IMPLICATION OF FAMILIES AND THE COMMUNITY FOR EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS Erasmus Project

Project Title

IMPLICATION OF FAMILIES AND THE COMMUNITY FOR EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS

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 : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

The four European partner schools are from Spain, Portugal, the United Kingdom and Cyprus. They all developed before the project, with different experiences and backgrounds, SEAS (Successful Educational Actions), that increase the efficiency of learning, generate equity since all the student learn more and those in a disadvantaged situation acquire the basic and necessary knowledge, improve their performances and increase social cohesion.For the four schools, was important to reinforce educational results, guaranteeing the long-term implementation of SEAS. All SEAS were develop in all primary groups, weekly or each two weeks. That means that about 1500 people, including students, teachers, relatives and other members of the community have participated in the project, many of them students with social disadvantages.

The main objectives of this project were:
To reinforce the implementación of SEAs in the European Schools, partners of the project.
To promote and foster the participation of families and the school community in the development of SEAs, in each school.
To share good parctices and success strategies for families and community participation.
To stablish a small network of schools that are implementing SEAs in Europe.
To provide training, materials and skills for the participating schools to promote SEAs in a sustainable way.
To promote the acquisition of skills and competences by the implementation of the SEAs in all the school groups.
To promote social inclusión, fostering the educational success of everyone and the participation of all the school community in this aim.

To achieve this aims, schools went further in the implementación of SEAS, shared with the others their best practices, their challenges and reflections, and they will created resources for teachers, families and students in order to disseminate the results of SEAS and foster families and community participation. Schools also carried out training seminars to go deeper in the knowledge and organization of SEAS, to improve their results and impact, and to foster all community engagement in their development.

Schools created videos and presentations to explain the Educational Success Actions that are carried out to local community, as well brochure about of the Successful Educational Action. In the teacher training seminars, partners worked on the contents, structure and design of these resources.

Schools organized students mobilities to each country, in which Interactive Groups and Dialogic Reading activities were organized with the participation of relatives and other volunteers of the community. In addition, different activities were organized inside and outside the school to facilitate intercultural exchange and knowledge of the cultural heritage of each country. Although some mobilities suffered the impact of COVID19 restrictions, they change their format to virtual one, in order to guarantee the achievement of the objectives and the intercultural and international experience of the participants.

Other project activities were carried out in order to implement the dissemination and to facilitate the impact of the project:
LOGO Contest, Erasmus+ Corner, Project website, School project blog, project Facebook profile, eTwinning space and video summaries of the project.

This Erasmus + project made possible the necessary training to develop SEAS in a rigorous way, and to ensure its proper functioning in the medium and short term. In addition, a small network of schools (the partner schools) at a European level that are implementing SEAS was established, and some partners still work together in different Erasmus projects. The training seminars, the participation in the mobilities and the visit to other schools that are developing SEAS, facilitated the creation of a collaborative structure as well as the creation of support and informative materials so that they can be used in the project and are available for the educational community of each school, and for other schools interested in the SEAS. Promoting the best results in educational success for all, based on the families and community participation, the project also improved the coexistence, increasing social cohesion.

Project Website

http://www.erasmusseas2018.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 90509,3 Eur

Project Coordinator

Colegio JABY & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Agrupamento de Escolas Boa Água, Sesimbra
• A’ Dimotiko Potamou Germasogias
• Fulbourn Primary School