DiscriminACTion for a better IntegrARTion

2. Partner schools for ActArt

INSTITUT JOAN SOLÀ (School website)

We are a rural school of 480 pupils, ranging from 12-18, coming from 3 different towns nearby, covering all GCSE offer. Our staff consists of 56 teachers and 5 administrative members.

At present, our school is working on different programmes: we are involved in the GEP programme (Experimental Group on Plurilingualism), by applying methods and receiving teachers training on CLIL in the context of multilingual learning. We are also in ILEC (Impulse on Reading), an official programme which develops actions to promote pupils and teachers reading and training in our educational community (now on its 3rd year). Our school was acknowledged by our Government as Green School (EscolaVerda) in 2013. According to this programme, our main aims are waste minimization and recycling, ecological garden and healthy food, taking advantage of our surroundings and sustainable transport. Concurrently, since 2012 we have taken part in the Basic Skills Net (Xarxa CB), a work team coordinated by our Education Department, which involves several schools that aim to innovate in teaching methods, mainly using collaborative work and project-based learning, which we apply in our classes. On the other hand, we have been working in eTwinning since 2014 and we have received eTwinning and European Quality Labels for our projects in 2016, 2017 and 2018.

FPR COLLÈGE SAINTE MARIE (School website)

The Institution Sainte Marie in Ribeauvillé France is member of la Fondation Providence de Ribeauvillé.It is a semi rural area. The school is composed of a primary school, a lower secondary school and a boarding school for girls and boys (320 pupils, 200 in the secondary school, 120 in the primary school and 100 boarders, 220 day students). There are 20 secondary and 5 primary teachers, 15 members of staff (educational, administrative and maintenance staff). In the secondary school the students are between 11-15 years old. We have 8 classes (2 for each level). The students can study English, German, Spanish. Our institution is used to welcoming and integrating new students during the year. The two boarding schools allow us to accept all the children at any moment of the school year. They come to us for a variety of reasons: through the social services, due to academic or learning difficulties, family problems... The size of the school enables a very good individualization of everybody. It is sometimes difficult to integrate those students harmoniously in this new environment. It can also be difficult for the students to accept someone new. We have a certain expertise in dealing with different audiences of students but we thought it would be interesting for students to think about what being all different might mean, what they can gain from accepting the others. In this project, the other might then be their classmate or someone from a foreign country, with different tradition and language.

VILNIAUS MARTYNA MAZVYDO PROGYMNAZIA (School website)

Vilnius Martynas Mažvydas Pre-gymnasium was established in 1998 as a secondary school and in 2011 it was reorganized and became a pre-gymnasium including a primary school (year 1-4 for students aged 7-10) and a basic school (year 5-8 for students aged 11-14).

The school is named after the author of the first Lithuanian book – Martynas Mažvydas. This book was printed in 1547 in the so-called Lithuania Minor, in Königsberg, thus this historical region is of special interest at our school. The school is located to the west of the centre of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, in the district called Pilate where all the streets are named after the famous people or places in Lithuania Mi-nor. This residential area is currently developing at a very fast rate.

Back in 1998 there were 470 students at school, but the number of students has been steadily in-creasing due to a lot of young families moving to this residential district of Vilnius and now we have more than 1800 students. Our school is officially considered to be the largest one in Lithuania in terms of the number of students.

As the number of pupils is increasing, we have to look for solutions that will ensure not only the quality of education but also modern, creative and innovative learning environment. The school has all faci-lities for students with disabilities: it has the necessary equipment and we are able to include children with disabilities into normal school life and learning process.The school constantly updates its educational mate-rial base.

The school operates a modern information center - a library, successfully running career planning center.

Students are taught foreign languages: English, French, Russian and German. Students start learning English in the 2nd year as their first foreign language and in the 6th year they start learning a second foreign language which can be Russian, German or French. After finishing the primary school, in the 5th year the school also offers a special bilingual programme called EMILE where students learn French as their second foreign language (alongside with English) and French is also integrated with other school subjects in the curriculum (Biology, Music, Art) to promote students’ ability to communicate in foreign languages.

There is also a possibility at our school to choose advanced art programme with extra art classes in the curriculum beginning with the 2nd year.

Students can choose from a variety of extracurricular school activities such as fine arts, sports, dance clubs, choirs, ethnic culture, the club of debates and school radio, the European club or Erasmus+ club.

IC3 DON BOSCO-D'ASSISI (School website)

I.C.3 “Don Bosco-Francesco D’Assisi” is a Comprehensive school, situated in Torre del Greco, near Naples, in Italy. It includes Pre-Primary, Primary and General Secondary School located in four different buildings not far from each other. It has about 1300 pupils, aged from 3 to 15 years old. Students start learning English at the age of 4 and a second Foreign Language, at the age of 11, at the General Secondary School, where they can choose between Spanish and French. As situated in an economically disadvantaged areas, lots children , drop out school prematurely, due to lack of families’ economic or psychological support.In order to contrast students’ absenteeism and lack of self-confidence, the school activates inclusive didactics and Laboratory Didactics, whose main aim is not only to ensure all of our students’ cultural improvement, but even to offer them a broader experience of life. Through the manipulation and the active involvement in all they do, they acquire self-confidence and feel more motivated to learn.several Plastic, Manipulative Laboratories are activated: Ceramic, Jewelry, Fashion and Clothes, ones, where such materials as: Ceramic, Clothes, Plastic are being used. We have also activated an Engraving Laboratory where students are taught to cut the sardonyx shell or the cornelian to carry out Cameo objects, typical of our tradition. Besides recycling material is often used to make several objects. These laboratories aim at offering alternative didactics to all the disadvantaged students. Directly involved in all they do, they feel more motivated to learn. There are also classes specialized in Music in which the activities are planned with the aim to educate students to the listening, recognition and performance of musical genres. Students learn at playing such instruments as: the piano, the guitar, the violin and the drums. A school orchestra and choir have been created and, every year, they take part to musical competitions showing their acquired skills with success.

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