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Making the future grow
Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

"Making the future grow" is a project born from the necessity of sharing pedagogical experiences with other schools using the English language, related to the world of wine and wine tourism. We want our students, from different schools and countries but who share a common rural environment, to improve their linguistic, enterprising, scientific and creative competencies, using ICT as useful tools for communicating and managing information and promoting solidarity and respect. We strongly believe in this project and we have designed it as a way to work globally from real experiences and life lessons and in an innovative and competencial way. Sharing experiences with European schools will improve the learning of the English language in a real and significative way. Working as a net is good because we will enrich the cooperation between the partners and it will give us the possibility to exchange our tasks and to improve all the competences. 200 students from 9 to 12 years old will participate in the project. The planned work consists in organizing and cultivating a small agrarian exploitation where children can experiment vineyard cultivation and the use of its products, with the help of their families, local farmers and our companion. We want our students to live how to manage an agrarian exploitation, to learn the specific works of a vineyard, to deal with possible problems, to elaborate products and to entrust with their commercialisation. All these tasks will be done cooperatively with the help of farmers and establishing relationship with the partners from the other schools using English. To have the opportunity of working directly on the land, develops experiences that allow students to understand concepts and carry out learning that would be impossible to develop in a classroom. To work the land, to grow, to lop, to harvest, to make wine, grape-juice and jam….assists children to be competent in discovering, knowing and interacting with the world, having personal initiative and autonomy, and improving the creativity, the entrepreneurship and the values of respect. Apart from that, we also want to understand the landscape in an artistic way, we want that our students interact with their environment. The vineyard will be a scene where we can participate in it. We also want our children to work their vineyard because we want them to implicate with the environment because we think that in our towns the vineyard has a great projection for the future, despite this moment of economic crisis. We have noticed that jobs related to the vineyard have increased their value and they have been reinvented. Nowadays, the ecologic cultivation and the wine tourism have taken a lot of importance. The cooperation between farmers, companies, wineries, institutions and artists from different countries will allow us to motivate the students, improve the enterprising and work beyond the school. As a conclusion, the result of the project will be its incorporation to the schools daily life and it will be included in their curriculum, improving the students’ competences. On the one hand, we will improve the English language and ITC skills and competences of our students and teachers. And we will develop mathematical, social, scientific, artistic, autonomy and initiative competences. On the other hand, our schools will be reinforced because the cooperative work makes stronger links, generates a shared hope and provides cohesion. Institutionally, schools will be able to approach education to work environment.
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