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CONTENT:

THE POWER OF UNDERSTANDING............................1

OUR FIRST MOBILITY....................................................5

A DIFFERENT MOBILITY IN LITHUANIA......................8

THE POWER OF UNDERSTANDING IN SPAIN..........11

WE ARE CONTINUING WITH OUR ACTIVITIES.........13

WE RAISED THE GREEN FLAG....................................15

THE MOBILITY IN OSIJEK............................................17

MAPPING OF OSIJEK AND THE POWER OF UNDERSTANDING.......................................................19

WE WERE WONDERFUL HOSTS.................................21

A WEEK IN CYPRUS......................................................29

BEAUTIFUL SETUBAL...................................................32

PROJECT TEAM..............................................................38

OŠ "Retfala" joined the Erasmus+ KA2 project

THE POWER OF UNDERSTANDING

A very exciting news for our school - our Project team joined an Erasmus+ KA2 project called "The Power of Understanding." What is the project about?

Studying the PISA test results and analyzing the situation in their schools the teachers of 6 partner schools from Romania, Spain, Portugal, Cyprus, Croatia and Lithuania noticed that a large number of students have low learning outcomes and sometimes absenteeism and early school leaving because they don’t understand the literary and non-literary texts and they have not developed critical thinking, they have not the capacity to solve new things, they are not taught to think freely on new issues. More of them learn as simply robots.

The project “The Power of Understanding” proposes an exchange of experience through which to identify new methods of teaching and learning in a new form of extracurricular activities of pupils in clubs.

In each partner school will be 5 clubs with max.13 students on different domains like “The word’s magy” (mother language, foreign languages),“Traveling in time and space”(history/geography),“Ecology club”,“The little journalist”,”We are European citizens”(European culture and civilization). The clubs will work as extracurricular activities and their activities will be based on interactive methods such storytelling, role play, theatre, comics, etc.The club “The little journalist” will involve the mentors, they will be “the voice”of the students who work in clubs.

There will be 6 transnational learning activities where will attend students andteachers from all partner schools. Each transnational learning activity for pupils will be focused on the activities from a club. So, in Romania, the
students will participate at “The word’s magy” club where they will learn about theater art and storytelling art,in Croatia the learning activities will be
carried out within the “Ecology club” where the students will learn about
protected animals and plants in each country, in Spain they will learn about
national legends within the club “Traveling in time and space”.

In Cyprus the pupils will talk about the children rights, about similarities and differences between people about real cases of bullying in schools within the club “We are European citizens “and in Lithuania the students will take interviews, will make exercises of writing of articles for newspapers within the club “The little journalist”.

In Portugal will attend the most diligent students from the target groups in each school at activities within the club which had the best success in the school from Portugal. Also the teachers will participate at common learning activities on themes as: The role of ICT in developing of understanding the texts competences, Methods of developing of motivation of learning for pupils, Methods to teach the ecology in schools, Multicultural school and intercultural education, etc.

We expect that through activities to develop the understanding competencies of literary & non-literary texts to min. 50 students/partner school,to form the ability of understanding texts in the daily life of min 50 students/partner school,to develop to min. 50 students/partner school new reading and writing comprehension skills, in order to be able to use them in everyday life, to improve the learning outcomes of min. 50 students/ partner school, to raise awareness among at least 360 students from the six partner schools about the importance of understanding reading and developing critical thinking for lifelong learning and the last but not least, to develop for about 360 students' cooperation an collaboration skills, tolerance and initiative, increasing self-esteem and motivation for learning, as well as friendship between pupils from partner schools. From beginning we will initiate and develop the project in eTwinning space where we will ensure the visibility of our activities and results from partner school, at international level, were we will initiate international conferences aims to ensure the meetings of students and teachers from partner schools before the transnational learning activities. Through this transnational exchange of experience the schools will achieve the development of all theirs members by promoting personal, academic and professional growth.