology? Describe the methodology used.
Computers, internet, webcams

How did you use it: at school, during lessons...
During lessons, we often used chatrooms and videoconferencing

What went very well? Give some examples.
Every school made wonderful artboxes Chat moments with all the schools at the same time. 8 countries online is a great experience

What was not so successful? Give examples.
Not everybody responded at the boxes in the way we agreed (maybe the aims were to high in the beginning) Not all the schools have good equipment for the use of ICT

What solutions were found to problems occurring in the activity?
Resetting the aims is a very good strategy - Everybody has a good feeling that you want to change you project

What kind of long term benefit and impact has the project had on learning activities?
Children learned a lot about the senses and about the view of other countries on these senses. In Europe, we all think the same

Has there been an impact on other projects, on the learning and teaching activities at school? Please describe.
The experiences we had in our Comenius projects have been very good for our school. We can use these organisational experiences for our own schoolprojects

How did it change your practice in your school?
Good feeling in the school. More motivation among the teacher while working on a project

What advice would you give to other teachers who would like to do a similar project?
Just do it

Respondent:
Manuel Cooreman


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