Unity in Diversity

The project was initiated to encourage a sense of unity and to celebrate diversity among primary school students and their teachers. It aimed at developing tolerance, mutual respect and intercultu...

The project was initiated to encourage a sense of unity and to celebrate diversity among primary school students and their teachers. It aimed at developing tolerance, mutual respect and intercultural competence while strengthening their relationships with international partners. We wanted our pupils to understand that the other countries within Europe are able to work together without prejudice that Europe has a number of different countries, but common aims and values. We desired to boost their motivation in school activities, to improve their communicative skills, their competences in group work and to make a profound study of cultures, foreign languages, native languages, etc, of the partner schools. Our aim was also to involve in the project students with fewer possibilities from rural area who very often grow up in a narrow minded society closed for the rest of the world. Including them in project actions was the milestone in the process of shaping their worldview. We also wanted to affect the whole school and local communities even by not direct participation but by observation of our actions. We also aimed to boost digital competences and foreign language skills of young learners and shape multiple key competences.

Activities we have conducted, incorporated four priorities of Erasmus + Programme 2021-2027: Inclusion and Diversity, Digital Transformation, Participation in democratic life, common values and civic engagement, Environment and fight against climate change. The first group of activities we have implemented concentrated on cultural differences - finding diversity; 1. Writing the book entitled: “The Code of Tolerance” - because only knowledge of the unknown can help us fight prejudice. The process of book creation was supported with a variety of complementary activities like: videoconferences on greetings and Christmas traditions, celebration of The Day of Tolerance; the contest for the project logo design; recording a movie about partner schools; love contest for the declaration of love- exchanging the cards between the partners; presentation of traditional games; PPT presentations of partner countries. The other part of activities focused on common goals and similarities. These tasks were performed during the four mobilities. 1. October 2023: Poland- Kick off Meeting - cuisine and health; 2. March 2024: Romania- Sport Unites Nations; 3. May 2024: Turkey- Unite Against Climate Change; 4. October 2024: Greece- Art for Tolerance.

1. Material products that can be used in the process of teaching for other teachers and as a source of cultural knowledge for people of different age and cultural background: - "The Code of Tolerance" - the valuable book containing 10 chapters with four sub parts written by each partner country: List of contents:“Introductions and Farewells” , “Traditional dishes”, “Our clothes”, “Festivals and celebrations”, “My school, my rules”, “Giving a present", “Favorite sports”, “Religion” , “Geographical features”, “Cinema, theatre, music” - ebook, PDF file, printed form; - "The Little Prince" - the scenario of the performance- shared in public for the further use as a addiction preventive tool - PPT presentations about partner countries created by students. 2. Non material results reflected in the transformation of behaviour and attitude of students, teachers and parents: - students and teachers improved their language and communication skills; - local community opened their mind and became more tolerant to other cultures; - boosted motivation to involve in other European projects and to learn English; - improved European awareness and ICT skills of students and teachers, - school community gained knowledge about different countries.