1. eTwinning – Havering Initiative
Anne Jakins
Nick Falk

2. Agenda
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What is eTwinning?
This initiative
CPD opportunities
Ambassador support
What happens next?
Looking at and registering on the
eTwinning website

4. Our Partnership with Finland
• SEN partnership Sackville UK and Kumpula
School Finland
• Increased cultural awareness
• Enhanced language and literacy
• Writing for a specific audience
• Enhancing ICT skills - pupils and teachers
• Making new friends

5. It all started
with a Bear
We will let Otso
speak for
himself

6. Bear talk – the next
project
Same partnership – different
students
New bear exchange
Bear talk – enhancing language
skills using ‘Crazy Talk’
Exchange of stories about
famous national bears

7. Implementing a Whole School
Approach
The Impact of International Collaborative
Education

8. Southwater Infant Academy
The Primary Model
Southwater Infant Academy is situated in rural West Sussex
with 270 pupils and 14 teaching staff. Southwater was rated
Outstanding by OFSTED
‘ When we started we didn’t know just how significant
eTwinning was going to be in our development as a school’
Sue Winn Headteacher

9. The Lead Teacher and the
eTwinning Team
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Total commitment of Head Teacher essential.
Inclusive approach to international work.
Appointment of a lead teacher to support the
teaching staff.
All staff registered on the eTwinning Portal.
EVERY teacher in the school has one
‘performance management’ target to engage
pupils in an international project.

10. An Example Project
‘An Exploration of Playground
Games’
Partnership school in Northern Italy
– Taking a PE theme – integrating practical skills with team
work and recording.
– An exchange of playground games with a visual emphasis
– Pupils decided on the skills they wanted to share.
– Invented playground games without specific equipment
– Use of videos, digital images, presentation software.

11. Impact and Benefits
for Pupils
‘eTwinning has given us a different tool to bring
learning to life for our pupils’ (class teachers)
– Pupils in both classes shared their work informally
with other children in the playground.
– Creative use of ICT to exchange ideas and
images
– Presenting information clearly
– Absorbing cultural similarities and differences
– Opportunities for pupils to showcase project work.

12. Impact and Benefits for Staff
• School Governors were persuaded to
increase the school’s computer hardware
• eTwinning promoted the culture of sharing
ideas, expertise and concerns.
• Positive impact on gaining promotion for
teachers
• Leading the way with other schools in the
locality.
• Link to all that the British Council has to offer.

13. Purpose of the initiative

14. Professional Development and
the International Dimension
Key Action 1
Key Action 1
Jean Monnet
Activities
Key Action 2
Key Action 3
Sport

15. Ambassador Support
School
Contact
Towers Junior
Ambassador
Perry Kimble/Jenny Bryden
John Warwick
Elm Park Primary
Christopher Speller
Alicia Diez
Clockhouse Primary
Kylie Ship
Retini DunLeavy
Harold Court Primary
Emma Burns
Alicia Diez
Scargill Junior
Minni Gleeson
Drew Buddy
St Mary's Catholic Primary
Maree Deane
Ronnie Ford Mendina
Gidea Park Primary
Joanne Miles
John Warwick
Hilldene Primary
Emma Rogers
John Wawick
Scargill Infant
Allyson Tyler
Anne/Nick

16. What happens next?
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Ambassador contact
Two training/support sessions
Distant support
Additional training and support
Evaluation

17. The eTwinning Portal
www.etwinning.net