EMBRACING EVERYONE Erasmus Project

Project Title

EMBRACING EVERYONE

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The Embracing Everyone project has included schools from the UK, TR, IT, SI, RO involved in the project. It has involved pupils aged 6-15 across all five schools and has focused on the problem of social exclusion mainly due to a lack of basic skills and Special Educational Needs. In order to reach the common goal of inclusion across the five schools, we have researched, practiced and shared new strategies and methods of teaching cooperatively and inclusively at schools and during leisure time activities. We looked at the needs analysis at the five schools which was carried out through teachers’ observations and application of a basic survey. From these observations and needs analysis we were able to put together some key objectives and a plan for our project which were,

1. to promote the inclusion of excluded students, the ones with a lack of basic skills, the risk of dropping out, with special needs by helping to promote their integration into the mainstream education and society
2. to apply new strategies for overcoming social exclusion, lack of basic skills and the problem of early school leaving
3. to conduct new methods in the field of social and emotional child development as part of students with special needs’ practical curriculum
4. to create a stimulating learning environment and approaches for supporting child’s social and emotional development
5. to make available (assured) for the teachers different methods of education and share the good practices

In order to reach the above objectives, activities and tasks were put in place in 9 stages so that all involved could gain a high level of engagement and outcome.

Specific tasks:
Stage 1:
A10 -All project members from each school were selected by following and internal selection procedure, and specific tasks were allocated to each of the members.
A11- Erasmus corners were organised at each school and where possible digital monitors were placed in order for the activities displayed to be visible at all times of the project.
A12- The scope and objectives of the project were discussed within the schools and where possible, with local authorities by distributing flyers, brochures.
A13- A local project launch conference was organised at each school and in Romania the project was also promoted at a local TV network (Curier TV- 12.09.2016) and in the local
newspapers (Argesenii, Curierul Zilei).
A14- The UK coordinator prepared the initial questionnaire, evaluation forms and the observation documents.
A15- The above stated questionnaire was applied to the target group and the results were analysed.
Stage 2 was represented by the first Transnational Meeting in England (November 2016) which was carried out in line with the calendar and objectives.
A16 – A calendar was produced by the English partners using photos from the project and distributed to all partners for the year 2018.
Stage 3- C1- Italy visit in March 2017 focused on “Peer Tutoring”.
A17 – Distributed in June 2018
Stage 4 – C2 – Slovenia visit in May 2017 focused on “Team Teaching”.
A18- The English team took charge of the project website which is Blog based and has been added to after each mobility.
A19 – The Slovenian team took charge of the project group in Twinspace/E-Twinning which has been added to over the two years the project has run.
Stage 5
A20- Evaluation of the first 4 stages and creation of the evaluation report was carried out by the Turkish and Romanian teams, as requested by their National Agencies.
Stage 6 – C3 –Romania visit in November 2017 focused on “Project Based Learning”
A21- Regular interchange of information was on going through e-mails, Twinspace, Facebook, the Blog, Whatsapp.
A22- Book about the 5 new strategies was created by the Romanian partners, although each partner contributed information about the strategy they took charge of.
Stage 7 – C4 – The Turkey visit took place in April 2018 and focused on “Personalisation”
A23- The Turkish team designed and made a project magazine including all project outcomes
STAGE 8 – M1 – The second Transnational Meeting took place in England in June 2018
A24- Doing observation of all project issue and writing the final reports began in May and was discussed at length at the Transnational Meeting in June 2018
A25- Statistical analysis of Evaluation forms; Observation documents and Initial & Final questionnaire
STAGE 9
ENDING – The project will officially end in August 2018.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 114890 Eur

Project Coordinator

kirkbymoorside CP School & Country: UK

Project Partners

• mustafa aykin elementary school
• SCOALA GIMNAZIALA ION PILLAT
• Istituto Comprensivo Fossacesia
• OS MIHE PINTARJA TOLEDA