Hi I am responding to your posting
I have just started to consider what i will be preparing with my children in regards to contact with other schools.
Iam also starting to teach art with the aid of the English language in september next term.
I will be working with an experiaced art teacher and will obtain ideas from other art teachers that have been using the english language to teach art for some time.
I have also been working on an art project which I am trying to introduce with schools from around Europe.
The topic might be peace traditions or some thing else,the project would involve schools painting designing a poster of exsprestion.They would write some thing about it or a poem.Each school that participated would in turn receive the collection of posters to have an exhabition with in there school to raise funds for the school or a charity of there choosing.
Do you think that any of your students would be interested?.
I have been working on this web site to help teachers and students obtain a clearer understanding of what we might archive.There have be some very positive responses from countries like,Italy Croatia,Romania,Israel Portugal,Slovenia,,Spain and France so far.
The time taken to produce a mural can be divided over a period of time and in lunch times too.You could use this project as a reward or insentive builder.
You can view our school here.
and here
http://www.escolaelisabeth.cat/
The info about the project European youth murals can be found at the web sit below along with other page headings at the bottom of each page.
http://europeanyouthmurals.wordpress.com/7-2/
I hope that you like what you find and look forward to reading your responce. 
Regards
Nicholas
