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2011 IIME REPORTCountry:Wales
School [Bryn Hafren Comprehensive] Teacher [Miss Gemma Price/Miss Tracy Evans (Year 8: /16 students )JP School [Noinoikhe Junior High School ] Teacher [Shuhei]# Subjects, Activities and Times of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
ICT
Create a DVD of ourselves and our school. Designed a PowerPoint for ourJapanese friends on our school.
ResearchResearching Japanese Culture. Researching what our Japanese friends do atChristmas.
Creativity
Creating introduction cards. Creating Halloween Cards. Creating Christmas
cards. Designing and creating the mural.

Times
6 hours +6 hours +15 hours +# Theme and Message of the mural
Friendships across the world
ThemeMessage

We Wanted to show that it doesn’t matter what culture or what differences we have, we can all
still be friends. Learning about other cultures is interesting and fun. Different cultures makethe world a more colourful plade.

# Effects and the Problems
Effects your students have gained
Points for further improvement
Developed their working with other skills.
Would like to have more ‘real’ contact with partner
Developed their understanding of different cultures and school. Possibly trying ‘skype’
who we can promote friendships and peace.
Needed to use the forum much more effectively
Developed their research and ICT skills.
Developed their creativity skills.

# Have you made your activity open in your school or in your local area? How was their reaction or reputation?

PR you did inside/out of your school
Displayed mural in the main hall.
In school magazine.
In local newspaper.
On school website.
Special assembly to praise and congratulate the pupils,
as well as inform the rest of the school about theproject.
# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthIntroductionResearchComposition

Painting

AppreciationOct

Nov JanDec

Jan-FebFeb

Reaction/reputation from aroundPeople were very impressed. The parents of the pupils
were extremely pleased with the opportunities theirchildren have been provided with.

What you did
Your students attitude/reflection
Introduction cards.
Pupils really enjoyed reading and looking aDVD of school.
pictures on introduction cards. They reallyPowerPoint with pictures of enjoyed making DVD, but even more soschool life.
enjoyed watching their friends DVD.
Used the internet to research
Japanese culture.
We madenotes and ‘mini posters’ inpractice for our mural. We also
researched Japanese Halloween
and Christmas, and made cards
for their friends. They asked
their friends what they did forthese celebrations and enjoyedreading their replies.

Pupils enjoyed learning about Japanesecultures and comparing it with Welsh culture.
They also enjoyed making notes to tell their
Japanese friends all about Welsh Culture.
They loved the creating of Christmas Cards
and Halloween Cards, they were excited toreceive cards too.

Our Japanese partner schooldrew a brief design. We madesuggestions (i.e. to do one half on
Welsh culture
rather thanBritish culture). Our Japanesepartners
accepted
oursuggestions – a really good
partner school to work with.
The pupils drew the outline inpencil and then painted it
together

Pupils enjoyed looking at our partner schools
suggestion for the mural. They liked adding
their own ideas to the mural – it felt like amutual friendship between the two schools.

Displayed in main hall.
On school website.
On school magazine
In local newspaper

Fantastic team work skills. Pupils enjoyedusing the ‘special’ paints and materials.
They loved the chance to be creative andwere really excited when they saw what ourJapanese friends had painted for the ‘Welsh’side.
Pupils loved seeing their work up on display
and in other forms of media.

Subject

# Aim of the Lessons and Result
Rank (1 to 9 in order you put stress on)

Mark (5:very effective / 4:effective / 3:so so / 2:not so effective / 1:not effective at all)

AimRankMark

understanding our owncultures

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understanding otherculturescommunication ability
interactively, in EnglishIT skills
online forum and VC

Creating friendshipin the class/with partners

Collaborationin the class/with partners

Keeping motivation highpositive attitude in learning

Expression ability
in painting

Appreciation ability
reading the painting

14

95

6

3

Through research, and through watching their partner
schools DVD and reading what their partner school had
written in their introduction cards.

4

Excellent use of the internet for research, using
camcorder to make DVD, creating PowerPoints etc.
However ,l more use could have been made of theforum.

4Pupils made excellent friendships and strengthened
existing friendships within the classroom. However, I
feel we could have made stronger relationships with ourpartner school I feel – possibly through Skype or theforum.

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How your students have reached it
Through research, and in lessons throughout school
curriculum

5Fantastic teamwork. We worked well together withexcellent communication via email etc. When deciding
upon the mural our Japanese friends drew the original
design, and then accepted suggestions from us.
We held this project every Wednesday after school foran hour each week. Pupils were highly motivated andreally enjoyed the experience.
Pupils expressed exactly what they wanted to throughtheir painting. They showed complete differences incultures and countries, as well as showing friendships
can still exist (the holding of hands showed this), plus
they showed the time difference through the red zigzag
down the middle and the clocks.
All the school appreciated the finished mural when it
was displayed in the main hall for two weeks. It wasalso in school magazine and local newspaper, on school
website and we had a special assembly to teach otherpupils about our project

Please submit to jam@artmile.jp . Thank you for your cooperation.

Than k you so much for such a fantastic opportunity you have provided our pupils at Bryn Hafren Comprehen sive
School (as well as us teachers!)