GymnasiumErasmus+ Woche am Gymnasium St. Paulusheim
Hierzu erstellten sie einen Podcast in dem viele verschiedene Aspekte des Themas, unter anderem die Entwicklung der Kommunikation im Laufe der Zeit, die technischen Hilfsmittel, die Kommunikation in der Tierwelt, aber auch aktuelle Themen wie Fake News vorgestellt werden.
Im Laufe der Woche lernten sich die Schülerinnen und Schüler nicht nur näher kennen, es fand auch ein wichtiger kultureller Austausch statt. Dieser Grundgedanke aller Erasmus+ Projekte wurde auch von Schulleiter Markus Zepp bei der offiziellen Begrüßung am Montagmorgen besonders hervorgehoben, denn der Zusammenhalt und Austausch innerhalb Europas über Ländergrenzen hinweg ist gerade in der heutigen Zeit wichtiger denn je.
Neben der vielen Arbeit am Podcast durfte sich die Gruppe aber auch über einen Ausflug ins Heidelberger Schloss mit anschließendem Besuch des Weihnachtsmarkts sowie über viele weitere Highlights freuen, die die Gastfamilien möglich gemacht haben.
Nach der viel zu kurzen Woche und dem emotionalen Abschied am Samstag morgen freuen sich die Schülerinnen und Schüler des St. Paulusheims bereits heute auf den Gegenbesuch im kommenden April. (PF)
ERASMUS + A project about communication between Bruchsal and Parthenay
From the first to the 7th of December, fifteen German and fifteen French students had the chance to participate in an ERASMUS+ program organized by their teachers Ms. Faber, Ms. Machnik, Ms. Lutz and Mr. Lahouel. The exchange program took place between the German Gymnasium St. Paulusheim in Bruchsal and the French Collège Saint Joseph from Parthenay and was financed by the European ERASMUS+ program.
Sunday evening, all the French and German students were really nervous before the arrival of the French guests at the station in Bruchsal. But as we’d already been in contact before via social media, we could quickly start to communicate as we were so happy to finally see each other for real. And so, we had our first evening with the families.
On the next day we met at school and the principal Mr. Zepp welcomed the French students and their teachers. He reminded us that in times of crises it is even more important to promote intercultural projects as ours and that especially the encouragement of the German-French Friendship makes him happy. To get to know each other better we played some ice breaker games. So, for example we had to arrange ourselves in alphabetical order of our first names on a bench. There we weren’t allowed to speak and we also had to balance on the bench and were not allowed to fall off. To succeed we had to help each other on the bench. The other game was BINGO in which we had to find students from the other country and ask them questions about their interests and activities. Finally, the German students presented their country, their city and their school.
After that we started to work on our project in groups. We had to create a podcast about communication. Therefore, we did research to inform ourselves. It was really interesting to learn something about different types of communication and the evolution of communication from the Neolithic Age till today. We also needed to learn how to record our dialogues we wrote for the podcast, which wasn’t as easy as expected. Sometimes it was tiring and tedious, but we didn’t give up. Once we knew how to do it, recording the podcast was a great experience. It was fun to work together in groups where we were asked to organize ourselves autonomously. We liked to work openly and freely on this project, which differed a lot from our daily school routine. During the week we continued our work step by step and even created two posters to promote our podcast.
On Wednesday we had a day off from our project work. We took the train to Heidelberg where we went up to the castle. As we were a bit late, luckily, we took the mountain railway. There, we had an interesting tour inside the castle in English. After our visit we went to the old bridge together and then we were free to go into the city. So, we went shopping, visited the Christmas market and looked for some lunch.
In the afternoons and evenings, we generally did lots of things with our exchange students because we had free time. This was really great and a lot of fun. We showed our exchange partners something about German culture, visited Bruchsal and Karlsruhe and they experienced the German way of living.
On Thursday morning the French students visited two lessons with the German students to see how the German school system works. They enjoyed it and saw many differences between the French students’ school and the German students’ school. For example, they didn’t have a break between two lessons, and they also are in school longer… In the afternoon nearly all of Erasmus + went to the Christmas market. It was not planned but it was funny to have so many people together.
On Friday we finally listened to our finished podcast. We were really proud, and it was fun to hear our voices in a more or less professional context. We played games again where we had to speak a lot of English. In the end we had to answer questions about the week to give feedback. We evaluated our work together and exchanged our thoughts. After that we looked a little film presenting pictures from the whole week. At the end of the day, we had our Nicholas party. We had a lot of fun, and we ate chocolate and lemon cake, cookies, gingerbread, tangerines and fruit skewers. We also drank punch, and we danced a lot. Finally, we got our certificates. All students were called up by their name and got their personalized certificate.
On Saturday it was time to say goodbye, which was really sad. But we are already happy to see the group again in April when we will be in France to put another project into practice.
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