THE AIMS OF THE PROJECT
PUPILS
• to enable pupils to feel part of a wider European community
• to give a sense of value to their studies
• to enable pupils to learn about and value their own culture before sharing
it with pupils in partner schools
• to promote understanding and tolerance of other cultures
• to increase factual knowledge of other countries and cultures
• to give pupils of all academic abilities the opportunity to contribute
to a multicultural project
• to discover similarities and differences in their lives and celebrate
the diversity
• to encourage pupils to study foreign languages
• to use them and to understand how important it is to know foreign languages
• to provide pupils with the opportunity to express themselves in a foreign
language
• to understand and to be understood
• to increase pupil’s involvement in sport
TEACHERS
• to provide an opportunity for teachers to directly observe different
styles of teaching and learning
• to enable teachers to apply new ideas and initiatives to their own teaching
• to enable teachers to share their expertise
• to give a focus to their own teaching within the curriculum
• to expand personal knowledge of different cultures and communities
INSTITUTIONS
• to continue and to extend the international dimension already celebrated
in the ethos of the schools
• to integrate and embed international studies firmly into the school’s
curricula
• to give an international focus to curriculum studies
• to improve the teaching of foreign languages
LOCAL COMMUNITY
• to involve local sports groups and coaches in the project activities
• to raise awareness of collaborative international projects
WIDER EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY
• to enable the participating schools to
share their experiences of international collaboration with other local schools
• to give help and advice to local schools considering such projects
• to celebrate the school involvement within the local education authority