We will explore commonalities in school life across Europe, with a focus on traditional playground games. We will tackle stereotypes and language barriers.

• To enhance the European dimension by promoting co-operative activities between the partners

• To establish and develop links between partners

• To compare and contrast similarities and differences in traditions

• To increase awareness of the importance of playing games, through contact and interaction with the other schools

• To broaden children’s knowledge of their own and other nations’ traditional playground games

• To enhance pupils’ ICT skills

• To facilitate communication between various members of the partnership

• To circulate the project to the wider community through newsletters, local papers, blogs/websites

• To involve the wider community, and add an inter-generational element to the project

• To enhance professional development of staff

• To enrich a sense of teamwork, socio-cultural relations,

• To increase multi-lingual capacity and to motivate language learning initiatives amongst staff, pupils and the wider school community

• To tackle stereotypes and language barriers

• To produce resources that can be used by schools

Subjects to address

SPHE- Focus on the importance of physical activity and play

Music – Explore rhythm in chants and rhymes of playground games

Physical Education – Playing our own playground games and those provided by partner schools

ICT – Regular communication via email, twinspace, webcam, skype, website and use of camera, video recorders, photostory

History – The development of each partner country’s traditional playground games

Visual Arts – discussion of Bruegel’s painting ‘Childrens Games’, logo, calendar, painting ‘My country’.

Cultural Awareness – based on traditional playground games

Languages – we will use every opportunity to share our languages

Mathematics – Analyzing the results of questionnaires

Approaches to be taken to realise objectives

• Communication, communication,  comunicación, Kommunikáció, ep........a (epikoinonia), agus cumarsáid!

• Partnership meetings set up to plan and develop the programme of work

• Visits to Partner schools to develop links

• Keeping the wider community informed – newsletters, texts, newspapers, blogs and websites

• Schools respond and give feedback to each other at all stages

• Links with our European partner schools using snailmail, email, skype, web conferencing, twinspace

• Professional help with ICT