Transnational Teaching and Learning Activity - “PE through MFL”
September 17, 2016 - September 24, 2016
Lieto, Finland
In September 2016, 2 students and a PE teacher from each school met in Finland for a week of PE related activities. This was part of the Using MFL to enhance teaching and learning in other subjects (CLIL) strand of our work and involved the students using a foreign language to support the PE activities they did. There was also a coordinators meeting at the same time.
September 17, 2016 - September 24, 2016
Lieto, Finland
In September 2016, 2 students and a PE teacher from each school met in Finland for a week of PE related activities. This was part of the Using MFL to enhance teaching and learning in other subjects (CLIL) strand of our work and involved the students using a foreign language to support the PE activities they did. There was also a coordinators meeting at the same time.
Here you can see all the participants of the PE week in Finland.
The students took part in a variety of normal PE lessons in our school. These included for example orienteering and Finnish baseball. The lessons were delivered mostly in English or Finnish.
During the week the students and the teachers visited the 13th century Turku Castle. A lot of the PE activities were located near Liedon Keskuskoulu but our guests also saw a piece of the beautiful Turku archipelago during a boat tour on Sunday. They got another glimpse of Finnish scenery when hiking through the marshlands in one of the Kuhankuono hiking routes in Kurjenrahka National Park.
The international students also visited our language classes, the German student visited German classes and so on. They introduced themselves and their schools and learned some Finnish. Our students really appreciated the chance to talk with the international students.
During this week our guest students stayed with Finnish host families and were able to have social time together with the other international guests in the evenings, e.g. baking pizza, playing disc golf and visiting a shopping mall.
The PE teachers took part in PE lessons and changed information about different national games and starter activities. They also did some professional development work as to how to increase the usage of MFL in PE lessons. They also had an opportunity to visit other subject classes during the week.
Considering that our guest students participated in both normal PE lessons and language lessons and the PE teachers got to know many teachers in the staff room, we can proudly say that a huge part of our school was involved with the project somehow. So, all in all, the week was a great success.
We hope that the week in Finland increased both the students’ and the teachers’ willingness to use MFL in PE lessons as well as in other lessons too.
You can read more about the activities in the "Joint project work" section.
During the week the students and the teachers visited the 13th century Turku Castle. A lot of the PE activities were located near Liedon Keskuskoulu but our guests also saw a piece of the beautiful Turku archipelago during a boat tour on Sunday. They got another glimpse of Finnish scenery when hiking through the marshlands in one of the Kuhankuono hiking routes in Kurjenrahka National Park.
The international students also visited our language classes, the German student visited German classes and so on. They introduced themselves and their schools and learned some Finnish. Our students really appreciated the chance to talk with the international students.
During this week our guest students stayed with Finnish host families and were able to have social time together with the other international guests in the evenings, e.g. baking pizza, playing disc golf and visiting a shopping mall.
The PE teachers took part in PE lessons and changed information about different national games and starter activities. They also did some professional development work as to how to increase the usage of MFL in PE lessons. They also had an opportunity to visit other subject classes during the week.
Considering that our guest students participated in both normal PE lessons and language lessons and the PE teachers got to know many teachers in the staff room, we can proudly say that a huge part of our school was involved with the project somehow. So, all in all, the week was a great success.
We hope that the week in Finland increased both the students’ and the teachers’ willingness to use MFL in PE lessons as well as in other lessons too.
You can read more about the activities in the "Joint project work" section.