General Information...................
COMENIUS European Schools Partnership
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| COMENIUS European Schools Partnership Link to "International School" page This section of our website covers some of the activities covered during our international links with other schools in Europe. Different items have been added over the past few years and this provides a good insight into the breadth and history of our activities. Comenius Project 2006 -2009 2006-2009 brings an exciting new Comenius project based on the Arts. The second year (2007/8) has focussed on Music and in the final year we will be looking at Literature. This project has allowed us to expand our partnership from England, Holland, Germany and Hungary to six by welcoming schools from Italy and Norway. New partners near Rome and Oslo will give us insights into a Mediterranean and a Scandinavian culture to add to those we have already. See our new partner schools. Projects and Visits (click on one of items below to view its webpage)
The Arts The Arts are being studied as Painting in year One, Music and Dance in year Two and the Written Word in year Three. Painting Painting in year One (2006-7) will include several projects. Pupils are being asked to design a logo for the project, to produce information boards on their National artists and to paint in the style of these artists. In addition to this we have had a day of Comenius work on January 22nd when all schools will do project work and link by web-cam, emails, messaging and telephone. Visits There will be a planning meeting in Holland in September, a first visit to Norway to exchange work in March and a first visit to Italy in May. The large size of our team means that we will not be required to host our partners for a visit here until 2008. Information about the Comenius project
Carl Amos Comenius, after whom our projects are named, was buried in Naarden, Holland. We found this statue on a Comenius project visit.
and his bust outside the Comenius museum
Who was Comenius? In Autumn 2003 we started our new Comenius School Project including
a new partner in Holland and we held our first Project meeting at the
Dutch school in South East Holland. The meeting went really well and on
our way back to Schippol airport we stopped for a while in the charming
double-moated town of Naarden to the East of Amsterdam. The
life of Comenius Comenius is especially remembered for his idea that the proper
education of youth is of prime importance. In schools, everyone must be
taught everything. He developed a school and teaching system which was
later built on by others including Rousseau, Frobel, Pestalozzi and Montessori. He had joined the Wallonian (French-speaking) Church and his body was buried in the Wallonian church in Naarden. His grave became forgotten and neglected after the church was dissolved in 1819. Much later, the Czechoslovakian Government launched a search for his last resting place and in 1929 Czech and Dutch scholars found his grave in Naarden. The dilapidated church was restored and turned into a Comenius Mausoleum whilst a Comenius museum was set up next door. Much of the above information was obtained from the Comenius Museum www.comeniusmuseum.nl R Wells. Comenius Project Leader, Bredon Hill Middle School, Worcestershire.
"Tulips from Amsterdam" planted by pupils after returning from a visit to Vorden in Holland For several years Bredon Hill Middle School has worked with partner schools in mainland Europe on joint projects. At present we are working with five partner schools
The Comenius Project 2003-2006 The Project is fully funded by the European Union through its Socrates educational project and is administered by The British Council office in Belfast. Activities at Bredon Hill Middle School mainly involve Year 6 who match the ages of some pupils in our partner schools. Project work is carried out and is then exchanged at project meetings at each school in turn. Teachers involved in the projects travel to these meetings along with two of our pupils as ambassadors for the school. In the second year of our project we worked on the environments around our schools. We are in partnership with schools in Germany, Holland and Hungary and via our project work we try to give our pupils a better idea about Europe as a whole. This year we are concentrating on the fauna (animal life) around our schools. COMENIUS schools visit, 2nd to 6th October 2004. The year has already been busy for us as we hosted a visit by
the other partners in early October. On Sunday we visited the Black country museum Click here to see Picture of Dutch Headmaster in a "Victorian School" Comenius Arts day - Monday 4th October The pupils, staff and visitors dressed up as creatures which live around school. The day began with a storyteller telling most of a tale about Animals and Strangers (assisted by musical pupil volunteers). Then we all split to our Houses to complete the story in verse, art, dance, music, drama or animation. An interesting and fun day was had by all. For the privilege of dressing up the pupils paid a £1 levy and we are sending a cheque for £350 to our International charity, the sick children of Belarus. Click here to see Picture of animal masks Thanks to form tutors for encouraging their forms to decorate rooms and to dress up and to the Teaching Assistants who decorated the concourse. Staff and two girl pupils came from each country (Germany, Holland and Hungary). As part of our Project work we followed our usual custom of exchanging poems and songs for our partners to learn and practice. Two poems written by Amy Cook and Sarah Joscelyne of Year 7 are given below:. Night animals of the Forest. Creeping through the forest in the middle of the night, CRASH, BANG go the bins, Grazing in the fields before dawn, Swooping down from the nest to kill, THE FLOPPY BUNNY RABBIT I jump around all day, I have a little tail, I live down in a hole, I pop out of my hole, I eat the nice green grass,
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