Our schools

Six different schools participate in our Erasmus+ project "Communication and Culture", in alphabetical order from: Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, Italy, Poland and Spain. For contact details please refer to the "contact" section of this website.

Bulgaria

The school Sredno uchilishte "Petko R. Slaveykov" is situated in a community that mostly consists of people who get their living from agriculture and small-scale factories or who work in the service sector. It is a mixed secondary school. The pupils of the school come not only from Vidin but also from neighboring villages.

Because of the recession throughout the industrialized world, many of the small and mid-ranged companies in the area, like around the country and the world, have been forced to cut back on the number of employees. So unemployment in the area is rather high and we have many unemployed parents and it reflects upon the school society.

Many parents went abroad in search for work and their children are taken care of by their grandparents, who can’t do it so properly like their mother and father. They mostly take care rather of their living conditions than of educating.

There are pupils with special educational needs in our school. Support teachers work with them individually in the support room and they study in the classrooms too with the other pupils. There are 400 students and 42 teachers in our school. We have got a big gym, a theatre, a media room and a conference room.

Croatia

Ekonomska škola Požega is one of the seven secondary schools in Požega, a small town with total population of 26,000. It is the administrative centre of Požega-Slavonia County, agricultural and industrial area in western Slavonia, eastern Croatia. Teaching is perfomed in two towns, Požega and nearby Pleternica. Most of our students come from rural areas.

We are a vocational school. There are 580 students in our school, aged 15-19, taught by 45 teachers. Students are educated in economy, sales, tourism and administration. They are divided into 22 classes. Lessons are held in two shifts. In the morning shift, we go to school on Saturdays also, and in the afternoon shift, we stay in school until 7 p.m. five days a week.

Students learn English or German as their first language. Some classes learn both English and German as obligatory subjects, and Italian and Russian as elective courses. Students also have the opportunity to participate in additional courses of English language, drama group, work for the school newspaper and do a series of activities related to economic profession.

Finland

Piispanlähde school in Kaarina provides basic education for pupils aged between 7-16 years old. Piispanlähde school consists of two separate schools: the primary school ("Lasten talo") for pupils at the age 7-12 years old and the lower secondary school ("Nuorten talo") for 13-16 year old pupils.

There are about 622 pupils and about 50 teachers altogether and we have also about 20 other professionals like youth leaders, school assistants etc. The school offers the services of a school psychologist and a social worker.

Italy

Our Secondary School “ C.Colombo” is not far from the town centre, and it caters for just over 700 students aged 10 – 14, few of them with special education needs. They come from families of average living standards.

The students are clever and well-mannered and the school helps them find a good system of values on which to build their identity, and encourages them to use their free time in school activities. Great importance is given to the students’ artistic training and development: there is a school choir and a theatre group devoted to school performances. Our school is very large, housing a big school hall, four computer rooms, a linguistic lab, a science lab, a music room and two gymnasiums where the students can practice volleyball, basketball, football and badminton as well as team sports.

Our school is also an AICA Test Centre for ECDL and a Trinity Centre and last November 2013 it was certificated as “Effective CAF User”. All our students study English and Spanish or French as a second foreign languages and they attend many P.O.N. projects in the afternoon.

Poland

Gimnazjum 164 z Oddziałami Integracyjnymi i Oddziałami Dwujęzycznymi im. Polskich Olimpijczyków in Warsaw was established on 1st September 2009. Nowadays there are 69 teachers ( including psychologists and pedagogies) working together. The number of students has risen from 100 to 644 mainly from Bialoleka District. The school classes are profiled into sports, bilingual and interdisciplinary units. Moreover the school offers profile classes such as maths, chemistry and biology. Students have many possibilities to develop their interests and talents attending to extra classes. They can participate in clubs: The Knights Brotherhood – lead by a history teacher or take care of their own insects in a biology club. Journalist and film clubs help students to put first steps in media and press world. Our students have an opportunity to study 5 foreign languages: English, German, Spanish, Russian and French. Bilingual classes are designed not only to let students achieve better results in learning English but through combining it with other extanded subjects (maths, history, biology) help students to discover their future professions. For those who have any difficulties there are special, supporting programs to help them deal with didactic and psycho-pedagogical problems.

Additionally Gimnazjum prepares a lot of actions above the curriculum to make students act patriotically and socially. According to it students can take part in charities and voluntaries actions and belong to organizations such as Polish Red Cross or Caritas and also coordinate students’ self-government. The school staff is open to innovations, new solutions and trends connected to special needs of the students. That’s why there are many additional programs for students who are gifted as well as for those with special needs. Thanks to engagement and additional work students win many sports and intellectual competitions.

Spain

The Colegio Nuestra Señora del Carmen (Vedruna San Fernando) is a school for students from 3 to 16 years old, teaching at infant, primary and secondary levels, although the project is to be done with the students in Secondary Education (aged 12 to 16 years old). We will be leading the project in the role of "coordinator"

Our school has about 1000 students (315 in secondary) most of them from middle-low social classes in a town with around 100.000 inhabitants with a unemployment rate of 36% in one of the regions, the province of Cadiz (south of Spain, Andalusia), with the highest rate of unemployment in all Europe (over 40%). The school is situated in the centre of the town, so it is an urban school where students live around it.

One of the main objectives of our school is to implement a bilingual project in the near future by using the CLIC approach, this is why we signed an agreement with the BEDA programme (Bilingual English Development and Assessment) which received the European Language Label.

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