Erasmus + 2014 -2016
The overarching question that Dunkirk Primary School, Nottingham, UK and Rastaala School, Espoo, Finland will explore over the next 24 months is:
‘How do we develop Pupil Voice in our schools enabling young people to become active and responsible citizens?’
Both schools have identified the need to develop Pupil Voice within their learning communities. In order for pupils to be effective and successful European and global citizens they need to be able to communicate with confidence.
This area has emerged from our past Comenius project (See 'Past Projects' ).
The Erasmus+ Partnership opportunity enables us to jointly explore these issues and deepen our practice further. Pupils must be able to communicate, discuss and debate beyond the comfort zone of their own classroom. They need to be flexible communicators, have the ability to adapt and empathize across both local and European/Global contexts. Working with the partner schools in Europe and Pakistan provides us with the opportunities to develop global dialogues where a deeper understanding of each other’s cultures, perspectives and opinions takes place.
The project, 'Pupil Voice' will look collectively at the Big Question 'What Kind of a World would we like to live in?
Each year one theme will be explored, taken from the Pupil Charter that was developed by the schools in the previous Comenius partnership which ended in August 2014. Due to the global themes the students have identified, the project will give all participants an enhanced sense of their ability to affect change on an individual and collective level.
The two themes selected from the Pupil Charter are
Greed and Power
Equality and Racism
The overarching question that Dunkirk Primary School, Nottingham, UK and Rastaala School, Espoo, Finland will explore over the next 24 months is:
‘How do we develop Pupil Voice in our schools enabling young people to become active and responsible citizens?’
Both schools have identified the need to develop Pupil Voice within their learning communities. In order for pupils to be effective and successful European and global citizens they need to be able to communicate with confidence.
This area has emerged from our past Comenius project (See 'Past Projects' ).
The Erasmus+ Partnership opportunity enables us to jointly explore these issues and deepen our practice further. Pupils must be able to communicate, discuss and debate beyond the comfort zone of their own classroom. They need to be flexible communicators, have the ability to adapt and empathize across both local and European/Global contexts. Working with the partner schools in Europe and Pakistan provides us with the opportunities to develop global dialogues where a deeper understanding of each other’s cultures, perspectives and opinions takes place.
The project, 'Pupil Voice' will look collectively at the Big Question 'What Kind of a World would we like to live in?
Each year one theme will be explored, taken from the Pupil Charter that was developed by the schools in the previous Comenius partnership which ended in August 2014. Due to the global themes the students have identified, the project will give all participants an enhanced sense of their ability to affect change on an individual and collective level.
The two themes selected from the Pupil Charter are
Greed and Power
Equality and Racism