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Auf den Flügeln der Fantasie durch Europa
Auf den Flügeln der Fantasie durch Europa
Start date: Sep 1, 2014,
End date: Aug 31, 2017
PROJECT
FINISHED
Our project "On the wings of imagination through Europe" puts a main focus on the support of creativity and the strengthening of key competences, so that the children have knowledge, a social and ecological sense of responsibility, education, joy, imagination, wealth of ideas and readiness for duty at their disposal. We refer to the strategical frame for the European cooperation in the field of universal and professional education (ET 2020) and the previous programme "Universal and professional education in 2010" (ET 2010). We want to prevent the development of school refusal or dropout of children because of not sufficient qualifications from the outset.
The support of creativity and key competences has to begin as early as possible. Our primary schools in Unna, Pisa, Palaiseau, Lanchester and Ajka go resume the preexperiences of the children from parental home and nursery school and promote these competences, so that they can change from primary to secondary schools without any difficulties. Because of this, the schools co-operate very closely with each other and build a network.
In our partner schools there are many children from less educated and socially disadvantaged families.
Many children have a migration background or special educational needs. In all partner schools there are children with special needs in learning, social and emotional development, mental development, language or physical and motor development. The schools are inclusive and develop strategies to promote all children in their development. This can succeed particularly in the creative field. In addition, many children are threatened by educational disadvantages because they have no access to literature, art, museums or computer in their families.
The main aims of the project are the support of creativity and problem solution competence, the support of cultural awareness and capability of cultural expression, the support of first language and foreign language skills, computer competence, learning competence, social competence, initiative and enterprise competence.
In our project, the children develop curiosity, openness, experimental joy, creative handling of technologies, materials and tools and economical dealing with resources, e.g., concerning time, material or work routines. They produce individual and original results, e.g., artistic products and processes and tell about them in conversations and texts. Moreover, they develop expression and explanatory power of an artistic solution, and the ability to plan and realise contributions for common projects with other children. In doing so, they highly strengthen their verbal and written communication and reflection competences in their mother tongue.
The children of all partner schools experiment in interdisciplinary lessons, in projects and study groups in the fields "Coloured shapes, graphic and spatial shapes, shapes with technical-visual media, discussion about pictures and objects of artists of their home country and other European countries". In the course of the project, they use pictures and pieces of art also as writing occasions, write profiles of artists or write and design invitations to exhibitions or art-workshops at school for parents, neighbours, nursery schools, secondary schools and the school public.
At the end of the project the children
- will have access to the different school websites and the platform E-Twinning, will strengthen their reading skills and satisfy their thirst for knowledge.
- will be motivated by the work with the partner schools to learn foreign languages and can take part in foreign language study groups (in English, French, Spanish, German).
- will extend their experiences and competences in dealing with new media by the use of the websites of the other schools, by visits at every school and by video conferences. The children can use their competences in new contexts.
- will impart knowledge to younger children and thus they will increase their social competence and applies in future projects and lessons.
- will accept help from older children and thus they will increase their social competences and apply them in future.
- will increase their creative, social, linguistic and cognitive competences and apply them in future.
The teachers integrate new media, workshops, new methods and projects with children of different school years with lasting effects into their lessons.