Our project description

The languages are the tool itself, but it is the students themselves who, in consultation with the teachers, awaken and address the areas that are relevant to their exchange. That's why this project would become a huge resource in teaching. It may give the students a concrete vision of how to use their knowledge and speaking skills concerning language and it would be an opportunity to master and develop their abilities.W e know that it would be a mutual success for both parties and would encourage the students to develop and learn even more. Our final product is the exchange of experiences and the meeting of teenagers of two different countries with similar future expectations and living in two different cultures and traditions.

Objectives of our project

Both schools want to set up a bridge among the cultures in the European countries through the Internet and compare the educational systems and pedagogical methods of each school partner. This is a way to consolidate the relationships among the teachers, through meetings and activities as well as between the teachers and the students and the local community. developing cooperative learning and promoting and improving the use of the foreign languages that the students learn at school is essential and encouraging the value of tolerance and democracy is the base of our work. This project will increase the motivation of the students to make learning languages more enjoyable and help them understand the profile, relevance, and importance of communication in a common language in daily life and the contribution to their education and future career.

EXPECTED RESULTS

The objective is that the students are active in their project, they participate and decide activities. Some other teachers in both schools can participate in and follow the student's progression. Organizing contests (logo contest) to create their own inventories such an instrument for learning. Our programme agenda tells the partner schools to exchange their ideas and exchange of what has been done into practice through the Twinspace.

The school partnership

Ronde Privatskole

Rønde Private School is a private school with up to 250 students from the 7th to 10th grade. We focus on well-being and high-quality education, where there is time to focus on the individual student and his / her needs. We are a school with international visions and offer Cambridge examinations inGerman and English. The school is located in a rural area approx. 30 km. from Denmark's second largest city, Aarhus. Our class size is up to 25 students. Currently the school has approximately 200 students and 14 teachers. All the students participate in the Danish national examinations. The purpose of foreign exchange at Rønde Private School is to let the pupils experience a foreign culture and practise their usage of a foreign language. The cultural meeting consists on both experiencing another school system, the culture of the country, but also the meeting with the pupils and their families. We have done foreign exchange at the school for the last 10 years, although not through the Erasmus Programme, and are therefore experienced in planning foreign exchange.

Col·legi Pare Manyanet

Pare Manyanet School is located in Reus, a city of 107.770 inhabitants. Reus is an industrial and a very comercial city and it is the capital of the county (Baix Camp). The school has got 1000 student approx. and belongs to the Sons of the Holly Family religious congregation having several schools in Catalonia and Madrid. Our school would like to introduce new ways to encourage and promote the involvement of our students in the process relating to the “creation” of a European identity, and give the students and the whole school community the possibility to get in touch to an “European dimension” thanks to educational exchanges, promoting in this way a real cultural integration. Our school aims to raise the profile of learning and teaching across our school communities (for pupils, teachers and parents alike) giving importance to exchange experiences and different ways of life. We aim to nurture in the children of today the experts of tomorrow. Specific aims for the children will include: • Increase motivation •Improve learning and thinking skills • Skills for life and work.