Ingleton Middle School

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Five schools were involved in this three year project, with Ingleton Middle School as the coordinating school.
Link schools were -

• 3 Scuola Media Statale Darmon, Naples, ITALY
• Öffentlich Stiftgymnasium der Benediktiner in St Paul, AUSTRIA
• Braås School, SWEDEN
• Collège Privé St Joseph, Herbignac, FRANCE

Pupil participation

The project involved the exchange of materials on a variety of topics. These materials were displayed and used as teaching materials in all schools. Pupils at Ingleton produced the materials in currricular and extra-curricular time.

Topics over the three years included:

• Survey about children's attitudes towards environmental issues
• A study of each school's locality: maps, posters, leaflets, plans, sketches
• A cassette of the top 10
• Information about the schools: timetables, photo diary, photos, classroom plans
• A newsheet with school and local news.
• Problems of Youth questionnaires
• Presentations about daily life - picture diaries of a typical day, video of popular TV programmes and adverts, treasure box.
• Project logos. Five entries from each school
• Presentation about Christmas and Epiphany
• Food project Shopping trolley collage, food likes and dislikes surveys, recipes, place mat pictures of what our children eat at different mealtimes.
• People in their environment. Large scale collages.
• Study of a local ecosystem. Looking at the plants and animals within the ecosystem, their relationship to the environment and to each other.
• Farming project Catalogue of farm implements used prior to mechanisation using index cards, comparison with tools/machines used today, the farmers year, a typical farmer's day, maps to show land use.
• Presentation of traditional crafts of the area.
• Climate and rainfall data
• Shadow length latitude study.
• Postcards and other information relating to school trips.
• Videos of musical/dramatic performances.
• Study of religious buildings and their architecture.
• Information about religious celebrations.
• A study of how various ailments were treated in our grandparents time - use of herbs, alternative medicines.
• Nursery and nonsense rhymes. Circle games and songs.
• Water supply and distribution.

We also hosted pupils from Sweden on three occasions as an addition to the project.

Pupils were highly involved in the preparation for the two teachers' meetings which were held at Ingleton at the beginning and end of the project. They prepared the building with signs and labels in five languages, as well as displays about each country. They showed our visiting teachers around and interviewed them.

There was a performance by pupils and staff of a musical drama which involved a group of pupils visiting all the partner countries in search of the missing stars from the European flag. Staff participation

Staff in almost all departments and non-teaching staff were involved in the preparation of materials for the different topics within the project.

There were seven meetings altogether. Two of the meetings were held in Ingleton, two in Austria and one each in Italy, Sweden and France. Two staff travelled from IMS to attend these meetings - usually 3-4 days - on each occasion.

There was also the opportunity for staff to do one week teacher exchanges or teacher placements which involved spending some time in the partner school and some in a local business. These took place during our school holidays. Two placements took place in Italy. Chris Lackey worked in a craft workshop, producing Christmas figurines- a speciality of the area, and our IT teacher spent time in the Vesuvius observatory. Two placements took place in Sweden. Christine Best worked on a local newspaper and Gilly Guy worked in a hotel.

All participants felt that they had gained from the experience.