TRADES OF THE FUTURE

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Schools Andrés García Soler from Spain, Beacon Church from England, Osnovna sola Planina pri Sevnici from Slovenia, Istituto Comprensivo San Rocco from Italy and 3rd Primary School from Greece, took part in this teachers training and meeting event in Faenza, Italy. 

Participants in this activity were:

3 teachers from Andrés García Soler School.

2 teachers from The Beacon Church School.

2 teachers from 3rd Primary School Grevená.

3 teachers from Osnovna sola Planina pri Sevnici.

Teachers and students from Istituto Comprensivo San Rocco.

Participant teachers had the chance to improve their digital skills in a training course about Google Workspace and learning apps. Besides, certain time was devoted to organization and evaluation meetings where the next mobilities and activities were dated and discussed. To finish, teachers had time for job shadowing some lessons and learn from the local environment and traditional jobs in the area, mainly ceramics. 

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

 

8/11/2021

Welcome and introduction. 

Job shadowing lesson.

Coordination meeting.

Training course about Google Workspace.

Town hall welcoming by mayor and visit to Faenza city centre. Twinning dinner.

 

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9/11/2021

Meet nursery classes.

Intermediate evaluation meeting.

Ceramic workshop at school.

International Museum of Ceramics.

Twinning dinner.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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10/11/2021

Day trip to Bologna, walking tour. 

 

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11/11/2021

Trip to Ravenna. Visit to the monuments.

Final teachers meeting for conclusions.

Farewell dinner.

 

The results of this activity can be shown in an accurate reorganization schedule of the following mobilities and activities that should be done in the incoming months after our project was affected and postponed due to sanitary situation. Moreover, an intermediate evaluation report has been developed after individual evaluation from the different schools on the first part of our project and improvement suggestions for the second part of it.   These conclusions can be seen in our project E-twinning page.

How did the participation in this activity benefit the involved participants?

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BENEFITS

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The main benefits for the participants are: 

- Deeper knowledge of Google Workspace and the different apps that can be applied in our daily teaching routines.  

- Knowledge of free Chrome extensions and their use in the Primary classroom.

- Teachers learnt from other Italian colleagues through job shadowing and sharing teaching experiences and resources. 

- Participants learnt about local traditional jobs and its evolution until nowadays, from ancient ceramic techniques to modern workshop.

- Participants improved their linguistic abilities in the English language as all the planned activities and interaction among teachers were always 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. 

- Participants received a certificate of attendance for the different activities and participation in the mobility.

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Due to ongoing COVID-restrictions, we were only able to spend two days in school and spent the other days visiting local cities and town gaining an appreciation of the local culture, architecture and history of this beautiful area of Italy.

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In school we were able to join an English and Spanish lesson, and other subjects with classes of 12 year olds. Children enjoyed discussing the similarities and differences of their school experience and found out about each others hobbies and interests.  

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The town of Faenza is internationally recognised for its ceramics.  We visited a local museum, local sites of interest and considered the development of our Trades of the Future project where children will consider how technology will change and enhance local trades and jobs into the future.

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The city of Bologna is famed for its 65km of portico arches which form many of the city's pavements. It lies around a 30 minute train journey from Faenza.  Our children loved seeing the photos and videos of double decker trains!  Bologna has a long history and beautiful architecture.  We visited some of the many Roman buildings, including Christian churches with long and fascinating histories, some dating back to the 4th Century CE.    Mr Johnson thoroughly enjoyed sampling many pizzas and pasta dishes - although of course bolognaise is never to be eaten with spaghetti and the 'Bolognese pasta' is actually a tortellini which should be served in a chicken broth.

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Ravenna is another beautiful historic city close to Faenza.  It is the resting place of Dante, and is famed for its many, many beautiful and truly sparkling mosaics.  Some of the mosaics date back to the 3rd or 4th Century CE.  To say we were awe-struck is putting it mildly!  The mosaics are almost all constructed of very small pieces of less than a centimeter and are dominated with rich deep reds, blues and gold. 

 

Again, lots more opportunity for our project to consider how digital technologies our children will be developing and using in their adult lives can enhance and support the traditional skills, the jobs and livelihoods of locals.  We explored the severe impact of climate change in Ravenna where the water table is rising, one church has made a feature of this by converting the beautifully mosaiced crypt into a fishpond which can be seen from inside the church.