Erasmus+

We were hosted at the lovely Ikast-Brande Gymnasium, a public IB school for grades 10-12. A unique thing about Ikast-Brande is that it is also a boarding school that welcomes, for free, students from all over Europe, among whom are refugees from conflicts in the Middle East and Africa. It is a calm, happy school where students are given a lot of independence but also the standards are quite high. It’s the Danish way, we’re told and the results are impressive!

Continuing with the over-arching theme of our current project, Postfactuel Europe, the students explored dystopian literature and produced videos roughly based on a short story by Margaret Atwood. Divided into multi-national groups of 5, the students got a chance to film their scary vision of the future in deserted German bunkers and the sand dunes of Western Denmark. Our students did a great job, especially in their warm-up dramatization of Cinderella where at the end, the obliging fairy godmother murders the wicked step-sisters for a truly happy finale!

We have two more modules left in this project, and soon 11th graders will be recruited for our next module on propaganda.

For more information, please contact Ms. McNanie: cmc@wolfert.nl