Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter no. 5 - July 2015 | Page 85

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2015 Newsletter

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------everyone who took part in the project – the
international Christmas Assembly was a very
moving culmination of the Christmas Truce project;
helping all our children focus on the centenary of
the First World War.”

To prepare for the carol concert, our pupils made
videos of Silent Night in their own language. These
were shared on the TwinSpace
http://twinspace.etwinning.net/248/home so that
we could all learn the words in the other languages.
During our national ‘Ofsted’ school inspection in
November, we were learning Silent Night in
Croatian, which the inspector loved joining in with!
Inspectors’ comments included: “Pupils’ spiritual,
moral, social and cultural development is
outstanding. Pupils… have a high level of awareness
of global issues.”

At Steeton, the whole school visited the village War
Memorial and laid wreaths on 11 November to
remember those from the village who had died
during the war. We contacted the local ‘British
Legion’ and they strongly supported us in this
event.

Pupils also researched events in World War I and
this was shared on the TwinSpace (and later in the
ebook) so that they could learn from each other.

We also exchanged Christmas cards between all the
schools in the project – at Steeton we posted these
on 11 November, during our visit to the War
Memorial. The children loved receiving the
handmade cards from all around Europe. We made
a display in each classroom of the school. In
addition, our partner in Slovenia asked for some
additional cards which formed a display in their
school to raise money for the repair of the local

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