Comenius News 6 My World, Your World, Our World!
March 2012
Hog vagy from Hungary The Ney Ferenc Kindergarten had the great privilege to host the delegations of the ’My world, your world, our world’ Mobility 5 Comenius Schools Partnership Project from England, France, Spain and Sweden from 18th March to 21st March 2012. On Monday, we invited the participants to the ’Nyitnikék’ Folk Dance and Folk Songs Festival at the Ney Ferenc Kindergarten. The guests listened to the songs, watched the children’s dancing, and learnt about the Hungarian national costumes. After the morning programme, we sat down and discussed why teaching music, singing and national traditions at an early age is such an important task in our kindergarten education. On Tuesday morning, the guests were involved in the regular program of the kindergarten. They could work together with the children in their groups, could take part in games, could teach and learn songs and nursery rhymes. Afterwards, we exchanged the albums, we gave presents to each other in the garden where the children were also present. This meeting was a really good opportunity for the teachers’ professional development, as all the colleagues could get some good ideas about the different educational styles in other countries and institutions, the guests could also learn about our curriculum and daily programs.
Thank you to Ibolya, Judit and the Hungarian team for a wonderfully organised trip to Hungary! The itinerary enabled the team, Mrs Barrass, Mrs Brailsford, Mrs Pitman and Mrs Wood to learn lots about Hungarian culture, for example dance music and food. The Hungarians are a proud nation and this was demonstrated through the children' dancing at the spring folk festival where individuals sang Solos, played instruments and danced in front of their friends and teachers. The children at the nursery school are taught in mixed age groups from three to seven years and it was interesting to witness the older ones supporting the younger ones. Children are able to listen and engage in lessons and then leave to join another activity when they feel they have had enough. There are no end of year or phase academic expectations and this means that the school can focus purely on teaching personal and social skills - children don' t encounter any teaching of reading or writing until the age of seven when teaching then becomes very formal. Thank you once again for a trip which gave the team plenty of time to interact with our partners from Spain, France, Sweden and Hungary and providing the much needed translation that helped to make this trip so successful. We have lots of food for thought and some very interesting photos to share!!!!!!
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