An example of good practice presented during Contact Seminar for Polish and British teachers in September 2009 in Gdańsk

1. Welcome to Europe –
an e-guide book of 8 European countries
Anna Szczepaniak & Małgorzata Szukała
SP 9 Dzierżoniów, Poland
Contact Seminar
Gdańsk, 19th September 2009

2. Our projects:
• Discovering Europe
• Are we really different?
• A Safe e-Journey
• Enjoy Your Meals and
Festivals!
• Welcome to Europe
• Smart Surfers

3. Project team
• Portugal: Cristina Silva, EB 2,3 da Lousã,
• Poland: Anna Szczepaniak, Szkoła Podstawowa nr 9
im. Mikołaja Kopernika, Dzierżoniów
• Lithuania: Alina Kalinauskiene, Gargzdu
"Vaivorykstes" gimanazija,
• Spain: Carolina Castro Comes, IES Aubenç,
• Great Britain: Madge Peters, Olnafirth School, Voe
• Romania: Cristina Cioanta, Scoala cu clasele I-VIII,
Avrig,
• Italy: Sebastiana Puglisi, SMS "Leonardo Da Vinci",
• Czech Republic: Lenka Weinbergerová, Základní
škola Františky Plamínkové, Prague

4. Idea of Project
What actions to take What are our aims?
to reach aims? How will we integrate project
Age of participating
into National curriculum?
students
Choose topic What will be the results and
PRODUCT
Product
Set out aims benefits?
Make plan How will we present our
Set out tasks product?
Integrate topics into
national curriculum
Choose tools for:
-Communication
-Publication
-Processing of data
Evaluation
Duration of Project
Two years project
ACTING
Acting TIME
Time for 2007-2009
which will continue
until June
2009
Time plan of
activities
basic elements of the project Deadline for tasks
/product acting time/ and sharing of
results

5. Beginning
The idea of this project was born a year
earlier, when we finished our previous
project about similarities and differences in
students’ life in Poland, Portugal and Italy.
The coordinators decided to develop the
cooperation and to let students know more
about each other’s countries, regions,
culture and traditions.

6. The aims of the project are:
• to interest students in history and culture
of their regions and countries,
• to show them how they can use ICT in
their learning process,
• how to learn from their peers’ works
• to make students realize how beautiful
their country is and that they should be
proud of it,
• to encourage students to improve their
English by using ICT.

7. The project was divided into six
parts – topics:
PART I: "Welcome to our home towns"
(one day trip in students' favourite places in
their home towns)

9. PART II: "Welcome to our school"
(students present their schools)

11. PART III: "Travelling to the Past"
Students exchange information about their
favourite traditions, events in their regions
(connected with festivals, history).

13. Up Helly Aa in Lerwick in GB

15. PART IV: - "Different places, different
flavours" - each group of students describe
their favourite typical food in their countries.

18. PART V: "Who's who in our region
and country" : famous people who
lived in our regions and countries.

20. PART VI: “Welcome to my country” -
students make presentations with general
information about their country, choose
interesting places in their country and
present them.

22. Interesting places

27. Posters or leaflets – an invitation to
their home town and region

29. Leaflets from Poland

32. One of the aims of our project was visiting
each other country, if possible. Two of
the visits took place: Polish group visited
the capital city of the Czech Republic -
Prague, Portuguese group visited Polish
school and together with Polish students
they visited some historical Polish places,
made friends with Polish students and
knew Polish cuisine and culture. They also
visited the city of Prague.

33. Visiting Prague

35. Portuguese visit Poland

36. Knowing each other and visiting
Wrocław

37. Visiting Auschwitz and Cracow

38. Visiting Town Hall

39. In our school in Dzierżoniów

41. Advantages for project
participants
Students used digital cameras, Microsoft
Office Powerpoint or Open Office.org
Impress and the Internet (websites) to
make presentations for the project.
Teacher coordinator have improved her
ICT skills creating the blog . The other
teachers had to work with ICT using the
eTwinning platform tools and improved
their ICT skills of making multimedia
presentations.

42. Students working on the project

43. Our blog
http://welcome-to-europe.bloog.pl

44. The project ‘Welcome to Europe’
considerably improved the quality of
educational services in our schools:
the participants got to know a lot
about European culture and history,
improved their knowledge of English
and ICT skills.
It was already awarded with 3
National Quality Labels - in
Portugal, the Czech Republic and
Poland.

45. Anna Szczepaniak &
Małgorzata Szukała
Szkoła Podstawowa nr 9
im. Mikołaja Kopernika
Dzierżoniów
Thank you for your
attention
Contact Seminar
Gdańsk, 19th September 2009.