This project is developed to meet the strategy of the EU Commission for 2020 the aim of which is to improve basic skills of new generation for a better future of the European Union.Necessary basic skills in Science, Mathematics, Language and Technology need to be developed by transforming activities into plays.As the project team, the coordinators of the partner schools, we discussed the issue (how to improve lack of basic skills in pre-school curricula) and stated the needs in our schools taking teachers 'observation into account.Lack of practical knowledge/training became the main problems according to our study that needs to be promptly solved.As both practical knowledge and theoretical knowledge are important phases of learning, they need to be combined to provide children with effective learning at an early age. It is not enough to remember given data and gain technical knowledge as learning is a difficult process which produces relatively permanent changes. Our working methodology aims at creating/developing practical experiments/ activities/real situations for theoretical knowledge given in kindergarden curricula. We aim to connect both types of knowledge and provide holistic learning.Since this is a kindergarden level project, there will be basic level of activities. Kids are our major target groups and that is why clubs activities will be transformed into plays to make their learning more enjoyable and memorable. Teachers will be the main actors in the project. They will develop practical experiments and activities for kids and prepare a systematic education programme depending on our approach in the project. We will teach our kids about science, maths, technology and language in a very pleasant, simple and accessible way.CLUBS AND ACTIVITIES (Kids will be selected into the clubs according to their talents)SCIENCE CLUB-Providing/planning and practising experiments (games) for basic knowledge-Leading kids to play games as if they were scientists-Preparing and publishing SCIENCE MAGAZINE FOR KIDS-Introducing famous scientists and their products to children - presentation at school.MATHS CLUB-Providing Maths games for kids-Organizing chess tournament (in kids level)-Preparing numerical games for kids-Observing geometric shapes outside-Organizing orienteering activities for pupilsLANGUAGE CLUB-Preparing theatre play in English -Song contest in the target language-Role play activities -Memorizing lyrics of songs in English-Organizing cinema days in English -Inviting foreign famous people to schoolTECHNOLOGY CLUB-Organising educative computer games for kids-Organizing webgame competitions-Creating the project website -Creating e-twinning accounts and running partnership (by teachers)The project includes 4 short term exchanges of teachers and there are 12 mobilities for each school. The project team will observe activities, products and performances so they will decide who will participate in these meetings. OBJECTIVES-Creating an active pre-school environment inside/outside the classes-Providing holistic learning-Developing ICT, Language and Digital skills of kids-Developing interest of the kids through mathematics, language, science, technology-Improving self-esteemNUMBER AND PROFILE OF THE PARTICIPANTSStudents: indirect 80X5:400 total: 400Teachers: Direct 16X5:80 indirect 5X5:25 total: 105Administrative Staff: 2X5: 10Families: 150Local Community: 100RESULTS AND IMPACTSThrough the project the five partners intend to create both short-term and long-term tangible and intangible results and to achieve the biggest possible impact as leading teachers to increase the quality of education and improve our kids’ basic skills and provide holistic learning as an innovative practice. The project website will provide a continuous access to the general information of the project activities, progress and results and will amplify our collective impact on participants.
Thisproject was carried out in order to fulfill the EuropeanCommission's 2020 strategy. Fourprimaryschools from Poland, Turkey, Greece, Italy and one kindergarten from Estonia cooperated with the project. The addressees of the projectactivitieswereaged from 5 to 9 years. The aim of the project was to improve the basicskills in the field of science, mathematics, language and technology of childrenthroughplay and to developprograms and sets of tasks in each of theseinstitutionswithinallclubs. The project was innovativebecause we developed and applied methods of comprehensive learning (combiningtheoretical and practical). We implemented the project in stages, and we shared the results of the activitiesduringteacherexchanges. We achieved the goalstogether and theirresultis a set of teachingtasksdeveloped by teachers from each partner country within 4 clubs. The Polishschool was the project'scoordinator. Ourmethodology of workconsisted in developing practicalexperiments and role playing by children. Teaching was a reflection of the theoreticalknowledgesituation, which was given in the curriculum for kindergartens and earlyschooleducation. Ourgoal was to combinebothtypes of knowledge and provideholistic learning. Childrenwere the main target group and the clubs' activitieswerebased on gainingknowledgethroughplay and experience. The teachersdevelopedpracticalexperiments for children and prepared a systematiceducational program. Childrenparticipated in clubs: natural, mathematical, language, IT. Through theseactivities we haveachievedourgoals: - we haveanactivepre-school and school environment in classes / groups, -we decided to interestchildren in the fields of mathematics, language, science, technology, -we strengthenedstudents' self-esteem and strengthenedtheirself-esteem, -we implementedgoodpractices and newmethods in partner schools, - we haveimplementedmethods of holistic learning, -we decided to develop ICT, languageskills and digitalskills of children, - cooperating with otherinstitutions (otherinitial and formalschools and informallocalorganizations, non-governmentalorganizations, parent-teacherassociations), we haveensuredlong-term dissemination of ourlastingresults. In each of the partner institutions, directaction - participation in clubs, a minimum of 80 students. A group of 8 teachers was established in each partner organization (leadingclubs). English teacher was responsible for communication and projectcoordination, mathematicsteacher for statistical data analysis and questionnaireassessment, ICT teacher to conduct (website, blogs, applications, etc.), psychologist and others. Total approx. 25 teachers in eachschool. Families of students (400 people) willcontribute to the introduction of knowledgeabout the host country and preparedishes for guests. The localcommunity (about 100 people), ielocalpress, municipality, school management and City Offices, contributed to the dissemination of the project to the widercommunity. Teachersachievedtheirgoalsmainlythanks to short-term teacherexchanges, duringwhichtheypresentedtheirworkresults in clubs and exchangedexperiences. The addedvalueconsisted in the use of modern teaching and learning methods, which was associated with the stimulation of teamwork in the team under the supervision of specializedteachers. The integration of goodpracticesused as peer-learning benchmarkshasalsocontributed to familiarizing with the advantages and limitations of othereducationsystems. The laststage of ourprojectis the prolongeddissemination of activities and results. We haveagreed on the cooperation of schools and assumelong-lastingrelationshipsthrough: - Project website and Facebook group, whichwill be supplemented with materials from partner schoolswhen the projectiscompleted. -Gazetki z clubsów as a presentation of the effects and description of the developed products. -School sister: implementation of informationabout the country of the chosen partner in educationalclasses. - Project magazines: willcontinue to be distributed in partner schools. - Photoreports (diaries) in each partner school to ensurefriendshipbetweencultures and prolongeddissemination. - Erasmus + cornerhasbeensupplemented with the effects of activitiesafter the end of the project. - E-Tweening - implementation of the project with the same title on the platform. - EST database. Thanks to the project, the partnerscreatedbothshort- and long-term results of ouractivities and achievedanimpact on raising the quality of education and improving the skills of ourchildren and ensuredcombiningtheory with practice (holisticmethod) as aninnovativepractice. The group on Facebook and Instagram, the projectwebsiteprovidedconstantaccess to informationaboutprojectactivities, the course and itseffects, and strengthenedourcollectiveimpact on the participants.