Portugal

Agrupamento de Escolas João da Silva Correia

The school of João da Silva Correia is a public secondary and middle school. There are about 630 students from the ages of 12 to 18 years old attending our school and a number of 80 teachers. The majority of our students live in the city of São João da Madeira or in the surrounding area. Despite being the smallest municipality in the country, it has a very dense population with more inhabitants living here than in any other Portuguese city. By the reasons exposed, the school is highly motivated to join the project “United in Diversity” and believes that it has a valid experience and contribution to add to the project. The school is usually embracing and participating in many projects (national and international) and offers several extra-curricular activities to the students in different fields, such as sports, science, culture, arts, and music. The school has a multicultural label which is an insignia given by the Ministry of Education of the Portuguese Government, which recognizes schools, that develop projects promoting the diversity as an opportunity to mutual learning. Some of the activities developed included workshops and promoting solidarity campaigns as well as building a mural representative of multicultural values.

During year 2019 the school has received students from China, Ukraine, Venezuela and Sudan (a refugee family) being well received and integrated in the school community. The school is also participating in an Erasmus Project whose topic is bullying and under the title “Take a stand, lend a hand”.

The school have already participated in other Erasmus Projects, and recently in an EU project ran by the municipality named “The Teaching Improvement Partnership Project” which aim was to encourage teacher training to empower the motivation of underrepresented groups of students who often face disadvantages. The objectives were to exchange existing best practice across the partner countries.

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