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I have enjoyed the hospitality of the Cypriot hosts and the company of educators and children participating in this exchange. It has been a full and varied programme, with different activities and focus each day. Lots of opportunities to explore the customs, cultures, education system and everyday life of our partners. I was particularly impressed by the preparation and the warm welcome of our host school. All classes and teachers prepared something different to make us feel valued and important. It was great to have the opportunity to chat with children and teachers and feel their great enthusiasm for the project first hand. The school is extremely well resourced and had many inspiring high quality displays giving lots of opportunity to explore different teaching and learning ideas to take back to our own country to share with colleagues and use in our own classrooms.   Most of our exploration was focused on social, cultural and educational experiences. We explored one of the biggest industries in Cyprus - The grape and how it is used in so many different ways, we explored growth, production processes, history, and of course our children and teachers had the opportunity to sample the flavours of this important fruit.. Travelling through Cyprus to the mountains and the journey to school each day gave opportunity to explore the contrasting localities of town and countryside. The visit to the village , the marina and the beach also gave opportunity to explore the island. Eating outside in the streets was a different experience for our children too. A  meeting with coordinators to discuss the progress of the project was useful in terms of forward planning and to highlight next steps in terms of mobilities, content of programmes and completion of outstanding tasks. From this, I was able to discuss next steps with Maria and James and look at ways to move the project forward, give it more visibility in our own school community to increase impact and try to improve our dissemination of experiences amongst the wider school community

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And we are off....... Let's Explore Cyprus.

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Cyprus Blog Day One | Appleby Primary School

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Children from year 5 and 6 prepared fact sheets about their school, their town and their country, food and traditions. Teachers and Project Coordinator gathered artefacts  to support the fact sheets and display including books, postcards, leaflets, clothing, flags, maps, toys and games. The display materials were left with Heritage Private School

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A busy day of exploring the school ad school community, meeting new people and making new friends. Exploring the local area and Food

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Cyprus Blog Day Two | Appleby Primary School

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Children from Heritage Private School were happy to share  their research projects about The Little Explorers  partner countries 

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Children attend Erasmus club after school and prepare the activities for the project 

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Children attend Erasmus club after school and prepare the activities for the project 

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The Little Explorers winning  logo

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Heritage Private School has fabulous sports resources 

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The four children who would be going on the mobility made a PowerPoint presentation in their free time to share with everyone during the mobility

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Meeting with parents, Children and accompanying adults

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Meeting with parents, Children and accompanying adults

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Mrs Hearn held a meeting in school for everyone to discuss/ talk about the mobility, it was an opportunity to chat about what to expect, what to bring, expectations of the children, talk about any any worries, ask questions and complete the necessary paperwork relating to consents, medical information ,  contact details etc

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Cyprus Blog - Day Three | Appleby Primary School

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Cyprus Blog Day Four | Appleby Primary School

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Completion of evaluation by all participants
Completion of Padlet activities
Reporting back to Head Teacher and other staff
Sharing the experience with whole school - staff meeting, assembly, photos....
Timely planning of next exchange PROVISIONAL date: 2nd March 2020 - 5 days in Biecz, Poland, to include exploration of Krakow, the salt mines, Biecz and surrounding area....
the final meeting to be held in Spain ( Madrid) in end of May/June 2020
In order to fulfil grant specs and claim the final 20% funding, we need to widen participation and visibility of project to whole school community

???? Presentation of Erasmus+  participation certificates at the  year 6 Leavers assembly

??? Possibility of an Erasmus+ week ( similar to creativity week) before Feb half term and the final uk host visit  - after chatting with Maria and James, we thought... each class could take one of the countries as their cross curricular theme - displays, facts, music, dance, craft activities, art... endless possibilities

???  parents could be invited to an exhibition  before the summer break to encourage wider participation of new year 5/6

??? Display / exhibition of photographs and film all project visits and activities ....

At the beginning of July,  it is my intention to ‘list’ upcoming events and activities we need to prepare for the future exchanges of all projects up to at least Feb half term. By Christmas we should have all the remaining dates agreed by all schools.and will be able to allocate staff and children to events, making flight choices much cheaper -  it will also be easier to liaise with chosen staff to prepare for the trips if we have more time

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Cyprus Assembly presented to the school after the visit.

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Cyprus Assembly presented to the school after the visit.

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Here is our website. You can learn all about us here - Our curriculum, children and teachers, you can follow our activities and events too - including our blogs for Erasmus exchanges

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The final day of our visit to Cyprus - free time while we waited for our late evening flight back to the UK

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Cyprus Blog Day Five | Appleby Primary School

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Good-byes were very emotional for some of the children

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Good-byes were very emotional for some of the children

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I am waiting for links to be added here from our partners - currently they are all in private formats on fb so they can't be accessed 

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I am waiting for links to be added here from our partners - currently they are all in private formats on fb so they can't be accessed 

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Sampling local food for dinner.

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Playing games together and building friendships. 

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Playing games together and building friendships. 