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PRIMARY GOES EUROPE 4

PORINGLAND

Poringland Members of the working group: Finland: Oihonna Vilhu Germany: Elke Kipp Germany: Gabriele Satzinger Italy: Maria Teresa De Carlo UK: Judy Booker

School: Poringland Primary School The Footpath Poringland Norwich NR14 7RF Head Teacher: Mr. Roger Everett Pupils: 8 classes, each approx. 30 children

Class Teachers: Y1 Kim Hickman Y2 Cara Appleton Y3 Andy Mc Cornell Y3/4 Tina Woollsey Y4 Barbara Elliot Y5 Judy Booker-Cathy Kelleher Y5 Kath Frederick Y6 Sheenagh Scott � Williams

Class Set - Up Eight classes from year 1 to year 6 working either in classes or groups. All the children have English as their mother tongue. A few children in each class have language difficulties.

Time Spent: Monday and Tuesday: preparatory workWednesday to Friday: work at school

Subjects Covered: English, History, Geography, Literature, Foreign Languages, Music, Dance and Drama, Art

Description of School

Poringland Primary School has about 350 pupils, 50 being in the nursery. The children come to school at 3 years of age and leave when they are eleven. There are twelve classes at the moment. The main part of the building is just over thirty years old with the Nursery having been built more recently, about twenty years ago. There are also three mobile classrooms next to the school buildings on the school field. Meals

for the children who stay to lunch are cooked in the school�s kitchen. 12 teachers teach full - time and another 4 teach part - time. In addition there are 4 classroom assistants. To help the teachers there are people who cook the school dinners, clean, look after the office, take care of the children during the lunch hour, and there is a caretaker who lives next door to the school.

Wednesday

The group had to choose activities to link with the timing of the visit by the school�s photographer. He was around taking individual pictures and family photos. So, after introducing themselves, the children had to guess the identity of the participants� countries from a few clues given. The teachers worked with small groups of children - mainly answering specific questions about their countries. The children were also taught the German song: �Wir reisen durch

Europa� to remember the names of the countries and their capitals. The afternoon was spent producing posters showing the outlines of Germany, Italy, Finland, and Austria. Each country�s name, its flag, a number plate, a coin, a typical dish, various sights and other specialities were drawn, cut out and glued into the shapes of the different countries. These were then displayed in the school hall to give other pupils the opportunity to obtain information on the countries covered.

Project Plan 1

Project Theme Who am I?

Target group two classes of children (age 9-10) working together in one area Subject areas / fields of learning English spoken and written, Geography Looking at the world around us

Time allocated 60 minutes

Objectives To introduce the members of the group and the different countries

Resources maps flags

In the UK classroom

• The members of the group introduce themselves by giving clues about their countries without mentioning the names.

• Guessing game • The letters of the capital cities have to be

arranged in the right order • The names of the countries are written in

English and the original language

Suggestions for follow up in participants� home classroom

• All the activities can easily be done in theparticipants� home classrooms as well.

Project Plan 2

Project Theme Wir reisen durch Europa

Target group two classes of children (age 9-10) working together in one area Subject areas / fields of learning Music Looking at the world around us


Objectives To sing the German song: � Wir reisen durch Europa� To learn the names of countries and their capitals

Resources cassette, text and music of the song, work - sheet

In the UK classroom

• The names of the capitals of the participants� countries are repeated

• Put in syllables - on the black-board and accompanied by clapping and/or stamping of feet: Ber-lin, Hel-sin-ki, Lon-don, Rome

• The same is done with the names of the countries: Ger-ma-ny, Fin-land, Eng-land, I-ta-ly

• The German text is translated into English • The song is sung several times


• Singing the song together with other groups ( in the English school)

• Singing the song with children in the participants� schools

Project Plan 3

Project Theme European Neighbours

Target group two classes of children (age 9-10) working in groups Subject areas / fields of learning English spoken, Geography, Art Looking at the world around us

Time allocated 2 hours 20 minutes

Objectives For the children to get more information about other countries To produce posters in the shapes of the different countries

Resources maps coins pictures flags

In the UK classroom

• The classes divide into four groups, each of them being responsible for one of the participants� countries.

• The children cut out the countries from an enlarged map.

• They draw flags, coins, car number plates, different specialities like typical food, important industries, agricultural products.

• The names of the countries are written in ornamental letters, cut out and arranged with the drawings on the posters.

• The groups meet in the hall to discuss their work.


• Presentation in the hall to tell other pupils about the visitors and their countries

• Finding specialities of other countries • Cooking dishes of visitors� countries

Thursday

Though there are differences between European nations, people in Europe have many things in common. Children like to dance, to act, to disguise themselves. So the group decided to work on the story �Pinocchio� as an example for many other fairy tales. Gabi (Germany) started by introducing the story and its author. Maria Teresa (Italy) read the story to the children. This was followed by a discussion about the main characters with Oihonna (Finland) miming at the same time. The story was read again with the children miming and doing little movements. Then the class split into groups: one of them working on two dances to be part of a performance of the story, while another group read the script, written by Judy (England) .

One third of the class tried to act as a group performing as a whale and others suggested stage - directions. Children were chosen to be the characters, and the play was read again. Afterwards the groups met to see how their activities would fit together for the performance. In a busy afternoon the actors got their precise directions and costumes. The dancers performed with increasing confidence. Christine (Austria) taught a Y6 -class to accompany (on percussion instruments) the �Tritsch Tratsch - Polka� by Johann Strauß, which had been chosen for one of the dances. Elke (Germany) and Gabi worked with some children on the props, such as the fairy�s wand, Pinocchio�s nose, the whale and its tail etc. Two boys sat at the computer and wrote invitations to other classes.

Project Plan 4

Project Theme Pinocchio

Target group one class of pupils age 9-10 years and one class of pupils age 10-11 years, working in groups

Subject areas / fields of learning English spoken and written, Dance, Drama, Music Living in a world of thoughts, feelings, ideas and dreams

Time allocated 4 hours and 40 minutes

Objectives • To introduce the most popular Italian fairy tale • To create a play based on the story of �Pinocchio� • To read and recite dialogues, find expressions, movements • To produce props • To learn how to dance the �Puppet-dance� (Eine kleine Nachtmusik /

Mozart) and the �Fair -dance� (Tritsch Tratsch � Polka / Strauss) • To learn how to accompany the Tritsch Tratsch Polka on percussion

instruments • To be able to play a board-game correctly • To use a code • To write invitations on the computer

Resources book �Pinocchio� CD with music by Mozart & Strauss percussion instruments

In the UK classroom

The story is read to the children. The main characters are identified and special movements are assigned each to them The children are divided into several groups: group 1: dances, group 2: actors, group 3: props, group 4: instruments, group 5: computer Main rehearsal for all groups together Each pupil plays the board game (invented by Maria Teresa De Carlo) and to decipher a numeric code to read a hidden sentence.


Listening to tales and stories from other countries to increase the knowledge about their culture. The play can be performed for other classes The play can be performed in the participants� home classrooms. The board game can be used in other classes, and in other countries as well.

PINOCCHIO

Narrator: Gepetto is an old carpenter. He makes puppets in his home town in Italy. He is poor, but has one much loved wooden puppet called Pinocchio. (Gepetto works at his desk. Pinocchio opens one eye and comes to life. Gepetto is surprised.) Puppet dance - Eine kleine Nachtmusik

Gepetto: I am going to call you Pinocchio. You will be my son. You need a hat. (puts a hat on his head) You need to go to school.

Pinocchio: I will be pleased to be your son. Thank you - father. Let�s celebrate. (All the puppets shout hurray and go floppy again.)

Gepetto: Today is your first day at school. Bye, Bye. Be good and off you go.

Narrator: Pinocchio sets off but never arrives. He sees the other children, but does not enter school. Instead he wanders around town and eventually meets Stromboli, a puppet master.

Stromboli: Come with me and work in my theatre with the other puppets.

Pinocchio: What a good idea! That�s much better than going to school. I hate books. (They go off together.)

Narrator: After Pinocchio has been working for Stromboli, the time comes for him to be paid.

Stromboli: Go home, now. Take this money to your father. (Fairy appears in the background.)

Pinocchio: I will go home. I promise to give the money to my father.

Fairy: Beware, don�t break your promise. Don�t lie. Your nose will grow every time you tell a lie. (Nose grows. Stromboli hands over the coins to Pinocchio.)

Narrator: But on the way he meets Mr. Fox and Mr. Cat. They always go around together, arm in arm. Mr. Fox has a bad leg and always limps, which makes walking difficult. Mr. Cat can walk all right but is almost blind.

Mr. Fox and Mr.

Cat:

Hello, Pinocchio. Give us your gold coins and we shall take you to a wonderful country.

Pinocchio: What a good idea! I �ve always wanted to travel and it�s much better

than going to school.

Mr. Cat: Put your money on the ground and leave it for us.

Mr. Fox: We�ll bury it for you, and a tree will grow and coins will flower on the branches.

Pinocchio: I want to go and see the fairground. I�ll leave you my money and see you later.

Narrator: Pinocchio leaves for the fair while Mr. Fox bends down and picks up the coins. He shares them out with Mr. Cat.

Lucignolo: Hello, there, Pinocchio. I�m happy to see you.

Pinocchio: Hi! It�s good to see you, too.

Lucignolo: Should you not be at school?

Pinocchio: It doesn�t matter. I�d rather be here.

Lucignolo: OK. Stay with me and we�ll look round the fair. (Fair dance - Tritsch Tratsch- Polka)

Narrator: The two boys wander round the fair until late. The fairy appears.

Fairy: Are you going home soon, Pinocchio?

Pinocchio: Yes, very soon, now.

Fairy: I shall be watching you. Your father is worried.

Pinocchio: Tomorrow, yes, tomorrow, I�ll go. (Nose grows.)

Narrator: The next day he wakes up and decides to leave the fair and go to the sea for a swim. But there is something else swimming in the sea. (Waves appear and Pinocchio swims up and down. Behind him a whale appears.) Suddenly the whale swallows up Pinocchio. Inside the whale�s mouth Pinocchio meets his father.

Pinocchio: Daddy!

Gepetto: Pinocchio!

(They cling together and look afraid. The waves keep moving.)

Narrator: Luckily the whale has had a cold for several days. He sneezes and Gepetto and Pinocchio fall out into the water. (Cymbals clash and whale sneezes. Gepetto and Pinocchio run home. They run round the hall while the sea and whale disappear. Their friends shout and wave, as they pass. They unlock their door and go inside.)

Gepetto: You must go straight to bed before you catch a chill.

Narrator: Pinocchio settles down to sleep but he soon has a visitor. Before the visitor arrives he dreams how he will be a good boy in the future.

Fairy: You have changed, Pinocchio. I have a present for you. (In the morning Pinocchio wakes up and yawns. He feels different and then realises what has happened. His long nose has gone and he is a boy.)

Pinocchio: Look, daddy! I�m not a puppet any more. I�m a real boy! I shall be good from now on, I promise. (He hugs his father.)

Fairy: (from the back of the stage) No more lies - remember!

Pinocchio: (whispering back to her) I promise.

Narrator: And so Pinocchio and his father live happily together. Gepetto continues to work hard in his shop as a carpenter and Pinocchio goes to school.

Friday:

As some of the infant classes were doing a harvest project, the group thought it best to have some corresponding activities. Elke worked with a class year 3/4 introducing the German words for different fruits. Pupils played several games to learn the names. Finally they filled in a work � sheet and matched the pictures to the German words. In the meantime similar activities took place in a class year 4, where Gabi taught the German words for vegetables. At the same time Maria Teresa and a class year 3 worked on Italian words for fruits. Oihonna�s �fruit-dance� with two classes (year 1/2) was a great success. Later in the morning the children made little fruits out of play-dough and made them up into a harvest basket.

Classes year 3/4 made pictures of faces out of fruits and vegetables. The actors, dancers and musicians had their final rehearsal together. After a hectic lunchtime the children got ready to show all their hard work to the rest of the school. The performance of �Pinocchio� turned out to be a real �European production�. Story: Italy; dialogue, directions and actors: England; props: Germany; choreography: Finland; music and ideas for the �orchestra�: Austria. Just before the day finished, the children planted daffodils in the school grounds for the millennium with the visitors. This will give the school garden of Poringland Primary School a European dimension.

Project Plan 5

Project Theme Fruit

Target group one class y3 (age 7-8 years) Subject areas / fields of learning English spoken, Italian spoken


Objectives To present the names of different fruits in Italian

Resources flash cards memory game

In the UK classroom

• The Italian teacher shows the pictures of all the fruit. The children say the names for them in English, the teacher in Italian. Children repeat them.

• Children, in groups of 5 or 6 play a memory game with pictures of fruit.


• Playing the memory game to repeat the Italian words. The number of fruit can be increased after a while.

Project Plan 6

Project Theme Play Dough Fruits

Target group class y3 (age 7-8 years) Subject areas / fields of learning Art, general knowledge, Italian

Time allocated 1 hour and 30 minutes

Objectives To make fruits of play dough To repeat the Italian names for different kind of fruit

Resources flour, salt, water, poster paint

In the UK classroom

• The children repeat the Italian words for the different fruit

• They talk about the shapes and colours of fruit

• The children work in groups mixing flour, salt, water and poster paint in bowls


• The fruits can be used for guessing games and other games

• Play dough can also be used to make vegetables etc.

Project Plan 7

Project Theme Fruit in German

Target group Class of children y3/4 (7 -9 years) Subject areas / fields of learning English, German spoken Looking at the world around us


Objectives Fruits of the season - harvest festival To find and practise the German words for fruits

Resources picture cards word cards work sheets

In the UK classroom

• Gathering the fruits pupils know - riddle • Putting up pictures of fruit at the blackboard• Giving the German words • Practising the words • Playing the game, fruit basket • Doing the work sheet (matching the

German words to the pictures)


• Repeat the game with other pupils • Learning more German words

Project Plan 8

Project Theme Fruit Faces

Target group class of children y3/4 (7 - 9 years) Subject areas / fields of learning English and German spoken, Art, general knowledge Living in a world of thoughts, feelings, ideas and dreams

Time allocated 1 hour 30 minutes

Objectives • To repeat the German names for types of fruit • To colour the fruit • To cut out the fruit • To arrange and glue fruit to a fruit - face

Resources pictures of fruit

In the UK classroom

• Repeating the German words for the different fruits

• Introducing a �fruit - face� • Discussion about which fruits to use for the

different parts of the face • Colouring and cutting out pictures • Arranging and glueing fruit � faces


• Fruit can be made from play dough • Children produce a memory game with

pictures of fruit

Project Plan 9

Project Theme Harvest Song

Target group one class of pupils y4 (8-9 years) Subject areas / fields of learning English and German spoken Looking at the world around us


Objectives Learning the German words for vegetables

Resources pictures word cards worksheets

In the UK classroom

• Listening to the story �On the market place�• Practising the German words • Matching word cards to pictures • Playing �I put an onion on my back� and

�vegetable basket�


• Learning more German words for vegetables

• Getting to know the English words for vegetables (in the German classroom)

• Singing harvest songs

Project Plan 10

Project Theme Vegetable Faces

Target group class of pupils y4 (8-9 years) Subject areas / fields of learning German spoken, Art , general knowledge Living in a world of thoughts, feelings, ideas, and dreams

Time allocated 1 hour 30 minutes

Objectives Repeating German words Making vegetable faces

Resources worksheets

In the UK classroom

• Repeating the German words for vegetables

• Explaining how to make a vegetable face • Discussion about which kinds of vegetable

fit which parts of a face • Colouring pictures of vegetables • Cutting out • Arranging and gluing faces


• Learning more German words for vegetable

• Cooking a vegetable soup and writing out the recipe

Project Plan 11

Project Theme Who am I?

Target group one class y1 and one class y2 (5-7 years)

Subject areas / fields of learning English and Finnish spoken, general knowledge, Dance, Music

Time allocated 60 minutes for each class

Objectives To learn some Finnish words for fruit To match movements to fruits To pretend to be different kinds of fruit

Resources pictures of fruits music (CD player)

In the UK classroom

• The Finnish teacher introduces Finnish words for fruits and vegetables

• She acts out movements for some of them.• Children suggest movements too:

-apple: round, soft, big, rolling,... -watermelon: edgy, bent, hard,... -peas: small, round, rolling, tiny-tiny, going around,... -carrot - sharp, straight, long, stiff,.... -banana - long, tilted, jumping,... • The children start with one movement and

dance until the teacher stops the music • Afterwards the children can do one

movement after the other


• Children can dance in groups, each performing one particular fruit

• Children can perform for other classes

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