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BOOST
Building On Opportunities for Story Telling
Scholastic Years 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 extended to June 2022 due to COVID-19.
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STEM for Life
Scholastic Years 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 extended to June 2022 due to COVID-19.
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LATCH
Literacy at the Children’s Hearts
Scholastic Years 2017-2018 and 2018-2019
Our School was accepted for an Erasmus + project during Scholastic Years 2017-2018 and 2018-2019, with four other schools abroad. The project title is LITERACY AT THE CHILDREN’S HEARTS with the project acronym LATCH. The schools participating with us are from: Portlaoise Ireland, Maribor Slovenia, Kopavogur Iceland and Macroom Ireland.
The first meeting was at our school on the 20th October 2017, with our four partners visiting the classes and afterwards meeting together in Sr Antonia’s office in order to plan this year’s work together.
The visitors were very impressed with the school atmosphere and the children’s good behaviour. The children welcomed these visitors with songs and asked questions about their countries.
Ms A. Gauci
Assistant Head
Mobility to Ireland (Portlaoise) – 21st – 25th November 2017
Staff who attended:
Ms Marise Bugeja – Assistant Head & School Project Coordinator
Ms Annabella Gauci – Assistant Head
Ms Sonia Bezzina – Teacher
Ms Alison Axisa – Teacher
In Portlaoise, we observed English lessons using Comprehension boxes with leveled reading and understanding texts with a variety of genres. We bought them and adopted them in our school as we realised that they are an excellent tool to reach all levels of reading and understanding among our pupils.
Mobility to Slovenia (Maribor) – 19th – 23rd March 2018
Staff who attended:
Sr Antonia Bugeja – Head of School
Ms Marise Bugeja – Assistant Head & School Project Coordinator
Ms Rita Bellizzi – Teacher
Mr Roderick Spiteri – Teacher
Mobility to and Transnational Meeting in Iceland (Kopavogur)
14th – 18th May 2018 and October 2018 respectively
Staff who attended for the Mobility
Ms Marise Bugeja – Assistant Head & School Project Coordinator
Ms Olivia Spiteri – LSE
Ms Christine Zammit – LSE
Staff who attended for the Transnational Meeting:
Ms Marise Bugeja – Assistant Head & School Project Coordinator
Ms Michelle Pace Moore – Teacher
Mobility to Ireland (Cork) – 23rd – 25th October 2018
Staff who attended:
Sr Antonia Bugeja – Head of School
Ms Marise Bugeja – Assistant Head & School Project Coordinator
Ms Maria Cutajar – Teacher
Ms Katya Mercieca Grech – Teacher
Mr Joseph Vella – Teacher
Transnational Meeting in Slovenia – 27th – 31st March 2019
Staff who attended:
Ms Marise Bugeja – Assistant Head & School Project Coordinator
Ms Sonia Bezzina – Assistant Head
Ms Jacqueline Graham – LSE
Professional development through Erasmus +
Teachers strongly believe in the importance of continuous professional development. One of the ways is through projects funded by the EU such as this Erasmus + project LATCH.
Two members of staff and a Learning Support Educator have recently returned from a trip to Maribor in Slovenia where they were welcomed by the staff and pupils of the OS Borcev za Severno Mejo School. This trip was part of a series of trips to Iceland, Ireland Macroom and Portlaise, and Slovenia in which the Maltese teachers, LSEs and members of staff participated. This time the trip was targeted at evaluating achievements and finalising the programme which will be coming to an end in June with a second visit by the foreign partners to Malta.
Through this programme, which was called LATCH (Literacy at the Children’s Hearts) and which commenced in 2017, all partners worked together on different strategies in implementing literacy. With this project coming to an end in June 2019, Theresa Nuzzo School is already trying to embark on another Erasmus + Project as a continuation of the first, this time acting as coordinators.
Our Staff has also attended the workshop on The Finnish Educational System held at the Dolmen Hotel, Qawra, Malta on 8th March 2018. This workshop was in collaboration with the Tumas Fenech Foundation for Education in Journalism and Mater Boni Consilii St Joseph School, Paola.
The programme included the following themes:
The project was concluded in Malta in May 2019.
During the whole project, our Mascot LATCH traveled from one country to the other and wrote his experience.
My journey came to an end on a small island in the centre of the Mediterranean, Malta. It is an island with a very interesting history and culture and surrounded by clear blue sea. The people speak their own language which is Maltese, but I was surprised to find that all children speak a second language which is English!
As I entered the library of Theresa Nuzzo School I found out that it had just been refurbished. The shelves were loaded with newly bought books in both languages. I was so pleased when I realised that I was a contributor to this upgrade in the library.
Every child knew about me and I felt like a real star as children held me close to them and took pictures of us.
Now, that l’ve dropped anchor on this island I will stay with the pupils of Theresa Nuzzo School because I know that literacy is at their heart.
