eTwinning
eTwinning is a European community of schools in which our classes run joint projects with peers from other countries, without leaving school.
What an eTwinning project involves
Two or more classes from different countries choose a shared topic and work on it together for several weeks or months. Students exchange photos of their work, recordings, surveys and messages. At the end they create a joint result, for example a book, a map or a game.
We run projects during lessons, most often English, science, art and computer science. Taking part is free and involves the whole class, not just selected students.
Who it is for
Grades 1 to 8 take part in eTwinning. With the youngest we run simple picture-based projects: drawings, songs and seasonal greeting cards. Older grades write in English and take part in video calls.
eTwinning in numbers
Sample project topics
- Trees in our area – classes from several countries describe the trees near their schools and compare the seasons.
- Fairy tales from our region – each class illustrates and records one fairy tale, and together they create a shared book.
- Maths in the kitchen – students scale recipes for their favourite dishes and swap them with their partners.
- A day at my school – classes show their daily timetable, breaks and activities, and then look for similarities and differences.
- Healthy breakfast – a survey among students from several schools and a joint poster with the results.
How the project works
Partners and plan
The teacher finds a partner class on the platform and agrees the topic, plan and division of tasks with its teacher.
Working together
Students prepare materials during lessons and upload them to the closed project space.
Results and assessment
The classes create a joint product, evaluate the project in a survey and present the result at school.
A safe platform
eTwinning runs on a closed platform for schools. Only teachers can create an account, and the national programme team checks that they work at the school.
Students work only within their own project space. Their accounts are set up by the teacher, and people outside the project cannot see their work or messages.
Quality labels
Well-planned and engaging projects can receive a national quality label, and the best ones a European one too. The label is awarded by the programme team at the teacher's request, after the project ends.
The assessment covers cooperation between classes, students' involvement in decisions, safe use of the internet and how the project links to the curriculum. The label goes to the teacher and the whole class, and we announce it in the news.
Parents' questions about eTwinning
Does my child need their own online account?
Your child does not need any social media account. If the project requires it, the teacher sets up an account for the student in the closed project space and shows them how to use it safely.
Does my child work on a computer at home?
We run projects during lessons, on school equipment. Sometimes students bring a photo, drawing or recipe from home, but they do not need to do anything online outside school.
Does the project affect grades?
The teacher may assess project work as part of their subject, like other classroom tasks. Taking part in the project itself is not graded.
Can parents see the class's work?
Yes. We present the results at school exhibitions, at the project showcase in June and in the news on this website.
At first I didn't believe that someone in another country would read our fairy tale. Then our partners sent us a recording of them reading it aloud.
Every day my son told me what the class abroad had sent. What I liked most was that everything happened during lessons, under the teacher's supervision.
Damian Kalinowski, English teacher – eTwinning coordinator
We reply on working days, within three days.
Projects in the news
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Erasmus+: welcoming guests from our partner school in Spain
For a week we hosted twelve pupils and two teachers from our partner school in Valencia, Spain. The visitors attended lessons with us and worked together with our pupils on a joint project.
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Erasmus+: getting ready to welcome our visitors from Spain
This week a group arrives from our partner school in Valencia. Pupils in Grades 7–8 have prepared the programme for the week, guides to the school and stations for joint workshops.
Read more →eTwinning: Grade 6 starts a project with peers from across Europe
Grade 6 classes have joined a new eTwinning project with schools from Portugal, Czechia and Italy. The topic is favourite places in the neighbourhood, and the result will be a shared guide to four towns.
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