SUMMERHILL PRIMARY SCHOOL
MAGHULL, UNITED KINGDOM
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The school is situated in a semi-rural area of Maghull, a small town located north of the city of Liverpool and south of the town of Ormskirk in West Lancashire. It recently celebrated its 50th Anniversary.
It is a one-form entry, mixed ability community school which takes children mostly from the local area. Ages range from 4 – 11. There are currently 195 children on roll, arranged in 7 classes of up to 30 per class. There are 9 teachers and 15 Teaching Assistants as well as a further 15 site, welfare and administrative staff. The number of children with complex SEN (Special Educational Needs) within the school is quite significant and this accounts for the unusual number of teaching assistants in such a small school. The school offers parents guaranteed wrap around care from 8am - 6pm throughout the year as it works in partnership with Maryvale Nurseries Ltd to provide breakfast club, after school, holiday care and a private day nursery on site.
The school works in significant partnership with Maghull And District Community Of Schools (known as MADCOS); 3 High Schools and 15 Primary Schools 'Working Together for a Brighter Future', and is also part of the Holy Rosary Teaching School Alliance. The school achieved a ‘Good’ rating in its most recent Ofsted Inspection in 2014. Since then, standards have continued to rise and many aspects of the school's work are now deemed to be 'Outstanding'.
The school is innovative in its approach to many aspects of education. Currently, for example, there is a job-share situation in the Headship of the school which has resulted in many positive opportunities for middle leaders and more junior staff to take on roles which enhance their professional development. We have achieved many awards recently including Artsmark Silver, Sportsmark, Early Years Quality Mark and Rights Respecting School status. We are particularly proud to be the first school in the North of England to achieve the Workforce Well-Being Charter Mark.
Summerhill Primary School holds pupil well-being at its heart. There is a key focus on Children’s Rights, and pupil responsibilities in regard to these rights. We have achieved Level One of the Rights Respecting Schools charter, and are working towards Level 2, which involves working at an international level. We believe that becoming a Rights Respecting School helps our children become aware of their rights as children, and will help them to grow into confident, caring and responsible young citizens. The children are given a voice through the School Council and have identified Health and Play issues as areas which they would like to focus on.
INSTITUTO COMPRENSIVO DI ZOGNO
ZOGNO, ITALY
The Istituto Comprensivo di Zogno school is the largest in the Brembana Valley, with three levels of schools: 5 nursery schools, (from 3 to 6 years), 5 primary schools (from 6 to 10 years) also include a class "potenziata" frequented by disabled students with special needs, and a middle school (from 11 to 14 years) . The Istituto di Comprensivo di Zogno is a public school. In Zogno there is also an high school (public school) which includes both the lyceum and vocational technical school, in addition to public schools, there are two private preschools.
Zogno is located in a small mountain valley where the main problem is the industrial dislocation, so many people must move to find work opportunities.
Zogno city (8.000 inhabitants) is located in northern Italy, in the valley Brembana 20 km from the city of Bergamo and 50 km from Milan. (In Bergamo there is the airport (Orio al Serio) from which depart and arrive many European flights)
In the region is predominantly middle class. Good quality transport promotes pendulum movement of students and workers in the cities of Bergamo and Milan and surroundings.
The school population consists mainly of local residents who do not have specific problems concerning the socio-economic conditions, immigration is not very present in the valley. Zogno lies at the foot of the Alps Orobiche so close to tourist centers that offer opportunities for ecological tourism in summer and winter.
SZKOLA PODSTAWOWA NR. 12 IM. ZYGMUNTA GLOGERA W BIALYMSTOKU
BIALYSTOK, POLAND
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The Primary School no12 in Bialystok (Poland) is one of the biggest and most modern schools in our city. It is the primary school with about 1200 students and 100 teachers in a new building. Pupils aged 6-12 can attend our school. (students from 6-8 are -grades 1-3 and 9-11/12 - grades 4-6).
The school is equipped with the several interactive and whiteboards, projectors, different itools, language laboratories. . Most of our teachers are able to use the available school ICT equipment everyday. Many teachers still deepen their knowledge of using the ICT tools during the lessons. They use many innovative methods, exchange their experience with other teachers in terms of increasing competences and using ICT tools. The teachers still search for the best solutions and methods of work.
Our teachers are focused on meeting many challenges, improving their skills and competences, techniques and new methods of teaching .We run lots of school reality observations and trainings for other teachers. Our teachers are all well-qualified. All of them teach or have experience in teaching to learners of different levels. Our institutions aims at improving students' maths competences
There are about 30 integrated skills teachers, , 2 pedagogues, the speech therapist, many teachers of the second level of education (9-12 year old students). The teachers of our school seek the possibilities of getting new professional experience, learning new methods and forms of teaching children of all levels and some good ways to cope with their parents.
Our teachers and management staff truly believe that its experience (participating in Erasmus plus projects) will enable us to learn a lot and will bring tangible benefits to our institution and will shape long life learning attitudes among students and teachers. We constantly try to reach the high standards of teaching and meet the challenges of work with students of different age.
Our main goal is to realize European School Development Plan. Our teachers try to improve the quality of education in our school and the usage of ICT tools in the classroom. Moreover, we were involved in eTwinning projects and Erasmus + KA1 staff mobility in 2015 and 2016.
Our school has taken part in many projects: Polish programmes such as: “A school with the class 2.0”, “School without violence”, “Promoting Health School”, “Better school – educational project”; Comenius project 2012-2014; regular eTwinning projects; 2 Erasmus Plus KA1 2014, 2015 and 2 individual mobilities.
CEIP CIUTAT DE CREMONA
ALAQUAS, SPAIN
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Ciutat de Cremona is a pre-primary and primary public (state) school located in the town of Alaquàs in the province of Valencia, Spain, in the East of Spain, on the Mediterranean coast. This town is an outskirt of the capital city, so it is closed to Valencia. It has around 30.000 inhabitants and the main economical activity is the second and third sector, such as factories, shops, restaurants, etc. The town is also very close to the International Airport of Valencia (9 Km) and it is perfectly well communicated by train and freeway to other important cities like Madrid and Barcelona.
The school is almost 10 years old. It is the result of the student surplus of the school next door. It was born as a provisional school but finally it was established as a new one. So, nowadays the school is built in a provisional place and we are waiting for the new building, which is under construction.
There are around 420 children at the school, from the pre-primary stage, (2 years) till year 6th of primary education (12 years). There is a wide diversity in the nationalities of our students. They come principally from Spanish families but also from other countries like Morocco, Romania, Colombia or China.
As for the staff, there are 35 teachers, including, the headmaster, secretary, headmaster assistant, pre-primary, primary and special educational needs teachers.
The main methodology we practice at school is the one that in Spain is called “Learning Communities”. It is based on the Yale Guide. Basically, consists of inviting volunteers to come to the classroom to help and guide the students in their tasks. Moreover, we offer a service of afternoon library, also guided by volunteers, for those children who have learning difficulties.
1 ST PRIMARY SCHOOL OF PAIANIA
PAIANIA ATTIKI, GREECE
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The 1st Primary school of Paiania is located at a suburb of Athens. We have 330 students from 6 to 12 years old and about 30 teachers. There are 25 students with special needs in our school and a large proportion of international students.
All our students will be involved in the activities needed for the realisation of the projects. As we have learned to be engaged and organised towards the final goal we feel that all the staff and students will be divided in smaller groups and will implement the given tasks of the project.
In this particular project, at least 10 teachers will be in charge and responsible for the whole program and the distribution of the tasks and roles within our school.
With the knowledge and experience of having participated in an Erasmus+ project, a Comenius program and two e-twining projects, being in charge of the website for the previous projects and having the support and engagement of the local community and students’ parents, the project will give our school, as well as the community a great chance to variously take advantage of the project, open up in new experiences and be involved in challenging educational endeavours.
It is important to have in mind that Athens, Greece, and areas such as our own (Paiania), has received a great influx of immigrants over the past decades , with families from Albania, Bulgaria, India, Egypt and several other ethnic groups. Consequently, the teaching staff of our school is fully aware of the difficulties, complexities and hardships of assimilating foreign students into the Greek society, and very experienced in teaching about values like equality, diversity and human rights . All the teachers of our school have been teaching all the qualities of the CRC, not only on theory, but in practice as well, albeit unsystematic. This project will help us properly shape and better form what we have been teaching over all these years.
GRÄ‚DINIÈšA CU PROGRAM PRELUNGIT
PERLUÈšELE MÄ‚RII
CONSTANÈšA, ROMÂNIA
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The school is one of the best public early childhood insitutions in Constanta, Romania (with 8 classrooms and 230 children). It is a 10 hour, 5 day program that provides a creative, supportive, nurturing learning environment for children (three meals and sleep session available). The kindergarten provides extensive opening hours that take account of the needs of working parents. The kindergarten staff is interested in offering a high quality early childhood education and care to all children from age three to age five. There are 16 qualified teachers and one school psychologist.
