This project has been named "A New Sound fro the EU". The project is aimed at pupils of primary age, 3 to 12 years-old using music to improve the skills needed to develop our children into young ambassadors for the EU.

This project challenges the idea that school can only offer didactic, dull learning that does not connect to the modern world of children. The project as a multinational project, uses music in an innovative way to solve pupil lack of interest by working together as a team with their European peers.

This project will help pupils to improve their learning skills. Across all school systems research is showing teachers need to adopt different approaches in their classrooms  to make education interesting and puzzling. In doing so they engage children, teach them the new skills and hence motivate them to higher learning.  

Teachers will develop the identified learning skills in children by working together as a team with their European peers on this engaging and exciting project. In doing so, proving they can learn and that the act of working on any goal improves their performance. This will build their resilience and encourage them to find new ways of meeting their learning goals across the whole curriculum, enhancing basic skill retention as children recognise the need to use basic skills in a real life multilateral project.

The new skills we are to teach our children to become young ambassadors for the EU are as follows.

Collaboration Skills - accepting differences, working in a group to a shared goal, team building by accepting different roles, overcoming defensiveness to build a constructive way of disagreeing to solve problems and using information at a distance from the source, across boarders.
Problem Solving Skills - identifying and selecting relevant information, setting up a hypothesis or plan for achievement, carrying out that plan, evaluating the outcome and suggesting improvements for next time.
Meta-cognitive skills - recognising the knowledge and skills they already own, identifying knowledge and skills they need to develop, creating a method of developing those skills, reflecting upon what works well for them and sharing that knowledge with peers.

This is possible because it is a school project; the whole school is involved in the project in most cases of our partnership. The project will be fully inclusive integrating all children regardless of ability, age or special need. Different adults from outside the school will work on the project with us (music teachers, parents, parents playing an instrument, educational counsellor …). The impact of the project will go beyond the pupils the teachers and the schools.

The medium for this learning is music which is an interdisciplinary subject that helps pupils to improve in many other educational fields. It will also try to stop the marginalization of music in school systems. 

Musical Objectives :
1. Learning the Language of Sound.
The natural sounds of our world are discovered as children record the sounds of nature. They investigate bangs, twangs, rattle and scrapes that our ancestors turned into musical instruments.
2. Learning their musical heritage and sharing it with partners.
The development of music is examined by looking at country’s culture and people through time. Children will learn about instruments and music of differing periods and where possible score and play them. Traditional folk songs and dances allow the appreciation of cultural differences and similarities.
3. Celebrating the place of musical education in the partners’ curriculum.
Children will learn the role of music in ennobling the soul, motivating pupils to create music of their own time and place. Then they will develop their personal journey to a collaborative imagining of music for a new Europe.
4. Improve their use of digital tools, making musical scores, learning digital instruments and writing music digitally. They will also learn about copyright (internet illegal downloading)

Learning Objectives:
Children will;
1. Learn the stages of development when collaborating. Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing.
2. Learn the skills of Problem Solving from simple logical deduction to changing perspective.
3. Practice learning is theirs by devising how they will carry out an activity.
4. Improve their knowledge of foreign languages. Learn simple sentences and basic words in the partners’ mother tongue in order to be able to share with the partners
5. Improve their wider digital technology use by participate actively during the video-conferences which will be organised all along the project
6. Learn how improving in one area can impact on another for example improving traditional dance and the associated music or improving mathematics as time signatures become more complex.

• It is a school project; it includes all children regardless of age, ability or special need.
• It includes a wider educational world of specialists with different adults from outside the school working together on the project. (Music teachers, town majors, parents, parents playing an instrument, educational counsellor …)
• It is an interdisciplinary project using music to awaken knowledge of other countries in Europe. It shares traditions but not in a stereotypical way, it explains and encourages celebration of the unique identity of partner countries. By working on this project, as well as improving their skills in music; pupils will improve their skills in geography, in history of Arts, in foreign languages, in getting a better knowledge, in learning from other cultures.
• The exchanges between partners are the key point of the project, learning and improving our pedagogical skills by sharing with our partners is very important. Teachers will also improve their skills in foreign language by practicing in an authentic way.
• The impact of the project will go beyond the pupils the teachers and the schools (by means of local press, local television, websites and e-twinning)
• Pupils will discover new places of learning (such as theatre or opera or cultural centre) they will learn about the different musical period about famous composers, about different musical styles; they will learn how to sing in a choir and they will express themselves on music.