’Atzalynas” progymnasium is in Telsiai, Lithuania located near lake Mastis, which is in the town. There are about 22 000 citizens. There are about 420 students and about 40 teachers in our pro- gymnasium. We’ll involve about 250 kindergarten and primary school students aged from 3 to 11 y.o and about 20 teachers on this project. One of aims in our school is cultural education. That aim is included to school educational plans through art education: art, music, dance, technologies. The goal of the school is to develop the artistic direction in developing curricula and improving pupils' skills in dance, singing, art and technology through integrated lessons, art days, creative workshops, parents’ days, fashion presentations, excursions. Healthy life style is propagated in our school also.Most of this is reflected in the extra-curricular activities. Our pupils participate not only at school, but also, in regional, national art, drama events and become winners on them. There are 2 teachers expertise in art and frequently teachers from the Academy of Arts placed in Telsiai suport us. We also take integrated lessons in primary in English.
Our students and teachers have vast experience in participating in international projects through eTwinning.
The basic school of Croix-Scaile is located in Gedinne, Belgium, in the French-speaking part of the country. Gedinne is a municipality of the Province of Namur, its population is 4600 souls.In Belgium,there are three teaching networks and our school comes from the state network, public education.We organize the maternal level and the primary level. We have 38 children in kindergarten section and 48 children in primary section. Language learning really matters to the teaching staff. In Belgium, in the 5th and 6th grade primary classes as provided by the law, the second language is taught in our country, namely Dutch. For 5 years, we have an English teacher who learns the language of the nursery level at the primary level, in addition to Dutch. In all activities of the school, we attach particular importance to working in all three languages.
In our school we have two programs - Pre-school education program. Programm is licensed in and First stage of primary education (Grades 1-6). They’re licensed. The school has 12 teachers and 9 technical staff. The level of education at school is good enough. Perse Primary School is a small village school with a small amount of state and municipal funding. In this project our school can contribute experience in Etwinnig tools, because our teacher Liga Kraukle is Etwinning Ambassador in Latvia. Līga is an experienced educator, eTwinning project promoter and mentor who regularly shares his experience and leads lessons with other eTwinners. Liga, as a Ambassador, promotes the idea of eTwinning and disseminates examples of good practice in eTwinning projects.
Our school is placed in a town called Vallbona d´Anoia , with 1400 citizen. Long time ago it was an agricultural area. Now it is basically a town of industries and services but it is going through an important economical recession because of the crisis. It is a small, rural school, placed 60 km. from Barcelona. It is a Nursery and Primary State School and it has a total of 110 students from 3 to 12. They study Catalan and Spanish as first languages and English as a second as early as childhood.
English is used in the teaching of some content from other curricular areas (CLIL), specially PE in years 4,5,1st and 2nd grades in Primary, and Science from 1st to 6th grades. By this reason to participate in a Erasmus+ Project is a fantastic opportunity for students and teachers to exchange knowledge and experiences through English and New Technologies.