A reminder – What is The European Christmas Tree Decoration Exchange?
- A cultural exchange project where primary schoolchildren make Christmas tree decorations
to send to other schools across Europe. - Pupils send a presentation about how Christmas is celebrated in their community together
with their wishes for 2024, - Schools send a photograph of their fully decorated tree to international@durham.gov.uk
Participating schools are organised into exchange groups of no more than 25. Therefore, each
school will send and receive up to 24 decorations from the other schools in their group.
Benefits
For schools: Pupils learn all about the geography of our continent and are introduced to cultural
differences and similarities. ICT and foreign language skills are developed.
Aims
Young people in primary schools learn about other countries in Europe through a creative and fun
activity.
Each school learns about their own culture and traditions through making their decorations and
putting together an information pack on Christmas in their region and also discovers other
European cultures and traditions.
It is hoped that schools will maintain the contacts with those in their groups and continue to work in
partnership in the future.
Outcome
Each school should use the decorations they receive from partners to decorate a Christmas tree in
a prominent area in their school or local community.
Schools will also receive an information pack from each of their partners to explain how Christmas
is celebrated in other European countries.