The main tasks of the project are to: influence on students’ behavior using an art therapy method and develop cooperation among the schools, enrich teaching innovative skills, get to know natural, cultural diversity of the project countries, improve interpersonal ,ITC communicative skills, get to know the partners with the art therapy method, create an active European citizenship, strengthen self-esteem, develop a sense of empathy, respect , include students with special education needs. Students at the age 10 -14 and the teachers from the partner schools will take part in the project. We are going to engage also pupils at the age 7-9, preschoolers and the local communities connected with the project schools. The project subject, using nature in the art therapy will influence on mental, social and emotional pupils’ development. It will also allow, through the art therapy, to influence on a change of unacceptable students’ behaviours. Taking part in the project enables the participants to develop their linguistic and communicative competences. Participating in the project is a chance for students with variety of intellectual and emotional disability. It will enable them to be successful, present their abilities among local and school community. The project “Nature soothes the customs” is aimed at the pupils, also the disabled ones, the teachers from European schools and the local communities connected with them. A subject of this enterprise is to get familiar and show the nature’s influence on a human being’s emotional development. Nature with its richness of sounds, colours , flora and fauna is a safe place soothing negative emotions and ideal to influence on the students’ behavior. We will show the beauty of nature and its impact on our emotions, in the same way we will try to affect our students in order to limit socially unacceptable behaviours. We want the project participants to show their creativity and creative interpretation in this field. The project participants will be acquainted not only with the beauty of nature but with its positive impact on our emotions as well. We will hand over a message:’’ Nature soothes the customs”. The beauty of the places crucial for us in terms of cultural, cognitive and emotional value will be presented. We will focus on discovering and getting familiar with those places as well as showing their role in a human being emotional development and nature’s impact on eliminating unacceptable behaviours. We will carry out educational classes with applying parts of the art therapy with a participation of the teachers and students from the partner countries. The teachers will exchange their experiences, prepare innovative lesson summaries, also for disabled students ,which will be mutually carried out. The students will improve their English skills owing to individual contacts with the peers and ICT devices. Art- literary competitions, vernissages, happenings, educational projects, workshops will be held in order to get information relating to nature ‘s impact on our emotions. We will aspire to develop abilities to express and recognize emotions by using nature’s colours and sounds. The participants will also get to know the most outstanding artistic and musical works referring to nature beauty. Art will be used to express ourselves emotionally. A mutual dependence of a human being and the nature will be shown as well. We will strive to develop an ability to recognize emotions by organizing classes of interpersonal communication and shaping pro -social attitudes. During the project task realization we will focus on improving the competences that are crucial for getting to know and understanding the surrounding reality. The project participants will be got acquainted with the art therapy method and using it as a therapeutic tool in order to limit students’ behaviors that are not acceptable in societies. Use of the richness of nature, combining it with the methods of the art therapy will allow the project participants not only to recognise, control their emotions but act better in the society that will contribute to better knowledge acquisition. The project tasks realization will be simultaneously performed in the project schools. Each partner will enrich the project of their own ideas that will contribute to realising project assumptions in a better way.
The main project task was to: influence on a change of students’ negative behaviors using an art therapy method , develop cooperation among the project schools, enrich teaching innovative skills, get to know natural, cultural diversity of the project countries, foster interpersonal ,ITC and communicative skills, get to know the partners with the art therapy method, create an active European citizenship, strengthen self-esteem, develop a sense of empathy, respect , include students with special education needs. Students at the age 10 -14 and the teachers from the partner schools took part in the project. We also engaged pupils at the age 7-9, preschoolers and the local communities connected with the project schools. The project subject, using nature in the art therapy influenced on mental, social and emotional pupils’ development. Due to the art therapy, we could influence on a change of unacceptable students’ behaviours. Taking part in the project enabled the participants to develop their linguistic and communicative competences. Participating in the project was a chance for students with variety of intellectual and emotional disability. It enabled them to be successful, present their abilities among local and school community. The project “Nature soothes the customs” was aimed at the pupils, also the disabled ones,the teachers from European schools and the local communities connected with them. A subject of this enterprise was to get familiar and show the nature’s influence on a human being’s emotional development. Nature with its richness of sounds, colours , flora and fauna is a safe place soothing negative emotions and it is an ideal tool to influence on the students’ behavior. The beauty of nature was also shown on -line. We tried to present that nature had a positive impact on the emotions and in the same way nature affected our students to limit socially unacceptable behaviours.The project participants showed their creativity and creative interpretation during the project tasks realization. We got to know the nature of the project countries but due to pandemic some of them were got to know on -line. A message:’’ Nature soothes the customs’’ was handed over.The beauty of the places crucial for us in terms of cultural,cognitive and emotional value was presented. We focused on discovering and getting familiar with those places as well as showing their role in a human being emotional development and nature’s impact on eliminating unacceptable behaviours. We carried out educational classes applying parts of the art therapy with a participation of the teachers and students from the partner countries.The teachers from the project countries were got acquainted with this method .The teachers exchanged their experiences, prepard innovative lesson summaries, also for disabled students ,which were mutually carried out also during on -line teaching . The students improved their English skills owing to individual contacts with the peers and ICT devices. Art- literary competitions, vernissages, happenings, educational projects, workshops also on -line for the teachers, parents and students were held to get information relating to nature ‘s impact on our emotions. We aspired to develop abilities to express and recognize emotions by using nature’s colours and sounds. The participants got to know the most outstanding artistic and musical works referring to a beauty of nature and art was used to express ourselves emotionally. A mutual dependence of a human being and the nature was shown as well. We strove to develop an ability to recognize emotions by organizing classes of interpersonal communication and shaping pro -social attitudes.During the project task realization we focused on improving the competences that are crucial for getting to know and understanding the surrounding reality. The project participants were got acquainted with the art therapy method and using it as a therapeutic tool in order to limit students’ behaviors that are not acceptable in societies.Using richness of nature, combining it with the art therapy methods allowed the participants to recognize or control emotions that contributed to better knowledge acquisition act better in the society as well. The project tasks were almost simultaneously realized in the project schools. The project was enriched with the partners’ own ideas that contributed to better project aims realisation.During the project the participants cooperated with local organizations, associations or other schools. It contributed to project tasks promotion and dissemination its products.In the local media there were programmes to promote the project.The project products will be used by the local communities long after the end of the project.The most precious project effect was a change of students' behaviours towards themselves and surrounding nature but also improvement of their teaching results.