In the Project The cultural heritage six schools are taking part. The Polish school is the initiator and coordinator of the project. The project’s idea emerges from the needs of students, teachers and local community that groups work in. Great deal of students’ and parents’ interest lies in English language acquisition and also in acquiring knowledge about cultural aspects of Polish and European heritage. The aim of this educating endeavour is to facilitate cohesion and consensus in various fields starting from knowledge of different cultures to ways of how to improve students achievements in education. Our motivation to establish project, results from the teachers’ need to develop skills and to find innovative ways of building bridges between Poland and European countries. We would like to be open to social problems of modern world, as there is obvious influence of educational process of children onto their further job search as adults. In response to our points of interest and the objectives mentioned above, five other school partners joined our project: Italian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish. Cultural collaboration between schools aiming at developing social, linguistic and ICT competences brings an ongoing possibility to improve students` knowledge and abilities. Our motivation is to share experience and raise our quality of teaching and ability to solve modern educational problems of young Europeans such as enabling success for all the student community. Not only for those with the highest results, but opening the door for less and more gifted, to migrants and native citizens, to poor and rich, to students of different interests and talents in order to communicate and collaborate. This is the cue objective of our and our partners`. The goal is to build a positive relationship with a pupil and give him or her the chance to seek knowledge and express one’s views since the early ages to prevent escapism, lack of understanding and this way act against social isolation, in favour of social inclusion, in respect to early school leavingand disadvantage, expanding critical thinking, building self-esteem, building and maintaining motivation, finding one’s identity, establishing relationship between students, parents and local community. Early leaving school problem is the final outcome that has deeper causes, since the reason stands behind the student’s attitude to learning. This, in turn, results from student’s family and its status, background, learning difficulties and obstacles, health problems, peer group, community etc. The common factor is the cultural heritage that does not depend on financial status, gained achievements or good school results. Every school partner has a great deal of experience involving methods that enable the link between motivating and supporting students of all backgrounds, personalities, abilities and skills in order to achieve success. Since our six countries represent different cultures and traditions, we are to benefit from our partner’s knowledge and experience. Innovation of our project lies in the fact that we are dealing with modern and interesting teaching methods, they will encourage students to both learn and broaden the awareness of one`s identity, to build self-esteem and maintain motivation, The project will last 2 years (4 semesters) in which we will deal with various products’ creation including e- Twinning projects, films, e-books, online quizzes, leaflets, catalogues, albums, calendars, posters etc. will lead to entrepreneurship, initiative and the rise of ICT competences. What is more, a positive attitude to effective teamwork will prevail along with the awareness of professional development in the oldest age groups. In order to achieve the goals, participating countries will use group projects, e- Twinning projects, workshops, field trips, expert meetings, tutorial lessons as in case of e.g.folk dances, songs,games played in the past. Teachers will adapt and include innovative solutions and ideas used in Europe. They will create lesson scripts, programs, teaching aids and tools, project's documents. Learning about partners’ countries will, consequently, enrich mutually the teachers` work and share the best practices amongst all the partners. The topic of cultural heritage will be treated in the dimension of social and educational engagement. The educational value of this project depends on the creation and use of inner projects, linguistic experiments, workshops, observations, research, developing skills along with linguistic and ICT competences. Activities that will be taken up, will involve students, teachers and parents and that will, in turn, give a positive impact on the environment of the wide local communities, as such, both within the very project`s time interval and in the future.
The project’s idea emerged from the needs and interests of students, teachers and local communities for broadening the knowledge about Europe,emphasising cultural heritage that contributes to the feeeling of belonging to European community.The partnership aimed at facilitating cohesion in various fields starting from this knowledge to finding practical ways of improving students achievements in education and making them life long learners.Not only those with the highest results, but opening the door for less and more gifted, to migrants and native citizens, to poor and rich, to students of different interests and talents in order to communicate and collaborate.The partnership realized that building a positive relationship with pupils and giving them the chance to be creative,engaged and express views since the early ages, would prevent escapism and lack of understanding.The objectives of the project focused on rising the level of knowledge about European cultural heritage and its value due to cultural collaboration of schools and the development of social, communicative, organizational, linguistic, ICT, cultural awareness and citizenship competences among students, teachers, community, school staff.Students gained the attitudes of openness,cognitive curiosity, built motivation, developed creativity, self-esteem and engagement also on the primary level of education.The objectives comprised finding innovative ways of building bridges between European citizens and schools- culturally, socially, educationally diverse,supporting students of all backgrounds, personalities, abilities and skills in order to achieve success.We wanted to be open to social problems,acting against social isolation, in favour of social inclusion, in respect to early school leaving and disadvantage, expanding critical thinking, building self-esteem, building and maintaining motivation, finding one’s identity, establishing relationship between students, parents and local community.Teachers exchanged experience, enriched their workshops and acquired methods of incorporating cultural heritage and various approaches to this topic in regular classes. Each partner built a European potential, visible for communities. Consequently, marked the start of long – term changes in the quality of education. The activities in the form of workshops (also with the cooperation of external institutions), field trips, experts’ visits were planned, carried out by teachers of different subjects and incorporated students of various age groups and with diverse skill,also learning obstacles, different cultural and social background. This added authenticity to the worked out results such as posters, logos, presentations, albums, online puzzles, maps, quizzes and books, recordings, tutorials (all used as teaching aids), also eTwinning projects, lesson scripts, a future program of classes on European cultural heritage.Moreover, project participants organized or were involved in School Open Days, ErasmusDays, conferences,fairs, meetings and open lessons. Intangible results constitute gained knowledge on cultural heritage of Europe, experience of broadened cultural awareness by project participants, building European schools’ potential, competencies in the field of language acquisition, organization, ICT, social and civic aspects, preparation, implementation and dissemination of international projects, social and problem-solving competencies, establishing copperation with other educational institutions, cultural centres, musuems, libraries, training centres, with local governments.The school staff will use obtained knowledge of international cooperation in terms of projects and agreements, developed ICT, social and linguistic skills.Project engagement and successful students' performance will cause the increase of awareness and support for schools among parents and community. Gained social, organizational and linguistic competences will make them more fluent in decision taking, maintaining motivation and being more communicative Developed ICT competences will give more confidence in working with modern tools and cultural awareness along with the rise of knowledge about the cultural heritage of Europe will make them aware of belonging to the European society. They will serve as educational aids for all interested groups and schools because of being licensed under Creative Commons. Teachers' development of competences will enrich their workshop and make them respond more direct to students’ needs, ideas, problems.Teachers will include worked out results in their lessons and an innovative program on the cultural heritage of Europe for 2021/2022. Our schools’ development plans will integrate the topic of the cultural heritage of Europe and diversify the range of curriculum content. This will be the sign for other teachers and institutions to join the projects and integrate project actions into daily classes.