City Girls Awarded eTwinning Quality Label by the British Council

The British Council eTwinning Quality Label is awarded in recognition to European work, allowing those involved to share these accomplishments with the wider community. Year 7 Spanish students were recently awarded a quality label for their project ‘FUSE’. FUSE is a project that aims to promote intercultural understanding through a variety of cross curricular skills among four different European countries. This project was created in the eTwinning+ Conference in Krakow, October 2013 thanks to the liaison between three teachers from France, UK and Ukraine. A fourth partner from Spain was later added to the project. FUSE explores festivities, cultures and traditions, traditional recipes and music. The final aim of this project is to create an intercultural song and dance in the four different languages used in the project, promoting equality, understanding and respect. The name comprises the initials of the countries involved (France, UK, Ukraine, Spain) and the final E stands for eTwinning.
The application received fantastic reviews from the judges, as per their comment below: “Wow! Real WOW! Factor in this project-well done! Well-considered and thought-through pedagogically. Very learning focused and at the same time creative and innovative. Student-moderated and real enthusiasm of students evident in the visual materials. This has really contributed to skills development in the young people – they confidently articulate their learning. External partnership working is creative and very relevant (Spanish musician) and will contribute to a fantastic end product and outcomes. Superb evidence of creative use of broad range of ICT. Not only developing an international dimension to teaching and learning, but also because of success of the project, contributing to embedding the international dimension in the school….A vivid example of making learning fun!”
Located in the Barbican, at the heart of the City of London, ‘City girls’ are encouraged to pursue subjects and extra-curricular activities which they excel at and their academic and personal confidence is boosted by the school’s supportive environment and long-standing record of achievement.