YEAR 1
SEPTEMBER
1. Formation of project clubs. Inviting teachers and students to Twinspace and facebook group 'Get addicted to happiness'.
2. Establishing Project Corners at schools where project outcomes will be presented.
3. Questionnaire on project expectations. Deadline 1st of October.
4. Welcome Cards. Each school prepares at least five nice handmade cards at sends them to partner schools. Deadline 30 Sept.
5. European Day of Languages. Introducing all partners to school community - different activities including Quiz Show checking the
knowledge about partner countries.
OCTOBER
1. Project's Song. In October, each partner school starts searching for a nice project's song which can be a known song or composed by
the project participants. Choosing the best one - online voting.
2. Project's Logo. International voting. The best logo will be printed on t-shirts with project's motto. The logo should contain the
projects title and symbols of the partner countries.
3. Photo competition 'This is happiness'. Each coordinator is responsible for organizing the competition at the school level and selecting
the best photo for the international collaborative poster. Deadline 21st of October.
4. World Smile Day. Each school organizes different activities and prepares a map of associations of 'Happiness ' (it could be texts,
pictures, etc.) related to happiness.
NOVEMBER
1. Oxford Happiness Questionnaire. Coordinators are responsible for carrying them out and sending the results to Portugal (website),
Italy (Facebook) and Turkey (Twinspace). We intend to conduct full Oxford questionnaire (29 questions). After sending the
questionnaire results, we will compare the level of happiness of pupils in all partner countries;
2. School survey ‘What makes you happy ?’. To learn what makes us happy, our students will hold interviews with their classmates and
teachers at school - short films.
3. Brainstorming on determinants of happiness - web tool answergarden
DECEMBER
1. Preparing New Year's video message and sending it to each partner country.
2. Online video conferance
3. Happiness Wall. Whenever we feel happy, we will write about it on the happiness wall created in padlet.
JANUARY / FEBRUARY
1. ''Thank you'' event. We will celebrated February as the month of love, friendship and kindness. Students will prepared Thank You cards
for their friends, teachers and families. We will also choose the most respectful, the friendliest and the kindest students in our
schools.
2. Designing an e-magazine and sending it to the local authorities, parents and media
3. Evaluation of the project after the first term of school year 2015-16.
MARCH / APRIL
In March and April, we are going to focus how to achieve happiness through sport and healthy lifestyle - HEALTHY BODY, HAPPY MIND.
1. International Day of Happiness - we will celebrate it on 20th March
2. National Sports - presentations. Deadline 1st of April.
3. How to lead a healthy balanced life ? We will organize a meeting with a dietitian and encourage our students to prepare healthy
dishes at home and share their recipes with the project partners.
4. Healthy Life Rules posters - each partner will prepare traditional posters at school and we will also prepare collaborative posters
using Web 2.0 tools.
MAY
In May we are going to search for HAPPINESS IN LITERATURE.
1. Three Minutes to a Happier You. All the teachers of the partnership collaboratively will prepare a booklet with classroom activities
related to happiness and well-being - using web 2.0 tool - Tricider.
2. A Little Book of Happiness with 15 words words reffering to happiness translated to six national languages of project's partners.
The booklet will be created collaboratively by students.
3. Happy Stories - which will be collaboratively written and acted out by the students.
4. Happiness is Everywhere - recitation contest. Students will write the poems about happiness and present them to their classmates.
JUNE
1. Second issue of e-magazine.
2. Evaluation of the project.
YEAR 2
SEPTEMBER
1. European Day of Languages.
2. In September and October, we are going to focus how to achieve happiness through art - HAPPINESS IN ART.
OCTOBER
1. Happiness in Art - collaborative padlet.
2. Improving schools environment with uplifting quotes and relaxing art pieces.
3. Preparing presentations on art in our countries and videos on how we are trying to improve our schools environment with uplifting quotes and relaxing art pieces. These will be shown to our project partners during the project meeting in Italy.
4. World Smile Day
NOVEMBER
1. In November and December, we are going to focus how to achieve happiness through MUSIC AND DANCE.
2. Happy Song Contest
DECEMBER
1. Happy Song Contest
2. Karaoke singing with local seniors (Poland and Croatia)
3. Christmas visit to retired teachers (Poland and Croatia)
JANUARY / FEBRUARY
1. Day of Kindness celebrating love, kindness and friendship
2. Third issue of e-magazine.
3. Evaluation of the third semester of the project.
MARCH
In March and April, we are going to focus how to achieve happiness through VOLUNTEERING
1. International Day of Happiness - we will celebrate it on 20th March
2. Volunteers of all times - common padlet
APRIL / MAY
1. Dream Post - writing letters to ill children
2. Charity Fairs
JUNE
1. Oxford Happiness Questionnaire
2. Fourth issue of emagazine
3. Evaluation of the fourth semester
4. Dissemination of the projects results - final event