Presentation presented during international conference in Cuenca in Spain

1. Diversity of international
projects at school in Poland
Szkoła Podstawowa nr 9 im. Mikołaja Kopernika w Dzierżoniowie
Nicolaus Copernicus Primary School № 9 in Dzierżoniów, Poland

2. Szkoła Podstawowa nr 9 im. Mikołaja Kopernika in Dzierżoniów
is a middle-sized school with 575 pupils aged from 7 to 15 in 25 classes (Years 1-8) located
a mountainous region in south-west Poland in Lower Silesia.
SP 9 Dzierżoniów is a place of work for 45 teachers.

3.  The school provides education not only for students from Dzierżoniów, but from the nearest
villages too. All the classes learn English as a second language. From Year 7 students learn
German. From Year 4 we have sports classes with 10 PE lessons a week. Boys train football and
the girls - handball and gymnastics.
 Our pupils come from different social levels and some of their families get subsistence from a
social welfare program.

4. Educational aims
 Our graduates:
- are open to another cultures, languages and countries
- are confident and aware of the needs of today’s world
- know how helpful is foreign languages knowledge
- have the key competences developed enough to manage on another
educational level

5. International cooperation with European
schools focused on students’ competences
developement
 Since 2005 SP 9 Dzierżoniów has been taking part in eTwinning program with plenty of
successful projects

6. 2012-2014 Comenius project
What we want – building for the future of Europe

7. 2017-2018 Euroregion Glacensis project
Discovering Czech-Polish borderland together

8. Since 2018 Erasmus+ KA2 project
Heritage around us

9. SP 9 Dzierżoniów has cooperated with the
following countries
 Potugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Germany,
Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Moldova,
FYROM, Georgia, Slovenia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey, Romania, Croatia,…

10. Our international eTwinning projects
 30 of them were awarded with Quality Label
 Many were awarded with National eTwinning Awards in: Poland (6 of
them), Spain, Portugal, United Kingdom, Greece, Italy, Estonia, Czech
Republic
 Some titles: Discovering Europe, Origami Wonders, Nature Explorers
Club, Ecosystems around us…, Christmas Truce, WW2 – our shared
history, True stories from WW2, The Genius’ Log, European Passport
of Languages, Etwinning Challenges for Teachers , Christmas
Connections, Smart Surfers, Wonders of Nature, Wojtek – the Soldier
Bear, eTwinning Path to Happiness, Healthy Lifestyle Guidebook,
Looking for similarities,…

11. Strong points of e-Ties
 A big group of teachers cooperate together
 Experience exchange among teachers from different countries
 Higher and higher level of English in communication
 Multicultural aspect well developed
 It is worth following

12. Benefits for SP 9 Dzierżoniów by participating in
e-Ties.
 Experience exchange
 Spanish Day at school!
 An eTwinning project was done
 School promotion in local media 
 Students involement as they had
the opportunity:
- to talk to a Spanish teacher
- to know some Spanish words
- to know Spanish culture, food

14. Spanish Day

15. Conclusions
Erasmus+ KA1 project gives the opportunity for teachers to:
 exchange their profesional experience
 improve their knowledge of English
 understand another countries’ school life
 compare the systems of education
 learn from guests/hosts experience
 start international cooperation

16. Erasmus+ KA2 School Partnership project idea
To Healthy Lifestyle Step by Step
Objectives:
 encourage students to spend more time outside doing sports and sightseeing
 discuss healthy diet (new food pyramid) and show them how the diet can
influence our health
 promote board games and logic games
 illustrate the students how children spent time 20/30/60 years ago

17. Thank you 
Anna Szczepaniak
Szkoła Podstawowa nr 9
im. Mikołaja Kopernika
Dzierżoniów, Poland