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 and/or directors are asked to forward the Bulletins and the website link also to all teachers and staff members at the school.
The last two Erasmusplus scholastic years.
The last two years are coming up, similar to the current Erasmusplus situation.
However, the first changes are already being announced from Brussels. Several changes will be implemented during this current academic year (Erasmus year). These will mainly concern administrative matters. Experience has shown that this unfortunately involves the way we enter information into the data system. This means that quite a bit of time-consuming work, i.e., hours, will be spent in front of the screen. We will have to deal with this when we enter the evaluation information for this year, 2025-2026. The new format is expected within two months. Here’s a tip: first enter the data to be entered in a Word document or similar and save it. If possible, don’t work directly in the Brussels format (Ben. Module).
Sometimes all the data disappears or the new system crashes, and then you have to start over. We wish all colleagues the best of luck.
Mentors for Jobshadowers.
Another upcoming change concerns the Jobshadowing program. From now on, the host school must have a mentor for the colleagues attending the partner school. This is subject to the condition that for every two guests, there must be at least one mentor at the host school. This is also the maximum. This situation is often already present within our SEPS partnership, but it is now being formalized. Each Erasmus school will receive more of these changes from its own National Agencies in the near future. Personally, we hope for fewer formalities and budget cuts.
Accreditation and Short-term projects.
In this phase of the Erasmus project, some schools are withdrawing because they had a so-called Short-Term Project. Other schools have asked us to participate in SEPS in their new application for such a project.
It seems obvious that they should participate, assuming they support the previous agreements. Schools with such a Short-Term Project sometimes only need to coordinate with two schools.
However, this does not prevent schools in our partnership from collaborating. Teachers can visit these schools, and this also applies to student exchanges.
We have already gained excellent experience with this group of schools!
As we are gradually approaching the conclusion of this Erasmus Plus project, we must already be focusing on. We expect that, especially with long-term projects, we have achieved sufficient distribution of our activities and results (dissemination).
For this purpose, we have designed our website, www.seps-projecten.eu.
We recommend that every school also post short reports and photos of all activities on the website. This will benefit us all at the end of the cycle. We only need to refer some to the website.
However, this does mean that some schools still need to submit some information to us.
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
Furthermore, all principals/coordinators are asked to forward these bulletins to all colleagues at the school and the parents of the students.
Planning of mobility’s in 2026 2027.
At the end of March, we will again ask all schools which weeks and how many students are available for exchanges.
The same applies to the possibility of hosting teachers for job shadowing.
We are already asking you to look into this.
After the April deadline, we will create an annual schedule of visit opportunities.
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.
Of course, you can also take a look at the previous Bulletins, most of which are on our website.
+31613698777 Whats App, call or mail afc.verwey@planet.nl