PROJECT'S PRESENTATION OF PARTNERS 

(IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER)

COORDINATOR

CEIP MESTRE PERE GARAU from Son Macia, SPAIN

The school CEIP Mestre Pere Garau (Infant and Primary School) is situated in the municipality of Manacor, in the South East of Mallorca, Spain.

The social ethnical composition of the community is divided into different nationalities:

-People who live in Son Macià, that is a rural village. Most of the population that live there come from Mallorca, but there are also people from Morocco or European countries (like Germany or England).

-People who live in Calas de Mallorca. It is a touristic town which was born in the ’60s with the demand of the tourism boom in Spain. It is situated in the east of the island, and surrounded by a rural area and the Mediterranean Sea. The small town is defined by the variety of buildings, in which you can see the hotels. There are also many apartments, villas and bungalows where the locals live.

-The population who live in Calas de Mallorca are people from the Mainland of Spain who speak Spanish.

-People who live in Manacor or other towns from the same municipality come from different nationalities: India, Morroco, etc.  

A new school is being built. for this reason we are currently situated in another building (in a High School).Now the school has 9 classrooms with video camera, video-projector, computers and white smartboards.

PUPILS

Mestre Pere Garau is a state-funded school which provide education to pupils between the ages of 3 - 12 years old. We have a total of 136 students.

The official language in the school is Catalan.

The social – ethnical composition of the pupils. Students come from:

-Mallorca

-The Mainland (they don’t know Catalan which is the official language of the school).

-Morroco.

-India

-Western European countries

-South America

We don’t have problems of juvenile violence because we speak with the families and then in all cases we find together the best solution to the problem.

In our country it is compulsory to go to school until 16 years old. For this reason in primary school we don’t have dropout.

We have 18% of pupils with disabilities (visual problems, hearing impairments and mental impairments).

PARTNERS

SU "Vladimir Komarov" from Veliko Tarnovo, BULGARIA

Our school:  Vladimir Komarov Secondary School (Средно училище “Владимир Комаров“) is situated in 9 Byala Bona Street, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria (град Велико Търново, ул.„Бяла Бона“№9)

The school is situated on the outskirts of Veliko Turnovo, in a neighborhood named Cholakovtsi.

The ethnical composition - different ethnic groups (Bulgarian, Turkish, Roma) and different religions (Christianity and Islam). The biggest part of students belong to Bulgarian ethnic group.

The social composition of the community - they live in working class families mostly and belong to different ethnic groups. Due to the relatively high unemployment, some of parents live and work abroad and thus of our students live with their grandparents. 

The school has 12 classrooms;

• 2 rooms for teaching foreign languages (English, German and Russian)

• 1 room for teaching Biology

• 1 room for teaching Geography

• 2 gyms for Physical education lessons

• 1 eco hall

• 2 computer rooms

• 1 room for Art lessons

• 1 room for Music lessons

• 1 especially designed room for the pupils from the 1st to the 4th grade to have Activities of interest

Our computer rooms are equipped with computers that are sufficient for any students in classes. We have an interactive white board in one of our computer rooms. Our eco hall is equipped with a laptop and multimedia projector. We have a TV with DVD player and a computer in the room for Activities of interest.

PUPILS

We have 207 students in the school. They learn in twelve classes, in three age groups:

- primary: 6 – 11 years old (1st - 4th  grade)

- junior secondary: 11 -15 years old (5th  - 8th  grade)

- secondary: 15-19 years old (9th - 12th  grade).

In our school there are no problems of juvenile violence or dropout students. We have a percentage of students with problems 5,31%.

We have 11 students with disabilities ( Аutism, Мild mental retardation, Мoderate mental retardation, Сerebral palsy, Crouzon syndrome, Sindactilia).

9 PRIMARY SCHOOL OF MYTILINI from LESVOS, GREECE

The school 9th Primary school of Mytilini is situated in the town of Mytilini, capital of Lesvos Island in the North-eastern Aegean Sea in Greece. Our school has 200 students between 6-12 years old.

They are primarily of Greek nationality but there are also Albanian, Bulgarian, Romanian pupils. Recently, in our school population, we’ve had a new class of welcome and integration for refugee children from Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Kongo.

The school has 20 classrooms with video projectors, two interactive boards and a computer lab.

PUPILS

Our students have average and above average results at learning; we do not have problems with juvenile violence or dropout.

We have a few who are additionally helped by an extra qualified teacher.

No disabled students.

No disabled students of any kind or disability.

TEACHERS AND NON-TEACHING STAFF

The school has 19 teachers and non-teaching personnel - a psychologist and a social-worker.

Scuola Secondaria di 1°Grado "Mastro Giorgio-Nelli" from GUBBIO, ITALY

Scuola Secondaria di I grado "Mastro Giorgio - Nelli" is in Gubbio, a beautiful medioeval town in the north of the region Umbria, in the centre of Italy. The town is very large but it has only 32.000 inhabitants.  Gubbio has got lots of ancient churches, palaces, monuments and buildings. There are lots of old traditions and festivities, in particular the "Ceri Feast" (Festa dei Ceri) on 15th May, and the highest "Christmas Tree" in the world. Its economy is based on agriculture, artisanship, small and middle industries and tourism. The families take care of their children and generally participate to their school life; most of them belong to the middle class. The economical crisis is involving even our families but till now the problems seem to be quite limited. There are some immigrants from Albany, East Europe, South America, China and North Africa. Not all of them are well integrated but the volunteer associations and the teachers at school work hard to support and improve their integration. 

Our school institution has got four school buildings: the two biggest are in the town center (the main building has got 13 classrooms, a computer lab and a small gymnasium; the other one has got 18 classrooms, a computer lab and a gymnasium); the other two are very small and are in two villages (each one of them has got 3 classrooms, a small computer lab, a small school canteen and a gymnasium).  Each classroom in all the school buildings has got an interactive board connected with a computer or a laptop.  

PUPILS

There are about 900 pupils aged 11-14. We have about 35 pupils with physical and cognitive disabilities, and about 100 pupils with special educational needs (dyslexia, social needs and economic difficulties),  about 14%; all of them have special teachers who work together with the subject class teachers for most of the school timetable; we haven't got any pupils with juvenile violence problems. We haven't got any  dropouts or refugees. We have a school orchestra of about 60 pupils who play violin, piano, trumpet, recorder, drums, saxophone and percussions; we have a school choir of about 30 pupils. 

SCOALA GIMNAZIALA "MARIA ROSETTI" from BUCHAREST, ROMANIA
http://www.sgmr.ro/

Responsible of the project: Mrs. EMANUELA POPESCU

Scoala Gimnaziala Maria Rosetti it's a primary and secondary public school placed in the second district of Bucharest with a stable population formed mostly by middle-class families. The school was built and functioned since 1960. 

The school is equipped with 19 classrooms (equipped with projectors) and 4 labs of which one computer lab with interactive whiteboard, bio-chemistry lab, psycho-pedagogical counseling lab and religion. In the 19 classrooms study 30 classes of students in two shifts. We have a library, a gym, and a medical room.

We have both compulsory courses and optional courses which can be chosen by our students together with their parents. 

PUPILS

Our school has now more than 850 pupils from 6 - 15 years old and 43 teachers with high qualifications. There is a little number of pupils with special needs, migrants, refugees, but has a great number of pupils belonging to different ethnical communities (Armenian, Macedonian, Rroma, Jewish) and different religions (orthodox, Greco-catholic, Romano–catholic, muslins, mosaic and others). All the pupils from our school are perfectly integrated in our school community. 

We also have a few students with special educational needs, 32 students, for whom we have assured a teacher and a counselor who helps them in keeping up with the school requirements. We don’t have refugee students, but we have 20 Roma students in our school.

SULTANTEPE ORTAOKULU from ISTANBUL, TURKEY

The school SULTANTEPE ORTAOKULU is situated in ÜSKÜDAR-İSTANBUL-TURKEY.

The social ethnical composition of the community: we have diverse ethnic identities from around the Turkey. It contains Turks, Kurds, Greek, Armenians, Jewish communities.Today, it has a very mixed demographic structure, including poor communities, immigrants mainly from eastern and south eastern regions, the creative-professional middle classes, Gypsies, Kurds, foreign immigrants such as Afghan, African Iranian Syrian and Iraqian and other communities, Romanians, Bulgarians and Russians. 

The school has 28 classroom and all classrooms have got interactive boards and the school has 3 labs.

PUPILS

There are 100 pupils and their ages are between 10-14. Our students do not cause any problems of juvenile violence. We don’t have a large number of dropout. The percentage of students with problems you have 5%. 

We have 8 disability pupils and their disabilities are Autism, Mongolism and Learning disability.

TEACHERS AND NON-TEACHING STAFF

We have 60 teachers and a secretary, 8 cleaners, a mechanic, a security, two psychologists.