Poland's details

34 Nicholas Copernicus Primary School (Szkoła Podstawowa nr 34 im. Mikołaja Kopernika) is a six-year primary school for students aged 7 – 13, situated in a southern district of the city of Katowice. The school has now about five hundred students and employs forty teachers. The students learn in twenty-one classes, years one to six.
The school’s general background has changed over the last few years, mirroring the changes happening in the community. Many well-off families with parents having professional jobs have moved away to new residential districts situated further from the city centre. In their place, a lot of families have moved in from the city centre, whose the poorer areas are being gradually rebuilt to give the city a more modernised character. As a result, our school has been recently admitting more and more students coming from malfunctioning familes, with all kinds of problems, such as family violence, child neglect, unemployment, poverty, alcoholism, single parenthood etc. Some of our students are looked after by probation officers. Many students thus need special help from our special needs assistant, the local Pedagogical-Psychological Counselling Centre or Local Social Aid Centre. A lot of them have specific learning problems and special educational needs, some suffer from severe behaviour disorders. Trying to prevent social exclusion of these students in the future, the school is involved in a variety of prophylactic and prevention programmes, whose aim is to stress and reinforce positive behaviour and attitude patterns.
On the other hand, the school has a number of very bright, talented and highly motivated students, who succeed in regional and national competitions and tests, and who are continually encouraged to develop their abilities and interests in all possible ways during extra-curricular activities.
Both these groups of students, as well as the third, largest group of average pupils, are taken good care of by the school teaching staff, who use a wide range of tools to provide them with the best possible assistance. Participating in European projects, such as Comenius or eTwinning, has enabled our students to broaden their knowledge about the world, motivated them to study foreign languages, increased their curiosity of other cultures and given them a chance to become more open, more tolerant and more involved in educational processes. We do hope that this tendency will continue for the benefit of our students and the whole school community.

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Dalmarnock Primary, Glasgow - Scotland

Igualada's details - Spain

Escoles de l'Ateneu Igualadí is a little Nursery and Primary School of 265 students and 15 teachers. We are located in Igualada which is a small town 80 km far from Barcelona. The school website is www.ateneuigualadi.org/escoles The school is placed in the middle of the old town. The building is historical and it is part of a bigger institution which started in 1900 as a centre to develop workers education.
Most of the students are middleclass, but in the school we also have migrants, pupils with special needs and pupils at risk of social exclusion. The number of these students is 2/ 3 per class so the school can achieve their aims and integrate them. We have worked in international projects before, see website: www.kinderfilosofie.nl The school aim is to envolve our students in their own process of learning, through motivating and creative methodology, cooperative learning and using new technologies and content integrated foreign language learning.

Pictures from Scotland

Hi there!

I've published some picture I took with Nancy in Lochlomond and Glasgow. I had such a nice day with her!! ;o))

Ravenna's details

Here you can read what I wrote about Italy in the Comenius application:
The Italian Institute “San Biagio” is composed of three Primary Schools and a Middle school. Students are from 7 to 14 years of age and they study English, French and Spanish. Our four schools are situated near the centre of our town, Ravenna. The whole area is a treasure chest of art, history and culture of the highest order, with ancient origins. Eight historic buildings are included in the World Heritage List of UNESCO. The cultural offer is varied.
From this European partnership we are willing to realize and expect:
· to enhance a European dimension, co-operating with schools in Europe;

· to enhance the quality of education, teaching and comparing different systems and cultures;

· to embed an International curriculum to share with the new school partners involving all children, teaching staff, parents and governors in planning, organizing and evaluating the project;

· to exchange ideas, curriculum innovation, knowledge of each other's children;
· to improve skills in terms of teamwork, social relations, cooperative learning, planning and undertaking project activities and using ICT;
· to practice foreign languages and increase teachers and students’ motivation toward language learning, also with the support of CLIL approaches.

Our school website ( sorry...just in Italian...)
http://www.racine.ra.it/icbiagio/

If you want to have a look at Ravenna:
http://www.turismo.ra.it/contenuti/index.php?t=arte&lang=2