IES TORRE OLVIDADA

Compulsory Secondary Education. Students are aged between 12 and 16. In this school you study for free first to the fourth year of compulsory education.
Post-compulsory education: Basic vocational studies (addressed to students who did not succeed in secondary education) and Vocational Studies related to Food Processing.

MOTIVATION OF THE SCHOOL TO START THIS PROJECT: This project appears as a need to devise activities to avoid and prevent cyberbullying. After some cases in our school, we decided that it was necessary to start a new line of work, which is now part of the strategic plan of the management team. The counselling department has been working on this in the last years and now it was necessary for us to go further and to learn from other countries´ experiences to innovate and open our school to Europe.

RESPONSIBLE PEOPLE OF THE PROJECT: The person responsible is Rosa Anguita Rísquez. She is an English teacher and also the bilingual coordinator of the school. She has a large experience in formation and currently she conducts special courses for teachers about evaluation and learning and teaching tools. This teacher has a permanent position in this school, therefore she will continue working in this school during the years of the project. In the event that she could not coordinate the project, we have planned that there would be four permanent teachers who would deal with the coordination of the project. These teachers belong to the bilingual section and to the languages departments. Besides, there is a team for COMRED (a programme for the prevention of cyberbullying) formed by the head of studies, the counsellor, two tutors and the coordinator of the project to work with these topics.

EXPERIENCE TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE PROJECT For the school it is the first time to participate in a project. However, this is not the case for the staff. Some teachers have previously worked in other schools where Erasmus+ projects were developed. They have contributed actively in the design of activities for the mobilities of the projects. Besides, they have participated in some mobilities in other countries. Therefore, we have people who will guarantee that the project will be successful. The school has experience in organizing events for other institutions. We have organized games, gymkhanas, sport events and open doors days where all the primary schools of the village have met. Our school is now prepared for a new challenge: to open a door for internationalization, innovation and permeability. It is the time for us to give a step forward, and to walk a new path of getting the same objectives in different countries of Europe. Undoubtedly, this implies stepping outside of your comfort zone, but the advantages to be achieved are endless. The possibility to make Europe closer, to approach Europe to our students and to bring Europe to our village only offers benefits.

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