LTT Southampton, UK

LTT Southampton - May 2022

This short-term joint staff training event was supposed to be the first meeting on the local Heritage Route as it was planned for February 2021. However, because of the pandemic and long lockdowns in Great Britain, visiting Southampton was possible in May 2022.

The mobility lasted 3 full training days. Four participants from all partner organizations met together to gain knowledge of British Heritage and new teaching and intercultural competencies, as well as to exchange good practices, experience and ideas and to get new inspiration for their lessons. The participating teams consisted of teachers and staff members responsible for educational offer.

To make the British Heritage Route more universal and interesting for different generations of adult paricipants, the British partner created its British Heritage Route of British Music Through The Generations. The route presented the impact of British music on the world, starting in Liverpool (The Beatles), moving to Manchester and then down to London. It included virtual visits to iconic locations- Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, The Cavern Club, Liverpool. British music and its history will be turned into educational and European integration tool.

Educational presentations covered different decades 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and different musical styles- ska, new wave, punk, glam rock, dance etc. They developed themes around lyrics, using music in the classroom and the musical intonation of English: lyric construction and link to English pronunciation and stress-times nature of English. It also involved the many idioms used in song.

Apart from gaining new knowledge of this part of British Heritage, participating educators gained new teaching skills, exchange experience, best practices and ideas for their lessons. A member of the Polish team, Gerard Nowak, who specializes in teaching British pronunciation with the help of British music, organized a singalong workshop during the mobility. All participants sang together and learned how to pronounce well different expressions and  sentences. Teachers became inspired how to use musical heritage in language and culture teaching.

 

 

Activities carried out by participants:

  • Learning about British culture – Colonialism and British culture: the influence of former subjects of the British empire on art, literature, music, food, economy, religion, languages and dialects of the UK 
  • Learning about the impact of British music on the world – interactive presentation of the musical heritage of the UK and the Evolution of Popular Music in the UK: 1960s to 2010s
  •  Interactive virtual visits to iconic locations – Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, The Cavern Club, Liverpool, Albert Docks, Liverpool and tour around the British Music
  • Theoretical learning on Cultural Heritage and music using music as educational and European integration tool
  • Theoretical approach -presentation & discussion: ow you can use music as a tool to deliver language and cultural learning.
  • Share of good practices from all partners: Singalong meeting with elements of British pronunciation, a workshop by the Polish team
  • Getting to know places, traditions and cultural elements of the city of Southampton: visiting Titanic Engineers’ Memorial in East Park, the Medieval City Walls, Visit Tudor House and Gardens from the late 15th century, Medieval Merchant’s House
  • Visiting Visit the SeaCity Museum and getting to know story of the people of Southampton and their role in Britain’s rich maritime history and heritage, including the stories of those who departed from (or arrived in) the port over the centuries.
  • Exploring the Titanic Story which tells of Southampton’s connection to the ill-fated vessel, which sailed from the port in 1912
  • Taking part in a Tour at Hythe with the Ferry, walking along Hythe Pier, which runs from the centre of the village out into the estuary for 640 metres, making it one of the ten longest piers in the British Isles.  The quirky heritage tramway

Main results include:

  • Improved competences of adult education teachers: teaching and intercultural skills, wider knowledge of British heritage, new inspiration for culture lessons from exchanging best practices and ideas.
  •  British Musical Heritage Route promoted as a carrier of important knowledge and common values thorough the project website where participant could present descriptions of visited places, routes developed, information about British music, photos and videos from the mobility, participants could post their own impressions, descriptions, comments, photos and videos about what they have experienced in UK.
  • developing relationships between the staff of the 4 institutions from different regions of Europe, getting to know and integration of teams of educators, exchanging experience