1. Effects of Grandparents’ evolvement in children’s education Agrupamento De Escolas De LamaçãesAgrupamento De Escolas De Lamaçães – PORTUGAL 3rd MEETING, POLAND

2. Grandparents can be: Shock absorbers Bouncing boarders Advisers and listeners Mediators and friends Impartial judges They can offer: Support Stability

3. Grandparents teach Sense of family Values Beliefs Principles Children are more demanding suspicious question further lack sense of identity lack sense of belonging

4. Grandparents have become indispensable because of their: Experience Patience Ability to create a non compulsive learning environment Ability to love Ability to show affection Willingness to help They should never be left behind as far as children’s education is concerned

5. Examples of grandparents’ involvement in children’s educations at our school Animals at school

7. Reading and saying poetry

8. Being there

9. Experimenting Children from kindergarden learn from older people

10. Future actions Tales told by elderly people Tutorial programme Partnership with a psychologist Questionnaire to children and to grandparents Analyses of the results Other measures to improve intergenerational learning

11. Older people help us focusing on what is really important