Project „Let´s play and learn together" is designed for students aged 4 - 11 years, who at this time start to learn English and form the relationship to English, the education, to their peers, life. In this way active work on our project can help them greatly. This project is focused on the attractive and playful methods and CLIL method of learning English. This project supports learning English from early childhood when it is significant to create positive view of children to foreign languages. And we suppose we can achieve this aspect thanks to this project. The project will be full of different playful activities , music, songs, games , atractive methods using in education of English. We will use CLIL method in various pre-primary and primary subjects such as Art, Music, History, Maths,.... Via different local activities children will develop also their talent, creativity and fantasy creating artworks, cards, collages, prepare drama, dances, festivals. We will organize also virtual mobilities to improve English and communication skills of our pupils. During international meetings and exchanges teachers and students will involve in the educational process - CLIL methods in different subjects at hosting schools and directly will observe and learn , exchange experiences with this method with European schools. We will also organize common workshops and English lessons teaching with playful and attractive methods. We expect participants improvement also in English communication. We believe all these attractive activities will have a positive impact on pupils of participating schools as well as schools in other regions, because we want to disseminate the results as wide as possible. Project activities will be implemented at local and international level, they will be documented in the brochure - CLIL in European schools - translated in native languages, and on DVD or e-book . This material will be published on the project and school websites available to all students, teachers, parents and the public. At school and in public places we will implement the Project Days and organize various local activities closely related to the topics of everyday life such as - Seasons, Holidays, festivals, games, Numbers. We expect to increase national awareness of students, their self-esteem, improve the attitude to English and to foreign languages, too. Pupils learn to work in an international team and respect the cultures and lifestyles in other European countries. They will understand what the European identity means and will know the importance of the inter-cultural education for them and their future. Projekt „ Hrajme sa a učme sa spoločne“ je tvorený pre žiakov vo veku 4-11 rokov a je zameraný na učenie sa angličtiny od ranného detstva. V tejto dobe je potrebné začať s učením angličtiny už v škôlke a používať pri výučbe atraktívne hravé metódy, piesne, pohybové aktivity, aby si deti vytvorili pozitívny vzťah k angličtine a učeniu cudzích jazykov. Hlavným cieľom projektu je, aby si učitelia i žiaci osvojili CLIL metódu výučby rozličných predmetov v materskej škole i v zkladnej škole v ročníkoch 1.- 6. V projekte chceme dosiahnuť aj ďalšie ciele. V projekte sa venujeme témam z každodenného života. Zaujíma nás pohľad detí na ročné obdobia, sviatky, oslavy, tradície a históriu, kultúru i matematiku a iné školské predmety. Na témach budú deti pracovať rozličnými spôsobmi- prezentácie, koláže, výtvarné práce, filmy, hry, divadielka, tanečné i hudobné vystúpenia. Pretože jedným z cieľov projektu je rozvíjať talent , nadanie a kreativitu žiakov. Chceme , aby žiaci vyjadrovali vlastné názory rozličnými spôsobmi. Učitelia a študenti sa počas medzinárodných stretnutí zapoja do vzdelávacieho procesu hostiteľských škôl a priamo na hodinách budú sledovať využitie hravých metód vo výčbe angličtiny i CLIL v školských predmetoch . Učitelia si vzájomne vymenia skúsenosti vo využití metódy CLIL v európskych školách. Veríme, že táto zaujímavá aktivita bude mať pozitívny vplyv na žiakov zapojených škôl, ale aj ďalších škôl v regiónoch. Aktivity projektu budú realizované na lokálnej i medzinárodnej úrovni, budú zdokumentované v brožúre - CLIL v európskych školách , DVD alebo v elektronickej knihe a zverejnené na stránke projektu a škôl, prístupné žiakom, učiteľom, rodičom i verejnosti. V škole a na verejných miestach budeme realizovať projektové dni a organizovať miestne aktivity , aby sme čo najviac spropagovali výsledky projektu a dosiahli pozitívny dopad na širokú verejnosť. Očakávame, že vzrastie národné povedomie študentov, ich sebavedomie, zlepší sa postoj k vzdelaniu, k jazykom. Žiaci sa naučia pracovať v medzinárodnom tíme a rešpektovať kultúru a životný štýl v iných európskych krajinách. Pochopia, čo znamená európska identita a aké dôležité je medzikultúrne vzdelávanie pre nich a ich budúcnosť.
The project “Let's Play and Learn Together” was designed for pupils aged 4-11 and focused on learning English from early childhood. Older pupils were also involved in the project and the project had a positive impact on all students and teachers. Nowadays it is necessary to start with learning English in kindergarten and to use attractive methods, songs, physical activities to teach children to develop a positive attitude towards English and foreign languages. The main objective of the project was to give pupils a positive attitude towards English, foreign languages and education in general. We tried to achieve this goal by using innovative and playful methods as well as by CLIL method in various subjects in kindergarten and elementary school in grades 1-6. In the project we have successfully achieved all required goals. We focused on topics from everyday life. We were interested in children´s view at seasons, holidays, festivals, traditions and history, culture and mathematics and other school subjects. Children worked on themes in various ways, including presentations, collages, artworks, films, games and theatre. One of the aims of the project was to develop pupils' skills, talent and creativity. For this reason, we organized a competition at schools for the Logo of the project, we created international collages of materials and artworks brought from the stays, exhibitions of artworks of the topics at schools and public places, we created the international anthem of the project. We made vocabulary for each topic and each school created puzzles, quizzes, crosswords and published them in the twinspace and on the project website. Pupils of all schools were actively involved in solving them on-line improving their English skills and computer skills. We performed similar tasks during international stays. During international meetings, teachers and students were involved in the educational process of the host schools, we were actively involved in English lessons realized by playful methods. In many activities we used different digital technologies, new ICT tools and pupils gained new computer skills, improving their digital skills. Pupils were also active in CLIL lessons of primary and pre-primary subjects such as art and music, science, computer science, mathematics, history and literature. We realized the lessons at local level at schools and during international meetings. Pupils were very interested in this way of teaching, which contributed to their positive attitude to English. Teachers exchanged experiences in the use of CLIL in European schools. We have documented the lessons on DVD and in the booklet "ClLIL in European Schools" and published it on the project website. This interesting activity has had a positive impact on the pupils of the involved schools as well as other schools in the regions. Also virtual mobilities - videoconferences were very important part of our cooperation. During them we focused on games and traditions, we sang songs in native languages and in English. The videoconferences were beneficial for both the project and the schools, as more pupils could meet peers without travelling. During international meetings in Portugal, Slovakia and Italy, we realized international Project Days, during which we played with English together, we presented our knowledge and results to parents and community. Children were learning spontaneously while having fun with their parents, grandparents and teachers. At school and in public places we realized Project Days in which we informed about the results of the project and at the same time we enriched them with music and dance performances. Pupils screened films about local activities and stays, contributing their own attitudes and experiences. All local and international activities, summary of presentations were summarized in the electronic book "Let's play and learn together", which we published on the project website and in the twinspace. Thanks to the project, pupils learned to express their own opinions, increased their national awareness, selfconfidence, gained a positive relationship to English, to languages and improved their attitude to education. Pupils have learned to work in a team, pupils' relationships in schools have improved. They have also learned to work in an international team and respect culture and lifestyle in other European countries. They formed strong friendships with their peers. They understood what European identity means and how important intercultural education is for them and their future. All results were published in website of our project: https://lpalt-erasmus.wixsite.com/playandlearntogether. We realized some activities also in twinspace of eTwinning program: https://live.etwinning.net/projects/project/134517.