Last week was our first tri-nation get together as we began our journey of learning together. As part of a Commenius project called Knowing me knowing you (A-HA just for all you fans of Alan Partridge or Abba, if you ever meet me I can show you how I can combine my handshake with giving you my card, I actually gave a man from Cadburys a paper cut by doing this!) Over the next two years many of our teachers and students will take part in many different projects that they will collaborate with students and teachers from Spain and Germany.
Last week we had different teachers and students visit Saltash.net in Cornwall to get to know us a little better and to work on the first two projects and to complete the planning of the future projects. One of the projects the students were involved in was setting up a website to host all the work we do. You can click on the link below: Also immediately below you can see the logo of our community which the students created themselves. The students were given one day to do all this from scratch completely independently, we as the teachers just gave them an initial brief.
http://commenius.weebly.com/index.html
You can see some of the work we have produced already on the website. Over the week students and teachers observed lessons, carried out presentations, took part in team building such as learning to surf and eating a pasty in the rain in Padstow. Teachers also spent time together planning the other projects that will take place over the two years which was fantastic to see the collaboration between teachers from different countries.
The students learnt an awful lot from the experience and found it amazing to spend this amount of time with students their own age but from other countries. You can read more from their blog on the website which is written in English, German and Spanish. By the end of the week we were all very tired (especially the hosts who were running around making sure it all run smoothly) but we were all very sad to be saying goodbye.
I will be posting more information and stories on here at a later date, but keep checking the students websites for updates on projects over the next two years.
We are also looking to link up with one other school in Europe for us to visit in a year’s time so if you are interested then please get in contact. If you run any similar projects also get in touch we would love to hear about your projects.