Art for hearts sake

Erasmus + KA220-SCH Cooperation partnerships in school education

What is our project about?

• This a 3 year project (September 2023 – August 2026), involving 6 schools from across Europe, to use the creative arts to positively impact schools’ ability to meet the needs of diverse groups.

• The project objectives are to promote inclusion and diversity and enhance key competences. These will be achieved through participation in creative arts. The project will particularly support disadvantaged and marginalised participants and those who suffer from poor mental health. It will promote creativity and its benefits, in all our organisations.

• The activities will be an exploration of individual countries’ cultural arts heritage, plus a collaboration to create a fusion of this knowledge into innovative arts resources: a playscript, dances, musical pieces, costumes, scenery, artworks, digital media and performance.

Where are the project partner schools?

Madonas pilsetas vidusskola, Madona - LATVIA

Sherborne C of E Primary School, Sherborne - ENGLAND (UK)

Szkola Podstawowa nr 42 im. Jana Brzechwy, Częstochowa - POLAND .

Escola Básica Gonçalo Mendes da Maia, Maia - PORTUGAL

Osnovna skola Vladimir Nazor, Duga Resa - CROATIA

Bec De L'Àguila, San Vicente - SPAIN .

Who are the project partner schools?

Madonas pilsetas vidusskola, Madona - LATVIA

982

Sherborne C of E Primary School – ENGLAND (UK)

56

Szkola Podstawowa nr 42 im. Jana Brzechwy, Częstochowa – POLAND .

350

1032

Escola Básica Gonçalo Mendes da Maia, Maia - PORTUGAL

Osnovna skola Vladimir Nazor, Duga Resa - CROATIA

438

500

Bec De L'Àguila, San Vicente - SPAIN .

What will our pupils do?

Make friends and develop language skills

Research & publish information about their country’s arts culture; playwrights, musicians, artists, dancers and performers

Write playscripts

Create music/songs for performance

Record music and performances

Create original dances for performance

Make costumes, artworks and scenery

Connect countries & connect communities through visits and in a final performance

Create digital content using video, tablets & ipads

What will our staff do?

Make friends and develop language skills

Support pupils with research & publish information about their country’s arts culture; playwrights, musicians, artists, dancers and performers

Support development of pupils’ writing skills

Receive training to better support pupils with SEN and other specific needs

Support the learning of songs and the recording of music and performances

Support the learning of original dances for performance

Support the making of costumes, artworks and scenery

Connect countries & connect communities through hosting visits, taking pupils abroad and in a final performance

Create a Green Code for the school

What are the benefits?

• All pupils and staff from our school are ‘connected’ to Europe and will learn from our European colleagues and friends
• Long-term partnership and focus on learning through the arts
• Long-term focus on improving staff and pupils’ well-being
• Children with fewer opportunities and less access supported as a priority action of the project
• Written and oral language skills will develop purposefully
• Music, art, dance and IT skills will develop purposefully
• Children will develop a better understanding of their arts’ culture
• Staff will be better skilled and better trained to support diverse needs
• Each school will be visited by pupils and staff from the partner schools
• Generous funding for project management and implementation
• Funding to support 5 pupil visits abroad to the partner schools
• Funded staff training for working to improve SEND support
• Funding for arts resources

3 – year overview

Year 1 2023-2024

Year 3 2025-2026

Year 2 2024-2025

In-school activity

Short Staff visit for interim report (funds permitting – location tbd)

Pupil visit