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Please share your reflections (pupils and teachers) on the success of this project.  What did you learn?  What did you enjoy?  What could we improve next time?

 

Here are some of the pupils' comments from the Project Journal:

Thank you for all the Christmas cards. We really like them because they are really colourful and well drawn. They are all lovely, very creative and all different! We hope you liked ours (in the style of David Hockney). We would like to do another eTwinning project!
Class 4, Eastburn School, UK

Thank you for the cards AM
It was really nice of you to make them SH
The cards were very colourful LT
I think the cards were very creative ASA
I think the cards were amazing JOS
The cards were very beautiful CH
The cards are very delicate MK
We loved your colouring AM
The cards were really pretty AON
Please can you tell us about your artists PC
We loved your cards and they were nice. ZD
Did you like our cards?
Class 1/2B Steeton School, UK

Thank you very much for the beautiful cards! RM
We thought you tried your best. AM.
I like the drawing JF.
I liked the beautiful colours ZH.
You have neat handwriting.WV
I liked the way you took your ideas from artists. HE
We think you are like little artists! HIH
I liked the pictures on the front of the cards. CD
You made a lovely job of it. RF
I liked the Santa design. AG
I liked the Merry Christmas in many languages KS
Class 3/4W Steeton School, UK
 

We liked a lot taking parts in the project, even our logo was not wnough beautiful.Every morning we were watching the Swedish children videos in their Advent calendar. We also liked a lot Spanish lessons on puntinism. We've learned from our Spanish twins out to make dots in paintings.

Class 2 B Scuola Italiana di Madrid

We want to say thank you, grazie, gracias to you all for your postcards and letters. It was such an emotion to open the envelopes. It was also beautiful to see our drawings in the pictures of other schools displays.

Class 2 C Scuola Italiana di Madrid

 

   Thank you all for your work and greeting cards. It was very special and very exciting to wait for them.We"ve learned a lot about many artists and their art, about different countries and their flags.We would like to participate in such a project for years to come. CLASS 4-a ,,B” Ermoclia, Stefan Voda, Republica of Moldova.

Students from SP 9 Dzierżoniów wrote some reflections on the project. Some of them you can read below:

In this project I loved the videomeeting with partner schools and when we were making the Christmas alphabet. Daria, class 5a

I loved when we were recorded saying Christmas wishes in English and Polish. Wrking with the map of Europe and knowing where partner schools are from.  Oliwia, class 5b

I like all the tasts in this project" making Christmas Alphabet, working with the map, videomeeting, making and receiving Christmas cards, singing English Christmas carols. Marta, class 5b

For be the best was recording Christmas wishes in English and Polish. It was fun!  Martyna D., class 5b

I liked most the videomeeting and making Christmas cards. I also loved making mince pies with my friend. Natalia, class 5b

I love making live picture of the girl with chrysantemums. We all had fun. Nikola, class 5b

European Christmas Eve dinner was great. We tried dishes from different countries. I made the cake from Slovenia. Martyna O., class 5b

 

Reflections from teachers:

I think that this project has been very successful, in many ways.  A simple idea (the exchange of artist-inspired Christmas cards) has led to a lot of learning and enjoyment.  My pupils have researched an artist and really thought about the content of the paintings which the artist produced.  They then analysed the contents of the paintings and synthesised these thoughts to create their own design for their card.  As this has also been done in our partner schools, my pupils have learned about other painters too, through receiving handmade cards from our friends around Europe.  In their reflections, most if not all of my pupils said that they liked having their own logon.  This was the first time we have done this at Steeton School, but we will be continuing with this in our next project.  I will also make it easier for the pupils to take their logons home.  Finally, the opportunity to reflect on their learning has led to greater understanding of the work that they have all done in the project.  At Steeton, some of my pupils who worked on this project are in Year 2, 6-7 years old, and I have been very proud of their mature attitude and great work in this project.  I also think that the teachers in this project have worked very hard to make sure that the project was successful.  A number of eTwinning Ambassadors, and more experienced eTwinners, have used this project as a mentoring tool for those new to eTwinning.  Diana Linford, Steeton and Eastburn Schools, UK.

 

          2017 was great for me, I started learning English,and I applied to eTwinning,and this is my first project, where I did a lot of things for the first time(I learned during the project) : to upload photos, to make video, to them post, to use twinspace and more. Now that I can do it, I do not even know why it difficult then. I   have sometimes waited to see how other parteners are doing because I was somehow confused,for example, about the size of cards or sending them by post or not, how many cards to put for some schools. I did not want to make mistakes,but it was not perfect anyway. By the end I understood more, but I noticed that I would need project parteners in my school. My school teachers have heard of eTwinning but are probably booked will analyze my positive experience and  will see that  it is something very important, interesting and good. It was  the first eTwinning project in the school - a great project and the children  learned a lot and it was very interesting.Every time we received a new card we also teach a litle lesson about the painter,technique and style. They wrote about different painters in their reflections.  However I did not think I would learn the most.I have seen diferent approaches to art and the teaching of themes, different from what is done with us, and  i will not only use them in my lessons, but I think radically will change my attitude and teaching. This project has changed a lot to me and I gratly thank the founders and partners for this opportunity. Aurelia Cotoman - art teacher. I.P. Gimnasium.Ermoclia, Ștefan Vodă, Republica Moldova.  

 

Every eTwinning project is always like your own child, you care about it, you are worried about its life.. Even after dozens of project, I liked to be involved with my second year pupils in this school in Madrid. This school, cross- cultural and European in its own essence, needs to be trained to cooperation with other schools. So I started here to propose eTwinning as a way to connect with other countries and also to stay linked with Italy from abroad. The project development, followed by parents and other teachers , was a key to show how it can be easy and rewarding to work in an eTwinning project.

Pupils, even so young, were so happily involved! It became a routine starting EVERY morning with a look on Twinspace, checking news, videos, drawings..They love to repeat : " We've learned how to paint with dots by our friend in eTwinning". Another great motivation for them was the letters exchange with pupils from Rome, because they had to take care of their writing in Italian.

Last but not least, the group of teachers around this project was simply great. Thank you all for your patience and attention; I hope to work again with you all!

Paola Arduini

 

I have not words to thank Diana Lindford,etwinning ambassador from U.K, for letting me and my partners at school to take part in this Project .This is my third year sharing a Christmas Project with her and some other partners. However, this time was very special for me and my school partners, being the cofounder and  linking it our school library Documental Integrated Project (PSI) about art "The artists library" .Being awarded as eTwinning school was a plus for this Project sucess.

Teachers were very happy about being able to take part in an eTwinning Project using Spanish or Galician language. Tey relected this on  teachers survey.

Every teacher and every pupil at our school enjoyed from the very first momment learning from local artists from partners such as L.S.Lowry, Hockney from U.K , Ülle Meister from Estonia, Mila Marquis from Moldova, Ernst Billgren from Sweden and Nika Domnik from Slovenia or great Art masters such as Picasso, Van Gogh, Matisse, Mondrian or Dali.They were enthusiastic making their big postcards to share with our partners to show the beautiful places from our town which are worth paying a visit. They put into practice the cooperative work techniques they have learned from CA/AC Program during last three school years at every contribution for the Project involving pupils in every step of the Project.

Every time a bunch of cards from our partners arrived at our school , was a momment of joyce and happiness, specially for kinders who were eager to learn fro their european friends.They could see how our partners were interested in learning to paint like they have done with Pointillism and they looked for information about the pieces of Art inspiring our partners works.

Frida Kahlo selportraits inspired their portraits and our partners work at Steeton.

At the same time, our local artists Manuel Moldes, Antón Sobral or the teacher and artist Itzíar Ezuieta who guided us to different workshops this school year, provided an important reason to apreciate our own cultural heritage, so close and sometimes so unknown.

Video calls using their own language sharing songs and works done , provided a unique experience to real interaction with their partners they are not going to forget .

The Project provided a real setting to train new etwinners as they could learn from the very beginning , being involved in a real  teaching enviromment. 

6th grade Pupils     filled in a questionaire at their Arts and Crafts lessons.

   Mª del Carmen Rodríguez Montegrifo    (Mela Rguez) C.E.I.P Manuel Vidal Portela, Pontevedra, Spain