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Service-learning in Romania by the hand of Chess

 

 

Initially, the project was carried out by 5th, 7th, 8th and 10th grade students, but it ended as a complete school project where all primary school students started learning chess one lesson a week and secondary school students volunteered to help the younger ones. With the growth of the project, students began to include older people from Gheorgheni Day Centre to share chess games.
The project covers several of the curricular spaces: ranging from mathematical problems to chess games in Mathematics, board designs in Art, Technology, etc.
The Municipality of Cluj-Napoca understood from the beginning the added value of the project and officially accepted the institution's request to use the public space to build the chess board. Currently, 450/500 students from the Cluj School are participating in the project, which is being articulated by 24 students and two teachers from the Nova International School Skopje of the Republic of Macedonia, as well as local authorities, parents and grandparents of the students.