European shopping
Convert your classroom or school hall into a European market for a day get groups or classes to focus on a different country in Europe and set up learning market stalls.  Information and activities about the specific country, including the geography, history, produce and language could be displayed with worksheets to help students from other classes or groups explore.  You could even collect currency and explore exchange rates.

European newspaper
Classes could work together to create a European Newsletter, exploring the idea that we are all citizens of Europe and therefore European issues are important to us.  The paper could have articles in different languages and include interviews with people from within and around the school community who are from another European Country.  Links with schools in Europe could be made and pictures and articles exchanged.

European Awareness day
Schools could hold a European awareness day where each lesson taught incorporated some aspect of Europe, i.e., Literacy or English could include a poet or writer from a European country, Science could concentrate specifically on the work of a European etc.  At the end of the day students could put together a report on the things that they had learned, which could be posted on this web site.

Rent a role
Language teachers and assistants could be rented out to teach a main stream school subject in a Modern Foreign Language, or community language.

School story writing
A class or group of secondary pupils could write a story or play, perhaps taken from a traditional myth or legend from a European country, which is then perform for their local primary schools.  The work could be viewed via this website, and/or made into a book and presented to the primary school library.

European Career day
With the advent of improved technology and the world wide web, many Birmingham companies now trade all over Europe.  A career day looking at specific job opportunities with European companies would give older students an opportunity to explore future career tracks that could take them into Europe.  Career and Education Business Partnerships can help you establish links with suitable employers.

European Treasure Chest
The European Resource Centre (ERC) has available free to schools a ‘Treasure Chest’ of activities to help run Europe Day and weeks.  The secondary and primary chests can be loaned by contacting Martin Wilkinson at the ERC.  Full contact details are given on our Useful People page.

European Chain E- Mail
How far and to how many countries can an e-mail letter go to in a day?  Imagine your class constructing a letter and sending it to another class in a country in Europe with the instructions that they should add a paragraph about themselves return it to you and forward it to another class in a different country, who then follow the same set of instructions.  Your class could monitor the progress of the letter throughout the day, and review how many miles it would have travelled, the different languages used, etc.  The final letter with all the added paragraphs could be posted on this website, and the school could write a report on their experience.