Five schools from five different countries with similar kind of pupils (from middle and low class families and an important amount of pupils issued from emigrant families) decided to work together in a field of education able to federate a great interest among the participants : the artistic education. The project has various objectives : it will develop the skills of creativity , raise the pupils's awareness of the artistic trends, involve them as actors in various artistic projects, improve their writing skills. Through messages, video conferences and transnational training and teaching activities all participants will develop their skills in foreign language as well as their ICT abilities. The teachers will work on various aspects of artistic education , exchange teaching methods and create teaching aids to be offered on the eTwinning platform. All schools will first research separately on a common topic and then we will summarize our works , exchange them and create jointly a final result. On top of many different activities in the fields of visual art, music and acting , the participants will work on the creation of booklets and quizzes concerning a museum of each participating country and destined for the young visitors. The different art works created all through the project will be displayed on eTwinning as well as in local exhibitions. Some monumental art works will remain in the schools ( or outside) in the future. The exchange with teachers from other countries will constitute a long term benefit as an improvement of teaching methods. The various teaching aids might be used again and again by european teachers willing to build up artistic projects.
Five primary schools from five different countries have participated to this project. They have similar kind of pupils : from middle and low class families and an important amount of pupils issued from emigrant families. These pupils have worked together in a field of education able to federate a great interest among the participants : the artistic education. The project had various objectives : it has developped the skills of creativity , raised the pupils's awareness of the artistic trends, involved them as actors in various artistic projects, improved their writing skills. Through messages, video conferences and transnational training and teaching activities all participants have developped their skills in foreign language as well as their ICT abilities. The teachers have worked on various aspects of artistic education : - practicing of visual arts such as painting, architecture, sculpture, photography, film - musical education and body expression - acting - knowledge of artists and history of art movements. They have exchanged teaching methods and created teaching aids offered on the eTwinning platform. All schools have first researched separately on a common topic and then have summarized their works , exchanged them and created jointly a final result. On top of many different activities in the fields of visual art, music and acting , the participants have worked on the creation of booklets and quizzes concerning a museum of each participating country and destined for the young visitors. The different art works created all through the project have been displayed on eTwinning as well as in local exhibitions. Some monumental art works remain in the schools: - In Spain a sculpture in style of Miro - In France four mosaïcs in style of Chagall, Matisse, Miro and Klimt - In Austria, three mural décorations assembling small paintings in style of Hundertwasser The children got involved enthusiastically in all the activities by offering creative ideas. Some of them were lucky to participate in the learning teaching and training activities and exchanged a lot with the foreign pupils. The exchange with teachers from other countries have constituted a long term benefit as an improvement of teaching methods. The various teaching aids will be used again and again by european teachers willing to build up artistic projects. On various occasions, during meetings organised for the teacher community, the participant teachers have disseminated the different actions of this project and also explained the benefits of getting involved into Erasmus project.