Project Schedule

  • November:

    • Teachers take group photos and post it to Twinspace.
    • Logo Competition: Pupils draw a design for a project logo, upload images to the twinspace gallery and vote for the best logo from each partner school.
    • Poster "All about me": Irish pupils write in German, German pupils write in English, post to twinspace.
    • Irish pupils learn song "Laterne, Laterne" to celebrate Martinstag, make a paper lantern, make a video, post it to twinspace

    December:

    • Both classes make Christmas cards, Irish children write them in German, German children write them in English, send them to partner school
    • Each school learns a Christmas carol in language they are learning, make video and post it to twinspace.

    January:

    • using padlet to ask and answer questions about each other in German and English (about age, pets, my familiy, hobbies)

    February:

    • Simone in Roscommon: 1 week of jobshadowing
    • German morning with Simone: German history and geographie, German food and school system
    • children in senior classes can wear their own clothes or wear a German football shirt
    • Skype meeting with the German school: singing a song for each other, pupils introduce themselves

    March:

          Digital Citizenship (Ireland only):

    • show video on Plagiarism, discuss and in group design poster to illustrate why it´s not allowed
    • our idols: each student chooses one famous person (singer, writer, athlete, musician, politician, film star,...) from his / her own country and presents him / her on a PowerPoint slide, teacher gathers the slides together as a PowerPoint presentation, uploads it to the twinspace

    April: 

    • Happy Easter - Frohe Ostern! : Exchange of Easter cards, sending them to each other
    • using padlet to learn from each other about differences and similarities about our schools

    May:

    • each school learns a summer song in the foreign language
    • Skype - session: we sing for each other
    • Project evaluation - usng a padlet.