TRADES OF THE FUTURE

We were made to feel very welcome in the school.   Children joined a variety of lessons including music, English and PE.  They created animations together and enjoyed play and lunchtimes with their new friends.  

We enjoyed a treasure hunt around the village, exploring various buildings and historical sites such as the pillory, ruined castle and the Turkish Lime tree which is rumoured to have been planted after the Turkish invasion.   We visited a museum of local historical household and farm in times and were interested to see the carnival cow - a bit like our pantomime horse. The different nationalities got talking and realised that in Greece it’s a camel, in Spain a goat and in Italy a cow!

We visited local business and employer Tajfon who make large forestry machinery and export it globally.  Forestry and farming are the two largest employers locally.

A walk through the locality took us to two organic farms to find out how the farmers used technology to help them make farming decisions and reduce their manual workload.  We found out how one local sheep farmer had changed the way they sold their meat after researching the changing ways people chose and ate lamb, and how a dairy farmer uses technology to dry and move hay around which saves a lot of work.  We tried local salami, cakes, yoghurt and milk - delicious!

 

 

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Schools Andrés García Soler from Spain, Beacon Church from England, Osnovna šola Planina pri Sevnici from Slovenia, Istituto Comprensivo San Rocco from Italy and 3rd Primary School from Greece, took part in this students’ exchange activity that took part in Slovenia.

Participants in this activity were:

• 3 teachers and 9 students from Andrés García Soler School

• 2 teachers and 6 students from The Beacon Church School

• 2 teachers and 6 students from 3rd Primary School Grevená

• 2 teachers and 6 students from Istituto Comprensivo San Rocco

• teachers and students from Osnovna šola Planina pri Sevnici.

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Participant teachers and students had the chance to learn about traditional jobs in Slovenia such as farming and forestry and how these jobs have evolved from traditional to modern nowadays techniques. Moreover, teachers and students were involved in school daily activities, participating in lessons and learning about a different educative system. Besides, certain time was devoted to organization meetings where the next mobilities and activities were dated and discussed. To finish, participants learnt from the local environment, visit places of interest in the area and enjoyed Slovenian culture and traditions.

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The next lines are devoted to a brief summary of the activities carried out during the week:

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28/3/2022

• Welcome ceremony

• Job shadowing lesson for teachers/pupils join Slovenian students in lessons

• Tour around school

• Walking and treasure hunt around Planina and a visit to Planina’s Ethnological exhibition of farming and the company Tajfun that produces forestry equipment

• Evening event Let’s meet our Erasmus+ partners – listening to school presentations, meeting the local community and the vice mayor or the municipality Šentjur

• Twinning lunch and dinner at school

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29/3/2022

• Workshop for students on animated short films using stop-motion technique

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• Teachers observe lessons and have coordination meeting

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• Visit of two farms, learning about traditional and modern ways of developing farming job

• Twinning lunch and dinner at school

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30/3/2022

• Day trip to Ljubljana, guided walking tour, visit to the castle and free time

• Twinning dinner at local restaurant

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31/3/2022

• Workshops for students: Privacy policy and safe use of social networks and Sports games and activities.

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• Job shadowing for teachers

• Final celebration of the Erasmus+ week at Planina’s school, evaluation of the project meeting

• Visit to Tehnopark in Celje where students learnt about technology, experiments, science…

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• Farewell dinner at local restaurant.

The results of this activity can be shown in an improvement of our students’ use of new technologies after developing different workshops on this topic. They have also learnt about how Slovene traditional jobs have evolved until present days and how technology can facilitate these hard jobs. They have learnt from Slovene culture and, of course, they have improved their use of foreign language as the only way to communicate among partners from different countries. Pre and post travelling surveys show how this experience has affected our learners. Results can be checked in our e-twinning page.

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BENEFITS

The main benefits for the participants are:

- deeper knowledge of digital tools and safe use of the Internet,

- improvement of teachers’ and students’ digital competence, 

- knowledge of a different educative system, lessons, spaces, contents organization and educative approaches,

- teachers learnt from other Slovene colleagues through job shadowing and sharing teaching experiences and resources,

- participants learnt about local traditional jobs and its evolution until nowadays, from traditional forestry and farming to modern techniques,

- participants improved their linguistic abilities in the English language as all the planned activities and interaction among teachers and students were always developed in the foreign language,

- participants also had the chance to visit some historical cities, learn about their history, appreciate their main monuments and develop social skills.

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CULTURAL VISITS

We enjoyed a visit to Ljubljana, capital city of Slovenia.  The children were excited to hear that it’s a city of dragons and enjoyed walking over the Dragon Bridge!  We took the funicular up the hillside, walked through tunnels in the rock and climbed to the castle where the views of the city were spectacular!   

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In Celje, we visited the Science museum and enjoyed exploring hands-on exhibits with our friends from all the partner school.