Saturday 11 June 2011
9. SCHOOL COORDINATORS
- Ms Elisabeta - Luise Mihălăchioiu, project coordinator and coordinator in the Romanian school, teacher of English and French
- Ms Biljana Stamatovic, coordinator in the Montenegrin school, teacher of English
- Ms Sladjana Vidovic, coordinator in the Bosnian school, teacher of English
8. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF SCHOOLS
Coordinating school:
Școala cu clasele I-VIII „Matei Basarab” ("Matei Basarab" School) Târgoviște, Romania will be the coordinator of this project sharing all activities with both partners, cooperating in all stages of the project. Our school lies in the town of Târgoviște and is a medium-sized school. We teach about 610 students aged 6-15 years. They come from a variety of backgrounds such as stable families, divorced families, unemployed and migrants as well as children living in state institutions experiencing placement. There are about 60 SEN students integrated in ordinary classes but also working with specialised staff. Some students commute to school daily or weekly from the countryside. There are also students coming from multicultural families (such as Romanian and Chinese, Romanian and Turkish) as well as Roma ethnic students. We offer equal opportunities to all our students to get easily integrated, stimulate them in learning foreign languages and get to know other cultures and education systems and overcome different barriers.
Partner school 1:
Osnovna Škola „Pavle Rovinski” was founded in 1994. It is situated in Podgorica, the capital city of Montenegro. There are 1490 students, divided into in 51 classes. There is a pedagogue and psychologist. Within inclusive education which has been going on for nine years, there are now 5 students. 100 teachers work at our school. Our school has all the necessary equipment (computers, audio-visual equipment, musical instruments, sound system) for providing good education. It is involved in a great number of projects and has great cooperation with NGOs. Three languages English, Italian and Russian are studied at our school. It is member of UNICEF project, called „protecting from violence”. Our students are very successful in competitions of all subjects, especially Russian, Biology, Chemistry, mother tongue and Maths. It’s got a very good cooperation with the British organisation “Save the children” and this year it joined ENO - environment from Finland. It’s got a confession for protecting the environment, „BELLS”. It’s got its own magazine, called „Let” which is published on its birthday
Partner school 2:
Osnovna Škola „Stevan Nemanja” has 546 students. It’s got 2 separate 9 grades’ schools and a number of remote schools. Under Inclusive Education, the school has 10 students with special needs (students with learning difficulties with multiple development disorders) and works on their appropriate integration, having special curriculum for each subject. Although with poor teaching tools, the school has made several important achievements in Regional / Republic Competitions in English, Maths, German, Mother Tongue and Physical Education. The students have an e-mail exchange with a school from Finland, as a result of our active interaction with a LOT Team from Finland during their mandate in B&H. This school is open for all new ideas targeting at improvement of teaching and learning methods. Presently, the school is forming a collection of Mind Map presentation created by its teachers, to be shared by teachers from other schools in the region. Regular interactive classes in all subjects and workshops have prepared the students for their active involvement in decision making, preparing and implementing a project. The teachers have attended various trainings and seminars, among which the Training on Intercultural Education in November 2010 - project supported by MDG Achievement Fund.
7. EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
There will be extracurricular activities as well.
Teachers and students will jointly participate in actively promoting the theme idea in public.
Our teams of students and teachers will volunteer in school and public places as well (e.g. Montenegrin beach and resort, local parks, streets, forests and river banks).
6. SCHOOL SUBJECTS
The school subjects associated with this project are the following:
- English
- Mother Tongues
- Art
- Science
- Computer Science
- Civics
- Geography
- History
- PE
- Technology Education
- Counselling/Educational class
5. PARTICIPANTS
Partner school | Teachers / Students | Total number | Female | Male |
RO | Teachers | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Students | 25 | 15 | 10 | |
ME | Teachers | 3 | 3 | 0 |
Students | 25 | 16 | 9 | |
BA | Teachers | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Students | 25 | 15 | 10 | |
Total | all teachers | 9 | 7 | 2 |
Total | all students | 75 | 46 | 29 |
4. PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION
We will develop the project step by step, forming teams of students and teachers in each partner school, making and showing presentations of each partner school, introducing students to each other, working together on the project activities and making reflections and evaluation of the project.
We will promote our project by informing the public about it and its activities using mass-media.
We will meet for a seaside summer camp in July 2011, in Montenegro, one of the three partner countries. This will be the best way to get to know each other, to work together face-to-face on the project and to gain intercultural competence. We will produce flyers about protecting the environment, distribute them, clean the beach and parks. We will help tourists find their way, organize free English courses for children staying at the same hostel, give a short theatre performance, on the beach, every day, with environmental messages. We plan to start working on our dictionary in the summer camp and ask tourists for volunteering in our work with their own languages. In fact, we plan to ask tourists for joining us in our efforts of protecting the environment. We will organise a campain of Free Hugs to have fun. We will interview local people and tourists about means of protecting the environment and what they properly do about it, if they do. Major arrangements regarding the cooperation will be brainstormed in detail during the summer camp.
Each partneship school will have a school competition in drawing and creative writing having the topic "Volunteering – loving, caring, living". Each remarkable work will be phographed and posted on the Partnerhip Face Book page. All registered students from all three schools will vote on whom to win. The winner gets award at partneship meeting (students from other two schools will give presents). All three coordinators will have a permanent contact to follow-up the progress of the activities.
Each school will carry on planned activities in own school and own area/community.
Our approach is many sided. We intend to engage the curiosity and interest of our pupils with the support of various activities which encompass very different skills so that all pupils will be enthused and motivated from the most academic to the less academic. That is why the planned activities cover a wide range of skills.
All schools will be working together as a team towards a common goal. All 3 partner schools will equally and actively take part in all stages of the project according to our activity plan. The three school coordinators will be in permanent contact and do their best to make things advance successfully. As there are three distinct parts of our project, each school coordinator will be responsible for one part. The Romanian coordinator will be responsible for the "Environmental part", the Montenegrin partner for the "Helping the poor" while the Bosnian partner will have in charge the "Students with learning difficulties" part.
We will promote our project by informing the public about it and its activities using mass-media.
We will meet for a seaside summer camp in July 2011, in Montenegro, one of the three partner countries. This will be the best way to get to know each other, to work together face-to-face on the project and to gain intercultural competence. We will produce flyers about protecting the environment, distribute them, clean the beach and parks. We will help tourists find their way, organize free English courses for children staying at the same hostel, give a short theatre performance, on the beach, every day, with environmental messages. We plan to start working on our dictionary in the summer camp and ask tourists for volunteering in our work with their own languages. In fact, we plan to ask tourists for joining us in our efforts of protecting the environment. We will organise a campain of Free Hugs to have fun. We will interview local people and tourists about means of protecting the environment and what they properly do about it, if they do. Major arrangements regarding the cooperation will be brainstormed in detail during the summer camp.
Each partneship school will have a school competition in drawing and creative writing having the topic "Volunteering – loving, caring, living". Each remarkable work will be phographed and posted on the Partnerhip Face Book page. All registered students from all three schools will vote on whom to win. The winner gets award at partneship meeting (students from other two schools will give presents). All three coordinators will have a permanent contact to follow-up the progress of the activities.
Each school will carry on planned activities in own school and own area/community.
Our approach is many sided. We intend to engage the curiosity and interest of our pupils with the support of various activities which encompass very different skills so that all pupils will be enthused and motivated from the most academic to the less academic. That is why the planned activities cover a wide range of skills.
All schools will be working together as a team towards a common goal. All 3 partner schools will equally and actively take part in all stages of the project according to our activity plan. The three school coordinators will be in permanent contact and do their best to make things advance successfully. As there are three distinct parts of our project, each school coordinator will be responsible for one part. The Romanian coordinator will be responsible for the "Environmental part", the Montenegrin partner for the "Helping the poor" while the Bosnian partner will have in charge the "Students with learning difficulties" part.
3. PROJECT OUTCOMES
The concrete products we will produce during our project will be:
* a permanent photo exhibition with the most beautiful photos taken all along the project carrying on; we add all the time, update it while having new activities/photos
* a photo album (paper)
* a DVD with movies/filming of activities
* a DVD with movies/filming of activities
* flyers and posters in 4 languages about protecting the environment
* a dictionary with useful words and phrases in 4 languages (English, Romanian, Montenegrin, Serbian)- audio and written files
* Face Book profile
* a booklet including the whole project experiences, texts and photos
* performance at the Municipal Assembly Meeting
The expected achievements are:
The expected achievements are:
* a heightened awareness of the school, school activities and priorities in the public eye
* a raised awareness among the local population of the issues and objectives of the school partnership / project
* a strengthening of the relationship between the school partners - teachers, parents and students
* help and support in carrying out certain events
* students, teachers and all involved subjects will improve their attitudes towards environmental issues by the environmental part of the project
* a good foundation for students with learning difficulties' improvement in learning and their integration into school life
* cleaner areas (beach, parks, forests, river banks) in our communities
* happier children after receiving our helping gifts within “Humanity in action”, the best way to give everybody a reason for joy
* better integration and results of students with learning difficulties.
2. OUR PROJECT IDEA
The aim of our project is to offer our students and teachers the opportunity and motivate them to try out something new and experience volunteering properly by translating into action our shared old values of democracy, solidarity and participation within intercultural learning.
The project encourages participation and active citizenship and create personal and social skills, intercultural dialogue, protecting the environment. The volunteers’ own culture and their allegiance to the three countries give added value to our project activities.
We would like to promote the development of students and teachers as well as the development of the entire institution of our schools. This project is an excellent opportunity for exchanging ideas, getting to know our three countries through direct and personal experiences, practising English language and improving it, getting to learn words and phrases in new languages that are less circulated, becoming acquainted with foreigners, promoting social skills for students and teachers, thinking beyond national borders and taking action and, last but not least, having fun together and living unforgettable experiences.
The present project relates to the theme of the current aces cycle as long as it deals with volunteering activities within our smaller and larger communities; students and teacher will vilunteer in three directions: cleaning and protecting the environment, helping poor students and helping students with learning difficulties.
"Volunteering Bells Ringing" will encourage students from three schools from different countries to develop and maintain their volunteering spirit through three phases of the project:
1. Environmental part; students will undertake various actions to clean their environment.
2. Helping the poor; all schools will collect food, clothes, books for the poor children and their families.
3. Students with learning difficulties; peers support to widen horizons of students with learning difficulties.
Our teams identified some needs of our schools and communities: the banks of our rivers are too dirty, some students are very poor and some students have learning difficulties. The planned activities were suggested by the students and teachers within the context of the current aces cycle and their own needs and wishes for cooperation, building relationships, a better everyday life and future.
By means of this project we want to develop students and teachers necessary skills such as intercultural skills, foreign language competence, openness and accessibility for new perspectives, empathy, commitment and solidarity, independent learning, work and action, teamwork, interdisciplinary thought and action and development of teachers and development of the school culture.
1. VOLUNTEERING BELLS RINGING
"VOLUNTEERING BELLS RINGING" is the name of our trilateral school partnership project funded by aces.
The three partner schools are:
1. Școala cu clasele I-VIII „Matei Basarab” Târgoviște, Romania - coordinator
http://mateibasarab.ilive.ro/
2. Osnovna Škola "Pavle Rovinski" Podgorica, Montenegro - partner
http://www.mojaskola.me/os-pavle-rovinski/skola/
3. Osnovna Škola "Stevan Nemanja" Gornji Dragaljevac, Bijeljina, Bosnia & Herzegovina - partner
The project activities are carried out from July 2011 to March 2012.
The age of students taking part in this project: 12 to 15 years old
The three partner schools are:
1. Școala cu clasele I-VIII „Matei Basarab” Târgoviște, Romania - coordinator
http://mateibasarab.ilive.ro/
2. Osnovna Škola "Pavle Rovinski" Podgorica, Montenegro - partner
http://www.mojaskola.me/os-pavle-rovinski/skola/
3. Osnovna Škola "Stevan Nemanja" Gornji Dragaljevac, Bijeljina, Bosnia & Herzegovina - partner
The project activities are carried out from July 2011 to March 2012.
The age of students taking part in this project: 12 to 15 years old
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