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Marnix on the Move
Start date: Aug 1, 2014, End date: Aug 1, 2015 PROJECT  FINISHED 

As a secondary school we'd like to focus on 2 aspects: language acquisition for both teachers and students and using gymnastics to improve behaviour and schoolresults on the whole. Bilingual Education plays an important role in our school, we call it 'VéTO - Versterkend Talenonderwijs'. Dedicated teachers teach their subjects in English, and the English department has two streams: regular English and Cambridge English. Through projects, exchanges and studyweeks in England we focus on cultural aspects and language. What we see with our students is a positive attitude to languages in general, the connection with the different subjects and the appreciation for the challenge we offer for the gifted students (FCE-exam in year 3) and/or very motivated students (exchange programmes with schools in Hungary and Germany). If we compare our exam results now to the results 10 years ago, we really made big progress! People tend to choose our school more often than usual for this as well. What we need is the constant need to keep up with language and CLIL skills for both non-language teachers as teachers of English, German and French. We would love to have more opportunities for foreign job-shadowing in the future. For long we struggle with a good introduction programme/behaviour towards sports and we experience the absence of using gymnastics/movement in the other subjects. As we look at our neighbouring countries, Germany especially, we see that they implement gymnastics/movement in the curriculum of other subjects succesfully. To prevent drawbacks, we'd like to be trained professionaly and are keen on remoddeling our introduction programme first and then to stimulate subject colleagues to offer a varied programme including movement. The assessment of the results will be diverse. First there will be the intervision meetings in which experiences are shared. Secondly, the coordinator will discuss the outcome of the trainings with the participants based on their objectives beforehand and check the implementation in the classes. Thirdly, parents and students will receive the annual questionnaire about different aspects of our school, supplemented with relevant questions on VeTO and the introduction programme in the first year, and about the implementation of movement into subjects in the following years. The results will be published in 'Vensters ter verantwoording' on our website.

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