The document summarizes the third teachers' meeting and first pupil mobility in Luxembourg from April 18-21, 2012 for the Comenius Multilateral Partnership project. 12 teachers from Spain, Sweden, Italy, Luxembourg, and Poland participated along with their students. The activities included classroom visits, workshops on lessons from partner schools, tours of Luxembourg City and a natural history museum, and a karaoke evening. Key outcomes were establishing deadlines to upload lessons to the project website, agreeing on logos, planning the next mobility in Poland, and creating evaluation surveys.
1. Comenius Multilateral Partnership: Natural Sciences, Natural English
Report of the third teachers’ meeting and the first pupils’ mobility in Luxembourg
Luxembourg 18 th -21st April 2012
Mobility No. 3
Host Organisation:
Receiving Country: Luxembourg
Receiving Location: Luxembourg
Start date: 18-04- 2012
End date: 21-04-2012
Duration (days): 3
Participants:
1. Isabel Mira ( English teacher, Spain)
2. Fina Pons Candel (Literature teacher, Spain)
3. Carmen Ramos (English Teacher, Spain)
4. Julie Santer (Science teacher, Luxembourg)
5. Lars Johan Janson (History teacher, Sweden)
6. Natalia Mauro Nicolino (English teacher, Italy)
7. Patrick Hobbs (English teacher, Luxembourg)
8. Patrizia Mauri (Science teacher, Italy)
9. Edyta Kulawiak- Roman (Social and Polish teacher, Poland )
10. Arkadiusz Zulewski (deputy headmaster, Poland)
11. Marcin Stanek ( IT teacher, Poland )
12. Elwira Bonk ( English Teacher, Poland )
Description of the activities:
The activities of the meeting started informally with an evening meal at the Ecole
Privée Fieldgen canteen on 18th April, when all the participating pupils from partner
schools were introduced to their hosting families.
On the 19th April both host and guest pupils followed the timetable and the usual
classroom activities at the school from 8.00 until 12.00am.
2. In the meantime the teachers had their official meeting that went on until dinner time
and they also visited the school.
At the beginning of the meeting the coordinator of the project, Natalia Mauro Nicolino,
pointed out that we were still lacking some lessons from partner schools on our official
website. She also explained the importance of keeping the lessons uploaded on the
website together with evaluating surveys so that they can serve as resources for the
others. We all agreed that Sweden will prepare the general file, which can be used by
all partner schools for uploading one content of the lesson and one evaluating survey
together with maximum 4 photos ( with captions) from each country. The deadlines
were established as follow:
1. Italy by the 7th of May
2. Sweden – by the 9th of May
3. Luxembourg – by the 11th of May
4. Poland – by the 13th of May
5. Spain – by the 20th of May
The participants also came to an agreement about the official logo of the project.
We decided to keep two logos – the Spanish and the Polish ones as there was a very
narrow victory, by only couple of votes.
After that, we discussed the objectives for the September mobility in Poland, where all
the partners should plan activities for the next school year. In order to do that, the
participants will have to bring the programmes and the proposals for the lessons so
that we could choose a common topic in Biology, Physics, Chemistry or
Sociology/Social(SD).
We also made some pre-planning for the October mobility in Spain, where the pupils
from partner schools are supposed to attend 5 lessons (45 minutes each) taught in
English.
The Polish side declared to deal with Social, the Spanish – Renewable Energy, the
Italian – Biology, the Luxembourgish postponed the decision for about two weeks and
the Swedish – Sustainable Development with general approach to show variety of
topics taught. However, in case the countries are having second thoughts, they can
still change their mind within one month. The prevailing means to be used during the
lessons were: the Internet, the Power Point presentations and some visual aids.
The official meeting ended up with visiting the school.
3. After that, there was a midday meal at the canteen, followed by a guided tour of the
Natural History Museum(Naturmuse’e), which both pupils and teachers found very
interesting.
The hosts also arranged a guided tour of the city of Luxembourg, during which the
participants learned a lot about the history, the culture and especially the importance
of the Luxembourgish language. Moreover, it was emphasized that three mother
tongues are taught: German, French and the Luxembourgish as well.
The second day of the meeting (20th April) started with the workshops that went on
until midday.
The pupils participating in the project were allocated in three classrooms, where they
listened to power point presentations from the lessons that were carried out by all
partners within the last couple of months. The presentations ended up with the
workshops so that all the pupils could take part in it.
During the break the teachers worked on two separate evaluating surveys concerning
the visit in Luxembourg: one for the guest students and one for the host students
(see enclosed document).
The surveys were handed out after the workshops and they were collected after the
evening meal.
The results of the survey will be published on the website.
In the afternoon the participants visited the picturesque little town of Vianden, famous
for its medieval castle.
The evening meal at the school canteen was followed by Karaoke and the students
tried to sing their favourite songs. The Polish side presented the song written
especially for the Comenius project by one of the Polish pupils who not only wrote the
lyrics but also composed the music for that.
Outcomes:
1. General file for uploading the lessons and surveys;
2. Two logos of the project;
3. Objectives of mobility in Poland;
4. Pre-planning of October mobility in Spain;
5. Pupils’ survey questionnaire
4. Date of the outcomes: 21-04-2012
Languages of the outcome: English
Prepared by: All the participants
Medias used: Pc