"Learning from the past together to understand present- day Europe" is a two-years project involving three secondary schools IES San Lucas (Sanlucar de Barrameda,Spain) Istituto Comprensivo di Via Valleta Fogliano Vigevano and Szkoła Podstawowa z Oddziałami Integracyjnymi in Warsaw, Poland(Vigevano, IES San Lucas, and Polonia) in which we are going to study the richness of our cultural heritage The main objective of this project is the exchange of good practices and methodology in the study of cultural heritage. We are going to develop the didactic possibilities of cultural heritage and its social and aesthetic function.and to raise awareness about the importance of European heritage among students, creating critical thinking and analytical skills. Teachers ,through motivational and attractive activities,will make students connect with European culture through the examples within our cities. Three school exchanges will take place in the two years that this project lasts. Each of the participating cities will organise one of them. Every exchange will consist of 39 students and 6 accompanying teachers. However, teachers and students of the host school, who do not travel,will also participate in the activities. We intend that the entire educational community be involved in this project. It will be supported by an eTwinning project called "Our lives, our cities, our cultural heritage" This project allows students and teachers from three schools in three European countries to come together to establish linguistic and intercultural understanding. Students will learn how they can be active participants of Europe to create a strong cultural future for Europe, our project hopes to embrace these values. Since these children come from such diverse social and geographical backgrounds, this will be a unique opportunity to develop knowledge and understanding of each of those cultures and languages. Working with our colleagues across Europe will motivate participants to communicate freely with each other in English and other European languages. They will develop their modern foreign languages in a meaningful context, both face to face during visits and through a wide use of different multi-media and create a website to share the outcomes of our project. Young people will develop skills and competencies such as teamwork, creativity and entrepreneurship necessary for their personal and social development, for their future and to be active European citizens. The project activities will be embedded in each school's curriculum through the teaching of Social Sciences, English, Geography, Civic Studies and History. Pupils will be actively involved at every stage reflecting the cultural and sociological profile of each school, from the choice of activities, decisions about how to implement them, monitoring progress and evaluating the impact and success of the project. The students will develop their confidence in the use of Information and Communication Technologies,, inventing innovative ways of sharing their work and communicating with each other. The activities implemented in this proyect will also contribute to the development of the involved schools in the long term.
Learning from the past together to understand present- day Europe" is a two-years project involving three secondary schools ,IES San Lucas (Sanlúcar de Barrameda,Spain) Istituto Comprensivo di Via Valleta Fogliano (Vigevano) and Szkoła Podstawowa z Oddziałami Integracyjnymi in Warsaw,Poland in which we are going to study the richness of our cultural heritage. T he association of these three schools was the result of previous exchanges and etwinning projects.These three cities involved are considered to have historical relevance since important events from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century have taken place.The heritage left by these events made these cities proper targets to develop a collaborative work among these three European schools. The objectives fullfilled in the project were: -Improvement of key competences and skills of young people ,including those of fewer opportunities. -Awareness about the importabce of European heritage among students through an active methodology . -Exchange of good practices among the schools of different European countries -improvement of teaching and learning of languages and the promotion of the EU´s broad linguistic diversity. -Improvement in the use of Information and Communication technologies as useful tools for an active methodology that facilitated the the approach of cultural heritage to the classroom. Due to the situation with Covid 19, the three exchanges that were supposed to have taken placed from September 2019 to September 2021 had to be postponed.So we carried out the exchanges in March, April and May 2022. The exchanges that were carried out in Sanlúcar de Barraneda and Italy consisted of 39 student and 6 teachers. The exchange in Warsaw consisted of 33 students and 6 accompanying teachers..In these meetings studentswere hosted by local families,sharing their lives and culture. However, teachers and students of the host schools, who did not travel, participated in the activities .The entire educational community was involved in the exchanges. Our work was supported by an eTwinning project called "Our lives, our cities, our cultural heritage" This eTwinning project allowed students and teachers from three schools in three European countries to come together to establish linguistic and intercultural understanding. It was the platform of our Erasmus+ project, in which we uploaded photos and presentations powerpoints and enabled students and teachers to be in touch through chats and other resources. I n these three years and as long as the pandemic situation has allowed us, we have undertaken activities related to the project in general. We did worbooks,workshops,vists,gymkhana,etwinning presentations,chats.The whole school participated. On the other hand and due to the situation with Covid 19, the three exchanges that were supposed to have taken placed from September 2019 to September 2021 had to be postponed.So we carried out the exchanges in March, April and May 2022. The exchanges in Sanlúcar de Barrameda and Vigevano consisted of 39 students and 6 teachers. The exchange in Warsaw consisted of 33 students and 6 accompanying teachers. However, teachers and students of the host schools, who did not travel, participated in the activities .In these short exchanges we carried out many activities that were published on websites, facebook, blog to promote the dissemination of the project. All the work undertaken by these three countries involved in the project will continue in the future.We´ll create a Cultural Heritage week in whilch we´ll do tours around the city,visit the castles,organise intergenerational activities,complete workbooks,do gymkhanas,carry out drawing contexts, photography exhibitions and workshops. The activities implemented in this proyect will contribute to the development of the involved schools in the long term and will benefit the whole educational community.