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

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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.»