Letters to Bialystock

Fifth class pupils were busy to-day responding to letters from their ePals in Szkola Podstawowa
nr 37 Bialystock, Poland. We are collaborating with   these students as part of an eTwinning project  on Celtic Traditions in Europe. We are looking forward to " meeting " them online later in the month.




Pupils from one of our eTwinning partner school dancing a traditional Irish dance called the Walls of Limerick.

Letters to Bialystock

Today we finsihed our letters to our eTwinning pals in Bialystock in Poland. Alanna, Jemelah and Vicky scanned them in so that we could email them. We will be looking forward to reading their letters.

eTwinning Award by Sophie

eTwinning is a community for schools in Europe. It enables schools to work together on educational projects. In autumn 2013 Fifth class pupils started an eTwinning project called Thick as Thieves with pupils from Limnos Island Greece, Tanus in France and Helsinki in Finland. As part of the project we got our own personal logins.We each got an e-pal where we send e-mails to each other on the eTwinning site and were able to send messages to pupils in the other countries.We did projects together and shared them with each other through a blog. We cooked Greek,French and Spanish foods in recipe books that our pals from abroad sent us in the mail. I enjoyed making the Greek and French food most it was delicious.We also wrote things and shared them on our blog.

My e-pal was Emily from France and we are still in contact today. We are going to become pen pals and write letters to each other.

In December 2014 our class won an award for participating in E-Twinning . The award was an honour to win. I enjoyed participating in E-Twinning.It was an amazing experience. I hope to take part in it again some day.

Calling Tarn, France

Calling Tarn

On Thursday we got the opportunity to make a Skype call to one of our eTwinning partners in Tarn in the southwest of France . it was great meeting and speaking to the students that we had worked with during the year.We thanked them for the beautiful lapbook featuring puzzles and information on the five countries participating in the eTwinning project that they had sent us. At the end of the session they sang La Marseillaise the French National Anthem. We ended the session by singing the song about Molly Malone.

European Lap Book

Last month our class received an amazing surprise from our eTwinning partners in the Tarn region of France. It was a European lap book. It had two fun games in it. The first one was a game of Dominoes. You had a card with a flag of a European country on one side and the name of a European Union country on the other side.

 At first we found it a bit difficult as the names of the countries were in French but we finsished the game. We used Google translate to find the English names of some of the countries.

The other game involved sorting images and names. They gave us images of monuments, famous authors, buildings and artists from the five eTwinning countries. We had to sort the various items and then match the words with the pictures. 
We also had how to say hello, how are you and thank you in French on the side. The lap book also the information on the population ,language, national anthem and the area of the participating countries. 

They also had some information about the European Union.  We also got a few lovely photographs from their skiing trip to the Pyreneese. finally there were tiny little cookery books featuring recipes from all five participating countries. If you would like to test your knowledge of the Flags of Europe Click here

Posted by Sophie

Thick as Thieves

by Killian
 Thick as Thieves is the name of our eTwinning project in which we collaborate online with students from four other countries in the EU.Greece, France, Spain and Finland. We posted a class photo on the site and sent then descriptions about ourselves. They had to match our pictures to the information. It was difficult for them as we are the only school wearing a uniform. This short movie has images of the day we Skyped one of the participant classes in Limnos Island, Greece.



This is a Scratch quiz that we made for our eTwinning partners. Can you complete the quiz in less than sixty seconds? It is important to spell the capitals correctly although you will not be penalised if you forget to start you answers without a capital letter. If you get the quiz finished in less than one minute why not send us a comment on how long it took you to finish.

eTwinning

In our class we are doing an eTwinning project. eTwinning is when other schools in the EU communicate with you using Twin Space on a special website for projects. First we agreed to participate in a project called Thick as Thieves. The title means that we are very,very friendly with each other. There are five school participating in our project. They are from the following places Bilbao Spain, Tanus France, Limnos Greece and a school in Helsinki Finland.

It's great fun to be able to communicate with other people in a different country. For the project our class is divided into four groups and each group is working with a different country, but we can still get to communicate with other people in the other schools. Sometimes we go to the computer room to reply to our friends in a different country. I'm working with the school in France Tanus. I've got messages from Emily, Rania and Demmie. We are even able to log in to it at home. It's really good I'm looking forward to talking to them after Christmas.

We made Christmas card to send to our eTwinning friends. The collage will give you an idea of some of the cards that we sent.

posted by Joyce

eTwinning Movie

Have a look at this wonderful movie produced by a primary school from the Greek island of Naxos. It was voted the most liked video in a recent eTwinning movie competition run by the eTwinning community