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Project idea and specific focus:
Our project idea is to create a school parliament. Students will express their perception of the environment and take responsibility for possible changes. 3 ministries will be formed (Ministry of Education, Ministry of Leisure and Recreation Activities and Ministry of Healthy Environment).
Each ministry will be dealing with specific school and community issues. Each month students will raise up a problem and the ministry responsible for the problem will try to find an appropriate resolution. The school parliament will be built up by pupils/students from 12-15 Students will be involved in different activities (election, voting, collecting signatures, working on programs, searching for the destructing elements, working in collaboration with parents.) The members of each ministry will assemble four times a month. At the end of each month they will report about the exposed problems, resolutions, eventual changes and they will exchange their experience with their foreign partners (schoolmates). Students forming the school parliament decide to accept or reject the ideas of the program prepared by each ministry. At the end of the project pupils involved in the project will represent their adopted decisions and achieved changes on a joint assembly in front of the whole school. Together with the partner schools they will evaluate the whole process in which kids have got the power to set changes.
Project aims:
o to facilitate the development of innovative practices in education and training at
o tertiary level, and their transfer, including from one participating country to others
o to reinforce the contribution of lifelong learning to social cohesion, active citizenship,
o intercultural dialogue, and personal fulfillment;
o to help promote creativity, employability and the growth of an
o entrepreneurial spirit;
o to reinforce the role of lifelong learning in creating a sense of European citizenship based
o on understanding and respect for human rights and democracy, and encouraging tolerance and
o respect for other peoples and cultures
o to help young people acquire the basic life-skills and competences necessary for their
o personal development, for future employment and for active European citizenship.
o to encourage pupils to political challenges (dealing with school, community and cross-border issues)
o to support the improvements in school management
o to extend participation in educational opportunities through sports activity
o to help pupils to get an insight into the structure of the parliament and government (pupils have got their own election, they vote for their representatives -president, ministry.)
o to increase the sense of pupils’ belonging to the school and its environment; to develop citizenship
o to indicate, how important the knowledge of at least two foreign languages is /to promote language learning and linguistic diversity
o to help pupils to choose an appropriate profession or occupation (to prevent dissatisfaction and unemployment)
o to involve additional groups (parents, social workers, health centre)
o to inform pupils about a healthy way of living, to increase their awareness of different diseases,
o to encourage pupils to read books or other sources an to get into contact with other organizations/media (to represent their thoughts, expectations, solutions in public media-radio)
o to raise knowledge, awareness and understanding of the environment in young people; to promote the protection and conversation of the environment;
o to encourage them to participate in humanitarian acts (collecting clothes, food, school objects, private and public sponsoring)
o to influence their perception of social problems (dealing with family problems they share)
o to increase the interest for intercultural exchange
o to help pupils express their wishes, expectations and concerns about the future (what should be changed or improved in the world you live in, why and how)
o to expand their creativity (e.g. pupils will create a joint web-page and communicate with the foreign pupils)
o to inform pupils about their rights, responsibilities and duties
o to help them to realize that they can have influence and make a difference
o to show them, how to lead a discussion and adopt a deduction
o to awake their awareness for school or playground initiatives (pupils determine the time for recreation activities)
o to involve pupils into additional institution (visiting another primary school, the local community, local media)
o to increase pupils` self-confidence in expressing opinions
o to avoid or reduce illiteracy
Expected project outcomes/products:
o pupils create their own program for the electoral campaign (a stall with posters,
o advertising papers, logos, badges, paper flags)
o a school newspaper with the photo of the president and ministers
o a questionnaire (survey about professions)
o a joint web-page (pupils create a web-page, where they can exchange experience and communicate- e. g. Face book)
o the organization of breaks into the timetable in the form of recreation activities
o a healthy menu bag
o finding a foreign schoolmate (the improvement of the foreign language, experience exchanging)
o creating a school symbol, details for a school uniform
o a joint CD /video and a booklet
o a reading bag
o a dance video
o recipes
o a radio report