Erasmus+ Programme – Strategic Partnership

Project Nr. 2017-1-IT02KA219-036847_1

“BULLYING: I DON’T STAY! YES, TO FRIENDSHIP”

NEWSLETTER – MAY 2019

ERASMUS + PROJECT: FIFTH MOBILITY AT THE PORTO VIRO INSTITUTE.

It ended last Saturday, with the fifth mobility at the Comprehensive Institute of Porto Viro, the ERASMUS project for the primary school "Bullying: I don't stay! Yes, to friendship!", part of the Erasmus KA2 projects, strategic partnerships for the exchange of good practice only between schools.

Since the previous week, schools and families have been active, with great enthusiasm, to organize the reception of delegations in the territory. While the teachers stayed at the city's hotel facilities, the pupils were hosted by some families of the institute, thus allowing foreign children to fully live the daily routine of an Italian family, to know the uses and local customs and to establish a deeper friendship with our boys. In addition, in the morning, before the project activities, they were able to take part in some classroom lessons, thus knowing some organizational aspects of Italian school life.

Once again, students and teachers, coordinated by teacher Giuliana Beltramini, European project manager, worked on the creation of some products that had been provided in the plans activities. In particular, they learned how to make a brochure using the word or publisher program and, divided into heterogeneous groups by age and origin, reinforcing their knowledge about the problem of bullying, they selected information going to make four digital leaflets with slogans in English, recant each different information on the typical aspects of the phenomenon, contrast methods and in which have been insert photos of bullying scenarios made by learners and previous stages of the project.

Erasmus+ Programme – Strategic Partnership

Project Nr. 2017-1-IT02KA219-036847_1

“BULLYING: I DON’T STAY! YES, TO FRIENDSHIP”

Instead, teachers have devoted themselves to the development of a methodological guide for schools in which the project, based on the experiences done, can be used by others as a working tool for similar experiences.

There have been moments of knowledge of the territory and its environmental artistic heritage with educational outings in some UNESCO World Heritage cities such as Ravenna, the mosaic capital and meeting place between peoples and cultures, the abbey of Pomposa, Venice, open-air museum and bridge between Europe and the East, and Chioggia, the small Venice. In the free time they were also able to visit the center of Porto Viro and discover the archaeological park of the fossil dunes in the area of the Park of the Delta del Po. Every evening the teachers were offered the opportunity to taste the local specialties with dinners in restaurants, trattorias and pizzerias always accompanied by members of the Italian teachers’ team.

Last Friday, the final day of the work, the partner delegations, teachers, students, families, other institutions of the territory took part in a training conference, held by Professor Gianluca Gini of the Department of Psychology of the development and socialization at the University of Padua, on the theme "BULLying: FEATURES, OPPORTUNITY and RISKS OF EDUCATION, RESPONSABILITY GENITORIAL", showing keen interest and participation. Following the greeting and a reflection on subject of the Regent Leader, Paola Passatempi. On this occasion, the Beltramini lecturer was also able to present to the community the contents of the project to which she worked in the previous two years and to show the products made during all mobility. Newly made leaflets and other information material were distributed to those present, the fruits of the project's activities.

In the evening, a farewell buffet dinner was organized for everyone, at the restaurant with tasting of typical dishes, during which the certificates of participation were handed out and the exchange of freebies by the

Erasmus+ Programme – Strategic Partnership

Project Nr. 2017-1-IT02KA219-036847_1

“BULLYING: I DON’T STAY! YES, TO FRIENDSHIP”

schools or countries. Visibly moved the boys and their families were at the time of the greetings.

At the end of these two years of work, the project must be recognized as an added value for the personal and professional development of teachers, for teachers, learners, learners to acquire families have a greater awareness of the European dimension, discovering different cultures and learning to appreciate their differences, but it has certainly helped to create a greater awareness among young people about their behaviours and possible consequences.

Some photos after the mobility: students at work, visits on the ground.

Erasmus+ Programme – Strategic Partnership

Project Nr. 2017-1-IT02KA219-036847_1

“BULLYING: I DON’T STAY! YES, TO FRIENDSHIP”