Hi,

My name is Anna Gluszczak. I am a teacher of English in a primary school in Gdynia in the north part of Poland. My students are seven-, eight- and nine years old. I've got twelve classes altogether.

I'm looking for pen friends - children abroad, preferably whole classes, who would exchange letters with my students. We could send postcards, photographs, flags and information about our countries to each other. This project would be prepared in class. I think that writing letters, even the simpliest sentences, like 'Hello, I'm Julia. What's your name?" gives the students the great opportunity and satisfaction to use the language they have learned, as well as helps them realize better the whole idea of learning a foreign language. Everyone loves receiving letters, so I think that getting them in classes, reading and being able to understand will increase the children's motivation for further learning.

If you find the idea useful for your students, please mail to me soon or write to my school:

Anna Gluszczak
Szkola Podstawowa nr 45
ul. Wiczlinska 33
81-578 Gdynia
Poland

Looking forward to hearing from you,

Anna

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Seixal, 14th October 2002
Dear Willy,
Thanks a lot for your last e.mail.

It is a good idea to integrate in a Project, at least, two schools inside the European Community and two schools with candidates to the EU. I agree that it could be in Estonia, Letonia or Lituania. I also can suggest a polish school from Chiechanow, where I have a very good relationship with some teachers.
About our school, let me tell you that our pupils have ages from 10 to 15 years old. We have about 800 pupils and 90 teachers. Our school is situated in the other side of the Tagus River, in front os Lisbon.
In order to create a good group of schools, firstly we have to plan a Preparatory visit. Any way, we don’t have too much time, because we have to organise it two months before. What do you think about organizing it in Austria? The end of January 2003 could be a possibility, but it has to be accepted by your National Agency.
Our idea could be a Comenius Project 1.3 (School development Project) and I have already a suggestion: The title could be IMAGINE, based in a song from John Lennon, and it would talk about “making a better school based in good relationship among all the pupils, never mind if they are immigrants or not. “Imagine all the people living in a world of peace and understanding ” would wish to exchange experiences in traditional culture, music, sports, literature… in a perspective of integration in a “big” Europe. About all this, the Educational Projects of each school would be very important to its development.
But this is only an idea, based in our Educational Project School:

“ Giving life a sense “ .
Well, that’s all for the moment. I’ll be waiting for your opinion about this idea, and remember, this is only an idea, nothing else for the moment.
Best regards

Vítor Costa

Lieber Herr Wallner!
Leider komme ich erst jetzt dazu Ihnen zu schreiben. Sie hatten ein E-Mail an unsere Schule geschickt, welches mein Schulleiter an mich weitergeleitet hat.
Wie sie sicher aus der Website erfahren haben, sind wir eine Britische Schule. Da in Penang viele Deutsche leben, ist vor Jahren ein Deutscher Schulverein gebildet worden, der dann an die St. Christopher´s angegliedert wurde.
Zur Zeit habe ich 8 Kinder im Alter von 4 bis 16 Jahren, die nachmittags nach der Schule zweimal in der Woche zu mir zum Deutschunterricht kommen.
Außerdem lernen unsere Kinder in Year 5 und 6 Deutsch als Fremndsprache.

Vielleicht hätten Sie ja Lust mal ein gemeinsames Projekt zu machen. Es gibt da zum Beispiel dieses Projekt "Schreiben einer Geschichte" - die Kinder schreiben jeweils einen Satz und die Geschichte wird so hin und her geschickt. Melden Sie sich mal, falls es Sie interessiert.

So verbleibe ich erstmal mit herzlichen Grüßen aus Penang
Martina Schmidt