EC Partners





We are involved in a project with 2 European early years schools.

We made links with Il Quadrifoglio school in Fano, Italy and Ecole Maternelle Assolant, France through the Internet.
Since Autumn 1997 Triangle Nursery School has been involved in a European Education Project with a nursery school in France and a nursery school in Italy. The project is funded from Europe under Comenius Action 1. The current theme of the project is ‘Festivities :A Cultural Exchange of Ways of Celebrating’. Next year the project theme will be : ‘The Traveling Toys : traveling from my school to your school.’ Last term all the children sent each other ‘Welcome Books’ . The Italian school. ‘Il Quadrifoglio’ sent a video of Carnival celebrations in their town and school. The children at Triangle Nursery School were fascinated to see the Italian children and parents dressed up and having a party at school. The French children at ´Ecole Maternelle Assolant sent us a tape of children singing and a newspaper they had made with their work and photographs in. The children at Triangle Nursery School also focused on learning how to say hello and say their names in French and Italian.
This term our theme for the project will be ‘Personal Celebrations’ . The children in all three schools will be sharing news of birthdays, the births of siblings, parties and family celebrations with each other. One of the ways the children and staff are able to communicate with each other is by using the Internet. Children dictate e-mail letters to staff and then send their messages to the pupils at ‘Il Quadrifoglio’ and Ecole Maternelle Assolant. They also send scanned images of their work and digital photographs of themselves. Soon, with new equipment from Lambeth through the National Grid for Learning program , we will have our own video conferencing facilities so that the children and staff in the three European schools will be able to communicate regularly. With video conferencing the children will be able to see and speak to each live for the first time. Last November children from Triangle Nursery School were interviewed about the project with the children in France and Italy for Eurofile a BBC Radio 4 program. The headteacher and deputy headteacher form Triangle Nursery School visited the school in Fano in October 1997 for a preliminary visit to establish the project. In July 1998 the teachers from the French and Italian schools came on a Study Visit to Triangle . During their three day visit here they spent time observing children working at Triangle, finding out about the British educational system and visiting Brixton and Clapham. The parents , children and staff in our school have been inspired by the new contacts and friendships they have made through E-mails, videos and exchanged work with our partner schools. The project has given an impetus to our work in all areas of the curriculum. It has given a very meaningful purpose to the children's use of technology, it has given them an audience of other children for their work and it has provided a focus on different languages, countries and cultures. It has been a tremendously exciting project for our school which seems to have won the imagination of our whole school community.
Recent Children's work