Primary school "Lyuben Karavelov", Nova Zagora, Bulgaria
About 260 students study every year in Primary School “Lyuben Karavelov” in Nova Zagora. They are from six-year-olds (in the pre-school group) to eleven-year-olds (1st – 4th grade). There are some students from USA, Spain and Iraq. The pedagogical team consists of highly skilled and experienced teachers.
The education in the school is organized in the morning but there is homework school for many pupils in the afternoon.
The aim of ecological education in the school is building a good attitude to the nature like source of inspiration, aesthetics and good health, as well as forming habits to protect the environment. On 14th December 2001 the school wins the international award of European foundation for ecological education “Green flag” and we regain it every second year since then.
The students learn about Bulgarian folk dances and traditions in the lessons of choreography where Bulgarian customs, ancient style of living and folklore are introduced. The dancing group is winner of many awards from regional and national fairs and competitions.
Visiting exhibitions of other school students and famous artists are organized in the school. Drawings of our students are in Hungary, Switzerland, Japan and many other countries.
The sports events are very interesting for the students and they take part in different competitions and games where they present themselves excellently.
Katolickie Gimnazjum i Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. św. Jadwigi Królowej. SANDOMIERZ. Poland
Our school is a religious school situated in the socio-economically disadvantaged area in our town. A lot of our students live in depressed city area. The high level of unemployment and the low material status background determine the living standards of our students. The district, where our school is operating, is perceived as worse one. It is very difficult but we work hard to change this opinion. We support our students to achieve success, to overcome the stereotype.
We hope that this project will give us a chance to discover our identity, overcome social and cultural problems that we face every day. What's more, taking part in this project we will motivate students to learn foreign languages and make them aware how important and useful communicative competence, folklore tradition and ecological awereness are. Moreover, we believe that students’ participation will enable them not only to take care of their own personal development but also it
will teach them how to function in a modern society, care for our ecologically-threatened world, especially the area they live in and help them feel the part of the European Community.
Scoala cu cls.I-VIII nr.199 ''Alexandru Ioan Cuza", Bucharest, Romania
Our school is located in an imporant area of the capital.We develop a special programme for children who remain daily at school,untill afternoon,under a pedagocial assitance,because their parentes have no time or are not capable to help them for lessons or to organise their free time.Our school has important objectives for the future developement : to learn,to communicate with different partners,to encourage the learning of foreign languages,to share our experience with European partners about : education,society,traditions,ecology,art, and customs.
C.E.I.P. Ntra. Sra. del Carmen, Marbella. Spain
www.colegioelcastillo.es/proyecto_comenius.html
About the context or our school, we work with students of 26 different nationalities, most of them from South America and East Europe. Our students´families do not have a great economy, we try to get a lot of projects for our school to do easier their lives in school with free time activities (sports, help with homework,...). Our pupils have an exemplary behavior and we don´t have problems with "live together".
Akincilar Primary School, Konya, Turkey
altinekinakincilarilkogretimokul.meb.k12.tr/
Our institution includes pre-school and primary school education. There are 19 teachers and 546 students (from 6 to 15 years old). We did not participate in a Lifelong learning project yet and we are motivated to take part in it. We look forward eagerly to take part in the activities,to organize meetings, to share experience with colleagues, to learn new things and share knowledge.
Our school is situated in a region mostly agricultural. Therefore the greatest part of the families who live here are engaged in agriculture. Economic level of the students varies. In addition, our school is located in the area of public interest which is quite good. We are motivated and really ready to take part in all the activities of the project. We can contribute to the progress of the partnership and the realisation of the final products. We can take part in the preparation and content presentation of the project achievements. We can perform all the tasks expected of us.
