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CORYTON PRIMARY SCHOOL

2010/2011 was an exciting year for our school. We began a project in association with the British Council which will open the children’s horizons and introduce them to fellow pupils all over Europe. During the next 2 years, Coryton will be partnered with schools in a number of countries and will be working on joint projects. The title of the 2 year project is Work, Rest and Play. 

They then had a tour around the school, visiting classes and watching lessons as well as being quizzed by the children about their own schools.

During the next few days, the teachers were taken to the Mayor's House for a special welcome, for a tour around Cardiff Bay, to St. Fagans Museum of Welsh Life (with year 3 and year 4) and on a tour around Cardiff Castle.

The evenings were spent with the teachers from Coryton School.  We went for a pizza and bowling one night, to the school Christmas Fayre another and for farewell drinks in town on their last night in Cardiff.

We all had a fantastic few days and really enjoyed meeting teachers from other schools and learning about how children learn in different countries. 

We have exchanged books made by pupils so that the children can learn about all the other schools and look at pictures of childrens' lives in different countries.  Each class have also studied one of the 6 European countries in detail looking at ways of life, customs and traditions, food, music, architecture and many more things.  A real learning experience!

Why not take a look at the web sites of our partners in Europe? Maybe you could find out about the countries or even the towns that the schools are situated in? 

Ecole Ste Catherine

Aix-en Provence

France

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/saintecatherine/ 

Sainte Catherine Primary school is situated in the historical centre of

Aix-en-Provence. There are 200 pupils in the school from 3 to 11 years.  10 teachers are in charge of their education. Half of the children live in the city and half comes from the surrounding of Aix. The main language is French and English is taught from the first class for one hour a week.

Szkoła Podstawowa im. Ks. Kard. Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Świdrach

Łuków

Poland

www.swidry.gminalukow.pl 

Primary School in Świdry. The school is located in the small village of Swidry which is in the east of Poland in the Lublin area of the city of Lublin, near Łuków, about 120 km from Warsaw- capital of Poland. There are 6 classes in it and a play-school group. There are 88 pupils who attend our school between the ages of 5 and 11 years old. They speak only Polish language. They are taught English since they are 6, Russian since they are 9 and Italian since 10. The full time teaching staff consists of 9 teachers and one Headteacher.

Tornionmaki School

Kouvola

Finland

www.kouvola.fi/pavelut/koulutus/

perusopetur/peruskoulut/

tornionmaenkoulu.htm 

Tornionmaki school is a primary school with classes from 1-6. The school specialises in PE and students are 7-13yrs old. The school is located in Kouvola, a town with 90,000 inhabitants, in south-eastern Finland, not very far from the border between Finland and Russia.

Schillerschule Bittenfeld

Stuttgart

Germany

www.schillerschule_bittenfeld.de 

This primary school in a rural area 30 km north of Stuttgart, south Germany.

Reguly Antal Altalanos Iskola es Elokeszito

Olaszfalu

Hungary 

The Reguly Antal Primary School is a small school in a small village in Olaszfalu. This is in the middle of the Bakony area near Zirc. In the village live about 1200 people. There are 65 pupils between 6 and 12 years old with 9 teaching staff.

They have a big garden and near the school there is a big football and a hand ball field.

Ecole Sainte-Therese

Tregomeur

Brittany

France

www.eco-ste-therese.tregomeur.ddec22fr 

The school is situated in a small rural village in Brittany. There are 800 inhabitants in Tregomeur. It is situated near St. Brieuc, the largest town of the area.  There are 63 pupils ranging from nursery to the final year of primary.

Everyone speaks French but the children learn English in primary school.

International links –Spring 2011

Mrs Gladman spent a week in a school in Bordeaux, France learning about the French school system, building up links with the school, developing ways to teach a language and trying to improve her French.

The following photos give a flavour of the school – Elémentaire Claverie, which is similar in size to Coryton.

Please note that Mrs Gladman is not allowed to publish photos on the Coryton website that show pupils from the French school. 

During the Easter holidays and for the first week of the summer term 2010, Mrs. Harris began forging the first of our European links by visiting a school in Bordeaux (Ecole Carle Vernet) and staying with one of its teachers. She had a marvellous experience and, as well as trying to learn French very quickly, taught the French pupils Welsh country dancing, songs in Welsh and English and gave them gifts to show the culture of Wales and the traditions of our school in Coryton. Year 6 have already begun emailing some of CM1’s pupils.                    

At the Ecole Carle Vernet, Bordeaux Mrs Harris was able to familiarise herself with the French schooling system and teach some of the classes.

Our school mascot Maggon the Dragon also had many adventures in Bordeaux!!  He and Mrs Harris were held up by the travel chaos following the volcanic eruption in Iceland so were very glad to catch a ferry home!