partners
Portugal
Agrupamento de Escolas de São João da Talha
1. Our institution is composed of four primary schools with kindergarten, a middle education school and a secondary school with professional education. For 1296 students, there are 162 teachers, 10 administrative technicians and 91 operational assistants. Our students belongs to a lower middle class, where 50% of students benefit from social support. It is situated in the village of S. João da Talha in a disadvantaged urban area of the suburbs of Lisbon, with 17,252 inhabitants (2011’census), in several neighbourhoods, mostly of illegal genesis. Small industry and commerce are the dominant sectors. In the parish there is a gypsy community, whose children represent a minority group. Also In the parish, there is the National Refugee Reception Center, a reason for the
integration of different nationalities in the local community. The classrooms have students from multiple regions of the world, reflecting a great multiculturalism (Angola, Algeria, Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, France, Ghana, Guinea, India, Iraq, Mali, Morocco, Moldova, Nepal, Republic of Congo, Romania, Rwanda, Saint Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Syria, Somalia, South Africa, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, Venezuela). Currently, the group has students
with the refugee status from Angola, Iraq, Republic of Congo, Syria and Venezuela (with the status of exiles), Colombia, Eritrea, Ghana and Rwanda. Also has a total of 150 students with special educational needs, with two Student Support Units for deep disabilities.
2. This project considers the paradigm of inclusion by physical activities, innovation and internationalization of our schools. Moreover: a) to improve the inclusion and integration of students, within students by improving the social, cultural and linguistic competencies; b) improve students' school integration and therefore
scholar’s success; c) To increase the collaborative work among peers; d) Contact and observe other European realities, allowing the comparison of experiences and good practices. In the continuity of the previous projects, the present application intends to complement the work carried out and in progress of integration of students in situations of risk, exclusion, failure and marginalization.
3. Our instituion has a long experience in international participation in the Comenius program and projects such as the host school for young teachers from different countries. It was a partner in several KA2 Erasmus+ projects and KA1 Erasmus+ projects for staff and Job shadowing. In addition, has multiple peer-led projects in several national school networks and support of establishments of Higher Education and Center of teachers training, using etwinning, and
also has as main partner the Lisbon University.
Greece
10o GYMNASIO IRAKLIOY
School Description
http://10gym-irakl.ira.sch.gr/
The 10th Junior High School of Iraklio is a public school with a mentionable number of students (about 300) located at a suburb of Iraklio, Crete, Greece. Students attending the school are aged 12-15 mostly from the areas nearby (Giofyros, Estavromenos and Tsalikaki) while there are a number of students who come to school from rural areas by bus. The students are from a wide range of social and academic backgrounds. The school is getting more and more multicultural because there are more and more students coming from different countries. All these students are always very hard working and enrich school life. When our students finish our school all of them continue to one of several types ofsecondary school, general or vocational. Now in Greece due to financial crisis the number of children is reducing and some schools must be closed. It is big challenge for our school – to be attractive enough for our students and parents. In
addition to regular work we organise and take part in sport activities, we have school choir and school plays, we organize educational trips to other parts of Greece, we engage our students to philanthropic international activities like ActionAid, we encourage our students to participate frequently to our website. There have been environmental projects being carried out in our school such as EURONET 50 / 50 and projects for local tradition, health and nutrition. Also they
have been very active with e-twinning projects, having worked on 5 different topics, with various schools from all over Europe and acquiring a European Quality Label. In 2012-2014 they participated in a COMENIUS project with 4 other countries about photography (2012- -1-PL1-COM06-28256 3 called «Focus On Europe” (http://focusoneurope.isgreat.net ). This project has given to students and teachers expertise in the Art of Photography during various seminars, photo workshops and exhibitions implemented and they would like to expand also to other Visual Arts. Our school took part in two Erasmus+ KA1 projects (2014‐1‐EL01‐KA101‐000187 – Title: “Our School Meets Europe!”) (http://ourschoolmeetseurope.oo.gd) for teacher training in new ICT Technologies and School Management and (2016-1-EL01-KA101-022836 “STAY IN SCHOOL SCHOOL IS FUN”) for multicultural learning. This year, a KA2 project called “Me and EU” is
finishing and is about producing a documentary movie about best practices for integrating refugees in school. We have got a modern computer lab (with 13 workstations) and another outdated but refurbished (with 10 workstations) and interactive boards in four of our classrooms trying our best to modernize and improve our teaching methods. Also the latter years the building of the school has doubled in size giving space and extra labs for technology, art and a huge
library to implement activities. Our key factor as a school for this project is that we could organise a workshop to teach how to produce movies from start.
Malta
Saint Paul's Missionary College
SPMC is an all boys Catholic school having a total of 550 students in its care. While we prepare students for the national academic standards as well as some vocational courses, our main focus is ensuring a more holistic education is provided to our students. We not only have scheduled time table time for students to enrol in extra curricular activities in the areas of sport, performing arts, and other hobbies like robotics or board games. We also participate in a number of national events organised for students such as the robotics Olympiad, science treasure hunt, math competitions, art competitions etc. Creativity is a great priority for our school considering it is an essential 21st century skill. In fact, last year we have embarked on an Erasmus+ KA101 project about nurturing creativity and other related 21st century skills in science education. As part of the outcomes of this project we have joined local and eTwinning projects related to STEAM pedagogies. Ms Alexia Micallef Gatt has been selected as the key person for this project because of her involvement as a key person in the KA101 project. In addition she is completing her M.Ed in Science Education where her research focused on nurturing scientific creativity in students. In fact, she has produced 10 outputs which foster different aspects of creativity and which will be disseminated with other teachers upon completion of the degree. She has also had the opportunity to give 2 teacher training workshops regarding a number of these outputs in Brussels as well as Helsinki in June and November 2018 respectively. Assisting her will be Ms Christine Marie Saliba who is also a science teacher with lots of experience in drama; both as a performer and a teacher. Ms Alexia and Ms Christine are currently working on an eTwinning project to produce a short play related to communicating the plastic ocean problem. Ms Frances and Mr Jonathan will support the project. Ms Frances has completed an M.Ed in Inclusive Education and her research has focused on using creative drama as a pedagogy for literature lessons. Mr Jonathan is a design and technology teacher with experience in set design and stage management. He has designed numerous stage sets for different productions which took place at our large school auditorium
Poland
Publiczna Szkola Podstawowa nr 17 im. Przyjaciol Dzieci w Radomiu
PSP nr 17 is situated near the centre of the city. It has 651 students (5-15 yo) and 73 teaching staff. Children come from families of different social situation, material status and levels of parents' education. For those from families of lower status, school offers free meals, books, materials, etc. There is also a pedagogical assistance given for both children and parents, who need advice, support, and help in solving their problems. There is a wide range of supplementary activities for students to develop their abilities and interests (sports, Art, computers, etc.) as well as classes to help students having problems with learning. They take part in many volunteer actions, visits to the theatre, museums, trips. All our students learn English as a foreign language. PSP No.17 has a rich experience in implementing international projects. The teachers took part in creating and coordinating two Comenius Regio projects which had important impact for partner regions in developing the support for students' families. Moreover, the staff have been working together on other European projects: Comenius, ERASMUS+ KA2: cooperation of the schools as well as two Erasmus+ KA1projects: Mobility of school staff. and many eTwinning projects, some of which were awarded with prizes. These experiences enriched both teachers and students' abilities in organisation and contacts with other nationalities. All teachers participated in many workshops, eg. how to use whiteboards and other ICT tools. Thanks to the mentioned activities, the staff and students improved their communication, organisation and also English skills. 12 teachers form school took part in ICT courses about creative learning and using ICT in process of education. They shared gained knowledge into the process of Education on different levels and subjects. All staff competences will be helpful for implementation and success of this project. Key people in charge of running the project in the school will be a group of people who have reach experience in this field. The first teacher participated in creating, coordinating and implementing the activities of three Comenius/Comenius Regio projects, involved in the implementation of numerous projects within the eTwinning program for 10 years, participates on a Erasmus + KA2 project with 3 European schools, and coordinates two KA1 Projects for 12 teachers. The second teacher co-created some of the projects, took part in a methodological course as part of the Comenius. Both ladies collaborated in the creation of the project as part of the Erasmus Action + Mobility of the School Education, and were coordinated and implemented activities. Next person is the Head teacher who is involved in each project in the school, he coordinates and supports all activities. He is also active ICT teacher and tooks part in many courses, what helps to run the projects. There is also a group of teacher who are involved into realization of projects.
