Fifth online meeting

This afternoon we held the fifth online meeting where the coordinating partners reached the following agreements:

DATE OF THE NEXT MOBILITY: From 8 to 14 May 2022.

PLACE: Slovenia.

ORGANISATION OF THE MOBILITY: In the next few weeks we will start with the preparations (selection of students, programme, travel, etc.).

DAILY JOURNALS: During this week each team will hand in the mobility diary in Denmark and evaluate the meeting.

ETWINNING: Upload evidence of the mobility on the page that has been created for this purpose. Encourage students to interact with their peers.

WEBPAGE: Upload evidence of mobility.

ACTIVITIES TO DISSEMINATE DENMARK MOBILITY: Present the mobility to teachers and students in each of the centres, make publications in regional magazines or newspapers.

Previous activities: Mobility in Odense (Denmark)

 8 February 2022

Our students Vera, Eloísa, Ainoa, Lara and Irene are selected to participate in the next mobility with the partners from Denmark. It is a very enjoyable session where they start their presentations, individual and group photos are taken.

9 February 2022

In just one day, our students have prepared their presentations which they rehearse with their teachers Eva and Juan Antonio. In a few days, through video calls, we are going to meet all the students who are going to participate in the mobility. How exciting!

10 February 2022

In one session we made our presentations with all the colleagues participating in the mobility. It is a unique experience and a very good first contact. 

9 March 2022

Comienza la cuenta atrás, queda muy poquito para el despegue hacia Odense y tenemos casi todo preparado. En la puerta principal nos hacemos nuestras fotos de equipo con los teachers Marce y Ester.

11 March 2022

Everything is ready, the centre gives us the materials that will accompany us during the mobility. In the bags we have a notebook that we will use as a diary where we will narrate in first person all the experiences. It will be a great help when we have to tell our teachers and classmates at Ciudad de Mérida what we have experienced.

Selection and preparation of transnational activities

Transnational activities are short-term exchanges of pupils and teachers. In our case, the pupils taking part are those enrolled in 5th and 6th grade, the latter being a priority as they are in the last year of primary school. In the 20/21 academic year, lists were made of students from these courses who wished to participate in transnational activities. These did not take place for reasons of force majeure caused by Covid-19.

At the beginning of the academic year 21/22 a letter was sent to the families of the 6th grade students to inform them that the mobility activities were resuming and we asked them to fill in a questionnaire reiterating their wish for their children to participate in the mobility activities. All interested parties were invited to an online meeting on Thursday 21 October 2021, where we explained: What are transnational activities in the framework of the Erasmus+ programme? Programming of mobilities for the academic year 21/22. Number of students participating in each meeting. Selection criteria.

The above steps resulted in a list to which the criteria indicated in our application were applied: financial situation, learning difficulties, social situation, sensory problems and foreign language proficiency. A single list was created for the two Erasmus projects and the students were assigned to the mobilities according to their position. Ties were resolved by the marks of the final evaluation of the previous year in this order:

1. Bilingual Natural and Social Studies. If the tie continued, see point 2.
2. Instrumental Areas: Spanish language and Mathematics.

Once the ranking had been completed, all the families of the candidate students received a letter via the Rayuela educational platform, informing them that the process had been completed at the School Council meeting held the previous day. The lists with the final scores were displayed on the school's notice boards.

External board

Inner board

Below are the steps we follow when students are selected to participate in a transnational activity:

1. Official communication by phone call and/or email message through the Rayuela platform.
2. Creation of a Telegram group to maintain quicker contact between teachers and families.
3. Face-to-face meeting with families to explain and give detailed information on: teachers and students participating; accommodation; travel route (round trip); Covid certificate and measures; necessary documentation (ID card, passport, European health card, police authorisation and vaccination certificate); clothing and footwear; medication; communications from students and their families; luggage; programme; etc.
4. Signing of the Agreement by the parents. Inclusion in the programme implies acceptance of the programme's operating rules and the fulfilment of the agreed commitments. These are: To welcome pupils from the partner countries if the pandemic circumstances allow it; to accept the use of the pupils' images always for educational and non-profit purposes; to accept participation in dissemination activities (radio, television programmes or talks) and to allow their dissemination for educational purposes on the project's web pages and social networks. Information is also provided on: illnesses, treatment and protocol; meal adjustments for medical or religious reasons; and indication of any accessibility needs (reduced mobility).
5. Signing of a contract on the use of the children's mobile devices.
6. Publication on the Internet of the students and teachers selected for the activity.
7. Preliminary activities to introduce the participants.
8. Subsequent activities related to the dissemination of the results.

Our first spot of the project

 OUR YEAH! SPOT

During our first transnational activity in Manerbio (Italy) the teachers were trained to make advertising spots to help us to spread the word about our project. Below you can see our first advertising spot of the project. We hope you like it. YEAH!

Happy New Year!

 From Spanish team we wish all our educational communities a HAPPY 2002 and may all your dreams come true!

Presentation of the project to new Teachers in Spain

 We presented the project especially to the new teachers. We discussed the following points:

• Project idea.

• Partners.

• Objectives.

• Activities: local activities and mobilities.

• Beneficiaries.

• Methodology.

The presentation can be found below:

Dissemination at In-Service Teacher Training Centre

 Our team manager (María Luisa Dávila Ladero and Ester León Carrascal) disseminated our project in the ErasmusDays at In-Service Teacher Training Centre.

ErasmusDays - Dissemination

  Our Management Team, in CEIP Bilingüe Ciudad de Mérida, will disseminate our project in the ErasmusDays at In-Service Teacher Training Centre 🥰.

Climate activity

 We share the following infographic composed of four activities that we can do with our students in the area of environmental knowledge. Specifically, it works on Sustainable Development Goal 13 (Agenda 2030): Climate Action.

Frequently asked questions about eTwinning

 I am doing a course with my agency called "eTwinning Embassy". One of the tasks has been to create a bank of recurring questions that are of great help in our eTwinning project. I have used the Symbaloo tool and it will be a space that I will update little by little. I hope it will be useful for the project partners and students.

Communication and collaboration in our project

 COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION

• Teachers communicate through email, the eTwinning platform, a WhatsApp group (only for coordinators), Messenger and through online meetings with MEET. Some of the tools are described below.

  To make the TwinSpace a pleasant space for students and teachers it is important that we follow some Netiquette to achieve our goals.

  Teachers and students will share the TwinSpace of the project.

  Introduce yourself and your school in the corresponding activity.

  We will support each other to build up and organize a pleasant TwinSpace.

  Visit the TwinSpace regularly.

  Upload your best work to the project journal.

  While the Teacher Bulletin is used for communications and questions write positive comments to your partners' posts.

  Respect the deadline of the project tasks.

  Speak with your students about e-safety and invite them as members of the TwinSpace, but first ask their parents' permission.

  Now, we're ready to start our journey!

  TEACHER BULLETIN

  We use it to remember the activities to be carried out with clear and simple instructions, send or receive materials, follow up the activities, ask questions and resolve doubts.

  PLATFORM INTERNAL MAIL SERVICE

  Thanks to this service, we remind partners of the activities to be carried out or inform them of aspects related to the project.

  LATEST UPDATES

  We present and inform the rest of the participants about the progress made in carrying out the activities. Teachers and students give and receive constructive feedback.

  For collaborative tasks we use the TwinSpace, the blog and the project website.

  OFFICIAL BLOG

  Please, click on the link below to reach our Official YEAH Blog:

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