Jantar students contribute to 2021 Erasmus Days

In 2017, on the 30th anniversary of the Erasmus program, Europe began celebrating Erasmus Days. In the few years of its existence, the success of the #ErasmusDays has proven the need to communicate European values, mobility’s benefits and Erasmus+ projects results at a large scale in order to be visible by citizens, professionals, media and policy makers.

The 5th edition of the #ErasmusDays took place on the 14th, 15th and 16th of October 2021 and our school Jantar decided to join the event. Since we are currently implementing several Erasmus programs, we decided to give our participants a little sneak peek into some of the results of our KA2 projects. So our students tried out what we do in the Remote Theatre project, learned what Virtual Reality for Language Learning looks like, saw what stage we are at with the City Stories project, and learned how to do standardized tests in Next Generation Placement Tests.

Remote Theatre is a project in which we create a handbook for teachers, a collection of plays ready to be performed using Remote Theatre and a web application which will serve as a main hub for developing and sharing scripts and plays, and ensure transferability of our project to other fields. The participants of our teacher Mara tried the activity and adopted the English grammar in a completely different way.

Virtual Reality for Language Learning is our first KA2 project and is already well advanced. Teacher Ante and his students stepped onto a deserted island with the help of VR goggles, so they communicated in English and collaborated to solve the problems they encountered in virtual reality.

City Stories and Next Generation Placement Tests projects are in their infancy but we have already been able to show a lot to our students. They worked with teacher Mira on interactive activities through stories that will soon become the so-called escape rooms, while teacher Marina’s students saw how we do tests and questions for different levels according to CEFR, so they tried it themselves.