MOBILITY C6 | erasmus

C6: DISCOVERING FAENZA-POTTERY TOWN

This was the second of the visits with children that was postponed due to the COVID Pandemic. The children from each country meet during the week in Faenza, Italy, and carry out a series of activities and cultural visits together.

DESCRIPTION

This activity C6 was originally planned for January 2021, nevertheless, due to Covid pandemic it was delayed until May 2022 when sanitary situation allows safe mobilities with students.

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 short term mobility with students and teachers meeting event in Faenza, Italy.

Participants in this activity were:

3 teachers and 8 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.

3 teachers and 10 students from Osnovna sola Planina pri Sevnici.

Teachers and students from Istituto Comprensivo San Rocco.

Participant students had the chance to meet new European friends and improve their linguistic skills and open their mind to new situations. They assist a different school, with different partners and working in a different language. They also had the chance to learn about traditional jobs in the area, mainly ceramics. Besides, teachers devoted time to organization meetings where the next mobilities and activities were dated and discussed.

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

3/5/2022

Welcome and introduction.

Warming up games.

Twinning pic-nic.

Europe day games using ICts.

Town hall welcoming by mayor.

Treasure hunt game to discover main places in Faenza city centre. Dinner.

4/5/2022

Learning rotation at school: sport activities + ceramic workshop

Teachers coordination meeting.

Lunch at school.

Visit to Ravenna, discovering ancient mosaics.

Twinning dinner.

5/5/2022

Day trip to Florence: walking tour and cultural visits.

6/5/2022

English theatre at school.

Teachers job shadowing in nursery school.

Teachers meeting.

Visit to Pitti Palace (trekking and visit to Brisighella could not be done due to weather conditions).

Visit to a Rione and learning about traditional Palio and cultural heritage.

Farewell dinner.

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

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.

BENEFITS

The main benefits for the participants are:

- Deeper knowledge of how some traditional jobs like ceramic, mosaics or theatre work and their evolution from past times to nowadays.

- Deeper knowledge of educative apps such us kahoot, padlet and scratch among others to design and play games about Europe.

- Learning interesting facts about Europe to commemorate Europe day. Become European citizens, opening minds and appreciating other countries and cultures.

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

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

- 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.

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