Merry Christmas and A Happy new year - Friedrich -Elvers Schule

Christmas at Friedrich-Elvers-Schule- Heide, Germany

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Pupils at Friedrich-Elvers-Schule in Heide decorated the christmas tree in the school hall and their classrooms. Pupils at Friedrich-Elvers-Schule in Hennstedt built and decorated colourful and sweet gingerbread houses.

Through their creative work they all contribute greatly to create a christmas spirit at school.

 

St Joseph's Pupils Christmas Concert 2020 - Ireland

Thanks to all who worked so hard to put this together and all who went above and beyond to wrap it up to such a fab short movie. 

Congratulations St Joseph's Pupils ! You are such a bunch of legends !! 

 

 

Christmas Greetings from Schulzentrum FIDS Vienna

Some pupils wishing you Merry Christmas in the different partner languages - Croatian, English, German and Slovenish.

 

Merry Christmas in the different languages - students from Thornfield school , Northern Ireland UK

We looked up the distance between our different countries, found the flags (I hope they are all correct). 

We looked up how to say Merry Christmas in the different languages, I hope you recognise these greetings.

The pupils chose a country to research.  They then searched the internet for the population of that country, its capital and copied and pasted a picture from the country and added it to their Word Document.

 

Pupils at St Joseph's Special School in Galway getting creative.

Pupils at St Joseph's Special School in Galway have been very busy getting creative. Here's some of  our art work.

Greetings from - Varaždin Croatia

Učenici četiri razreda COO Tomislav Špoljar uključeni su, uz ostale učenike iz škole, u izradu božićnih čestitki koje će poslati učenicima i profesorima u Sjevernoj Irskoj, Sloveniji, Njemačkoj, Austriji i Velikoj Britaniji. Svima šalju iste želje: mir, sreću i zdravlje. Nadamo se da će se želje ispuniti!

Fourth grade students of COO Tomislav Špoljar are involved, along with other students from the school, in making Christmas cards that will be sent to students and teachers in Northern Ireland, Slovenia, Germany, Austria and Ireland. They send the same wishes to everyone: peace, happiness and health. We hope the wishes come true!

 

ABOUT THE VIDEO:

Božićni  (i projektni) ugođaj u našoj školi! Kako bi se naši prijatelji iz projekta upoznali s tradicionalnim hrvatskim božićnim pjesmama učenici su otpjevali narodnu božićnu pjesmu „Radujte se narodi“ koja se pjeva u svim dijelovima Hrvatske. Uz tu pjesmu, otpjevali su i pjesmu koju svi znaju, ali vjerojatno nikada nisu čuli kako zvuči na hrvatskom jeziku. Malu pomoć u estradnom nastupu pružili su profesori i ravnatelj škole.

Christmas (and project) atmosphere in our school! In order for our friends from the project to get acquainted with traditional Croatian Christmas songs, the students sang the folk Christmas song "Rejoice, peoples" which is sung in all parts of Croatia. Along with that song, they also sang a song that everyone knows, but hasn't heard it being sung in Croatian before.  A little help in the variety show was provided by the professors and the school principal.

 

                                Musical card from the students of the Centar

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2021 - wishing you from dr. Ljudevita Pivka Ptuj school.

Students, Teachers, Parents and other School Staff of Primary school dr. Ljudevita Pivka Ptuj, Slovenia Wishing you a Merry christmas and a Happy New Year.

In Slovenian Language We say:

Vesel  božič in srečno novo leto 2021.

What are the objectives we would like to achieve?

Social inclusion to enable pupils to exchange information on the individual traditions and cultures of our 6 differentcountries. This will involve the creation of a European tree (created by the lead school Thornfield & in Europeanblue with the trunk covered in our European stars.) The branches & leaves of the tree will be populated with information about our various European cultures and traditions by each country, with individual branches allocated to individual countries. This will increase the social inclusion of all our participating pupils and also the staff. Another key objective for the project is the development of key and basic competencies. The exchange of information between our students will take many forms letters and pen pal opportunities, it will take the form of emails and will also involved video conferencing, These opportunities address disadvantage and disability as they will be supported via staff who will ensure the level of exchange is appropriate to meet the abilities of our special school students and be structured so that the challenges of disability and disadvantage can be over come. It is intended that a collection of the correspondence between our students will be collated in a correspondence file and this file shared at a local level amongst neighbouring school and also with the education authority in our owncountries. Staff development will be a key objective in the project development and a training file will be produced by the partnership and copied for all its participants, this file will log the training focus over the plan period and also serve as a reference file enabling staff the revisit the various branches of professional development and training rolled out during the project. Examples of this will include social skills training, ICT focus, e safety, behaviour management & Autistic spectrum disorder support. This training and file will map out the professional development offered to staff and also ensure staff capacity is developed to ensure lessons cascaded to pupils are innovative, interesting and up to date with recent trends and current approaches. By the project end we will have a clear record of revised teaching approaches in operation. An assessment of the pupils work on the project initiatives and areas of focus and an assessment of the contributions and ICT skills base on the 5 E`s of UK ICT develpment ie Explore, Exchange, Exhibit, Evaluate and Express . Additional concrete examples of this work will demonstrate a raising of staff skills in the use of Green Screen for e.g. to invgorate lessons and higher quality exchanges of information by students These approaches will demonstrate the the progress our students and staff have made in Social inclusion, development of key & basic competencies for all , addressing SEN disadvantage via participation and the celebration of successes addressing disability through the successes of our disabled pupils and their a record of their achievemen.

Motivation of our project

 As a group of six Special Schools (some of whom have worked together very successfully in the past) we are very aware of the need for our students to play their part in society and be recognized and included within it. To achieve this we must strive to raise and develop their skill levels to enhance they career and their employability prospects. As a teaching profession we must ensure our students receive every opportunity to succeed and develop the key competencies that play a huge part in their lives. We must strive to raise teacher capacity through a wide range of professional development opportunities, learning from the innovative practices across our European partners to create a high quality learning environment. We must strengthen our European bonds and understanding, raising awareness of the opportunities our European community offers for all our citizens and especially our disabled and disadvantaged. We must ensure our less able students become more aware of the European dimension and it widens, enriches and develops their lives. This partnership aims to develop the students through high quality educational opportunities. For students (and staff) to make new friends in a safe and secure environment, to have their voice heard, to learn about the traditions, and culture across Europe and to engage students in getting to know more about their European counterparts and fellow students. It aims to build the pupil self confidence and sklll to engage with their peers. To be able to connect with others and make their voice heard and to keep pace with a fast moving society with all its opportunities and challenges. Our project offers it teachers and professional staff exposure to a range of innovative strategies and approaches to enable them to enrich the opportunities for the students in all our schools. It will help to modernize our teaching workforce through the sharing of skills and expertise, where staff have the opportunity to visit classrooms meet with associated professional bodies and authorities and to remain at the cutting edge of educational development. Funding this project would enable 6 special schools to develop a high quality project, each special school has a slightly different specialism in regard to supporting special school pupils and each operates in a different educational system and structure. The practices and strategies that have been developed in each school vary and funding will enable face to face exchanges to showcase and expand upon the innovative practices eg in Thornfield House School great emphasis is placed on the direct teaching of social skills, this approach is led by the speech and language therapy department within school. Preliminary discussions between partners indicates a great interest in learning much more about this approach. There are already many other similar examples.

Funding will enable the opportunity for schools to meet with other branches of the education system and compare structures.