We are a small elementary school (about 270 students
(6 - 15 years)) and 32 teachers. We are involved in ecological actions, we
cooperate with the local Ekoskop Association, we cooperated with Rzeszow University that prepared special
classes for our students, such as robots, Lego, physics in everyday life. We
organize a regional ecological competition every year supported by the
authorities in our province Podkarpacie.
Our students learn English with enthusiasm, but with
few opportunities to know the language in a real context.
The school is located in a poor and unprivileged
region of Poland (south-east of the country) in rural areas, which means that
children don't have the same chance of succeeding in life as those who come
from cities, including access to extracurricular activities. Taking part in
such projects gives them a chance to see what life is like abroad, what their
peers do at school and most importantly: they can learn and practice English,
get to know Europe, working in groups as they prepare the project's activities,
learning about the meaning of each country in the European Union. Some parents
migrate to the UK or Norway to work and make money, so rather poor families
have never been in the and have no opportunity to learn more about other
cultures, customs and countries.
The project will be beneficial for teachers who can
share ideas with colleagues from different countries, develop their approach
and methods or even learn to incorporate language teaching knowledge of the
content of their subjects.
Not many teachers at school speak English, so
students, still aware of the importance of the foreign language, have not many
opportunities to practice English.
Foreign language teachers organize multicultural
events every year to promote language learning, this year we prepared a
European Special Language Day and we invited primary school students to tell
them about our school and our traditions.
We also cooperate with small schools in local villages in the language and ecology
areas.
The key people responsible for the project English
teachers are English teachers, as well as ICT and Art teachers. Polish language
teachers are actively involved in the development of the project. One of the
school's teachers attended the course "Integrated Learning In Content and
Language: Practical Ideas for the Primary Classroom" July 2013, 2 weeks in
Exeter (United Kingdom) which focused on teacher’s development, funded by the
Comenius Longlife Learning, and this project would be the extension of the
activities initiated.
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