SEPS + EPIE
SEPS about Sustainability for European Primary Schools – SEPS is a child friendly project about sustainability for European primary schools and EPIE is an European project for Primary schools about Inclusive Education.
Dear parents, friends and colleagues,
OBS de Plantage in Houten, the Netherlands, has been asked by partner schools to act as a coordinating school.
Among the tasks this Erasmus+ school performs are maintaining the website www.seps-project.eu, scheduling visits for exchanges, maintaining contact with prospective schools, and publishing the Bulletins.
These Bulletins are intended for all teachers, students, staff members, and certainly also for other interested schools.
The school coordinators are asked to forward the Bulletins and the website link also to all teachers and staff members at the school.
New Year’s wishes.
Serious request to participate, please join us! Look at the end of this bulletin.
Sustainability – suggestions, lets help each other!
It would be great if partner schools could present their substantively new ideas or lesson examples on sustainability during colleagues’ visits to job shadowing and student exchanges, but especially if these are featured on the website, on the school’s page where the activities are taking place. The size of the image need only be 1 A4, and please include an illustrative photo. Please send the text in Word and a separate JPEG image to Diana and/or Anton. The email addresses are also at the bottom of this newsletter.
Reports of activities for dissemination, the advice from our National Agency.
Every year schools with accreditation are asked by the N.A. to fill in a survey about the activities. From the N.A. contact persons we got the advice to save information about school activities of the Erasmus project for the last project year. The compliment was given to use the pages of our website.
That’s why we ask every school to put small reports of jobshadowing, courses and pupils exchanging on the website.
Please send the text about these activities in Word and a separate JPEG image to Diana and/or Anton. The email addresses are at the bottom of this newsletter.
New rules for courses.
There are new rules about having courses abroad, pay attention about the number of teachers that can go together and the rules for the institutes that give courses. Look at the website of your National Agency.
New partners
There are new partner schools that are interested in our project. Beside the school El Peralejo in Alpedrete where our partner schools have had good contacts for a long time, there are some Spanish schools that asked if they could join us. There are even more schools than we can accept.At the moment there are schools from Austria and Italy that want to cooperate with our partnership next year. We will present them in the next Bulletin.
Send a poster in A3 made by pupils with an. Erasmus+ wish for 2026.
Some colleagues tried to exchange Christmas cards and mini A3 posters last year. Given the number of schools and students, this proved to be a difficult task during an already busy period. Some colleagues suggested making a few posters in A3 format. Make a copy of these few posters and send these copies to the partner schools. In this way, the receiving school can hang up many posters with good wishes clearly visible in the school. We will return to these proposals in a subsequent Bulletin. We would like to receive a response as to whether this idea is supported.
You can send 4 or 5 posters in format A3 by post and/or by mail to all the partner schools.
Website.
A separate website has been created for our collaboration and dissemination: www.seps-project.eu. It contains the details of all participating partner schools and a photo of the partner school. It also contains reports of visits and activities. In addition to the Bulletins, there are also contributions of teaching examples of projects and lessons.
This website is intended to inform all participants about the project. The Website is also intended for the dissemination of activities. Each participating school must indicate, especially at the end of the project, how the dissemination was structured and took place. Reference to the website can be used very well. Each Partner School is expected to update the information on the site regularly. Documents for the website must be sent separately as a Word document and photos in JPEG to Diana Brouwer or Anton Verwey. They ensure placement on the website.
Diana Brouwer directie.plantage@oo-h.nl
Anton Verwey afc.verwey@planet.nl
Wishing you success in this new year an Erasmus plus project period.
Especially in these turbulent times, where contradictions are unfortunately emphasized, it’s a rewarding collaboration for all our Erasmus project partners to maintain the benefit of our children, parents, and teachers. After all, every school has indicated its commitment to the European dimension.
Diana Brouwer, Director of de Plantage in Houten
(directie.plantage@oo-h.nl) and Anton Verwey, Extern coordinator of de Plantage.
As usual, stay safe and keep in touch, Anton Verwey.
Questions or remarks do not hesitate and contact Anton Verwey.
+31613698777 Whats App, call or mail afc.verwey@planet.nl