Nowadays,wherever the place you are in our european community, our children live in an internet and electronic era. In our modern way of life, we often complain about the fact that kids can not have fun with simple things. Adults are often likely to overwhelm their kids with too much « modern stuff ». That is the reason why we choose as our topic for Erasmus project, « traditional games and sports». For as long as we can remember kids have always played. The game bring up a child to alduthood. Therefore exploring the games our grand parents were playing, discovering the games kids are playing abroad, participate to understanding that some games are timeless and with no frontiers. On the one hand, our quest and collection of traditional games will bring for sure to nowadays kids, their share of wonderment. On the other hand the broadcasting of a movie from Cassandre Hornez « Jouons » (let’s play in english) will bring together the kids and their parents. Those are the two side of the project we aim to conduct for the two years cursus. The games are by themselves something universal, that go far beyond borders, cultures, or colors. Therefore we expect that this « World language » that the games are will educate our pupils to be more tolerant, respectful and open towards the world out there. We will add up also to this idea of empathy, self-respect, in four words: « mens sana in corpore sano ». Hopefully, the next step in our project would be an exhibition dealing with the importance of games and sports in arts and literature. Two weeks per year, we will put together our research in order to show in our schools the progresses in this ambitious project. Meanwhile our website will broadcast our works in progress;
Everywhere in the world , youngsters have always played. Playing for a child is part of the construction of the adult he/ she will become in the future. And this adult will have to take part in an always moving and changing world, with new forms of violence but also with new hopes. What is at stake for us, teachers, educators and parents and is both an immense responsibility but also an enthusing challenge. During those two years, our common project has focused on the quest of universal values that will make of our pupils responsible and respectful citizens. During the first year, a gathering or traditional games enabled us to share festive moments with pupils, parents and teachers. The children discovered that they had many games in common but also some more specific to each country. During the second year, sports were spotlighted, and sharing, collaboration, respect, surpassing oneself,equality boys/girls were highlighted. Some productions achieved by the pupils during this project can be seen on the website Cultura 5,others in the Twinspace of our eTwinning project. An exhibition composed of 13 panels is the result of the collective work of adults and youngsters. It is accompanied by a pedagogical training kit with books, games, two digital tables to browse the websites and decipher the mysterious QR codes for each games, files and flyers to explain the project. This enormous work could not have been achieved without the collaboration between the teachers taking part in the project, both during the international meetings and also during the training and learning periods when teachers from one country went to another partner school to teach games and sports to the children for the “week of games” or the “week of sports”. Our exhibition is mobile and available to anyone who is interested. Please contact Nadia Miri: +613542005 [email protected]