'Knowing me, Knowingyou' This project is centred around the development of young people and the way that teachers can enable them to be actively involved in their learning, developing greater self- awareness and understanding of others from different situations. The schools involved, three of which have worked together before plus a new partner, are aware that the mental health and confidence of young people in Europe is an area that we have to proactively develop in order for them to grow into able citizens. The project came about out of our current project ‘Communication, cooperation and collaboration for all together’, where we noticed that although there was a good deal of communication between pupils we still needed to develop ways of increasing confidence and although there have been many successes there was possibly more that could have been done to get to know each other better. Our title 'Knowing me, Knowing you' came about through the following thinking; that by knowing yourself, having good self-esteem / state of mental health and well-being ie liking yourself, you are more able to look towards others and learn, embracing the differences and similarities. This sustainable inclusive growth of young people can work towards their life-long learning and future employability. Children actively involved and sharing responsibility for their learning develop improved emotional intelligence and well- being which promotes the engagement that they need to function in the 21st century. The project sets out to improve self- knowledge through mindfulness, playing together and problem solving and these will be elements of each meeting. Further understanding of self and others is promoted through workshops based around art and craft, music and dance, sport and debate around sustainability issues, covered through a series of teaching and learning meetings. Greater knowledge of others comes through a sharing of information about localities and puts the lives of pupils and teachers from each country into a context, again this will be progressive and cover architecture, music and culture, sports and healthy exercise and local history. These different elements provide resources for teachers to use in the future. Between transnational meetings there will also be task which augment the project meetings and will involve all pupils within each school. The other underlying principle is that the activities are intended to be inclusive and the whole project should embrace all pupils. To ensure a wider distribution of ideas and results etwinning will be used plus a more innovative idea of recording much of the project using QR codes and making these available around schools, on web sites and on the twin space. Teachers will be encouraged to blog on EPALE thus spreading ideas and thoughts to a wider audience. We envisage that the methodology used will enable pupils and teachers to get to know each other better and that the modern ICT approach will empower them to communicate in a modern 21st century way. We expect that many of our results will be readily available for other teachers and that the changes in pedagogic practice across the four schools will have a lasting impact. Results of the project will be placed on the Erasmus+ Project Results Platform.
'Knowing me, Knowing you' This project is centred around the development of young people and the way that teachers can enable them to be actively involved in their learning, developing greater self- awareness and understanding of others from different situations. The schools involved, three of which have worked together before plus a new partner, are aware that the mental health and confidence of young people in Europe is an area that we have to proactively develop in order for them to grow into able citizens. The project built upon a previous project ‘Communication, cooperation and collaboration for all’, where whilst we built on communication between participants, especially pupils we felt that we needed to do more to encouraging a knowledge of each other. Our title 'Knowing me, Knowing you' came about through the following thinking; that by knowing yourself, having good self-esteem / state of mental health and well-being ie liking yourself, you are more able to look towards others and learn, embracing the differences and similarities. This sustainable inclusive growth of young people can work towards their life-long learning and future employability. Children actively involved and sharing responsibility for their learning develop improved emotional intelligence and well- being which promotes the engagement that they need to function in the 21st century. The project improved self- knowledge through mindfulness, playing together and problem solving and these elements, along with sharing moodboards were part of each meeting. Understanding of self and others was promoted through various workshops across the Teaching and Learning mobilities. These were art and craft in the form of book binding and water colour painting, flamenco dancing and singing, yoga, sport and healthy living. Our final meeting became virtual due to Covid-19 but led to greatly enhanced work on Sustainability building on pledges made before the pandemic. Greater knowledge of others also came through a sharing of information about the schools and their localities putting the lives of pupils and teachers from each country into a context. Schools and their pupils added to these throughout the project and were able to include architecture, music and culture, sports and healthy exercise and local history and sustainability. Teachers observed and took part in these workshops building a resource of pedagogic experiences to use in the future, it created a very open-minded growth scenario. The inclusion of QR codes as a resource meant the following of trails about historical monuments, finding out about music and dance, an activity trail around a town and linking to a video of sustainability pledges. This gave example to the many ways this new teaching resource could be used. Within school between mobilities pupils of all ages in this primary aged project were involved in inclusive activities of creating a joint calendar, designing a logo, recording dances and music to share, completing a physical activity and healthy life style questionnaire, creating and trying healthy snacks, developing sustainability pledges and creating videos about sustainability. As a response to Covid-19 reflections, comments, presentations and illustrations were gathered from across the schools for a book, with a copy for each school. Work can be seen on the e-Twinning TwinSpace ‘Knowing me, knowing you’ and on the results platform.