One fo(u)r all-all fo(u)r one – outdoorlearning with SEN students
Report of the 1. TPM 29/11-1/12/17 in Hamelin
Place of meeting: Heinrich-Kielhorn-Schule, Special education school for mentally and physically handicapped students grade 1 to 12.
Duration: 3 days
Attendees: 15 in total (3 UK, 3 SK, 3 LT, 6 GE)
28.11.2017 late evening arrival in Hamelin, checking in in the hotel and in the families
29.11.2017 1st working Day in Hamelin on SEN school systems items
08.00: Mr. Lichtenberg, headmaster, welcomed the delegations cordially at school.
08.15-12:00 Presentation of host school- job shadowing
Guests watched the lessons in different classes of Heinrich-Kielhorn-Schule (HKS) and had time to talk to students and staff and to discuss German SEN school systems and special education pedagogics compared to their own national systems.
12:30-13:30 Lunch at the students project: „Flammkuchen“ was offered. Everybody had the chance to know about the very special project of baking and catering the speciality „Flammmkuchen“ (tarte flambe) made by the SEN vocational students.
14:00-15:00 Attendees follwed the Piped Pipers Tour through Hamelin in English language.
15:30-18:00 Theoretical work:
First impressions of the day about special educational systems were discussed in the group with AAC methods.
- Each participant chooses a picturecard to express her or his impressions, current feelings and emotions.
- (Metacom picturecards for AAC are used in HKS)
Survey of the German educational system:
- 2 graphs are shown on projector and explained, a lot of similarities are found and discussed. These graphs are added to the report.
Some organisational tasks and agreements about the project:
- List of actual e-mail adresses/ mobile emergency numbers- in case of someone is lost.
- Presentation of the daily programm
Emma Straker from GB showed a presentation of the English school Catcote Acedemy.
Financial items: what costs have to be paid by which country during the TPM?
TPM Hamelin:
- Bed and breakfast is going to be paid by everybody oneselve except from the private rooms.
- Meals are going to be paid by each person oneself.
- Team Germany will pay for: welcome dinner on Wednesday, „Flammkuchen“ lunch on Wednesday, the guided town visiting tour on Wednesday and the transport to the Ith mountains on Thursday.
List of activities and list of responsibilities are shown and discussed. Each partner agrees to their responsibility as written and agreed to in the application.
End of theoretical work: 6pm.
On Hamelin Christmas market German mulled wine was tasted before everybody went for the open end welcome dinner in the „Pfannkuchenhaus“.
30.11.2017 2nd working day in Hamelin on practical and theoretical items
8:00-8:30: Meeting with the Landrat Tjark Bartels (political head of the Region) and interview with the local press about the Erasmus+ project.
8.30-9.00: Coffee break at school
9.00-9.30: Play of class 2: „The fairy tale of the Pied Piper of Hamelin“ was watched with pleasure.
10:00 Headmaster Norbert Lichtenberg and Karsten Graf, physiotherapist and climbing trainer, offered tour of the school.
10:30-13:30 Visit the Mountainsite Ith, walk to the rocks, seeing the campsite, the facilities and its surroundings. Discussions about the terms and conditions of the LTTA on the Ith in June on the basic background of the visit.
13:30-14:30 Lunch at the „Suppenbar“ in Hamelin
15:30-18:00 Theoretical work:
Topic: 1st LTTA in June 2018 on the Ith
Team Germany shows a PPP about a normal outdoor week on the Ith. The PPP is put on TwinSpace.
Pictures and specific outdoor and climbing words are presentated to the group and given to the teams as a CD.
Organisation and setting:
First two days (9/6/17, 10/6/17) in the Jugendgästehaus, house of the city of Hamelin on the „Finkenborn“, type of simple youth hostel without warden. Situated in the forests close to the city of Hamelin. Intention: first coming together fort eh students in a save and sheltered house with enough facilities. First communication with words, AAC, group activities in the forest.
Arrival: 9th of June, departure 11th of June in the morning.
Facilities, setting: shared rooms, hot showers, toilettes, large kitchen to cook for oneself, 2 common and recreation rooms, wide open area for sports and outdoor games, a separated house with additional rooms if necessary.
This house will be used for the whole LTTA week in case of very bad weather conditions (plan B). Jugendgästehaus Finkenborn | gruppenhaus.de
From day 3 on putting up the tents on the Ith. www.jdav-nord.de › Zeltplatz
Setting, facilities: campsite, cold shower, very simple toilets, one seating closett, cold water, camp kitchen. Intention: real outdoor living and learning as a challenge.
Equipment / clothing:
Packing list for boys and girls is distributed to everybody.
Tents for the students will be provided by the Germans for all partners. Private tents can be taken with by any adult if they want to. Otherwise the Germans will organize enough tent space. Sleeping bags are to be brought by everybody oneself. Self inflating mattresses are provided for the students. For staff please tell if you need one.
Climbing equipement is provided by the German team.
About sleeping in the tents:
German and British staff will not sleep in a students tent. Lithuanian does not yet know. Slovakian staff will sleep in a students tent.
Types of students to bring on the trip:
Slovakia: 2 students, age 20, 1 boy, 1 girl
UK: 4 children, age 14-16, 2 boys, 2 girls
Lithuania: 4, to be decided
Germany: 5, at least 2 girls, at least one autistic, at least 2 with special social needs in finance and behaviour, age 12-18
Conditions for travelling students in general:
The student must be able to suit oneself and to move on the steep grounds with little help. No students with nappies and other severe physical or medical care recommended. As written in the application students with special needs in behaviour can have a great chance to behave different in nature through outdoor learning activities. Down syndrom students and autistic students are very recommended to participate.
Methodology focused on autistic and other communication handicaped students:
They need structure (Teacch) like a precise timetable of each day with AAC symbols and writing and will use social stories. Slovakian team will take responsibility on these methods and will present their results on the next TPM in Hartlepool.
Germany will try to design an exact timetable of the outdoor week on the Ith and send it to Slovakia in January.
Organisation of transport:
UK will rent a bus at the airport to be able to drive students and staff to Hamelin and to the Ith and back.
Slovakia will bring their own microbus and offers space for others.
German team will use their school bus (8 persons) and probably 2 private cars.
Lithuanian team: to be decided. Problems like „who is allowed to drive a bus or a car with students in it“ are to be decided in the Lithuanian team.
Permissions to bring:
Every student must bring a permission about being photographed on pictures and films and these pictures and films being put in the internet.
Each team must know about their students being able to swim or not.
Every country is responsible for the medical care of their students. Team Germany will bring emergency kits.
Special diabetical considerations for staff: everybody cares for him and herself.
End of theoretical work: 6pm
Visit oft he Hamelin Christmas market and open end Dinner in „Sumpfblume“ with team Erasmus+ and other colleagues of Heinrich-Kielhorn-Schule.
1.12.2017 3rd working day in Hamelin on theoretical items
Financial Items
LTTA in every country
- Costs of transport to and from the country and inside the country are paid by every partner for the LTTAs by themselves.
- Costs of food, accommodation, entrance fees are shared. They are divided through all participants and paid afterwards. The hosting country will pay in advance and give a ticket to every participating country afterwards.
- Not necessary for TPM, only for LTTA
- List of participants is send to the National Agency for a certification by the German team
Skype Conference
- Not working properly
- Nice and useful to see the faces
- Not necessary in future project. Everybody agrees.
- Communication among the partners should work via e-mail, E-twinning, Twinspace, phone
Risk management
- The British team writes a risk assessment for every activity that takes part during the outdoor week on the Ith. Team Germany adds the rock climbing parts. Every country fills out a profile for every student with the initials of the name, the special recuirements and uploads it on e-twinning.
- 3 Walkie-Talkies are provided by the German team to communicate on the campground.
Concept for outdoor learning
Each country provides it for the regional parts and special sports. Has to be talked about on the next TPM in Hartlepool.
E-Twinning/ TwinSpace-Homepage
- The Slovakian create the project on Twinspace. Maria will put photos and documents on Twinspace.
- The structure and design should look like the sample from the Slovak team (former project)
- There should be a page of each mobility
- Every country uploads the results on e-twinning
- German team is responsible for the summary/report of each TPM
Questionnaire as an instrument for evaluation
- Evaluation of the students behavior before and after the mobility will have to be created with a questionnaire
- Topics are in the application, German team works on the questionnaire and shows the results at TPM in Hartlepool
Lithuanian team will create the project Logo until the 2nd TPM in Hartlepool.
All participants signed the list of attendance and received the certification of attendance.
Official end of the TPM: 4pm
Participants:
Germany
Norbert Lichtenberg
Marion Finke
Anke Hausotter
Birute von Below
Christian von der Embse
United Kingdom
Emma Straker
Alan Pounder
Stephen Foster
Slowakia
Eva Turakowa
Maria Strakova
Janka Ovadova
Lithuania
Salomeja Ratkeviciene
Raminta Kruopyte
Daiva Krutejeviene
Report sent to attendees (see above)
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