"That's typical!" The idea behind our project is an artistic approach to different cultures. We want to make, share and analyse as well as realize art and culture and exchange our ideas. English as a foreign language will help us to communicate during e-twinning throughout the year and our exchanges. Our pupils in grade 8 will participate in the programme as well as teachers from the German and Finish School and experts like artists and museum employees. We will do art in our own country as well as together with the groups during the exchange, not only theory but focus on learning by doing. This includes photography, drawing and painting, sculpturing and printing. Focus will be our national culture and background and the specific typically German and Finish art. We are going to work in various styles reflecting the history of art. Visiting historical sites in both countries show the richness of the cultures. The results will be shown at our schools and in the community, the town hall, library or other public buildings. We will present our works to a large number of people and print a book about the development and results of the project. We want to deepen our relationship with our Finish partner school and enable the students to live the European spirit. With the financial help of Erasmus+ we will be able to take also students with special needs and financial problems and integrate our multicultural pupils. The project will strengthen our school profile of doing exchanges on a regular base as we already do for 20 years. Our pupils are going to benefit because of this project and widen their horizons. During the exchange week in Finland we will study finnish national poetry of Kalevala Saga, make traditional finnish food and learn about finnish music, art and design and work with them with a modern touch using photography, video and traditional techniques. We will learn to build and play kantele the finnish national folk instrument. We will visit the museums in Helsinki and show our guests the beautiful finnish nature.
"That's typical!" The idea behind our project was an artistic approach to different cultures. We made, shared and analyzed as well as realized art and culture and exchanged our ideas. English as a foreign language helped us to communicate during e-twinning throughout the year and our exchanges. Our pupils in grade 8 participated in the program as well as teachers from the German and Finish School and experts like artists and museum employees. We did art in our own country as well as together with the groups during the exchange, not only theory but focus on learning by doing. This included photography, drawing and painting and sculpturing. Focus was our national culture and background and the specific typically German and Finish art. We worked in various styles reflecting the history of art. Visiting historical sites in both countries showed the richness of the cultures. The results were shown at our schools and in the community, the town hall, and library. We presented our works to a large number of people and created a little book about the development and results of the project. We deepened our relationship with our Finnish partner school and enabled the students to live the European spirit. With the financial help of Erasmus+ we were able to take also students with special needs and financial problems and integrate our multicultural pupils. The project strengthened our school profile of doing exchanges on a regular base as we already do for 20 years. Our pupils had a great benefit because of this project and widened their horizons. During the exchange week in Finland we studied Finnish national poetry of Kalevala Saga, made traditional Finnish food and learned about Finnish music, for example played the pupils the national instrument Kanteele. And they learned how to make Salmiakki in chemistry. We visited the science museum Heureka, the chocolate museum, the library in Helsinki and the art gallery. Also we went on a trip to see the beautiful Finnish nature. In Germany we went to a day trip to the beautiful Black Forest and went hiking on a trail above the trees. Here we discovered similarities and differences of the forests. With the guest families the Finnish pupils visited castles and ruins, the Mercedes- and Porsche Museum and the art museum in Stuttgart. During the lessons at our school the pupils painted their own dwarf, made out of concrete, with acrylic paint. On a tour through historical Calw the kids got to know Hermann Hesse as well as the medieval town. Besides that the pupils were working in mixed groups on the computer to write texts and translate them for our booklet.