Project: "Education of children on resuscitation in elementary schools"
This school year, our school has been involved in the
“Education of children on resuscitation in elementary school” project
and in June education for eighth grade students was conducted.
The project is implemented in four counties: Split-Dalmatia County, Šibenik- Knin County, Primorje- Gorski Kotar County and Istria County.
The programme of educating children on revival in elementary schools is guided and coordinated by prof. dr. sc. Julije Meštrović, in cooperation with Dr. Jasna Petrić and associates.
The programme is a supplement to the curriculum of health education in schools in the Living Healthy module, and includes theoretical knowledge and exercises on dolls.
Programme leaders at our school are teachers Nina Stričević and Jasenka Bracanović – Grizelj.
Local Value is European Heritage
Countries participants:
Croatia
Lithuania
Spain
Description of the project
The key point of understanding the importance of European projects, by which the awareness of the European cultural heritage is promoted, is local heritage.
Localities, especially the ones on the UNESCO list, have enormous importance for European society and civilization as well as understanding of European citizen dimension.
The development of the important site through various historical phases includes also knowing the language and customs of the people and it is the part of the European Union.
By this project, a bigger knowledge of cultural, social, historical and language diversity will be gained as well as the same thing that connects us – development of students' entrepreneurship skills in promoting European cultural heritage.
Goals
In this project it is planned to achieve several goals: developing of students' team work skills, in other words, teach them to take responsibility for their role in the team and to work by the team work rules.
Their entrepreneurship skills in promoting cultural heritage of their and partner's locality, presentation skills and retelling the stories will develop through this project.
Use of English as a working language and the mutual communication language make their language competence far much better.
Successful use of digital tools is necessary to present their work and this way their creativity and digital literacy will improve.
Searching for the information about a certain topic, and it is about a certain site in partner's country, and presenting that site more precisely they can, develops students' curiosity and interest for getting more knowledge about different culture and people.
Evolving of awareness about the importance of belonging to their own and at the same time European society is ultimate goal.
Working procedure
Project will last for one year.
It starts on 01/03/2019 and finishes on 01/03/2020.
Seven activities are planned to be finished including two additional ones Europe Day and European Day of Languages.
Deadline for each of seven activities is one month.
Croatian project team
Ivana Bokavšek, English teacher, the project coordinator
Antonia Drlje, English teacher
Zoran Ljubić, Geography teacher
Jelena Šoljak, History teacher
Anica Bašić, Art teacher
Ita Banov, Music teacher
Ružica Maleš, Religious Education teacher
Fadila Zoranić, school pedagogue
Expected results
The results of each activity will be presented on the project Twinspace.
The results are: various digital work (posters, brochures, digital stories, videos, QR codes, digital time-lines, digital maps, web page and evaluation forms) and project corners in partners’ schools where students’ work will be exhibited along with the description of the project.
In elementary school Spinut the project Twinspace will be presented at the Teachers’ Council and Parents’ Council.
As it is planned in the school curriculum to reinforce extracurricular activities, existing extracurricular activities, as English Club and Spinut Online, will become richer in their content and attractive to students by developing students’ digital and language competencies gained in the eTwinning project.
It will be suggested to continue this successful cooperation by establishing a new eTwinning project or Erasmus+ project.
The third jobshadowing in our school!
English teachers from Zafra, Spain Angela Blanco Caraballo and María Asunción Lopez-Carrasco observed English language classes held by teachers Ivana Bokavšek, Antonia Drlje, and Milena Kačunić; and Katarina Sablić, mathematics teacher, showed what it looks like when maths / computer science is joined with English language in an extracurricular activity.
Colleagues Bokavšek, Drlje, Kačunić and Sablić showed to their colleagues from Spain the necessary pedagogical documentation that teachers should complete regularly and explained their work responsibilities.
Colleagues Angela and Maria were present at the first video conference of the eTwinning project
"Local Value is European Heritage" in which teachers from our school and partner school from Kaunas, Lithuania participated.
Also, future co-operation on the eTwinning project led by colleagues Bokavšek and Drlje was established with the colleagues from Spain.
On a meeting with the principal Sanja Čagalj and pedagogue Fadila Zoranić colleagues found out more about school management and projects being conducted in our school.
Elementary school Spinut hosts another jobshadowing visit
A colleague from Slovakia Izabela Branická observed English language classes from 5th-8th grade from 04.02.2019. - 08.02.2019.
The teachers who conducted the sample classes were:
Ivana Bokavšek, Antonia Drlje and Milena Kačunić.
Teacher Nina Stričević, 6.a class’ form teacher participated in the field class.
Teacher Katarina Sablić participated in the sample classes for cross subject co-operation (English Language and Mathematics).
In the performance of sample classes the emphasis is on the innovation in teaching as well as the use of digital technology in English language learning.
Principal Sanja Čagalj presented organization of our school’s work; pedagogue Fadila Zoranić presented the school system through pedagogical documentation and together with jobshadowing coordinator Ivana Bokavšek presented the school through Erasmus + and eTwinning projects.
Future co-operation in Erasmus + and eTwinning projects was proposed.
We wish our colleague Izabela a pleasant stay in our town and a nice working experience in our school.
Maths evening - two elementary schools working together!
Elementary schools Meje and Spinut organized Maths evening on 11/12/2018.
The event was at the elementary school Meje. Maths teacher Katarina Sablić and English teacher Ivana Bokavšek prepared interesting tasks and games for children and parents to play together and solve mathematical problems. Tasks were in Croatian and English.
Maths teacher Ana Ostojić (elementary school Meje) organized event at the elementary school Meje.
We are very glad that Ms Antonela Czwyk Marić, senior advisor for mathematics, spent some time with us.
The atmosphere was really exciting and we hope these slides show that.
Jobshadowing activity in our school
Our school has been a hosting school for two years in jobshadowing activity for European countries teachers who observe regular classes, extracurricular activities, field classes and learn about Croatian school system, the organization of our school, classes and school, Erasmus+, eTwinning projects.
Our Spanish colleague Marta Lora Cortes visited our school from 12/11-16/11/2018.
The school team participated in this activity is:
Sanja Čagalj, headmistress
School coordinator Ivana Bokavšek, English teacher
Vini Ballarin, class teacher
Anica Bašić, Art teacher
Antonia Drlje, English teacher
Tina Jukić, pedagogue apprentice
Milena Kačunić, English teacher
Jelena Kukoč, English teacher
Nataša Lovrić, class teacher
Iris Olujić Ljubica, English teacher
Zoran Ljubić, History & Geography teacher
Jelena Madunić, school librarian
Katarina Sablić, Maths teacher
Željka Sokol, Biology teacher
Nina Stričević, Chemistry & Biology teacher
Jelena Šoljak, History teacher
Fadila Zoranić, school pedagogue