A report from our Erasmus+ project meeting

1. Report from Agenda for Welsh meeting,
Cyfarthfa Park Primary School - 17th/18th November 2016
Points in agenda What discussed - Decisions assumed
Reviewing roles in
project
Meg proposed the Italian team to lead the meeting. The group
accepted.
What has been done so
far?/What are the next
steps?
It was presented the project in short, plus the activities/results in
the three-year timeline.
Assessment of activities It was presented the assessment plan for the first year as declared
in the AF and, in detail, the first two activities questionnaires: the
Welsh TPM and the Getting-to know activity for teachers. The
assessment tool for pupils is still in progress. It was decided to use
Google Forms to conduct the surveys. For this purpose, in Google, it
was created a Project email account:
kidsconqueringcastle@gmail.com (password: Kcc2016-19)
Planning/info re
Catalonia in May?
LTTA
The team agreed on the following points:
When: May, Sunday 14th - Saturday 20th. The teams could be taken
to Navas by bus.
Who: every team can add max two persons to the number written
in the AF.
What activities: it was agreed to take part, on Thursday, in a song
contest in Barcelona (contest rules to be sent by Fina). Tune: “I’ve
got the feeling” by Timberlake. Topic: Castle and countries,
Erasmus, Entrepreneurship, cooperation. The choreography will be
guided by Spain. Timetable for the song: lyrics written in January; in
February: learn song and choreography; by the end of February:
send the video to Fina because she must present it by March.
In order to finish the poster for the Schools song contest first part
Fina invited the partner schools to send her, as soon as possible,
photos of the pupils. Then she will send the schools the infographic.
Telling the castle: every team presents its own castle/s the way it
likes.
Staying/accommodation: a venue is available for Pupils and
teachers with nine bedrooms (with 3 bunk-beds). Max availability:
55 persons. Participants’ names to be sent to Spain ASAP, possibly
not later than the end of March. Possibly Male and Females in equal
proportion.
At the end of each camp the team should share what they have
learned.
Logo competition Every team should be trained by an expert about How to make a
Logo and share information preferably through Twin Space Live

2. Event with 2/3 schools involved. Every country votes among ten
logo proposals of another country (following the AF order: Germany
votes Italy, Italy votes Austria… Spain, Wales, Greece). Proposal:
every coordinator expresses one favourite and the winner is the
Logo which gets more votes. Online tools to show and choose:
Google Forms/KCC website.
Note about Official LOGO: it’s compulsory to insert the Erasmus
Plus official logo – and eTwinning for what it is concerned - on all
Documentation/Results produced.
KCC Cooperative (Fina
review of cooperative
philosophy and
actions)
Fina presented an overview of the Cooperative Enterprise process
through her PPT presentation which will be uploaded on
Twinspace. She elaborated these steps in creating our KCC
Cooperative: Introduction and ID Cards by Xmas; Election Campaign
and Logo in March; Statutes in April.
Every school will set up its own Board,/ while the Executive
Committee will be from Catalonia.
Creating Agile Minds
for a Changing World -
talks on the topic of
entrepreneurship by
Chris Bissex and Lee
Sharma
1) Talk by Chris Bissex (from the College Merthyr Tydfil) re how to
teach enterprise, why it is important for young learners. The
younger the students, the more creativity.
2) Simply Do Ideas (www.simplydo.io) "We as teachers want to
encourage an enterprising mind set for the pupils." by Lee Sharma
Simply Do is a platform helping young learners to create business
ideas. The website layout is light, playful and simple for better
motivation. Students can upload photos and videos to visualize
their business ideas. They will have to think of potential customers,
competitors and create a financial calculation. The layout resembles
popular software such as WhatsApp. Students can create an
account, other members are able to comment on their friends' ideas.
Some discussion followed about how useful Simply Do Ideas can be
for the KCC project. Further discussion to follow. Berlin planning to
test the software during grade 5 English lessons in December.
Timetable for the next
months
Timetable for the next few months:
end of Nov 2016: quiz questions and school video to Fina via
eTwinning
by Christmas: introduction of cooperative and ID cards for
members
by Jan 2017 : song lyrics and choreography video from Fina
by Feb 2017: song videos sent to Fina (singing and dancing)
by March 2017: logo (expert visit, design and voting) and internal
coop elections
by April 2017 : statutes for cooperative
May 2017 : Camp in Barcelona
Modes of On the model of an existing Erasmus Plus project

3. communication during
project
(http://www.clilmyopenwindowontheworldaroundme.eu/cordinat
ors/) it was discussed how the Austrian team could set up the
Project website. Roland purchased our site as kcc-erasmus.eu
Modes of
communication during
project (Google
eTwinning …)
Use of
eTwinning/Twinspace
(Angeliki shares
practical usage)
Angeliki presented the use of ETwinning and our Twin space. It was
decided that only Angeliki creates pages. It was proposed to set up
these pages:
1. KCC project plan
2. Getting to know each other
3. Cooperative: Ready to be born
4. Cooperative official documents
5. TPM: Transnational Project Meetings
6. School Song Contest
7. Assessment
8. Election Campaign
9. LTTA Camps
10. Dissemination
11. Media
Various recommendation of the eTwinning use:
Teachers should invite pupils (name:… surname: could be the name
of the country, if you click on export you can download the Excel
File with pupils Data. You can also invite external visitors.
It’s important to respond to others’ posts to show collaboration
among partners.
If you post a video/photos/etc. it’s important to write a caption
naming all the partner teachers who participated in the creation.
At the end of the project every single school can apply for a Quality
Label.