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Tregoze has high hopes for second Comenius Euro-project

Following the success of their last Comenius project which ended last April, and involved eight schools from across Europe exploring the
theme of heroes and champions, Tregoze Primary School is submitting an application for another pan-European project to broaden the ho-
rizons of pupils and staff alike.
The theme for the next two years Tregoze will make a dictionary of body, consisting of experts repre- “We took three children to Swe-
is movement - examining how peo- common words and idioms across senting all the national award agen- den in June 2010 and they had a
ple, ideas, and goods move about, participating languages. The Polish cies of the European Commission’s wonderful time. By the end of the
and how movement impacts on school will build a web site, and Lifelong Learning Programme. project we had taken children to
health, fitness and the environment. the French are creating a common Although the logistics of fitting in Italy and Romania and ten came to
Tregoze Comenius organiser format for presenting work from
Sue Adkin said: “We hope to raise each school
children’s awareness of how we The project application will be
are so connected with each other.” submitted by the end of February
Teachers from 9 schools came and the partners will hear by early
together in mid-January to begin July whether they have been suc-
planning the project, and each took cessful in securing funding. The
away tasks to complete. English last project received a 99 per cent
will be the common language but approval rating by the adjudicating

A small part of the planning team at Tregoze in January, from left,
Corinna Kuring, Sue Adkin, Frances Collins, bid coordinator Heidi Barucki
visits to all participating schools is the final large gathering in Germany
very challenging, especially given last June. There were no problems
all the different holidays, the project - they had a very rich experience.”
team have learned that enabling German teacher Heidi Barucki
children to travel and spend time who is coordinating the applica-
visiting their partner schools en- tion said: “It was amazing to see
riches their experience significantly. how the children mixed together.
Sue said: “It took a lot of organisa- Perhaps they couldn’t understand
tion to take children from England each other’s language but they just
to another country and there was got on and learned from each other
some uncertainty from parents. very quickly.”

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