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The title of the project is “Bringing Europe Alive through Reading and Storytelling” (BEARS) and bears form the central theme of this project, which focuses on storytelling.

Five bears started their journey at a contact seminar in Durham and have travelled to each of the participating schools. These bears will be the vehicle for information exchange, for cooperation and for creativity. Their story will be the story of the project.

The project has a twofold focus :

The first focus of the proposed project is on the development of literacy through the medium of storytelling. Storytelling touches the heart of children's understanding of the world and through this medium we hope that children will explore the stories of their own locality, learn about their own geographical and historical context, develop their literacy skills in the process and share their stories with their new friends in partner schools.

In so doing, we will address the second focus of the project which is on developing European citizenship through the establishment of contact and friendships with children in partner schools.

We will be exposed to and learn the stories of our partners and learn about the different social and environmental contexts of these schools and of the children who attend them.  

We plan that children will experience the thrill and creativity of jointly creating and collaborating in the creation of a shared story with their partners across Europe.