1 Our Comenius Partnership Home and Abroad in Europe

2 What is Comenius?  Comenius is part of the European Union’s Lifelong Learning Programme.  It aims at promoting mobility and strengthening the European Dimension in Education

3  It seeks to develop Knowledge and understanding among young people of the diversity of European cultures and languages, and the value of this diversity.  This prepares its young learners for future employment and active European citizenship.

4  You can find out more about Comenius and the Lifelong Learning Programmes on the above site.

5 Why get involved in a Comenius Project?  There are many benefits for every one involved in a Comenius School Partnership.  schools, their teachers and staff, and several million pupils throughout Europe can testify this.

6 What benefits?  More than 70% of the pupils boosted their social skills and their ability to work in teams.  Two thirds gained specialist knowledge and ICT competences.  They became more self- confident and motivated to learn.

7 What are Comenius School Partnerships ?  They promote European Cooperation between groups of pupils and teachers from different European countries.  They involve schools from the 27 member states of the EU,and of Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Turkey.

8 How did ours happen?  We attended a contact seminar in Austria,  We met many teachers from all over Europe  Some of them liked us,  And we liked them…  So we applied and

9 “Home and Abroad in Europe” was approved with our 3 partners:  A school from Germany  Another one from Portugal  And the third one from Poland

10 For how long will it last?  Each Comenius School Partnership Must extend to two years.  This enables the smooth running of the activities which may be incorporated in the school’s curriculum.

11 So what do we do?  Each Partner school produces a film with no text or sound.  The film’s theme will be based on its country or region.

12 What about text and sound ?  Each partner school will produce the music of one partner school’s film.  And each partner school will produce the text of one other partner school’s film.

13 So what is the English School’s task?  Produce a film on Cyprus( without the sound or the text)  Produce the music for Germany’s film(?).  Produce the text for Portugal’s film(?).

14 Don’t we know for sure?  Some things are to be finalised during the first partner schools meeting.

15 Meetings?  There will be four Partner School Meetings in the respective countries  Some pupils will need to travel abroad.  Some teachers too.

16 Is this why one joins Comenius Projects?- Opportunity to travel?  NO!  Comenius is not a travel Agency….

17 Why then join Home and Abroad in Europe?  So as to enhance my feeling of my European Identity  learn to deal with the element of the unknown  to promote Intercultural Learning at the school  enhance my creativity, my liking of quality music, my use of ICT in learning…

18 How many teams will be involved?  Five main teams of work with tasks:  The shooting and editing of our film  The work on the content of our film  The writing of the text of a partner’s film  The creation of the music for a partner’s film  communication with the partners

19 What will helping teams work on?  For now, they will help with the first Partners School Meeting.  It will take place HERE.  And it will be in the week of the 3 rd to the 8 th of November.  There will be workshops with the German visiting pupils and other common activities.

20 Will there be only German partner pupils?  Yes, just for this first stage of the Meetings.  More variety of pupil nationalities will be the case of future Meetings

21 What exactly will E/S pupils have to do in the 3 rd November week?  Some will host these German visiting pupils and act as mentors.  Some will work with the writing of a journal covering the 3rd Nov week’s activities.  Some will work on a workshop for the making of a poster within a poster competition for Home and Abroad In Europe.

22 There is more…  A music workshop  A team of pupils will advertise and promote money raising activities to be organised either at the school or outside the school.

23 And more…  A group of pupils will work together in order to establish a webpage for this week’s activities, to be advertised on the Internet.  Some pupils will join the dance club which is to teach local or modern dances to the visiting pupils.

24 Who are the teachers in Charge?  The five main teachers are:  Mrs Anne Marie Tellalis for Music  Mr. Antonis Stephanou for the filming/editing  Miss Alexia Haroutunian for the content  Mrs. Ursula Pantelides for the text writing

25 More teachers are needed  For the filming and editing  For the choice of the themes in the content, The type of images to include in the film, the making of the magic box.  For the communication on line

26 And…  Other teachers and myself will be in charge of the communication with the partners, as the coordinator of the project within the E/S and among the Partner Schools.  The E/S is the coordinating school for the whole project.

27 November week workshops  Mrs. Carol Syrimis for the poster competition with 28 pupils  Mrs Anne Marie Tellalis for the musical activities with 9 pupils  Miss Maria Christodoulides for the dance workshop with21 pupils.

28 The week’s Journal…  Mrs Roulla Stavrou for the proof reading of the articles for the journal with21 pupils.  Natacha the librarian will be in charge of the layout of the journal’s pages.  More teachers are wanted for guiding the pupils as to the content of the journal.

29  The setting up of a webpage is an activity we need to find teachers for.  There are 20 E/S pupils and 6 German pupils for this November activity. . The webpage

30 Two more activities in November  The promotion of the project either through money raising activities or advertising the event.  Hosting  25 pupils have applied for this activity!

31 If you would like to participate  You may either send me an , or tell me in person if you see me anywhere at the school.

32  Thank you all