Seven School Wonders

Connecting through Pride in Our Schools

Overall Project Outline


  • Each school will identify 7 areas they are proud of.  Children will be involved in choosing the 7 areas.
  • We will have a website dedicated to the project. *
  • We will exchange work on one ‘Wonder’ at a time.  The Wonders will not be the same for each school.
  • Each teacher can decide how each Wonder will be presented to the other schools.
  • Work could include photographs, art work, diagrams, sound recordings, writing, poetry, video etc
  • Each teacher can choose how many pieces of work are presented for each Wonder, with a minimum of 2 per school per Wonder. 
  • Children, teachers and parents will feel proud of these aspects of their school.
  • Children, teachers and parents will respect their European neighbours and learn from them.  Difference will be seen as a positive thing.
  • This project will disseminate good practice across Europe.
  • Children of all ages will be involved
  • The first meeting will include training on how to put work onto the website.  In addition, teachers will send work to all the other partners on disc, and if they want to, by email.
  • Teachers and children will improve their ICT skills by managing the website**
  • Some work can remain in the mother tongue, or could be ‘dual text’, increasing language awareness among the children
  • Children can look at work done by similar aged children and evaluate it along the lines of:  Would you like it if we did that in our school?  Would it work in our school?  Why/Why not?  Why does it work in (e.g.) Spain?  
  • Children can write/email/videoconference/comment on the website to respond to each other’s ‘Wonders.’
  • Children and teachers from the host country will teach some of their language to the visiting teachers.  This will give value to their language and enhance the language skills of the visiting teachers.  This language could be posted on the website as a sound file, so that teachers can share their language learning experience in their own schools.
  • We could mark the end of the project by producing a ‘friendship quilt’.  Each school would design one square of a quilt, and produce one for each participating school.  We would send the squares to each other and join them together and produce our own ‘Wonder’!  This will celebrate the ‘Wonders’ we have discovered together across Europe.
  • Email/letter links will be established  between classes
  •  A possible timetable might be….

 

Sept. - Dec.

Jan. - Mar.

Apr. - Jun.

Year 1

Introduction

Wonder 1

Wonder 2

Year 2

Wonder 3

Wonder 4

Wonder 5

Year 3

Wonder 6

Wonder 7

Quilt