As it has been mentioned before, our school takes part in a Compensatory Education Plan from which it receives a certain income to fulfill the needs of students at risk of cognitive impairment and low educational achievement success. Some programmes that have been developed thanks to this Plan are:

1.- Programme for Reinforcement, Guidance and Support which is implemented to improve the learning experience of students. It is designed to give students individualized guidance and study support during four hours a week in the afternoons after the class schedule.

2.- “COVID-19” Teachers. During this period of coronavirus pandemic, it has been provided some more members of the staff called “Covid-19” teachers, that are in charge of monitoring the learning process of students that are ill at home (through videocalls), or of students that have been expelled due to discipline issues (these students are usually the ones at risk of dropping out). These teachers track the students progress daily and help them do their homework remotely.

3.- There are also useful learning measures implemented in our school to help students that are most likely to drop out to improve their results. The following ones are some examples:

• The individualized guidance of a specialised counselor in class, who coordinates themselves with the main teacher to help them monitor students with educational needs.

• The conflict mediation of a community counselor that serves as the communication vehicule between the school and the families. Often, those families belong to a minority group such as the gypsies.

• The implementation of curricular adaptations that can involve different learning times, spaces, activities, even a varied range of assessment tools, depending on the educational needs of the students involved.

• The figure of the “guidance student”. It consists of good students with good grades that by using peer learning techniques help to improve the academic results of those students with a lower profile.

The school data revealed that the dropout rate in our school last year was of the 4.25%. That means that 18 students dropout from our school system. The goal for this year is to reduce that rate below 3%. In order to so, it is believed that creating awareness of the importance to reduce the dropout rate among teachers and learners is vital to include and enhance a relaxed and welcoming learning atmosphere in class and outside it.

Hence, the Teacher Learning Centre where our school belongs, has been informed of our learning needs regarding this topic and it is going to work with the school to promote new measures and techniques in that can be used in the classroom, and it is going to contact experts who could guide us in this path by using modern technology to reduce the dropout rate (as in this era of COVID-19, it seems the most sensible tool to use), through the use of a learning platform called Moodle, classroom management behaviour apps such as ClassDojo, or other similar apps where students can immerse through virtual learning and interactive experiences in the digital contents aligned to course curricula.

Moreover, Emotional Intelligence can be a powerful tool to reduce school dropout and it can provide teachers with instruments, strategies and techniques of school dropout and the reduction of violent and aggressive behaviour. Emotional Intelligence allows the individual to communicate, lead and negotiate with others. Emotional Intelligence actually enables a person to gain more in an educational setting, since the individual is able to integrate well both socially and academically. Therefore, the school thinks it is critical to students learning process.

Furthermore, we have two successful projects taking place every year in school that we developed in order to promote a close relationship between students and teachers and student motivation and wellbeing which we want to promote and use in this project:

- Music Week provides an example of how some of our students who are likely to drop out usually have some artistic talents (singing, dancing, playing an instrument). The music teachers take advantage of that by creating a music festival where students expose their talents in front of the whole school. The students who participate have to come to school in the afternoons to rehearse several months in advance.

- Films Educate promotes the creation of short films to highlight some social problems. Students take part in these projects as actors, cameramen, editors... Two awarded short films will be watched : “Sola” and “14 días”.

At the same time we want to further exploit the experience and results gained in our Erasmus +partnership Dangers and Opportunities of the Internet.