Seven countries, eight stories.

The Comenius partnership is around a storytelling project. We think that stories stimulate our pupils to develop their fantasy, imagination and creativity. They can learn how to find solutions to difficulties and problems and realize how things can be seen by others. Stories are a bridge between people of different cultures. Over the two years we will listen to and discuss traditional stories and traditions from the countries in the project. Each time these stories are exchanged we will learn about the country it has come from as well as the school. We will create a special place in our libraries to read these stories around a big armchair which will be decorated with items from the other partners. We will work around these stories, in different ways, and we will increase our knowledge about the characters that appear in them: In Finland and Belgium we will find out about the magic of nature with fairies, elves and gnomes; in the United Kingdom the rich fantasy that is written about, in the East the mystery in their stories and in the South, stories about every day-life with good natured and mischievous characters. An interesting mosaic for our pupils to discover we have a common European history and tradition. Finally we will write a common story using all these characters around Puss in Boots.