(de) Grundschule im Beerwinkel
EVALUATION SUMMARY Back to OUR Future Erasmus+ 2014-2016
Name of School: Grundschule im Beerwinkel
Country: Germany
Each of the following boxes requires a summary statement linked to the results of your evaluation. Each statement should be approximately 150 words (about 10 sentences). Please use the self evaluation words in booklet 4 (from the Romanian meeting). |
1. Teacher Evaluation Sheet In our school, Grundschule im Beerwinkel, we started the project with only 3 teachers to help and support, due to change of generations and a lot of new teachers busy with settling down in the school. But through publishing our really good projects and getting the whole school involved with a project day about entertaining ourselves a lot more teachers got interested. In the end we could form a new Erasmus crew for the new project and they also helped a lot with the Big Event of presenting and celebrating our project "Back to our Future" with all partners in Berlin end of June 2016. The project day about entertainment by playing old fashioned games made all teachers want to repeat it as it had been such a relaxed day for everyone. They acknowledged the work of the Erasmus group greatly - teachers and students of the group had prepared the day. Furtheron the interest of the teachers in the project rose in general and we could form a new strongly supporting team. It was also very helpful when our European partners came and got involved into school life, mingled with the other students and teachers and - especially with the children and teachers from Belarus - hosted and accompanied them. All in all one can state that this project has evolved and devoloped the knowledge about the Erasmus+ Program and has created new views on ist possibilities for teaching and learning. |
2. Pupils (and Teacher Sheet) 16 students mainly worked in the Erasmus+ AG. They were the guides and organisers of whole school events. They also had the chance of travelling to other partner schools for teaching the other children in their main topics: Terra Preta, board games, insect hotel from recycling material and others. In a survey with questions about what they have achieved all children pointed out that they felt they had improved in English having had to talk to the other European children at various occasions. They confirmed that they had gained better marks in their normal classroom English. The other main point was the work on Terra Preta, the fable and the animated film they made. Every child was delighted to have had the opportunity to work on that and they could all see the cross curriculum learning: German, English, Biology, computer, arts, gardening. Most of the children enjoyed the handicraft and the new knowledge about cooking, working with their hands, recycling and gardening, especially what they had learned from their European partners. They enjoyed to look at the website and write comments under the various articles. The third question was about behaviour and the relationship to their classes and normal lessons. Again all children described that they had gained more self confidence and had been able to concentrate better in the lessons. Four children with ADHS Syndrom could tell that they had better chances in their classes and with their learning as they could concentrate better and had a new and very positive status in their classes. The children who were able to travel to our partner schools still had such lovely memories and said that it would be unforgettable for them in the future. They assumed that their start into the new school would be easier as they had experienced to work with foreign and to that date unknown children and could build up friendship and partnership in these weeks. All in all we can state that for most of the children the Erasmus+ Project "Back to our Future" was a very intense, motivating and unforgettable time which they enjoyed thoroughly. |
3. School Improvement Action Plan As stated before our staff changed in the last 2 years. About 23 new teachers arrived while the old teachers retired. This is a challenging time for a school. The Erasmus+ project had aimed to strengthen the European idea, the environmental movement in our school and the tendency to modern teaching methods. We can state that - even under the circumstances described above - we made good progress on our travel to these aims. The project is well known now. A new team has formed and will carry on with the new Erasmus+ project "From Papyrus to stonepaper and beyond!. The Big Event week with sometimes 90 European children and teachers has been supported by most of the teachers offering help with organising, support teaching and taking part with their classes. The films about the project have been recieved well and were fully booked when presented in school. Our book of European fables and stories have been given to each class and also found a place in the library. The project day " We play together" proved that there is no chaos if we let the children decide which group they want to join and break up traditional classes. As we are writing a new edition of the school development plan the Erasmus+ Projects have been taken into the plan as one of our "pillars" for our school development - next to sports and enviromental studies, which can be combined easily with new Erasmus+ projects. Thus the money of the projects can be used to finance projects and experts for the involvement of the whole school to improve teaching and learning methods and outcomes. The school also decided to take part in the KA1 teacher's training opportunity to give the teachers a new chance and perspective for teaching in primary school. Our Erasmus+ partners will host 8 of them for job shadowing and learning how other schools are organised and work with the children. All in all we can say that the project " Back to our future" helped to installed new ideas, new ways of teaching and motivation in school on the road to become a modern, student orientated and enjoyable school for all. |
Evaluation Summary / Pen Disc LA / Project Working
BACK TO OUR FUTURE — SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT ACTION PLAN —
SCHOOL: Grundschule im Beerwinkel / Berlin/ Germany
This sheet should be used to encourage reflection and discussion on the project work. It is designed to look at how your school will improve through the two years of the project work. It should enable you to engage the school community in active discussions around the main theme, ie, connecting the past with the future.
KEY AREAS |
KEY STRENGTHS |
AREAS FOR DEVELOPMENT |
Is developing European Citizenship, including this particular Project, a part of your school improvement plan?
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- very mixed nationalities in school with some interested parents - open minded staff - new to be formulated school improvement plan for this year - hospitality of parents for hosting European students and teachers long established Comenius projects |
deciding in conferences about the project , manifest it in the new school development plan , widen the aspect of European citizenship to our migrant children and parents |
How do you aim to connect the learning about the past to the way that our (local) communities should live in the future?
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good connections to surrounding community (neighbours, church, community management and officials) many offers for learning and doing by teachers, parents and external experts |
involving experts in the course and invite parents and teachers to take part, find host families for European participants, presenting the project and what we have achieved on website, in exhibitions, in workshops and competitions |
How will you use the project to encourage awareness of how to develop healthy active lifestyles?
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- healthy lifestyle learning is already established in school ( Global Breakfast, cooking courses..) - special sports offers / Skiing courses, sports competitions |
Main topic is our school garden and producing Terra Preta, i.e. fertile soil. We will harvest and cook the meals together and will experience organic and vegetarian food in various workshops, collecting bottle tops throughout the project for helping other people ( Izan, Martyna, children with Polio disease) |
How will the project develop exciting ‘bigger learning experiences’ and enterprise?
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good connections with coordinators of events in Berlin, readiness of businesses and official to support learning experiences, a lot of special offers for events ( universities, FEZ..) |
By taking part in various events ( making films and publish them, exhibition on Global Soil week 2015, taking different children to the workshops etc )the children will have reasons why they should take up the work they do in the Erasmus+ Course |
How do you plan to use the project to engage pupils in learning a foreign language? |
connections to English Theatre people to help with fable language assistant from Canada well organized English fraction in school |
By taking them to the workshops all over Europe - main language is English, making worksheets for our main topic : Garden and Terra Preta, taking them for instance to Global Soil Week - Scientists meeting, language: English |
How do you plan to use ICT to enhance and improve the project experience? |
- already existing workshop for ICT in year 5 and 6 will work on ppt and presentation - contact to external professional film makers - contact to website designer |
We will encourage children to fill the project website with their own documentaries, make films with the external film makers and find out about the filming business, |
BACK TO OUR FUTURE — SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT AND EVALUATION — REFLECTION TOOL FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS
Berlin: 9 participants
This sheet should be used to encourage reflection and discussion on the project work. The copies should be kept by the teachers and students ready for completion at the end of year two. Pupils can be given the support that teachers feel is necessary and a whole class discussion would be recommended prior to completing the form to engage the children with the main ideas.
REFLECTIVE QUESTIONS FOR PUPILS |
Start of the project responses |
End of the project summary |
What skills do you already have that would be considered traditional skills?
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9: cooking, 8: baking, 3: reading, 9: handicrafts ( knitting, drawing, sewing. Making baskets, some: |
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What skills do you have that you think are useful these days? |
some: patience, playing, reading and writing , working in the garden or on balcony, sports/fitness, |
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What traditional skills does your family and your neighbours have?
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family: most of them: cooking and baking , some: growing plants, repairing things, working in the garden and on fields, neighbours: no answer |
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List some things that you think could be changed for the better in the world today. |
most: electrical cars, better recycling, go by bike, use more natural material (cotton) some: go into nature, use organic waste |
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What traditional things would you like to learn or to find out about? |
individual: learning English, knitting , making cheese, making baskets, pottery, working with wood, felting, cooking traditional food, some: how to make Terra Preta |
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What could we do in our project which could change things for the future? |
most: learning other languages, keep the environment clean and make Terra Petra, teamwork, help other people |
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