UK National Priorities 2011-2013

The following is taken from the British Council website:
we need to look carefully at how our proposals fit into this model.
National Award Criteria 2011

Partnerships which address the theme of entrepreneurship/skills development and/or which develop pupils' employment skills.
Partnerships involving disadvantaged and/or under-represented groups (including ethnic minorities, migrants, looked-after children, special needs students and students from socially and/or economically deprived areas).
Partnerships focussed on pupils at secondary level, including in vocational and/or further education .
Partnerships which address the theme of sport, including the use of sport to address issues such as leadership, active citizenship, healthy lifestyles, and community participation/ cohesion .
Applications from schools / colleges currently registered with the eTwinning Programme and/or for the UK Government’s International School Award, to at least Foundation level.

Up to 3 extra points will be awarded for each of the five national award criteria. This means that UK schools fully addressing all five criteria will score a maximum of 15 extra points in the quality assessment.

Bicycles in Zwolle

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I enhanced the red of this building as I quite liked the colours. We spent the morning cycling Zwolle to get a feel for the town. The schol playground was a sea of bikes-unlike back home in Glasgow where very few folk cycle. Is iftthe numerous steep slopes of our glacial ly derived drumlins or the lack of decent cycle paths on many suburban roads I wonder. Certainly the Netherlands are more cycle friendly.

More brainstorming

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After touring the Doerpark Nooterhof we continued our discussions back at Van Cappelen, All our notes have been saved to disk and converted to a readable format. I;ll upload these shortly, to help show the process of decision making.

Comenius Planning Meeting, 9th November

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Our group met to define the terms of the project. We wanted to look at environmental issues, focusing on sustainability. This white board shows the crative process of coming up with ideas and trying to dind connections. We want to look at local experiences and then draw broader, global conclusions for each topic we study.