Comenius meeting: October 2005 in Europaschool Genk (Belgium)
•302 children(age from 2/3 to 12)•25 teachers
…a school that looks up…
The school presentation…
The territory
• 1902: 2300 inhabitants
• 1% not Flemmish
1914: 1^ migration wave from Germany, then from Poland…Italy (until 1956), then Spain…
In the seventies: from a mining area to an industrial one
• 4 th industrial city in Belgium
• 63.000 people, 15% from other countries, 70% from another ethnic group
• 16% jobless
Lots of families are from Turkey and Marocco
The main school aim:Feeling good, safe and relaxed
• llll
Let’s visit the school…
The Infant school
• Learning by doing
A reading project…
In the primary schools doors are open…
Kids work in a nice atmosphere…
The space is well structured
and very well equipped
A multicultural and multilingual school
Special projects:A relax room
The music room…
The children’s feelings are central
Mothers at school for a language lesson
The headmaster Mr Tony
The meeting project
Informal gatherings…
Bruxelles
The “Secret under the surface” project team in Bruxelles
Time to come back…
In the meanwhile in our schools…children are getting ready to start the Comenius
project
They open the surprise boxes
We’re going to work alongside Belgium, Germany, Finland, Poland, Spain and us
of course…Italy
Christa Prets europarlamentare, presente alla settimana Comenius
a Bruxelles:
«Incoraggio tutti voi a mantenere una mentalità di apertura verso gli altri, è la base della futura cooperazione europea: giovani che si capiscono.Se i giovani imparano a conoscersi, nonché a capire e ad accettare le loro differenze, allora non dobbiamo avere timori per il futuro dell’Europa.»