4 European partners We are two French schools in isolated areas where students from disadvantaged social classes have little access to mobility, a Polish school seeking international openness, a Spanish school seeking new European experiences in order to enrich the educational path of its students. We are all faced with school failure and dropping out and we are looking for solutions to help our students reach a path of excellence and aspire to greater academic ambition. The aim is to offer our students an opening to Europe through three countries (France-Poland-Spain) using the languages they are learning (Spanish, French and English as languages of communication) and to experiment with body language (dance) as a vector of communication and transnational cohesion. The idea is that our students can dance different dances together and discover that body language is also a language that allows them to meet and get to know each other. We wish to enrich our exchanges by highlighting our regional peculiarities and identities. Our working theme will therefore be: interculturality and our intangible heritage (dance and music). Our objectives : 1- To make people discover our daily life, our dances and traditions (our intangible cultural heritage): -Learn to know ourselves and to make our daily life known in the college. -To make our regions and our regional cultures known. -Discover the cultures of three other European territories. -Sharing and experiencing together cultural and sporting activities (visits, flash mob type choreographic montages, practice of different dances: Breton dances, Polish dances, flamenco and percussive dance). 2- To make our students discover known or unknown European spaces: -Discover Brittany and its strong cultural identity (its language, its music, its dances). -Discover Andalusia, a region of Spain with a strong cultural identity (flamenco: dance, music, costumes, festivities...). -Discover a Polish region: the Warmia and Masuria region (also called the Thousand Lakes region). -Discover another French area: Burgundy. Our partners in Burgundy will be the carriers of the percussive dance project. 3- Develop transversal and basic skills: -Use the modern languages that the students are learning. -Work transversally on reporting projects (in languages, history, Breton, documentaries). -Work on artistic and corporal expression: dance workshops. -Fight against school drop-out by involving students in a motivating project with multiple inputs: written, oral, body language with various media (blog, photos, videos, web radio, online collaborative journal ....) The project is aimed at 12 pupils per school (48 in total) aged 13 to 14 who have had little access to mobility. Among these pupils, we will integrate one pupil with a disability (from the ULIS class of the school Jacques Prévert). On a wider scale, we will make sure that the project spreads to involve a maximum number of pupils in our schools (by involving them in specific activities such as the flash mob which will be choreographed by pupils from the 6th grade in Brittany). A project in three stages: 1-Time excluding mobility: The time of preparation for the meeting and the discovery of the other through preparatory dance workshops, discovery workshops around the European question, exchanges of reports, videos, audio, Webradio programme, creation of a blog for the follow-up of the project... 2-The time of the meeting: -The mobility of the pupils: 36 pupils + 12 pupils hosting: a stay in Brittany, a stay in Poland, a stay in Andalusia. We will do a workshop of FLAMENCO dances in Andalusia, Breton dances in Brittany and Polish folk dances. The time of meetings between our students will give life to a "flash MOB", to workshops with professionals from the world of dance and to three percussive dance workshops, taken in hand by the Burgundian students. 3- The time for assessment Assessment of the experience lived during the three mobilities: production of an online collaborative review and a video that will retrace all our dance experiences throughout the project. To set up and carry out the project, we have "dedicated hours" in our schools in co-animation: in Brittany, Burgundy, Poland and Andalusia, a time slot will be set aside to work on the project with the students. With this project, we hope to fight against dropping out of school, social determinism and inequalities in access to mobility. In the long term, we hope to train young people open to the diversity of human situations who will have a taste for mobility.
FOLLOWING DIFFICULTIES IN IMPLEMENTING THE PROJECT DURING THE COVID PANDEMIC, WE HAD TO REORGANISE our entire planning. In December 2020, our Polish partner dropped out of the project due to pandemic and containment. We decided to continue with three partners, but had to rethink our activities for the year 2020-21 as we could not carry out any physical mobility or even have a sports practice like dance which is the core of our original project. We then focused our activities on the dimension. In the year 2021-22, the health conditions allowing it, we realized 3 mobilities (BRITTANY-BURGUNDY-ANDALUSIA) and all the activities out of mobilities which were not possible before. Here is the summarised and modified project: 3 European partners The project is aimed at 13 pupils per school (i.e. 36 in total) aged 13 to 14: 13 from Brittany, 13 from Burgundy and 13 from Spain. We are two French schools in isolated areas whose pupils from disadvantaged social classes have little access to mobility, and a Spanish school looking for new European experiences in order to enrich the school career of its pupils. We are all confronted with school failure and dropout and we are looking for solutions so that our pupils can access a pathway of excellence and aspire to greater academic ambition. The idea is to offer our pupils an opening to Europe through two countries (France and Spain) using the languages they are learning (Spanish, French and English as languages of communication) and to experiment with the language of the body (dance) as a vehicle for communication and transnational cohesion. The idea is that our students can dance different dances together and discover that body language is also a language that allows us to meet and get to know each other. We want to enrich our exchanges by highlighting our regional particularities and identities. Our working theme will therefore be: interculturality and our intangible heritage (dance and music). Our objectives : 1- To discover our daily life, our dances and traditions (our intangible cultural heritage): -To get to know each other and our daily life at school. -To get to know our regions and our regional cultures. -To discover the cultures of three other European territories. -Sharing and experiencing cultural and sporting activities together (visits, flash mob type choreographies, practising different dances: Breton dances, flamenco and percussive dance). 2- To help our students discover known or unknown European spaces: -Discover Brittany and its strong cultural identity (its language, music, dances). -Discover Andalusia, a Spanish region with a strong cultural imprint (flamenco: dance, music, costumes, festivities ....) -To discover another French area: Burgundy. Our partners in Burgundy will be the carriers of the percussive dance project. 3- Develop transversal and basic skills: -Use the modern languages that the pupils are learning. Work on cross-curricular reporting projects (in languages, history, Breton, documentalist). -Work on artistic and physical expression: dance and photography workshops (we plan to have a professional photographer on each trip). To fight against school drop-out by involving pupils in a motivating project with multiple entries: written, oral, physical and photographic languages with various supports (blog, photos, videos, web radio, collaborative magazine online ....) The project is aimed at pupils who have had little access to mobility. More widely, we will make sure that the project spreads to involve as many pupils as possible in our schools (by involving them in one-off activities such as the flash mob which will be choreographed by pupils from the 6th grade in Brittany or flamenco workshops for all classes in Burgundy and in Burgundy). A project in three steps: 1-the non-mobility time: The time of preparation for the meeting and the discovery of the other through preparatory dance workshops, discovery workshops around the European question with local partners (Maison de l'Europe, Europ Armor, exchanges of reports, videos, audio, Webradio programme, creation of a TWINSPACE blog +Padlet for the follow-up of the project.... 2-The time of the meeting: -Pupils' mobilities: 26 pupils + 13 pupils hosting: a stay in Brittany, a stay in Burgundy, a stay in Andalusia. We will do a FLAMENCO dance workshop in Andalusia, Breton dances in Brittany and percussion dances in Burgundy. The meetings between our students will give life to 3 "flash MOB" which will be danced in different places of visits, to workshops with professionals of the world of the dance. 3- Assessment time Assessment of the experience of the three mobilities: creation of a collaborative online magazine and videos that will retrace all our dance experiences throughout the project. For the implementation and realisation of the project, we have "dedicated hours" in our schools: In Brittany and Burgundy, a time slot will be set aside to work on the project with the pupils. With this project, we hope to fight against school drop-out, social determinism and inequalities in access to mobility and to train young people open to Europe.