The Erasmus parnerships called I am my life hero is to challenge big students' problems of weak activness in the school field and a low level of motivation. Having observed the present situation of the young' development, we notice some danger because of huge dynamics in the changing world, mixed up values, worse conditions of living and work. The idea of authority has been disappearing and a hero has gained a pejorative meaning, as a sign of weakness. The young without any hero lack a meaningful source of inspration. Being influenced with bad advisors, they loose their inner power and creativity. Our partnership is to make pupils notice the importance of taking right choices, find the strenght and motivation to fight weakness and help others who are in the lower position. The Partnership's work is to fill the word hero with good meaning and inspire students. The project's actions are intended to raise the students', relatives' and communities' awarness of good lifestyle and finally change students into active people, who know their value and notice the importance of gaining new skills and knowledge. We would like to offer activities which develop a positive identification as a hero – “I am able to do it!” and various learning styles and show everyone how the cooperation and help is valuable and important in life.Our active cooperation in common tasks will make our schools creative means of open education. The project work focus around 5 main events held in the partners schools according to the educative experience.They are called Weeks of National Hero, Healthy Hero, Sport Hero, Team Hero and Smart Hero.The Cypriot school is to present its competence in health education, the Italian one its sports involvement and the Spanish school will engage us into team skills. The Polish coordionator is to inspire us with programming and coding in order to introduce modern techology into our everyday teaching. During these special days we want to exchange and present our common activities in front of the whole schools' communities, who will be invited to participate actively. That is parents and families, the old and kindergartens, the minorities and the disabled will take concrete parts in the project. All the work will be integrated in the schools programmes and developed on everyday lessons and extra meetings. Thanks to wide range of activities, various subjects and teachers, as well as groups will be involved into our project. Our achievements will be promoted in the local, national and European communities. We are to act individually, locally and achieve a global awarness via ICT and English. The pupils' motivation will rise not only towards these subjects but also to undertake new responsibilties. We propose to work over the project's ideas approaching a multi-intelligent way, involving activities based on linguistic, ICT, artistic, sports and social skills.Participating in the activities in the similar areas, we'd like to compare experiences and get the conclusions which are to strengthen our educational work and help to improve it.
The project I am my life hero challenged present problems of weak engagement in school field and low level of motivation.Having observed the situation of the young development, we noticed danger of mixed up values, worse conditions of living. The young without a hero lack meaningful source of inspiration and lose inner power. Our school societies noticed the importance of taking right choices, find the strength to fight weakness and help others who are in lower position like the disabled and minorities.The common work filled up the word hero with good meanings and inspired students who changed into active, self-confident with key skills.The project activities were integrated in the schools' curricula, included in lessons and Erasmus+ meetings. Depending on the project aims students resolved various tasks individually, with family members, also in team cooperation. Teamwork offered a great lesson to communicate in authentic context. As a result pupils became open and aware of European issues.The common project aims were to: lead students and the communities to reconsider lifestyle create opportunities for students to express themselves in creative ways by means of ICT and English stimulate creativity to discover talents and fight weakness which leads to self -development engage modern technologies involve the town communities with the local minorities-the handicapped and kindergartens share experiences and work to include them in school educational programmes. The project work focused around 5 main events organised at partner schools according to the experience. We agreed that each partner would bring a specific value worked out before. Each school society worked over the common ideas preparing to Hero Weeks.The Hero Weeks took place in November 2018- National Hero to celebrate 100th Anniversary of Independence. Language Teaching and Training activities took place in March 2019- Healthy Hero, May 2019- Sports Hero, February 2020- Team Hero and the last online visit in June 2020- Smart Hero. The Cypriot school presented its great experience in health education. It organised C1 the first Week of Healthy Hero. It’s been cooperating with University in Nicosia for many years. Due to the project we were offered the opportunity to exchange ideas of food habits. Healthy hero as a role model was presented in a lecture about nutrition by Cypriot professor. By improving eating habits during workshops our schools learnt how to eat well and avoid bad addictions.We were presented national heritage being invited to the annual celebration of the Cichenupti Festival of food and traditional dance. The Italian partner assured us about sports involvement during C2 LTT Sports Hero Week. It's been working hard on the implementation of life skills education to help the young live successfully the transition from childhood to adulthood and to lead sportive and productive personal and social life.The event gathered the whole school community including the disabled sportsmen who influenced us positively presenting the real fight in everyday life obstacles. Erasmus+ team had a nice opportunity to celebrate EU Day. We had a special lesson for students and 14 teachers to reflect on important aims of EU and partnership. We talked about EU history, symbols and the dates of accession. The days were especially important for Cypriot and Polish partners as they celebrated 15th anniversary of accession. The Spanish school organised C3 LTT called Team Hero Week. It has been working on multidisciplinary curricula dealing with projects about healthy lifestyle and cultural heritage. One of the main goals of the mobility was team work. It involved us into working over cooperative virtues as the way to express and motivate to rise self-esteem.The Erasmus+ partnership related to the school engagement into multilingualism and team workshops of building Human Towers and annual carnival celebration with a school dance play in eco costumes.The partner experience of making school radio programmes was of great value teaching us cooperation in preparing school news broadcasting weekly at school and local levels. During C4 LTT Smart Hero Week Polish coordinator presented modern IT skills in everyday teaching. In the time of online education because of Corona virus pandemic, it organised the visit week online, in which it presented the educational ideas based on modern IT tools in various subjects especially in foreign language education. Participants had opportunities to see experiments, various apps in spots and the newest tools. Preparing activities we exchanged experiences in school communities, inviting families, the elderly and from local kindergartens, the minorities and the disabled to the competitions, workshops and open school days. We spread our partnership via parallel eTwinning project Life Hero. We experienced that hero values do not have specific nationality. They become a kind of bridge connecting nations to bring up European citizens.