Erasmus+
Sadly, due to Covid 19, we were unable to carry out the activities linked to March's Project Meeting at the Spanish school.
Erasmus + has been able to grant us a one year project extension to hopefully make this happen later in 2021.
Erasmus E-booklet
October 2019 Erasmus Updates
Hello and welcome to our new project - Green Fingers for a Brighter Tomorrow!
Over the next two years we will embark on a new journey to explore the environment.
As we all know the environment is important to all of us and we need to educate our children not just for now but for future generations. This means we need to continually expose pupils to the wider environment and hopefully make them far more aware. There are many environmental concerns, threats and underlying dangers in the world we live in.
So we are planning to involve the pupils, staff, the local community and environmental organisations to help us in our quest for sustainability. The key to this is environnmental education and some of the areas we will be investigating, through a series of educational discoveries, presentations and visits will be:
Water - source of life, uses, water shortage, water pollution
Earth- problems, deforestation, endangered species
Air - air pollution, the greenhouse effect, global warming
I'm sure it will be a very interesting and stimulating project!
We Present our Schools
C1 Meeting to Bath 'Current and New Trends in Environmental Education'
3 Workshops: 'Current and New Trends in Environmental Education
We surveyed the students and teachers to find out what they already knew about the project's environmental themes.
Bath Chronicle Coverage of C1
C2
Ali Nihad Tarlan IIkokulu Primary School, Istanbul, Turkey
Theme: EARTH - A cross - curricular approach
The main focus of the week was to share environmental ideas and challenges relating to EARTH. This was based upon 5 themes: problems, earth-related issues, deforestation, endangered species and rules. The aim was for each partner being responsible for the delivery of a lesson based upon one of these themes using a holistic, cross-curricular and problem solving approach.
The aim of the lessons was to make the students aware of the importance of human responsibility in tackling these important environmental issues, making them realise the importance of getting involved and to develop long-term behaviours.
A photographic experience of C2
Diary of C2
Agenda and Minutes of C2
Deforestation (POLAND)
Rules (SPAIN)
Endangered Species (UK)
Problems (Turkey)
Let's Meet Mother Earth (Italy)
C3 -
Scuola Cattolica Paritaria Madonna dell'Asilo
VASTO, ITALY
Theme: WATER - A cross-curricular approach
The main focus of the week was to share environmental ideas and challenges relating to WATER.
The 5 themes were:
- Source of life
- Pollution
- Uses
- Water shortage
- Rules
The aim was for each partner to deliver a lesson based upon one of these themes using a holistic, cross-curricular and problem solving approach.
The aim of the lessons was to make the students aware of the importance of human responsibility in tackling these important environmental issues, making them realise the importance of getting involved and to develop long-term behaviours.
C3 - A Photographic Snapshot!
Diary of C3
Agenda and Minutes of C3
Water of Life (Italy)
Rules (UK)
Water Shortage (Turkey)
Uses of Water (Spain)
Pollution (Poland)
Monday 7th – Friday 11th October 2019
Szkoła Podstawowa Nr 10 z Oddziałami Integracyjnymi im. W. Łukasińskiego w Zamościu POLAND
C4 -AIR
A Cross-Curricular Approach
C4 - Poland
A photographic snapshot!
The main focus of the week was to share environmental ideas and challenges relating to AIR.
The 5 themes were:
- Air Pollution
- Acid Rain
- Global Warming
- The Greenhouse Effect
- What the future might look like.
The aim was for each partner to deliver a lesson based upon one of these themes using a holistic, cross-curricular and problem solving approach.
The aim of the lessons was to make the students aware of the importance of human responsibility in tackling these important environmental issues, making them realise the importance of getting involved and to develop long-term behaviours.
Diary of the week's activities
C4 Agenda
C4 Minutes
Air Pollution (Turkey)
Acid Rain (Poland)
Global Warming (UK)
The Greenhouse Effect (Spain)
What the future might look like (Italy)
Erasmus Days
15th - 17th October 2020
Erasmus Days gave us the opportunity to promote and celebrate the benefits of staff and pupils' participation in the Erasmus program.
Each of our 'Green Finger' partner schools shared each of the other partners' environmental campaigns to its pupils.
Staff who have benefited from the program also took the opportunity to share their experiences of Erasmus with their pupils.
Watch our videos to see the day!
Erasmus Days - Poland
Erasmus Days 2020 - UK
Monday 24th - Wednesday 26th May 2021
C5 - A virtual visit to Spain
C.I.E.P. 12 de Octubre
Hernán Cortés
Spain
Building a proactive pupil attitude towards Environmental Education
C5 gave the partners the ‘virtual’ opportunity to observe the Spanish school. This is a school that was already implementing a wide range of successful environmental education (EE) systems and had already adopted a daily holistic environmental approach.
Partners reflected, with their teams, upon their own practice and discussed ways to look forward and utilise some of the new methods and approaches that they had seen to ensure that EE was embedded into everyday practice.
Again, as in previous visits, partners considered other opportunities that could develop new themes in their own school, helping students adopt new attitudes and encourage them to take positive action, thereby making a greater impact, not only in the school but within the wider community.
Timetable of the week
Day 1 Monday 24th May | 10:00h | Welcome to all partners to our virtual mobility to Hernán Cortés- Spain – All the partners will introduce themselves. We will use google meet to stablish the meeting. |
10:15h | Commemoration to Mustafa. The event will be dedicated to our good friend Mustafa Satirli. | |
10:30h | Presentation of our School “12 de octubre” carried out by our students and some teachers. | |
11:00h | Presentation from the regional Mayor. (Video) | |
11:30’h | Coffee break | |
12:00h | Professional dancers will perform regional dances and music in regional costumes. (Video) | |
12:30h | Coordinators Meeting – 40 minutes
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Day 2 Tuesday 25th May | 10:00h | “Enviromental week celebration”. Environmental activities carried out in our school. The presentation will also involve students, parents and teachers.
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11:00h | A ‘Live’ tour of the popular town Medellín in English. The town was the birth town of the conqueror Hernán Cortés. | |
12:00h | Coffee break | |
| 12:30h | Coordinators Meeting – 40 minutes
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Day 3 Wednesday 26th May | 10:00h | Environmental workshop with children: There will be two activities: A video called” Se te ha caído” A PowerPoint Presentation called: “Basuraleza” |
11:00h | A virtual visit to Monfragüe – A natural park (Provisional) | |
12:00h | Coffee break | |
12:30h | Finale – a fun ‘Kahoot’ activity. (Evaluation activity)Partner participation | |
13:00h | Coordinators Meeting and Farewell– 40 minutes |
....... and here we are all sitting behind our computers and ready to go!
C5 - Agenda and Minutes of School Coordinator's Meeting
C5 - Diary of events
5 Mini Environmental Campaigns
Recycling Day - Poland
Earth Day - Turkey
Global Warming Day - UK
Erasmus Garden
The partners decided to create a Erasmus garden as a long lasting legacy of Green Fingers for a Brighter Tomorrow. We planted 5 trees or shrubs to represent the 5 participating countries.
The gardens were dedicated to our good friend Mustafa Satirli, who had been the coordinator of the Turkish school. He sadly passed away in 2021.
UK Garden
Polish Garden
Turkish garden
