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European Connections
Start date: Jun 1, 2016,
End date: May 31, 2018
PROJECT
FINISHED
Our school has maintained contact and has worked with schools in Europe through the British Council Connecting Classrooms and subsequent relationships established from this programme. The management team of Sagrada Família, with the complicity of the entire teaching staff, directs efforts to make our school a multilingual one learning from other schools and other working methods. The School Management Team and the school staff are committed to this model of school. A school, open to Europe that wants to keep these experiences alive together with schools in other countries. Holy Cross in Scotland shares the same objectives. The teachers from our school have spent four years learning about methodological innovations such as cooperative learning, inclusiveness and, most recently, project and team work, with the aim of reducing students' failure and help those students with special needs.The six teachers who have been already involved in the making of this project and those who can join the project, meet the following criteria:- Motivation and involvement in the project.- Facility to disseminate the skills acquired through the project to the entire educational community.- Have experience in participating in projects which have brought improvements to education.Once the project is approved, documents will be prepared to set the goals to be achieved in each of the four visits each school will do, being the dissemination plan and the learning agreement clearly specified. The first and third visit will focus on observing good practices, familiarizing teachers with the concepts of Curriculum for Basic Skills and Curriculum for Excellence in the first, and leading to a higher level in terms of project work. The second and fourth visit will add acting as teachers to the observation of good practices.These are the main goals we want to obtain whilst working on this project:· Share methodology and practice of excellence among teachers of the two partner schools to improve education.· Learn from others.. Attend student diversity.. Spread and share the feeling of belonging to Europe and being a European democratic citizen.. Reduce school failure.. Introduce projects with schools in Europe in primary education.We want to see a reduction in the number of students' failure and an improvement in the results on how well we attend diversity. We want to see how the sense of belonging to Europe, belonging to a group of citizens that can see further than their local background is strengthened.In conclusion, we want to consolidate our school as a benchmark of quality in our area; To get certified as a multilingual school; to open the eyes of our students, and of all of us too, to new projects with schools in Europe; to strengthen the links with Glasgow International Education Office and in turn, with Scottish schools and, finally, to get to know other schools in Europe interested in obtaining and acquire the benefits provided by taking part in such projects