PUPPET ON THE STAGE

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Sillaotsa school is situated 12 kms from Tartu, the second city of the country, in the south. It’s a small school divided into two separate buildings: in one of them, there are kindergarten children aged up to six; in the second one, students from 7 to 16. The total number of pupils is 300; the low number of students per class allows teacher to have a personal approach. The school offers their students the opportunity to practise sports in a modern gym and an outdoor stadium; furthermore they can also go to a famous nearby place where people go riding bikes, running and skiing. Pupils can join the school choir, do robotics, play musical instruments.

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Project Description: The Goals

The project has its aims in: The development of the childhood educational skills and care system The promotion and the empowerment of the relations between young people The reinforcement of the profiles of the teaching professions The combating of failure in education and the school drop The expression of emotions and feelings by representing dramas The teaching and learning of foreign languages In order to meet these goals, the choice to use puppets is based on studies that demonstrate they are not just an amusement instrument, but a medium to express emotions and imagination while entertaining. Puppets characters from all Europe help children to improve the awareness of the cultural heritage and traditions. Puppets are made with recycled materials, so children can learn the importance of the so-called three «R»: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

•PARTNER: Italy IC Casoria 3 Carducci-King •Headmaster: Giovanni Buonocore •Contact Person: Adriana Aprea

•Coordinator: Spain •Nuestra Señora de las Victorias de Madrid •Headmistress: Monica Perales Cabrera •Contact Person: Elena Salvador Alcaide

Project Description: The Results

The Introduction of puppetry as a cultural testimony to all stakeholders The reconstruction of puppet characters with school workshops The making of puppets with eco-sustainable and recycled materials The development of teachers professional skills as it concerns the puppetry and the knowledge of English language The presentation of traditional and new stories acted by using puppets The publication of books regarding the puppetry

The results will be visible on the project website on a daily basis to promote the project partner schools internationally as well as introduce the project and keep it sustainable. The website, such as brochures and posters, will deliver the project to whom it concerns and allow its long term usage. For the benefit of international stakeholders, it will be also shared in English with the collaborative on line E-Twinning platform and social networks. The partner country teachers will generate two puppet stories to be written by taking advantage of puppet characters from all over the world with group work. These stories will be integrated into the regular educational activities and curricula.

•Partner: Greece Diadrastiko Europaiko Skoleio • Headmistress: Billie Konstantara •Contact Person : Billie Konstantara

The college Nuestra Señora de las Victorias is located in the eastern part of the capital city of the country, Madrid. It has been open for 47 years, so it is a very important institution in the area. Students are aged from 3 to 18 years; so all degrees of the national educational system are included. The school has many facilities, such as an underground indoor gym, a newly built theatre equipped with an advanced sound system and a large class-room provided with all kinds of instruments.

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Selçuklu kindergaten started its activity in 2009; it is affiliated to the Ministry of National Education. The area in which is located is Selçuklu, a modern district of Konya. Numbers of the school are small: a bit more than 200 pupils and 21 teachers and support personnel; there are just four class-rooms. There are children clubs all day long, with classes in drama, chess, fine arts, traditional games and outdoor activities for Science lessons. Every class has a special education student.

•Partner: Estonia Sillaotsa School •Headmistress: Karin Kütt •Contact person: Karin Kütt

IC Carducci-King includes schools of all orders of compulsory italian educational system; i.e. from kindergarten to middle school, passing through primary school, plus a nursery school. Total number of students attending the institute is almost 1500. The schools buildings are located in Casoria, a big town north of Naples, an area which has seen important socio-economic changes due to the passing from being a relevant industrial and manufacturing zone to a degraded and abandoned area with a high risk of crime and school drop. Therefore, in order to face this situation and to meet the needs of a multi-ethnic audience, the institute has identifided its priorities: - the improvement of foreign languages proficiency; - the teaching of the school curriculum subjects through the foreign languages; - the promotion of the European dimension by joining the Erasmus + projects. The institute offers its students the opportunity to learn an instrument suc as : piano, violin, drums, guitar, clarinet and join a volley-ball team that trains in its gym if they’d like to practice that sport.

•Partner: Turkey Selçuklu Keskesler Anaokulu kindergarten •Headmistress: Şükran Kandir •Contact Person: Şükran Kandir

This institute (shortly named DES) is a private bilingual kindrgarten and primary school: the first one is located in the centre of the area of Varkiza; the second one on the top of a hill in the same area, 20 km away from the centre of Athens. Both schools host 300 pupils and 55 teachers. The DES educational approach is based on teaching in Greek and either English or German. The surrounding natural landscape allow teachers to use methods such as pet therapy with the animals of the farm, planting tree and vegetables in the green house, holding art lessons outdoor.

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