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Notre école située à Flénu, fait partie de la ville de Mons. Nous sommes au centre d'un ancien bassin minier. Pas moins de 23 puits permettaient avant 1974 d'extraire le charbon jusqu'à une profondeur de 900 mètres. Ces mineurs étaient principalement des ouvriers émigrés d'Italie, de Yougoaslavie, de Pologne. Aujourd'hui, la population a de nouveaux émigrés venus spécialement d'Afrique. Anciennement école de quartier, nous avons dû déménager vers les bâtiments actuels suite à un accroissement important de la population scolaire, accroissement faisant suite à l'immersion linguistique en néerlandais et aux projets européens dans l'école. Aujourd'hui, notre école compte près de 350 élèves de 2 1/2 ans à 11 ans. 

Our school, located in Flénu, is part of the city of Mons. We are in the center of a former mining basin. Before 1974, no fewer than 23 shafts were used to extract coal to a depth of 900 meters. These miners were mainly workers who had emigrated from Italy, Yugoslavia, and Poland. Today, the population has new immigrants who have come especially from Africa. Formerly a neighborhood school, we had to move to the current buildings following a significant increase in the school population, an increase following the linguistic immersion in Dutch and European projects in the school. Today, our school has nearly 350 students from 2 1/2 years old to 11 years old.  Our school received in December 2022, the European price of pedagogical innovation and we have written two books with our partners of an Erasmus project about migration.

MY  SCHOOL

Dimotiko Scholeio Plateos Imathias, Greece

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Our school consists of an Infant, Primary and Secondary school. We have got about 700 students from 3 to 14 years old.
It has two buildings and actively collaborates on the territory, with participation in activities promoted by the Municipality, the Bank, the Parish, the Associations present and the University ofSalerno. It collaborates with the police to disseminate principles of active citizenship among the
school population. It promotes interesting activities and participates as a partner in numerous projects at local, national and European level. The school, despite the lack of some spaces, is well maintained and it is evident the goodwill and the ability to organize places to live outside teaching
from the classroom, with particular reference to the laboratories.
The school, thanks to the sharing of community programs, can count on discrete technological equipment: website, digital boards, multimedia laboratories, scientific laboratory. Every member of the staff uses it systematically and competently. The use of laboratory spaces from part of the
students is constant, they are used both in the curriculum and in the extra, even in the primary and secondary school. Aspects related to environmental sustainability/energy are taken into account, with the preparation of requests to the local authority and specific plans (specific project
of the Minister of Education). A relavant attention is about language skills, with particular reference to Italian as well as to English and other languages of the European Union, also through the use of the Content methodology language integrated learning development of skills in the field
of active and democratic citizenship, through the enhancement of intercultural education and peace, respect of differences and dialogue between cultures, support for the recruitment of responsibility as well as solidarity and care for common goods and awareness of rights and duties;
knowledge enhancement in legal and economic-financial matters and education to self-employment. In recent years, the students have participated in various recycling and reuse laboratories of materials, they have learned to recognize and understand the centrality of recycling for the well-being and future of the new generations and to gain awareness of thedegradation of areas and places in the territory and implementation of interventions aimed at environmentally friendly recovery.