Visibility of eTwinning Projects Groups July 2019 Newsletter Newsletter 9 | Page 31

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2019 Newsletter
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Undoubtedly, eTwinning was the means to open up
to a new teaching based on planning, exchange and
collaboration, in a multicultural context, and all this
has also allowed us to receive numerous awards.
Our school, in fact, obtained the status of
eTwinning School in the 2018-19 school year.
eTwinning Schools are recognised as leaders in
their areas and transmit their expertise on:
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Digital practice
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eSafety practice
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Innovative and creative approaches to
pedagogy
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Promoting continuous professional
development of staff

Promoting collaborative learning practices
with staff and students
Through these projects, which are based on
distance collaboration between schools in different
European countries, the students had the
opportunity to improve their skills, in particular by
promoting relational skills, problem solving, the use
of foreign languages in real contexts, technological
skills, creativity and ability to work in groups to
reach common goals.
In all projects, special attention is paid to safety, ie
to online safety, and in fact every year our School
participates in the Safer Internet Day involving all
students, parents and local authorities to promote
safer use and responsible for the web and new
technologies.
This year the reflection on this very important
theme has been made in several voices, in fact they
have intervened: the Mayor of Ercolano, Avv. Ciro
Buonajuto, the Councilor for Education, Avv. Lucia
Busiello, and Regional Councilor Bruna Fiola.
The students of our School contributed to the
reflection by singing the Anti-Cyberbullying Rap "I
like it", Safer Internet Song, written by the
members of the GMCBeats rap workshop and
Webwise Ireland, who kindly granted us the musical
base, while the boys of the School Agua Dance
Fitness of Bagnoli (NA), danced by the Teacher
Choreographer Ballerina Simona Paparone of the
Ducker Crew.
Still as part of the eTwinning projects, the pupils
reflected on the Rights of the Child and Adolescent,
starting their journey by meeting the Scattering
Authority of the Campania Region, Giuseppe Scialla,
at the headquarters of the Municipal Council of
Ercolano, and concluding it by meeting in Rome the
National Ombudsman for children and adolescents,
Filomena Albano.
This year our school has won:

the National Prize 2018, eTwinning Project
“Think”;
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the European Label for languages 2019,
eTwinning project “Think”;

Esafety Label 2019.
These successes belong to the whole of our school
community: pupils, teachers, ATA staff, families
and are the fruit of the collaboration and
commitment of all.
However, a special thankyou, I, Loredana Ursini, as
head teacher, owe from the bottom of my heart to
the eTwinning Ambassador Cira Serio, ICT
Coordinator of our school, for the professionalism
and passion with which she carries out her work.
She has been able to "infect" all of us, teachers,
students and families, with her enthusiasm and her
passion for eTwinning!
Loredana Ursini is the head teacher at Scuola Paritaria
Primaria "San Tarcisio" e infanzia "Bimbi lieti" in Ercolano,
Italy.
Cira Serio is the ICT Coordinator at this school and an
eTwinning Ambasador.
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