Comenius Project

At Heaton St.Barnabas we are currently involved with ‘The Comenius Project’. This current project is titled ‘All about me!’ and aims to help us to build strong relationships with different children from all around the world. The project has already seen us host our Austrian and Swedish friends in 2013, with days out in York and Haworth, inviting them to share in some of our local traditions. Then in March this year, we were lucky enough to spend a week in Sweden, thoroughly enjoying the sights and culture. Within school we create different products that we share with our project partners, such as greetings cards, art work, phrase books, calendars, recipes and a magazine. We are looking forward to our next visit in January 2015 when we will be visiting Austria with 8 of our year 6 children. I am sure that on our return the children will share all their photos and experiences, as you can see from the return after Sweden.

Comenius Project Magazine

Heaton Gala

Sports Day 2015

Austria

Take a look at the different sports facilities we have available in Bradford, Austria and Sweden, click here

Try some of these delicious recipes from our friends in Sweden and Austria, click here to view them

You can read the phrase book here

Click here to view the Austria Presentation for Assembly

Our trip to Austria 2015 – video

Heaton St Barnabas UK

What Is Comenius?

Improving Inter-European Understanding

Heaton St. Barnabas has been working with other schools in Europe to improve understanding and communication. Some of our pupils will be visiting other schools in other countries over the next few years – perhaps you will be one of them!

The third visit took place in September!

Four Year 6 pupils travelled to Poland to meet pupils from 6 different countries.

Their Report will be in the Poland section.

1. The Aims of the Project are:

For 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 music and collaboration in games

For TEACHERS:

to enable teachers to apply new ideas and initiatives to their own teaching
to provide an opportunity for teachers to directly observe different styles of teaching and learning
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

For LOCAL COMMUNITIES:

to involve local groups in the project activities eg. Libraries, music services, sports organisations, community groups, etc
to raise awareness of collaborative international project

This year we are partnered with Austria + Swden. In March 2014 year 6 went to Sweden, this is what they got up to. . . page 1 page 2 page 3

As part of our project year 4 came up with a display to show where in the world some of our teachers are from