Meeting for Parents and Governors Wednesday 23rd October 2012

The Comenius Team

Mr Longmore

Mr Heale

Miss McCormack

Mrs Lee

Miss Abberfield

All classes and all members of staff are

involved in the project activities.

How is the project funded?

Following an extensive application

process, and approval by The British

Council, the project is fully funded by

The European Union.

Project Summary

FOR ALL PARTICIPANTS WE AIM TO:Share cultural and socio-economic structures and

educational systems.

Create awareness of the EU and what European citizienship means.

Stress the importance of learning a foreign language.

FOR ALL PARTICIPANTS WE AIM TO:Combat all forms of discrimination.

Improve teaching by adapting techniques and methods observed during mobilities.

Disseminate experiences and involve as many people as possible.

We aim to:

Present our final products to as many people as we can.

Announce our art exhibition through Europe.

How will the project be evaluated?

Each school will complete yearly reports to present totheir national agencies.

They will fill in evaluation questionnaires following each meeting.

All participants will be encouraged to write about their

experiences on the Comenius website.

End ResultsThe project will culminate with a published book containing a collaborative story, written in five sections, including each country’s chosen character. The book will contain the story in each language along with illustrations.

As well as the book there will be an animated CD with pictures and music based on the story.

During the final meeting, to be held in York, there will be an international art exhibition entitled My Hero. Details of this will be found on the website.

Web Site

A web site has been created to chart the progress of the project.

The address is

www.onceuponatimeeurope.com

Please look at the site to see how it is progressing.

Photos of the visit to Turkey

Photos of the visit to Poland

Photos of the visit to Hungary

What we have done so farRobin Hood film

Last year’s Year 6 researched the traditional characters and their

stories

Multicultural Art Day

Food tasting

Assemblies

Celebrated Europe Day on 9th May

Displays

Research on the countries involved

Turkish visitors

Turkish spoon decoration

We have interpreted the different sections of the book

Children have learned words and phrases in Turkish and Polish

What we have done so far

What we have done so far

What’s next?

Our main role is coming up in the next part of the project:

Tree of expectations

Year 6 to write our part of the story

Portuguese visit

The Comenius visit to England

Art exhibition