Showing posts with label SCOALA GIMNAZIA NUMARUL 5. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SCOALA GIMNAZIA NUMARUL 5. Show all posts

SKYPE BEFORE MEETING IN LLEIDA.

On the 16th of January we organized a Skype videochatting before the meeting in Lleida. The pupils could meet each other and they had a talk with their parterns.




FIRST SHORT TERM MEETING (Vinci, Italy)

I.D.E.A.L.`s first short term meeting took place from October 4-7, 2018 in Vinci, Italy. It was our first face to face meeting and had a huge impact on getting to know each other personally. I think it gave us all the realization that our team was hardworking, reliable and most important, we all enjoyed what we were doing!

Why in Vinci? As Leonardo da Vinci is our project `s idol, the meeting place had to be Vinci, his home town. While being in Vinci, we could feel his presence in every step of the way and see things through his eyes - literally see, because we were mesmerized by the landscape in Vinci which represents the deep bond between the master and his Tuscan land.

The days in Vinci were filled with different and interesting activities. We were on the footsteps of Leonardo, trying to understand Leonardo`s complex life and his history more vividly and deeply. We had a guided tour to the 13th century farm house where Leonardo da Vinci’s was born in Anchiano; a tour at the impossible exhibition of Leonardo which is the exhibition of very high-resolution digital reproductions of masterpieces; a tour in the Museum about Leonardo which covers the history of the master both as architect and scientist; a guided tour of Vinci old town gave us the opportunity to visit the places which were connected to Leonardo`s life.

Beside the interesting tours, we participated in a workshop which enlightened us Leonardo da Vinci’ s machines and codes. This workshop allowed us to put ourselves in the shoes of Leonardo the artists, the scientist and engineer, and may I say so- It was extremely challenging and cracked our brains.

The days in Vinci weren`t only about tours and workshops, we had active briefings concerning the project and its steps for the future activities. We had a detailed agreements about participants, who should they be and how should we choose them; we agreed on the dates of the LTTA, partners` tasks and responsibilities; the emphasis was on the policy of privacy and parental agreement before each mobility. In addition we discussed about further collaborative activities like My Maps, Logo and Mascot contest, dissemination week, newsletter, and updating our social media sources.

These four days were filled with work and pleasure at the same time. When it was time to work, we worked, and when it was time to enjoy and relax, we did that as well. It all happened due to our coordinators in Italy- so many thanks to Giuseppina, Luciana and Simonetta, and of course to the Istituto Comprensivo of Castel Frentano who paid our workshop and guided tours.

ERASMUS + PROJECT - I.D.E.A.L.

Innovating by Doing Experiments by Leonardo is the Erasmus + project which involves five countries. Our coordinator is Istituto Comprensivo Castel Frentano from Italy, partners are Kurtna Kool from Estonia, Scoala Gimnaziala Numarul 5 from Romania, Escola Frederic Godas from Spain, and Agrupamento de Escolas Miguel Torga from Portugal.


The aim of this project is sharing our schools` innovative ideas with our partners` schools. The target group in this project are mainly students from the age 9-12 but no one who is interested in the project is excluded.


As the name of the project says, our great role model is an Italian polymath of the Renaissance Leonardo da Vinci. He was the man whose interests involved invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.


With this project we are hoping to help children rediscover their natural curiosity towards the world and support their eagerness in different project activities in our own and partners ` schools.


Our project is in compliance with changed learning approach; teacher in it is a creator of connectors and a shaper of values and our task is to expand students` critical and creative thinking, analytical skills, entrepreneurship, teamwork, written and verbal self-expression.


The mobilities take place in each partner`s school. The first mobility was in December 2018 in Italy. The next mobility takes place in January 2019 in Spain, following Romania in March 2019, Portugal in October 2019, and the last in April 2020 in Estonia.


FIRST SHORT-TERM MEETING IN VINCI

During the "Short-term joint staff training events" the teachers of the 5 schools had the possibility to meet for the first time in person their partners.
They studied and got information about Leonardo da Vinci and had the chance to get to know the figure of the inventor more in depth, contextualizing his eclectic personality and his work.
Taking part to the several and diversified workshops has been an opportunity to experience in person the activities planned for the pupils, to understand its didactic and methodological value and to plan the appropriate workshop procedures.