Project Objectives and Strategy

The objectives of the partnership will be:

-To develop the curriculum in terms of its content and its underlying values.
-To help promote respectful attitudes, for example in relation to fellow citizens , at local and continental levels.
-To contribute to the professional development of staff through contact with other education systems and networking with other teachers.
- An European ethos embedded throughout the school.
- To achieve a greater understanding of other countries and their cultures.
- To teach relevant skills in young pupils through easy , lively and interactive activities.
- To improve teachers´work by learning from practice in other countries

We intend to address the folllowing:

-How learning and teaching can be made to be enjoyable, motivating and stimulating for kids and teachers.
-How to improve the quality of early learning in a range of subjects.
-How to increase the cultural understanding about other European countries.
-How to practice the English language in a natural way.
-How to develop the key competences in young children.

To achieve our objectives we will adopt a set of realistic and concrete activities based on the principal of cooperative approach.
In the first year of WAKE UP project, the children will learn about partners schools and countries. They will construct a big map of Europe using different techniques (salt, collage.); they will locate the partners countries on the map and stick flags of the countries and names of the partners schools. They will search for famous landmarks and interesting facts of those countries, communicate with skype and share video presentations of their school and special Celebrations.

In the second year, they will have opportunity to exchange booklets about themselves, telling how is a day in their lives: when they wake up, their families, houses, how they help, friends and games, routines and food they like. They will exchange traditional lullabies and recipes. They will create a bulletin board to display other children´s works and use a big Venn diagram to analyze similarities and differences between children around Europe.

To ensure the project works successfully partners teachers will share ideas and come together with common decisions. We must feel motivated and involved to work in harmony. Problems and obstacles during each phase must be identified and reported in order to correct actions. The coordinator will facilitate fluid communication.
Decisions must be taken jointly.