Dream a Little Dream Meeting1

UK - Branston Junior Academy - 30/01/2018 to 1/02/2018

The end of January / beginning of February brought us our first Learning, Teaching, Training activity of our Erasmus+ project. We introduced our Spanish and Polish colleagues to the city of Lincoln. 

Our guests were welcomed with a whole school assembly where each class performed a poem based on the theme of reading. We demonstrated a range of lessons on the teaching of reading and had some interesting professional discussions based on how we teach this essential basic skill.

We also visited Bishop King School in Lincoln, which is a full primary and nursery school from ages 3-11 where we watched some early reading and phonics lessons. 

We held a video conference with our Spanish partners, where children read extracts from their books to each other in their own language.  This took place on World Read Aloud Day and was a lovely way to share in this occasion.

Visiting teachers shared popular children's books from their own countries:

We presented project banners, aimed to promote and celebrate our involvement in this collaborative project.  Here we are, pictured with the School Council members of Branston Junior Academy:

One of the final outcomes of this project will be the writing, editing and producing of a shared story book, written by children in all three schools. We began this process over the week, with a workshop run by teachers from all three partner schools for 14 children from BJA. We drafted the introduction, planned out the plot and designed the main characters in preparation for writing the first chapter of our story, also entitled 'Dream a Little Dream', which we hope will eventually be enjoyed by children in all three schools and by members of our local communities. Here we are, busy working on our initial ideas:

To conclude, we couldn't have asked for a better start to our project and this week really 'brought it to life'. We have so many exciting ideas and activities planned and we intend to involve children as much as possible in collaborative tasks in order to continue to promote reading for pleasure.