WELLBEING: What Empowers Learning & Life Because Every Individual Needs to Grow

Project summary

The issue of wellbeing becomes more and more important in our daily life and so also wellbeing in school becomes more and more center of attention.The influence of it on the learning success of our students is undisputed. At the same time, the number of teachers suffering from burnout and retiring at an early age is increasing, and here too the aspect of teacher´s health and wellbeing is increasingly coming to the fore.There are more and more projects dealing with these thoughts and developments. In this Erasmus+ partnership project five primary schools from the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Sweden and Germany will share ideas, good practice methods and material dealing with the issue of wellbeing in school. All partner schools already started to develop and integrate special training courses or activities for their students and teacher support programs in their school within the last couple of years that focus on the importance of taking good care of one´s own wellbeing that have been used in their daily school life. In this Erasmus+ partnership they will share these materials, strategies and ideas to improve and develop their work in order to support students and teachers in acquiring and developing basic skills and key competences they will need for their future lifes. Also they will exchange on their experiences so far. The partner schools will set up a common project website and publish a project newspaper on a regular base after each work session in each school with articles of students and teachers that inform on the ongoing project activities and their outcomes. They will meet each other in five international learning teaching and training activities with students at the age of 10 - 11 and teachers of all partner schools to share good practice methods and exchange on experiences. Within these visits the students and teachers will get to know the daily school life at their partner school but furthermore they will work and learn in international groups with children at their age and teachers from all partner schools. They will be able to get to know activities such as yoga and fascia training, playground games and activities for breaks, the work in a school vegetable garden, the preparing of healthy snacks for school, cohesian activities and extracurricular activities such as for example drama, the school library and singing or playing an instrument. They will develop a common partnership song with verses in all partner´s languages and a dance that will grow with each international learning, teaching and training activity and that will deal with the issue of wellbeing in school. Back home the visiting students and teachers will share their experiences with the school communities of their home schools. They will start to work with these new ideas, discuss their impressions and evaluate their experience with the SMART method in order to find out if these new ideas should be integrated in their school´s program in order to improve and develop their work. This way not only the travelling students and teachers will be part of the experience but the whole school community of all participating schools will be intergrated in this experience. The parents will be part of the experience and informed about the ongoing activities by the project´s newspaper, the website and the Erasmus corner that will be set up in each school to give information on the partner schools, the ongoing activities and on the next steps of the project. In addition the partner schools offer to inform interested teachers from other schools about their experience and the strategies they have shared within this partnership so that a broader community will be able to benefit from this partnership experience. Furthermore they will publish their materials and methods on the Erasmus+ project presentation platform and on eTwinning/ Twinspace so that also schools from abroad who are not part of this partnership will be able to use them. This way teachers from various European school will be able to improve their teaching skills and to develop their teaching which will have a positive impact on various European schools not only the schools connected to this partnership. The students will be able to improve their language skills by using English as the common project language in a meaningful way as they want to get in contact with students from the other schools. They will realize that you do not have to be perfect in another language to be understood. This way they will loose their fear of speaking a different language at a very young age which will have a positive impact on their future language learning. This international project gives them the opportunity to establish contacts with children from other European countries within the protected framework of an Erasmus + partnership, to work with them on a joint project, to improve their ICT skills and to gain valuable experiences that will have a positive impact on their future lives.