OBS de Plantage is a public Dalton school with about 500 pupils, situated in a particularly child-friendly and play-friendly, spacious environment.

De Plantage is a public primary school for Dalton education located in the Houten-Zuid district. The core values ​​of Dutch Dalton education are central to Dalton education.

In daily practice, this means that our students are really part owners of their own learning process, but always under the supervision of the teacher. Teachers are also counselors for pupils.

We see the exchange of pupils as a very important aspect to realize our goals. Children who participate in the exchange will be well prepared and share their experiences with their fellow students.

Within our school, we have a student council that is investigating solutions to think and act sustainable. Older pupils are represented in the student council. They consult in their classes. In 2020, we started separating plastic and paper and residual waste. Lately we asked for a grant at the municipality, to experiment with worm hotels to obtain our own compost. The student council regular discuss also these matters.

In the meantime, the student council has already purchased a plastic container to separate the plastic waste.

The Steinheid primary school is a two-stream primary school on the crest of the Thuringian Forest. As a partly bound all-day elementary school with a fully rhythmic school day, we have created child-friendly structures for optimal learning success. The basic educational goals of our institution are anchored in our school concept “Elementary school Steinheid – a primary school where you feel comfortable in the green heart of Europe”. A solid basic education and the upbringing of young people who are open-minded, honest and willing to learn are the focal points of our concept. As an European school, we pay particular attention to the idea of ​​Europe growing together and education for sustainable development on an international scale. Our lovingly designed school building and our spacious school grounds with schoolyard, playground, school garden and school forest offer ideal external conditions for joyful, natural and effective learning. Elementary school lives through the community, lives in and with a region. That is why working with parents and grandparents, with the communities and with local clubs is particularly important to us.

We are a grouping of schools with a diversified educational offer that includes: Pre-School Education, 1st, 2nd and 3rd Cycles of Basic Education covering the age group from 3 to 15 years old. The grouping has seven schools, with around 830 of the 1590 students and children at the main school. The Group’s territorial growth was always accompanied by positive organizational transformations that promoted the improvement of the quality of learning and the development of citizenship and solidarity attitudes of the students. Three pillar moments of this change stand out. In 2009, the educational community was defined as an Educational Territory of Priority Intervention (TEIP), a strategic decision that successfully responded to the challenges posed by the socio-educational reality in which it is limited.

Our educational project prioritizes social and democratic inclusion, in a holistic approach in which there are formal moments for all students to participate: assembly of class delegates and student advisory council. Everything is only possible thanks to collaboration between teachers, technicians, students, their families and various partners, prioritizing well-being in different aspects. Our big on an intercultural approach to knowledge and learning, enriching itself through the reception, integration and educational success of children and young people of all nationalities, as well as respect for differences and the establishment of positive relationships of interaction and approximation between students and other members of the educational community from different cultures.

The AEFS intends to establish itself as an educational organization of reference, as a focus for the development of citizenship and interculturality for and with the educational community. In the development of citizenship, the work carried out in the context of environmental education stands out as one of the guiding vectors of the Group, to promote the formation of children and young people, making them more responsible for the preservation of the environment and the Planet. In order to achieve this, the Group provides two pedagogical gardens, at the Dr. Francisco Sanches School and at the Kindergarten at Quinta das Fontes, develops the “Ciência Viva” Project and promotes activities promoted by the “Eco-Schools” program. All activities aim at intercultural integration (the school has students from 47 different nationalities) and encouraging the integrated development of the concepts of citizenship and environmental sustainability associated with intergenerational responsibility.

The project will be coordinated by the sub director, Arlindo Areias and the Erasmus+ Coordinator, Professor Hermínia Alonso. In their absence, the headmaster will nominate another person with expertise in the area to replace them.

Although the school has been in the Eco-Schools programme for 2 years, the sub-director has a long experience in managing projects of environmental sustainability to which he has been linked for 10 years.

Although the school grouping is still in the accreditation phase, which could make our participation difficult, as we do not have a budget approved by the Erasmus+ programme, we intend to turn the exchange of experiences in the areas of environmental education into a motor for intercultural approximation, inclusion and the fight against xenophobia, under the cover of the protection of the Planet – a subject that is common to all and that unites us all.

Taking into account our conditions, we are available to participate with the other partners in the project presented. Our families have also shown interest in collaborating in this exchange, although the possibility of travel is not guaranteed due to lack of funding.  As our school is multicultural and has ethnic minorities, we are also available for jobshadowing about inclusion.

The CEIP El Peralejo is a public school in Alpedrete, the Community of Madrid. It was inaugurated in 2000 and currently enrolls almost 450 students from 3 to 12 years old. The teaching staff consist of twenty-seven teachers, a nurse, a physiotherapist and other professionals responsible for assisting students with special educational needs.

The CEIP Juan Navarro García, is a publicly owned center, attached to the bilingual education program (intermediate level, implemented up to 5th grade of Primary Education) dependent on the Ministry of Education and Universities of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia. It began to work in the 1972/1973 academic year.

It is a center with almost three lines (8 Early Childhood Education units and 17 Primary Education units) and currently has 45 teachers.

It has relatively modern facilities with different material and technological resources in all classrooms, which facilitate teaching and adapt teaching to the needs of the 21st century.

Our school is located in Murcia, a small town in the South East of Spain. The education system is divided into two stages:

• Kindergarten (0-6 years)
• Primary school (6-12 years)

Our school has been implementing a Spanish bilingual program since 2014 and is involved in several projects related to robotics and mathematics. In addition, we are excited to discover and get started with innovative methodologies and new projects.

Information about your institution

Number of students on roll:  810                  

Age of students taught: 5 to 16 year old boys

School structure

Headmaster

Deputy Heads: 2

Number of assistant heads: 6

Inclusion Coordinator: 1

Pastoral Care Coordinator

Spiritual Director

Vocations director

Administrative Secretaries/reception: 6

Number of teaching staff Primary: 28

Number of teaching staff Secondary: 49

Number of classroom support staff Primary:41

Number of classroom support staff Secondary:31

Number of technicians: 3

Main developmental aims

The main targets of our school are:

1. The consolidation of our Christian ethos by helping both staff and pupils to appropriate and live values that are important in our Christian view of the world.
2. The developing of an e-learning strategy that facilitates a multi-sensorial approach to teaching.
3. The implementation of the School Development Plan (SDP)

Management Structure of the Institution

The Archbishop’s Seminary School is a boys’ School owned by the Archdiocese of Malta and is a Catholic Church school. The Rector and the Headmaster are generally priests appointed by the archdiocese. The Rector is responsible for the running of the Seminary which also includes a residential program for priests in training. The Rector acts as the school’s principal responsible for the approval of policy and the school’s financial plan. He also oversees that the school retains its church school ethos.

The Administrative Manager/CEO is responsible for the finance and other administrative duties required by the whole institution.

The Headmaster, aided by two Deputy Headmasters and Assistant Heads, are responsible for the day-to-day running of the school. Their duties include the setting and developing the short term and long term visions for the school, the formulation of the school development plan (SDP), the hiring of staff and the overseeing of the implementation of the curriculum.

The school also has a number of student bodies such as Students’ Council and is also a participant in Eco-Schools. Over the past year and a half the school has also become heavily involved in European Union Erasmus+ projects. These projects are coordinated by Ms Elaine Gerada Gatt and Mr Pierre Bellia.

Parents are also active in the Parents’ Teachers Association and are thus indirectly involved in various important elements in the school.

The institution’s leadership style

The school’s management is largely collaborative in style but has ultimately the final say in the decision-taking process. The school’s needs and their prioritisation are always identified through a wide consultation with all involved. Following discussion and consultation, the Senior Leadership Team decides the way forward. For policy and financial aspects the Seminary’s Management Board are generally requested to approve.

The school prides itself on a strong self-reflection process, in which processes are analysed and evaluated to always come with the way forward.

The “2nd Primary School of Kolindros” is a small Primary School which is located in Kolindros, Pieria, a town very close to Thessaloniki and the mythical mountain of the Gods Olympus. Our school provides training and education to pupils aged 6-12 years.

The school (this school year) enrolled 84 students and 16 teachers serving various specialties (teachers general education, teachers of English, German, Physical Education and Special Education). Education in primary school lasts six years and the students are divided into classes: 1st class of 16 students, 2nd grade 13 students, 3rd grade 15 students, 4th class 16 students, 5th grade 14 students and 6th grade 10 students.

At our school students are taught Greek Language, Mathematics, History, Physics, Geography, Art, Music, Religious, Social and Political Education, English (students from 1st until the 6th grade), German (students of 5th and 6th grade), Gymnastics, Environment Study. This school year in our school there is a school nurse as well as a school psychologist. The lessons start 8.15 am and end at 13.15. The school operates and Day Department where 40 students of all grades attend classes and prepare for the next day, until 16.00 pm. Information on our school website: http://dim-kolindr.pie.sch.gr/

Our school is located in Kolindros Pieria, a hilly town with 3000 inhabitants. In my town there are two primary schools. The building of the 2nd Primary school is modern and beautiful, it is almost at the upper part of the town. There is a wonderful view of the surrounding area and the magnificent natural environment. The two kindergartens the 1st and the 2nd share the same space with the primary schools. At the outskirts of the town there a nursery school, a high school and a lyceum. The nearest cities to Kolindros are Thessaloniki at a distance of 49 km, Veria and Katerini at a distance of 35 km. The international motorway provides easy and safe access. The city of Kolindros is well known for preserving a rich local tradition that results from a long historical past. At the same time the surrounding area is endowed with incomparable natural beauty that seduces the visitor. This “tiny spot” in the map called Kolindros, possesses a particularly attractive historicity.

The Estelada School is located in Cànoves i Samalús, a small town within the Montseny Natural Park, in the province of Barcelona, Catalonia. The school is public and Catalan, with around 200 students in kindergarten and primary education (from 3 to 12 years old). We are a close-knit and family-oriented school. Our school is committed to the environment; we aim for students to develop respect and a sense of connection with their surroundings, fostering involvement in the school garden, participating in the Montseny County Council Project at the school, and exploring the local and natural area outside the environment.

If you want to learn more about our school, you can visit our website: ESTELADA SCHOOL WEBSITE.

The Istituto Comprensivo 2 Pontecorvo brings together in the same organization of several nursery, primary and lower secondary schools in three municipalities (Pontecorvo, Pico and San Giovanni Incarico) about 10 km away from each other. The fundamental and constitutive document of the cultural identity of IC2’s plan is the Three-Year Training Offer Plan (PTOF). Explain the learning programs training courses for each level of study, the curricular and extracurricular educational and organizational planning adopted within their autonomy. All training and teaching programs, the main core of the activity of the IC2 school organization, are harmonized with the purposes of ERASMUS accreditation.

The recipients of the courses of the Istituto Comprensivo 2 Pontecorvo are aged between 3 and 14 years. In detail: 3-5 years(elementary School); 6 –10 years (primary school); 11 – 14 years (lower secondary school). In total we have around 1000 students, 140 teachers and 27 non-teaching staff.

The socio-cultural level of the students’ families is medium-low. In this context, the school represents a vital  participation in the Erasmus project represents a driving force towards Europe. The priority objectives are: sustainable development, environmental education and new teaching methodologies. Erasmus responds to all this and is the basis for this future growth

The “IC Piedimonte San Germano” was founded in the year 2000, with the union of institutions which previously depended on two different school institutions, with different educational traditions and organization. The union of these rich realities required the pooling of experiences and use of common educational languages, so as to bring about a fully recognizable entity for families.

The “IC Piedimonte San Germano” is a state school, and we operate on a vast territory that covers 2 “comuni” (municipalities): Piedimonte San Germano and Villa Santa Lucia. The main building is quartered in Piedimonte San Germano. As a Comprehensive School we cover age groups from 3-4 (Kindergarten), 5-10 (Primary School) to 11-13 (Scuola Media).

Our school vision is for Quality Education, contrast of all forms of Discrimination and School Dispersion; Learning Opportunities for all; Citizenship, Inclusion and Sustainability. These aspects are also included in our Erasmus+ project, for which we have been accredited.

DD3 Cesena is a public school organisation and it is located in Cesena, in the Northeast of Italy.

We have 3 pre primary schools, for children from 3 to 6, and 4 primary schools for children from 6 to 11, with 832 pupils, 24 pre primary teachers, 76 primary teachers and 27 people of non teaching staff. Families can choose between two different options for their children: 27 hours at school or 40 hours.

The children are at the heart of our educational approach and we work to be:

• a school that shapes today’s and tomorrow’s citizens, striving to develop social and civic competencies;
• a school that focuses on inclusion, values diversity, and encourages encounters between different cultures and social realities in the community;
• a school open to new languages and new knowledge;
• an integrated school, engaged in dialogue, capable of building constructive collaborations with families, institutions, and associations;
• a school that renews its practices and methodologies to support students’ development according to their different learning styles;
• a school that looks to Europe as a great opportunity to foster new relationships and acquire new good practices.

Children with special needs are included in the classes and supported by specialized teachers.

In one of our schools we teach English even through other subjects, using the CLIL methodology, thus increasing the number of hours of English per week.

We collaborate with the Computer Science Faculty of the University of Bologna to train our teachers and involve our students in activities related to coding and robotics. Every year we actively participate in May in the “Festival dei micromondi”: the students from the pre primary to the secondary school of Cesena present to the city their activities in the field of coding and robotics.

In our school there are many families from abroad; thanks to the collaboration with the parents and some local associations the school is becoming a point of reference where they can meet and make projects, such as studying the Italian language.

As for sustainability, in collaboration with the parents and some other stakeholders, we are creating a new garden, where we can have lessons and play. The main theme of our three-year project is soil and in the classes teachers are following different paths to develop the same great topic.

We have been an Erasmus+ school since 2020 and we are enlarging our network and our experiences thanks to the exchange and the activities that with Erasmus+ we can realize.