Activities

                 WORK PROGRAMME

September 2013
Each school to set up Environmental Awareness Group with members of the local community.  Schools produce and share a presentation outlining their vision for developing environmental awareness, culture and information about our school.  Project wiki set up, CVIS to coordinate.  Presentations to be uploaded to wiki
October 2013
Begin to set up recycling areas, mini-beast houses/wildlife areas, conservation gardens to encourage wildlife.  Project message board/blog on wiki titled 'Our Europe - How We Can Improve Our Environment'.
November 2013
Each school to set up a central Comenius Display area and page on website, (where possible) to report developments.  Invite the EAG to contribute ideas.  Mobility to England.  Following mobility each school to produce a report including information on developments, photos and future actions.
December 2013
Greeting cards, (Christmas and New Year) using recycled materials to promote conservation of the environment.  Make calendars using photos/pictures or our school locality in the wintertime.  Send to partner schools
January 2014
Design and produce a project logo using simple paint programs, (and other mediums).  Continue open dialogue using wiki/email/websites
February 2014
Produce leaflets/reports/drawings/models of wildlife/conservation gardens/outside learning areas under the heading 'How We Look After Our World.  Add information to wiki/websites where possible.  Each school to share work in their local community by holding a community exhibition - (coordinated by Sweden).  Mobility to France  Following mobility each school to produce a report including information on developments, photos and future actions. 
March 2014
International Day - Learning about each others seasonal environments.  Pupils prepare greetings, (Spring and Easter) using a variety of mediums including ICT.  Invite EAG to do an assembly on the impact of the project on our schools. 
April 2014
Each partner school to produce poetic sentences about how they help the environment.  This will be collated to produce a Comenius song beginning 'We can make a difference, this is what we do.  We can make a difference, we can see it through'.  Song will celebrate the aims of the project as well as promoting sustainability.  Each school will send their words to CVIS to collate.
May 2014
Mobility to Spain  Following mobility each school to produce a report including information on developments, photos and future actions. Presentation of song.  Scores, words and backing tracks to be shared.  Each school to teach pupils song.  Record and upload to  wiki/schooltube
June 2014
Evaluation of year.
End of Year Report to National Agencies




July/August 2014
Homework project - Children to collect photos of their local areas and keep a scrap book/diary of measures to improve it this will help establish the outreach element of the project to the local community.
September 2014
Add photos and diaries to school Comenius displays.
Design posters demonstrating how the local community can look after the environment. Each school to submit a poster to competition coordinator to produce a joint poster representing aims of project titled ‘Our Europe’.
October 2014
Mobility to Sweden.
Following mobility each school to produce a report including information, photos and actions for development.
Traffic surveys to start work on exploring effects of traffic pollution and how it can be reduced. Town/parish council to meet with the EAG to produce an assembly disseminating information.  Podcast/video/skype to share with partner schools. 
November 2014
EAG to write an article for local newspaper explaining the aims and successes of the project.
December 2014
Create greetings and cards for partner schools. Each school to send rhyme/song idea which promotes environmental awareness and upload to blog/schooltube. 
January 2015
Children use cameras & videos to record wild-life in the outside learning area. Comenius display will report to governors & parents how these areas having developed.
February 2015
Start growing Logs.  What do we need to grow healthy plants. Which plants encourage wildlife?  Children plant a selection of plants/trees in outside learning areas and begin growing logs.
March 2015
Continue growing logs.  Update displays and websites/blog.  Each school to produce pages for collaborative book.  Activity coordinator to collate and disseminate.
April 2015
Saving Energy Packs - Resources/information showing how we can save energy at school and at home.
May 2015
Mobility  to UK.
Following mobility each school to produce a report including information, photos and actions for development.
Swap Saving Energy Packs and disseminate information to pupils, staff, parents and governors.
June 2015
Complete end of year reports and joint reports evaluating learning and developments.
July 2015
Submit reports to National Agencies.