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These are our schools (country alphabetic order): France, Hungary, Latvia, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain
France
France
Our school is located in Metz, a city of about 118,634 inhabitants, in the East of France, close to the German, Belgium and Luxembourg border. "Jules Lagneau" school is not far from the city center, in an area that presents an important cultural diversity. There are almost 600 pupils between 11 and 15 years old, some of them come from the neighbourhood and some from nearby small towns. Our school also welcomes students with specific needs. According to our statistics, there are 53,6 percent of student's families with low professional qualifications or unemployed.
In our school, the student's academic performances are unequal. Thus, the main objectives of our school are as follows :
- Enable all the students to improve their learning and skills in order to succeed.
-Enable them to build their citizenship in the world and in the European Union through digital awareness.
- Raise the awareness of handicaps among the students through the 3 ULIS units (Units that enable disabled students to follow classes with the other students). Some of our students are visually- impaired or mobility-impaired.
Hungary
Hungary
Kobanyai Harmat Általános Iskola is a state primary-mid school, situated in the 10th district of the capital city, Budapest.
It is a lively district with lots of green parks, some factories and big facilities near the city centre.
Our school is a public school with 514 students aged 6-14 years. In our institute there are working 50 teachers including 24 class teachers, 7 language teachers (4 English,1 German, 1 French, 1 Italian) 16 subject teachers, 3 special education teachers and 2 assistants. We teach English from the age of 6.
It is a well equipped school with 2 computer rooms and ICT facilities, a gym hall and a big dining hall, which can be used as a theatre.
We have 82 children with special needs: mostly children who have extended compulsory education and individual curriculum, integrated in normal classes. Special lessons are organized for them according to the temporary needs to help them, concerning learning problems in individual subjects.
Almost 150 talented pupils are provided with more than 20 different courses including media, newspaper writing, chess, Mindlab, craftwork and English, which develop their cultural, communicative and cognitive skills. This knowledge can be integrated in different subjects, especially in Art, Media, ICT, History, and Geography We have special classes, where students with musical talent can get special musical education.We also have two school choires having various concerts at school and at the cultural centre as well.
Latvia
Latvia
Mezciema pamatskola is situated in the North East of Riga in a quiet residential area surrounded by the forest and some lakes. Riga is the capital of Latvia with a population of 600.000.
There are 684 students aged from 3 to 16 in our school. Academic staff consists of 50 teachers including a social teacher and a psychologist.
The school comprises students from various backgrounds. We are facing several socio-economic problems related to the current situation in our country.
Mezciema pamatskola is situated in the North East of Riga in a quiet residential area surrounded by the forest and some lakes. Riga is the capital of Latvia with a population of 600.000.
There are 684 students aged from 3 to 16 in our school. Academic staff consists of 50 teachers including a social teacher and a psychologist. The school comprises students from various backgrounds. We are facing several socio-economic problems related to the current situation in our country.
Due to a high unemployment rate a lot of parents have left the country and the children are brought up by their relatives. Rather many children grow up in single-parent or mixed families. A few children have behavioural or learning problems and some children are with special needs.
Folk dancing and singing have always been a significant part of Latvian cultural traditions. More than a half of our students participate in school folk dance groups and choirs. They successfully perform in traditional Students' Song and Dance Festivals of Latvia.
There are 50 teachers at school of whom 20 teach in the Secondary level. The Erasmus+work team is composed by 10 teachers.
Portugal
Portugal
Escola Secundária Dom Egas Moniz is a secondary school with 560 students distributed through classes from the 7th grade (12 years old) till the 12th (18 years old) grade. Resende is a small village situated in the North of Portugal and all the pupils come from the surrounding area. It is a rural region and the students’ families seem not to enjoy very stable economic positions. Another serious problem which affects the students’ quality of life is the fact that the majority of them have to spend more than 40 minutes in public transports in order to get to school.
In order to enter a more European framework (both as regards cultural and economic standards) the priority of the school is to offer teachers and pupils the possibility of participating into Erasmus+ projects: in fact to participate to a Erasmus+project will be a valuable experience for both students and teachers, since it will give them a chance to get in touch with other European Education systems and cultures.
To be able to attain this goal the school curriculum focuses onto foreign languages (English and French), Computer technology, Arts and Sport subjects; also great attention and care are given to extracurricular cultural activities like educational contests, sport
competitions and cultural tours. The school also provides regular cultural subjects (Science) and vocational courses.
An important asset of the school is its collocation in an area which has many interesting environmental features since it is near the River Douro which is one of the most known rivers in Europe.
The school staff is formed by 55 teachers, of whom 20 will directly or indirectly be involved in the project. 9 teachers of the school belong to the Erasmus+ team.
Slovakia
Slovakia
The school Šaštín-Stráže is a central primary school, which gives compulsory primary and lower secondary education to 450 students from 6 to 15 years old. The school follows the main principles of educational policy as well as democratic and humanistic values, it supports comprehensive attitude to develop students' qualification to get to know, practise, evaluate, communicate and understand on a given level of education in view of specific, local and regional conditions and needs. The part of our
work is to create healthy, helpful, adequately demanding, aesthetic and motivational school environment.
We live in a not very big town called Šaštín-Stráže. It is a central town situated in the south - west of Slovakia about 70 km from its capital city Bratislava. The town has 5000 inhabitants with an unemployment rate 12%. The school is in the centre of the town and the students live around it.
One of the main objectives of our school is teaching foreign languages by using CLIL approach in education. We have also been introducing innovative educational programmes and methodologies using new approaches by effective and creative use of ICT.
In addition to that we offer our students to work in ICT after school clubs to raise their computer literacy especially those from socially deprivated groups, who have not possibility to work on their computer at home. We also have a large number of English, sports and tourist clubs where students develop their talent and effectively spend their free time.
The school staff is formed by 31 teachers, 19 of whom teach at the secondary level. The Erasmus+ team is composed by 8 members. The project will be implemented in the secondary level, with approximately 230 students.
Spain
Spain
Our institution is a school for students from 3 to 16 years old, teaching at infant, primary and secondary levels, although the project has been designed for the Secondary Education level (students aged 12 to 16 years old). We will be leading the project in the role of "coordinator".
Our school has around 920 students (325 in secondary) most of them from middle-low social classes in a town with 100.000 inhabitants with a unemployment rate of 36% in one of the regions, the province of Cadiz (south of Spain, Andalucia), 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.
We belong to a education foundation called Fundación Educación Alternativa 1826 which also have other eight schools in Spain. Two years ago the foundation started implementing the "digitalization programme" in order to promote the integration of ICT into the curriculum and the use of laptops by students. We believe that by using new technologies, students are more motivated to learn, and learn in a better way improving their academic results.
There are around 60 teachers in the staff, of whom 22 of them teach in the Secondary level where the project will be implemented. 12 of these teachers belong to the Erasmus+ team.
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