Lisa Stevens' presentation from Isle of Wight conference 2007 on the eTwinning project her school, Whitehouse Common Primary School, conducted with Colegio Público César Hurtado Delicado.

1. Whitehouse Common Primary School CP César Hurtado Delicado Somos lo que celebramos.

2. Overview - Introductions Case study – WCPS and CPCHD Lessons learned Plans for the future at WCPS

3. Whitehouse Common Primary School

6. Why eTwinning? ‘ WCPS prides itself on being an innovative, outward looking school that is interested in and involved with the world outside its doors. By eTwinning with a school abroad, we continue with this outlook by entering into the world of another school and viceversa. Together, we are discovering our similarities and differences, and celebrating the diversity if our lives. Pupils are using ICT (and paper and pen) to communicate in their own language as well as in the language of the partner school and ths their skills in many areas of the curriculum are being enhanced – geography, history, literacy, citizenship, art, music, technology and, of course, ICT and Language.’ Lisa Stevens 2007

8. Why etwinning? 3 KS2 Framework for Languages

10. Colegio Público César Hurtado Delicado

11. The project - Somos lo que celebramos Or, in English, We are what we celebrate

12. 1. Elaboration of a calendar of most representative celebrations of each country. Both schools made a calendar of festivals and special days in their country. CPCHD went for a colourful approach WCPS went for a more informative slant! (see our Twinspace)

13. 2. Analysis of partner country’s calendar and contrasting celebrations. Pupils found it interesting to look at their own calendar. We speculated on what each entry on the CPCHD calendar might be – based on months of year etc. This led to discussion of how Spain differs to England in terms of local ‘fiestas’ etc.

14. Whitehouse Common website www. whitehousecommon .org. uk Welcome / Bienvenido This was the Chair of Governor’s idea to make our new friends feel welcome. And this was my introduction to the school website! Then did some introductory things – map of area, where CPCHD is, links to their site etc.

15. Content page on our website

18. What we did – CPCHD sent their pictures of Carnaval

19. Our pupils looked at the photos and wrote some simple questions to be answered by CPCHD. They prepared presentations using Word about Pancake Day - http:// ficus . pntic . mec . es /mmop0058/Pancake%20Day/Pancake.html Again, a valuable exercise from a number of perspectives.

20. Snow!

27. Then project is entered into National eTwinning awards…

29. What did people say about the project? ‘ I have been taken aback by enthusiasm and commitment shown to this project, the benefits which our children will receive from it will go to enhance their knowledge and understanding of the wider world. It also adds a new dimension to support the work they are doing in learning a second modern language.’ Simon Rowney . Chair of Governors, Whitehouse Common Primary School ‘It has given the children more interest in Spain and what life is like there. As for staff, I feel that we are committed to our MFL scheme as we are involving e-twin with it and the project has also linked really well with our PSHE / citizenship activities.’ Jamie Barry , KS1 Team leader and Literacy coordinator, Whitehouse Common Primary School

30. What did people say about the project? ‘ Señora Stevens’ efforts and hard work are to be highly commended in setting up and keeping the project moving along. I thought it would be interesting to contact my counterpart in sunny España so I sent a quick email explaining who I was and what I did. ‘ John Horne , caretaker, Whitehouse Common Primary School ‘ The energy of Mrs Stevens is contagious. She has inspired a team of ‘champions’ who are now working to develop their own Spanish so that our e-twinning project becomes an embedded, sustainable and innovative part of our curriculum.’ Dale Hill , Headteacher, Whitehouse Common Primary School

31. What did people say about the project? ‘e-Twinning has been great fun because we have communicated with the children in Spain. I have enjoyed it very much looking at all the websites and looking to see what is different there and here.’ Nicola Year 5 ‘I lived about learning about Spain because we got to learn about what they do in Easter, then I went and saw the band in Spain.’ Amy Year 2

33. Where to next? This year, we have a number of ideas for projects. More opportunities for pupils. More variety in use of technology. More fun!

34. Where to next? Voices of the World http:// onevoice . ning .com/ ‘ Voices of the World was created to join schools from around the world using voice and sound rather than text.’ Each month there is a new project- September was a greetings Voki . October will be the National anthem via Animoto.

35. Where to next? Ted-E-Bear Ted-E-Bear has gone to Canada a la Barnaby Bear. Visiting Lord Elgin School, Kindergarten class. Pupils there taking photos and commenting via Voicethread http:// voicethread .com/

36. Where to next? Den-E-Bear Den-E-Bear is Ted-E-Bear’s cousin, and belongs to the children in The Den. He’s going to Kansas (we think!) Pupils have taken photos around the school grounds and are commenting via Voicethread http:// voicethread .com/

37. Where to next? The Project Chris Fuller is running a Euro 08 linked project involving schools from the South West (and beyond – hence we’re involved!), combining Web2.0 tools with language studies and football – a sure fire winner! Ask him all about it when you see him or check out his blog!

38. Where to next? eTwinning 2007-8 Our new project is … Somos lo que comemos

40. Feel free to e-mail if you have questions. [email_address] http://www. whitehousecommon .org. uk Also my del.icio.us tags for etwinning (and lots of other things!!) – http://del. icio .us/ lisibo