JOINT ACTIVITY REPORT

Anglicky contract number: CA1-06-139
Project title: "INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL SHOW"
Name, address and contact of the coordinator school:
Zespół Szkół Nr 1 im. ZWIĄZKU ORŁA BIAŁEGO
Ul. Marii Konopnickiej 56
41-300 Dąbrowa- Górnicza
tel.:032 262 38 71
fax: 032 262 38 71 e-mail: sp16gim13interia.pl
Name of teacher coordinator: mgr Alicja Biegańska

1) What activities have been carried out by the partnership in the past school year?

Briefly describe the project activities which have taken place locally within the participating institutions, as well as the transnational mobility activities of staff and pupils. Explain what went well or less well than expected and why.

• Overriding activities which were realized in each partnering school in the second year of the project duration:

We continued the exercices concerning interscholar communication and we took advantage of the accessible Internet web.We used email.
We continued the exercices on searching for and collecting the ground connected with the local artistic movement (visits in theatres and art.galleries).
We visited the libraries and we gained the sources of Internet multimedia information connected with the realization of our project.
We exchanged the experience and results of our work on the project " International School Show" so far.

• We arranged a working visit in Studenka in cooperation. (December).

We organized theatrical workshops during that visit. The partnering schools performed their artistic shows.
We arranged an outing to Ostrava in order to familiarize with the local cultural offer (a theatrical event). The project group informed themselves about the artistic repertoire of Antoni Dvorak Divadlo Theatre in Ostrava.
The students from Zakladni Umelecka Skola Studenka, presented their artistic jazz programme.
We organized a conference during which the delegates worked out a coherent plan and the conception of our show – the final product of our project.
A meeting with the local cultural authorities and the mayor of Studenka was arranged.
We visited the local museum in Studenka and the House of Art and Culture (Vagonarskie Muzeum, Mestske Kulturni Stredisko Studenka). We familiarized with the history of the town.
Additional theatrical and musical workshops were arranged on the stage of the House of Art. and Culture in Studenka

• We organized a working visit in Poland, Dąbrowa Górnicza (May 2007).

A project meeting was arranged, during which we exchanged the results of work on the project in each partnering school.We made a report concerning the work on the project and we planned the further phases of the project.
The project group from Romania performed traditional folk dances on the stage of Shuma Club, in front of the local audience.
The project group from Czech, Zakladni Umelecka Skola performed a blues concert on the stage of Shuma Club, in front of the local audience.
We visited our incorporated partner’s centre MOPT. An artistic programme was organized there. Folk Dancing Group „Dąbrowa” performed traditional polish folk dances, „Suita Beskidzka”.
We participated in the opening of the fabric projects exhibition in MOPT by Kinga Bielec – a young local artist, graduate of Art. Academy in Wrocław.
We participated in the musical evening on the Będzin Castle, where a traditional music was performed by The Group of Early Music (MOPT).
We visited Art Gallery „Rondo” in Katowice, where we saw an exhibition of students’ works. The academic exhibition influence our concept of the International School Show posters.
We visited the new Industrial Centre Silesia in Katowice( as an example of modern architecture).
Integrating actvities were arranged in „Shuma Club”, Dąbrowa Górnicza.
We arranged a visit in Zespół Szkół 1, the coordinating school. The project groups from Romania and Czech performed their dance and musical shows in front of the pupils and students. The coordinating school gave an artistic performance of modern dance.
We visited the astronomic observatory in ZS1 School.

• A working visit took place in Romania ( june - july 2007)

We collected the preparatory materials to study the local cultural tradition. We familiarized with the profile of teaching the yougest classes ‘step by step’. The pupils presented their artistic programme. They performed a school show under the title "Springtime comes".
A mixed choir of youth called ‘Primavera’ gave a concert.
The pupils presented design of the Easter eggs in the wax technique.
Our partners performed romanian chorus and current compositions in English.
We visited local relics of romanian sacral architecture: Voronese, Humoruliu, Moldovica. These Painted Monasteries are part of UNESCO's World Heritage for their rarity and beauty.
We visited Centre of Culture in Campulung Moldovenesc, where we could participate in the regional dance performance (Suceava), given by children folk group. We admired the traditional costumes of the dancers.
We visited the Museum of Usable Art. We saw an exhibition of woodwork made by romanian shepherds and village people.
A further pllan of activities in the project was arranged.

2) What kind of product(s) have been produced in the course of the past school year?

Which of these are "joint" project results and which have been produced separately by the participating institutions? How have these products been disseminated and to whom, both within and outside the partnership? How were they received?

• websites concerning further work on the project (Polish, Czech and Romanian sites); the information was updated systematically.
• A brochure including documentation of our activities in the project. Articles and photos. (Romanian and Polish one).
• An audiovisual material in a form of a CD, including the recording of current artistic performances (Czech and Polish one).
• An "International School Show" Project Songbook and brochure about Painted Monasteries in Bukovina(Czech).

3) How effective was the collaboration between the participating institutions?

How was the distribution of tasks agreed and progress monitored? How was the communication organised? What communication language(s) has/have been used? Were there any major obstacles to a satisfactory cooperation? How have these obstacles been overcome, if at all? How important were the staff mobility activities? How important were the pupil mobility activities?

The tasks were distributed suitably for the profiles of the schools. Romanian partner is responsible for dance elements in the Show, Polish partner is responsible for theatrical elements and Czech partner is responsible for musical ones. The coordinating institution distributed the tasks, which were discussed and analysed during the meetings. Although we used English as our project language, French was spoken too. The communication continued through email correspondence, phone calls and skype. We didn’t have major problems with the cooperation, because we used multimedia and Internet sources as well. Only the partner from Romania hasn’t activated the website yet, but it is under construction right now .Despite the fact, Romanian partner worked out a current brochure devoted to the Project.

The staff mobility activities helped us a lot to develop our Project plans and familiarize with the cultural background, local artistic movement of our partners’ area. We could discuss and analyse our work on the project face to face, showing the collected multimedia material or just play it in front of the partners. Our pupils could perform in front of their international peers and take part in the local artistic movement. They were influenced by the foreign culture .and they could practice friendship without borders.

4) Has the partnership undertaken any joint evaluation of project activities and progress made?

If so, what are the main conclusions and consequences of this evaluation? Does the partnership wish to continue its cooperation, within a Comenius project or otherwise? Evaluation of the project will continue through:

• discussions during students’ meetings
• discussing and exchanging ideas among techers during the gatherings and meetings
• meetings of the parents engaged in a cultural life of school
• making reports and diagnosis of the meetings
• carring out the questionnings and surveys among the students community and the local environment (for example in the local government)
• presenting up-to-date achievement to the public
• exchanging experiences among our partners