The Six Schools Project
This project has European funding under Comenius I for 2006-2009. The goals of the six schools project are the children ´s linguistic and cultural development, a European dimension to school experience in initial teacher education and the schools´ metamorphosis into international centres for cross-curricular and cross-cultural language teaching and learning. The six schools* are:
- King´s Road Primary School, Trafford, Greater Manchester, Royaume-Uni
- Seymour Park Primary School, Trafford, Greater Manchester, Royaume-Uni
- CEIP San Miguel, Granada, Espagne
- Cristo de la Yedra, Granada, Espagne
- Ecole élémentaire de Frontenay Rohan Rohan, Niort, Poitou-Charentes
- Ecole élémentaire George Sand, Niort, Poitou-Charentes
The two English schools have, by consensus, taken the role of co-ordinating schools. All six schools work closely with their partner institutions of initial teacher education to secure cross-curricular and cross-cultural CLIL experiences in teaching for home and guest primary languages teacher trainees.
In terms of information technologies, the ICT activities include: file sharing, application sharing, surveys, online discussions, one-to-many presentations with video and other resources (e.g. PowerPoint, video clips), document management.
The aim is to integrate the project into the pupils´ curriculum. Thus, all the activities in the project are cross-linked to other curriculum areas in the classes´s programmes at the stage of drawing up short-term plans. This means, for example, that if as part of the literacy/mother tongue programme children are required to write a report of personal activities, this will be covered by the diary of weekend activities that they will write in the foreign language.
The six-schools´ teachers are working to a 3 year projection, and detailed long- and medium- term plans for year 1 have been supplemented by short term plans (lesson by lesson planning) are discussed by email and video-conferencing. The topics chosen are as follows:
| Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Our school, Our way of life (a day / a week / in a family / food), Locality: history and geography | The environment (climate / weather /landscape) | People + different ethnic groups (migration), Types of homes, Monuments and buildings |
Each school has a different identification number:
| Project A: | Project B: |
|---|---|
| Seymour Park primary school, Manchester: 06-GBR03-S2C01-00231-1 | King´s Road primary school, Manchester: 06-GBR03-S2C01-00588-1 |
| San Miguel primary school, Granada : 06-ESP01-S2C01-01266-1 | Cristo de la Yedra primary school, Granada: 07-ESP01-C006-01148-2 |
| Ecole élémentaire de Frontenay, Niort: 06-FRA1-S2C01-04926-1 | Ecole élémentaire de La Magné, Niort : 06-FRA-S2C01-04971-1 |
To visit the learning platform, click here; then when the simulation opens, you will be able to click on active areas of the school. Note that some areas require you to have a user/password. Other areas are public. To begin, click in the reception area.