What’s it like in your country?
Schools Project
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Project Outline
Experience of life across Europe is both similar and different. This project aims to
connect young people (5 – 12 year olds) with their peers across Europe to let them
compare aspects of day to day life, likes, dislikes, interests etc. Children will be able
to learn about their place in the wider world by exchanging questions and answering
questions on topics such as:
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School (daily routines, subjects, age start school etc.)
Activities to do/ places to go in your town
Transport (prices, types etc)
Environment (recycling, environmentally friendly initiatives)
Food
Sports and TV
Each participating school/ class will submit questions they want to know about life in
other countries. These questions will be collated by Europe Direct Aberdeen and
sent out to each participating school who will then answer the questions.
The answers can include photos, drawings and even videos. All submissions will be
displayed on a dedicated website and the highlights from each country will feature in
a published book. Each school participating will receive hard copies of the booklet
along with links to the website and e-book and a certificate for taking part.
Schools will have the opportunity to build upon the project and maintain links with
one another following the exchange through E-twinning.
Aims and Objectives of Project
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To connect local primary school children with their peers across Europe.
To enable young people to compare their day to day lives and where they live
with the experiences of other young people in Europe.
To instil a sense of pride in their own city/ town where they live as well as
promoting a sense of global citizenship.
What you need to do to take part:
After reading this information pack, your school needs to decide if it can commit to
this project and the terms and conditions set out in this pack. In particular you need
to check if you can:
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Be able to provide questions and answers in English or French or in your
native language with an English or French translation.
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Keep to the strict timetable (below) and carefully follow the instructions for
each and every step. This is very important!!
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Be able to meet the costs of producing and sending your submissions to
Europe Direct Aberdeen. We recommend sending your submissions
electronically via email or for larger files through https://wetransfer.com/ (free
version). It needn’t cost you anything additional to your usual classroom
budget.
Register your interest in this project with Europe Direct Aberdeen by filling out
your details online at https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/LG8S22L
(Please note if we receive more notes of interest than there are spaces on this
project we will use a random name selector to select the schools who can take part)
Project Timetable
Step
1. Register your school
2. Confirmation of your place on the project
3. Questions you want to ask submitted to Europe Direct
Aberdeen
4. Questions to answer sent to your school
5. Answers submitted to Europe Direct for inclusion on
webpages and in booklet
6. Publication of Booklet and Website
Dates
By 28 February 2017
By 3 March 2017
By 31 March 2017
18 April 2017
16 May 2017
By 30 June 2017
Project Steps
Step 1: Registration (by 28 February)
1. Note your interest and register at
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/LG8S22L. If you have any problems
contact us at [email protected]
2. For reasons of administration there are a limited number of places per
country. In the interests of fairness we will use an online random name
selector if we receive more registrations than there are places available. You
will be notified if you have been successful in gaining a space on the
programme.
Step 2 and 3: Creating and sending us your questions (between 3 March and
31 March)
1. Once we have notified you that you have a place you may begin working with
your class to come up with some questions that you wish to know about other
countries and the lives of children in those countries.
2. You may submit up to 20 questions per school. Try to include at least one
question from each of the main topic areas:
a. School (daily routines, subjects, age start school etc.)
b. Activities to do/ places to go in your town
c. Transport (prices, types etc)
d. Environment (recycling, environmentally friendly initiatives)
e. Food
f. Sports
g. TV shows
3. Questions should be written in English/ French or in your own language with
an English or French translation provided.
4. Submit questions to [email protected] by 31 March 2017.
Step 4 and 5: Preparing and submitting answers (18 April to 16 May)
1. Once you have received your set of questions to answer, take time with your
class to discuss the best way to answer them. It may be that you can take a
photo or draw a picture providing a caption underneath. Be creative. If video
content is produced we will link to it via the project website.
2. Answers per question should be no longer than 60 words.
3. Ensure that all contributions are your own work and do not contain any thirdparty materials and/or content that you do not have permission to use.
4. Send your answers to us via email or post to arrive by the 16 May 2017.
Transfer large files electronically via https://wetransfer.com/ for free.
5. Still image content should be sent in JPEG format and video in MP4 format.