With the support of the Polish National Support Organisation (NSO), students from High School No. VIII in Gdańsk had eTwinning as a formal subject on their timetable. Through a curriculum based on carrying out an eTwinning project, students collaborated with project partners and received a mark on their final transcript.
As a pilot initiative, students had ‘eTwinning’ as a formal class on their timetable. In the context of an eTwinning project, students met once a week to complete activities with project partners. ‘We often do tasks with people from other countries’, said Kamil Starczewski, a second-grade student. Students found it especially useful to practise English with the students from the partner schools.
The idea formally came from the school’s headmaster, Tadeusz Chądzyński, and eTwinning Ambassador, Łukasz Kamiński. ‘eTwinning expands what the school has to offer and clearly has an impact on the quality of the school’s work’, said headmaster Chądzyński.
Chądzyński said that it has positively impacted both teachers and students: students improve their linguistic, social and digital competences while teachers can share their practices, not just at their school, but with others around the world.
The initiative also received great support from the Department of Education at the City Hall in Gdańsk. ‘It translates into all the key competences: the development of language competences and also openness to other people, knowledge of other cultures and going beyond the border of our city; our small homeland’, said Grzegorz Kryger, Director of the Department of Education at the City Hall in Gdańsk.
At the end of the year, students received diplomas from the Polish National Support Organisation and were congratulated for being the first graduates of the eTwinning Class.
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