partners
France
Collège Pierre Valdo
The Pierre Valdo college is a general education college located in Vaulx-en-Velin in the suburbs of Lyon. Students are about 580 for a workforce of about 40 teachers. Our college is committed to this project to allow its students to travel, to discover other establishments, other cultures, other ways of life, other teenagers. It is also a question of perpetuating the influence of the establishment, which has been involved for many years in Erasmus+ projects (formerly Comenius). Our establishment is also at the heart of a local network of organizations cultural and educational, we are for example supported in this project by the French-speaking short film festival. We are in contact with the Lumière Institute which organizes the Lumière festival. We have been in partnership for 2 years with the Uni-cités association supported by the CNC and which supports the distribution of cinema in working-class neighborhoods. We are referenced by the Labo Cités network and we have obtained the "Good Practices" label for our latest Erasmus+ project. This entire network is both indicative of the quality of our work over the long term and a set of solid institutions on which we can rely during mobility, during the preparation of these exchanges and for the dissemination of our final project afterwards.
Greece
10o GYMNASIO IRAKLIOY
School Description
http://10gym-irakl.ira.sch.gr/
The 10th Junior High School of Iraklio is a public school with a mentionable number of students (about 300) located at a suburb of Iraklio, Crete, Greece. Students attending the school are aged 12-15 mostly from the areas nearby (Giofyros, Estavromenos and Tsalikaki) while there are a number of students who come to school from rural areas by bus. The students are from a wide range of social and academic backgrounds. The school is getting more and more multicultural because there are more and more students coming from different countries. All these students are always very hard working and enrich school life. When our students finish our school all of them continue to one of several types ofsecondary school, general or vocational. Now in Greece due to financial crisis the number of children is reducing and some schools must be closed. It is big challenge for our school – to be attractive enough for our students and parents. In
addition to regular work we organise and take part in sport activities, we have school choir and school plays, we organize educational trips to other parts of Greece, we engage our students to philanthropic international activities like ActionAid, we encourage our students to participate frequently to our website. There have been environmental projects being carried out in our school such as EURONET 50 / 50 and projects for local tradition, health and nutrition. Also they
have been very active with e-twinning projects, having worked on 5 different topics, with various schools from all over Europe and acquiring a European Quality Label. In 2012-2014 they participated in a COMENIUS project with 4 other countries about photography (2012- -1-PL1-COM06-28256 3 called «Focus On Europe” (http://focusoneurope.isgreat.net ). This project has given to students and teachers expertise in the Art of Photography during various seminars, photo workshops and exhibitions implemented and they would like to expand also to other Visual Arts. Our school took part in two Erasmus+ KA1 projects (2014‐1‐EL01‐KA101‐000187 – Title: “Our School Meets Europe!”) (http://ourschoolmeetseurope.oo.gd) for teacher training in new ICT Technologies and School Management and (2016-1-EL01-KA101-022836 “STAY IN SCHOOL SCHOOL IS FUN”) for multicultural learning. This year, a KA2 project called “Me and EU” is
finishing and is about producing a documentary movie about best practices for integrating refugees in school. We have got a modern computer lab (with 13 workstations) and another outdated but refurbished (with 10 workstations) and interactive boards in four of our classrooms trying our best to modernize and improve our teaching methods. Also the latter years the building of the school has doubled in size giving space and extra labs for technology, art and a huge
library to implement activities. Our key factor as a school for this project is that we could organise a workshop to teach how to produce movies from start.
Italy
Istituto Comprensivo "San Giovanni Bosco" Isernia (Italy)
Our school deals with students both at primary and secondary level, aged from 3 to 14. There are approximately 1100 students and 110 members of staff. About 400 of the students attend the secondary school. We have a prestigious music course with qualified staff who teach the students to play the piano, the guitar, the flute and the violin. The students who attend this course are in the school orchestra and they take part in concerts, competitions and in many public events. Many of our school sports teams often qualify for national or local competitions. The foreign languages taught in our school are English, for all the students, and a choice of either French or Spanish. The students usually reach an intermediate level by the third and last year of first grade secondary school. There are quite a few students with special needs in the school. Some of them are affected by illnesses like autism, others have personality disorders like hyperactiveness and some have specific learning difficulties like dyslexia. Some have support teachers, they are very well integrated into their classes and into the school in general and some of them will take part in the project. All of them use digital devices to facilitate their learning, especially those with neurological problems who have difficulty in using writing tools, but similarly also those affected by specific learning difficulties find it helpful and efficient to use PCs and specific software, particularly during their language classes. All the classes have digital resources: Interactive whiteboards, Computers and tablets. In our school ICT courses have been carried out for many years now and a good number of students have sat exams and become expert users. Due to the importance we give to language teaching/learning, digital skills and inclusion and also to experiencing new practices to help our pupils acquire and develop basic skills there is a great motivation to be part of this project. We have experience in European projects but, above all, staff with experience in the main topics of this project. There are two teachers who are expert in shooting and filming and are very fond of pictures. There are 6 English teachers in the school, all of which have had specific training in ICT over the years as the Spanish teacher and the two French teachers. Our school also has several experts in ICT who carry out specific courses for students and teachers. So our teachers have given a great support in the phase of shooting and editing the film. Our teachers of Literature, History and Geography guided our pupils in writing the script of the film. Our music teachers gave a professional contribution to the soundtrack of the film. The English and French language teachers , the ICT teachers , the music teacher and the support teacher, the Literature and History teachers, were involved in the project.
Romania
Liceul Teoretic Henri Coanda
Henri Coanda Theoretical Highschool is a complex school unit: 61 classes from the primary to secondary and high school classes. There are 1100 students altogether. Out of the 623 students who attend highschool, a number of 147 come from disadvantaged groups. It is THE ONLY HIGHSCHOOL OF THE AREA with a very attractive offer for the upper secondary education: humanistic profile – philology and intensive English classes and scientific profile - mathematical- computer science and nature sciences. 100 employees work in the high school. We are consistently concerned with updating strategies and techniques of teaching - learning - evaluation, encouraging integrated learning. In addition, we think that switching from cognitive, social, relational, and then emotional competences is an important step in acquiring more skills than the adult life challenges: adaptive skills. Awareness of one's own and others' feelings, assuming, free and open expression, empathic abilities, the ability to face obstacles, frustrations and conflicts and the ability to solve them creatively - all these are anchors in the development of student resilience and adaptability. By working on this project students from our school, together with the partner schools students, will learn to help each other,promote volunteering, consider benefits of teamwork and present outcomes.Moreover, the school drives as motivation developing an understanding of similarities and differences between different cultures, lifestyles and way of thinking of participating countries. As a result of the intense cooperation within the project, the participants will actually experience direct benefits and develop a deeper sense of the European community and collaboration.
Spain
Fundación Marillac-Colegio La Milagrosa
Our school, La Milagrosa, is a little or medium one located in the city of Úbeda, Spain. Our studens are aged since 3 until 16 years old, so we have kindergarden, Primary and Secondary studies. We have around 550 students and a staff of around 30 teachers. We have many priorities we want to takle with Erasmus+, perhaps the main ones are: getting a proper inclusion for all our students within our school community, raising their awareness of their European citishenship, improving their ICT and foreign languages skills, preventing the global warming as a natutral attitude in our students and the developing of their key competences. We have run four KA2219/KA229 Erasmus+ projects so far: about logic games, about European heritage, about sustainability and about making a movie. Also, and within the framework of the Erasmus+ accreditation, we have done a students exchange with a French school and a a jobshadowing teachers exchange with a Polish one.