jueves, 14 de octubre de 2010

MURCIA


Murcia is a Spanish city, capital of the municipality and the province of the same name and the autonomous community of Murcia. It is located in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula on the River Segura. With 436,870 inhabitants (INE 2009) Murcia is the 7 th position in the list of municipalities in Spain by population. It is also capital of the natural region of the Huerta de Murcia and its metropolitan area.This is an important city services in the tertiary sector that has happened to her former condition of agricultural export par excellence, with its famous and fertile lands, by which was and still is known by the nickname of the Garden of Europe . Among its most important industries are food processing, textiles, chemicals, distilling, construction and manufacture of furniture and building materials. Murcia is also an important university center with a long tradition since it was founded the first university in 1272.Stand on its artistic heritage cathedral with its Baroque facade and interior mainly Gothic famed Casino, sumptuous interiors, the dense sculptural heritage Salzillo Francisco, and a great set of baroque buildings. Is culturally known for its folklore, particularly attractive during the Spring Festival and Easter processions

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martes, 12 de octubre de 2010

OUR SCHOOL: CEIP NTRA. SRA. DE LOS ÁNGELES


CONTACT PERSON: ROSARIO SÁNCHEZ MÁRMOL

HEADMISTRESS: MARIOLA SANZ RODRÍGUEZ

SCHOOL:

The school has a staff of 18 teachers (all of them involved in the project), and 200 children from 3 to 11 years of age . We are a Center for Integration that pays special attention to Diversity. We have pupils with both psychical and visual disabilities .

20% of the student population is immigrant and is fully integrated into the school.

The socioeconomic and cultural level of families is middle and motivation towards education and cultural issues is generally good. Most of the parents have no secondary and college studies.

This is a public school, supported by public funds.

The school is not associated with any particular religious faith, and it is respectful to all creeds and ideologies.Our guiding principle is coeducation and we advocate the principle of equality.


PROJECT DESCRIPTION: A WORLD OF TALES


We are a group of rural and near the big city Primary Schools from different countries: Spain, Poland, France, Italy, Lithuania, Turkey. Primary and Secondary from Romania, where there are students from different cultures and nationalities.

In our project we intend to improve the standard skill of reading of our students, through knowledge and reading different stories, tales and legends from different continents. Reading stories of the world will enrich us with new sensations and experiences. At the same time it will contribute to learn to respect other cultures and promote a democratic and multicultural society.

For this purpose some activities related to storytelling will be carried out. They will be involved in all curriculum areas and new technologies. Each school will design a section on the website of the centre, indicating the work done.
The coordinating centre will design a website with educational interactive activities offered by the different partner countries.

At the end of each year, all countries will organize exhibitions where both original works and photographs of children's work will be shown. These photographs and works will be also shared through the Internet (e.Twinning) on a general Comenius web site designed by the coordinating centre. ICT will be used extensively throughout the project to inform, prepare and disseminate the exhibitions and the final product.

Some mobilities will be carried out by the teachers from the participating schools. Each institution requests different number of mobilities according to the number of the teachers implied in the project in each school.

TURKEY: IZMIT TURKIYE BUYUK MILLET MECLISI ILKOORETIM OKULU


CONTACT PERSON: Köksal KARAKUŞ

HEADMASTER: İlyas TOSUN NAVDAR

SCHOOL:

We have 950 students and 38 teachers in our school. We have also 2 deputy headmaster and a headmaster in our school as administrative staff.

We are an accomplished school both academically and socially. We are in most succesful five schools in our area and We are the third school in volleyball and we have a traditional dance group, chess, scouting, theatre, football and many other social activities.

We have also a disabled student who comes to school with wheeled chair. We always help and guide him.

There are some socio-economically disadvantaged students. We help them in collaboration with parents association. We have some students coming from orphanages. We try to adapt them national education.

One of our deputy headmaster is also at the administration department of the Scouting Council of the Province.


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LITHUANIA: Vyzuonu pagrindine mokykla


CONTACT PERSON: JŪRATĖ KIRDEIKIENĖ

HEADMASTER: RIMANTAS ŽVIRBLIS

SCHOOL:

Vyzuonos basic school with Early Childhood Education, pre-primary and primary classes, located in the easten Lithuanian part, Utena region, 100 km from the capital Vilnius.

The school has a staff of 22 teachers (18 of them involved in the project), and 90 children from 3 to 16 years of age .
Our school has 15% children with specific learning problems such as writing, memory etc. and it is necessary to adopt the teaching program for them. 19% children has behaviour and socialization problems, 6% children are at risk of social exclusion because their famlies depends to social abandoned group.

This is a public school, supported by public funds.

The socioeconomic and cultural level of half families is middle, 55% famlies get state support as their living level is lower than minimal.

The most families are catholics but the school is not associated with any particular religious faith, and it is respectful to all creeds and ideologies.
Our guiding principle is coeducation and we advocate the principle of equality.

ITALY: XIV Circolo Didattico "RE DAVID"


CONTACT PERSON: MARIA IAIA

HEADMISTRESS: EUFEMIA IPPOLITO SCIONTI

SCHOOL:

Early Childhood Education and Primary School: XIV Circolo Didattico "RE DAVID", located in Bari, in the Apulian (Puglia) Region.

The school has a staff of 70 teachers (about 20 of them involved in the Project) and serves children from 3 to 11 years old (1038 pupils, about 300 of them involved in the Project).

We have some kids with special needs (about 15%) and immigrants (about 10%) from other Countries (Bosnia, Russia, Mauritius, Ucraina, Serbia, Bulgaria, Etiopia, Albania, India, Libia).

This is a public school, supported by public founds.

The socioeconomic and cultural level of families of our school is middle and motivation towards education and cultural issues is generally good. Both parents have a job. Nearby there is a technical University specializing in engineering and architecture. The School cooperate with families and local government agencies.
We promote a well-being (phisical and emotive) atmosphere, to encourage a progressive and complete growing of our kids.

The school is respectful of all creeds and ideologies.

Our main principles are:

-Liberty and equality
-Children rights
-Welcome and integration
-Participation and responsibility
-Competence and transparency
-A school keen interested in territory
-Freedom of teaching.


ROMANIA: Scoala Gimnaziala Numarul 11 "Mihail Sadoveanu" Galati


CONTACT PERSON: DIANA GREGORETTI

HEADMISTRESS: GINA NECULA

SCHOOL:

We are a Primary and Secondary School situated in an industrial big city with major problems of employments.

The pupils´ parents work in different countries from European Union, leaving them under other relatives supervision.

We have Gipsy students perfectly integrated in the educational process and in the school life.

Our school offers a general education to pupils between 7 and 15 years old in Primary and Secondary cycle.

We offer to the community a school curriculum with many optional classes to improve the social and the economical adjusting for the integration of Romania to the European Union and the values of the democracy.

FRANCE: Ecole Primaire Michel HOCQUARD


CONTACT PERSON: ERIC WINTER

HEADMISTRESS: FABIENNE MARCHEL

SCHOOL:

It's a rural school in a small village (Epaignes) in countryside located in Normandy.
The school has 8 classes and a staff of 8 teachers (1 of them involved in the project, 25 pupils) and serves children from 3 to 11 years of age (182 pupils).
The pupils level is middle to low in general, they have no culture opening.
A few pupils are handicaped.
The socioeconomic and cultural level of families is low to high and motivation towards education and cultural issues depends on the families.
The project school is to develop foreign language (English) learning and cultural opening so this Comenius project is an opportunity for our pupils and will give them the possibiliy to develop their speaking, writing and understanding English, to discover other cultures.
This is a public school, supported by public funds.
The school is not associated with any particular religious faith, and it is respectful to all creeds and ideologies.
Our guiding principle is coeducation and we advocate the principle of equality.

POLAND: SZKOLA PODSTAWOWA NR 11 IM. MAKSYMILIANA BASISTY


CONTANT PERSON: MARIA WRÓBLEWSKA


PRESIDENT OF TOWN RYBNIK: ADAM FUDALI


SCHOOL:


The Polish Primary School is situated in the suburbs of a town called Rybnik ( south part of Poland) with 150000 inhabitants.
The school has a staff of 54 teachers and 671 children from age 6 to 12 ( all of them involved in the project).

We have pupils with both psychical, mental and also visual disabilities .The number of such students grows considerably during the past few years. We are glad that all our pupils have the opportunity to confront the level of their tolerance in reality, yet the financial condition of Polish schools does not help us to deal with the disabled students with the necessary care. It is the role of schools to open students’ minds towards the possibilities carried by knowledge of foreign languages. Our students seem to understand the need but at the same time they hardly believe they could change their lives only by being better foreign language learners and users. The disabled ones are even more pessimistic in regards their future.

The socioeconomic level of families is low due to unemployment. Due to the socioeconomic reasons it is quite difficult to expect some international exchange to take place. We have the students’ population of immigrants and they are fully integrated into the school. The number of such students grows also.
School’s participation in some international cooperation program will by no means enrich the European dimension of our extracurricular activities.

We are very much aware of the Silesia region with its customs and traditions. Meeting foreign language speakers or only reading foreigners' tales make us realize that all small regions such as ours are as important as large, rich countries, which also consist of smaller districts with their own culture and traditions. Different methods and techniques of working with young people will certainly influence their attitude towards teaching, students and language.

The school is associated with the catholic religious faith but is respectful to all creeds and ideologies. Our guiding principle is coeducation and we advocate the principle of equality.

This is a public school, supported by public funds.