My ideal school; the school I would like

First test of the pilot

Find here below all the materials prepared by the NEW ABC partners who first came up with this pilot action. You can find some particularities, the handbook prepared to explain the whole implementation process, and templates and specific materials produced for carrying out some activities.

This handbook proposes to give voice to the real needs of children (and families) in education and to increase the visibility of how inclusion can be co-created with the ideas of teachers, children and their relatives.

Wrap-up of the action

Testing country
Italy

Type of action
At-school activities

Children age
Groups of 3-6 and 6-12 years

Download the handbook to learn how this pilot action was implemented

Activities you will find in this handbook:

  • The book club
  • Kamishibai on inclusion
  • Renovating a room
  • Creating a digital book
  • Puppet theater
  • Poetry
  • A school to eat

Click here for material and resources related to the activities

  • Receive feedback from participants

Template to collect participants’ feedback after sessions (editable Word document)

The template in PDF (non editable)

Retest and adaptation of the pilot

Find here below all the materials prepared by the NEW ABC partners who replicated this pilot action. The second pilot of the action was adapted from the first pilot, after taking support and inspiration from the partners previously implementing it. You can find some data about the particularities at which these activities were conducted, you can download the handbook prepared to explain the whole implementation process, and finally, you can get access to the templates and specific materials produced for carrying out some activities.

Wrap-up of the action

Testing country
Cyprus

Type of action
At-school activities

Children age
Pre-primary, Primary, Secondary school

Download the handbook to learn how this repilot action was implemented

Activities you will find in this handbook:

  • The Wall of Kindness
  • The Classroom of Love
  • Kamishibai for friendship
  • An Intercultural Library at the school
  • Stories for self-improvement
  • The ideal school, through the eyes of the children
  • The school I dream of
  • Beyond national identities, religions, and beliefs, we are all friends!
  • Always happy to get together
  • Our own vegetable garden
  •  Composting, nature’s recycling

Italian

Spanish

French

Portuguese

Polish

Greek

Finnish

Catalan

Basque

It is important to implement this pilot because…
the school domain is one of the key agencies of socialization and represents both a challenging and ideal arena for the children’s integration, as well as their families’ and communities’, into mainstream society. Yet, children with an immigrant or deprived background often have to face many challenges created by educational inequalities, lack of social and emotional wellbeing, inability to use their native/family languages, lack of mutual knowledge and understanding. Children’s voices and opinions are seldom heard and heeded, yet they are the ones who experience first-hand the strengths and weaknesses of educational policies and the impact they have on their future and their lives. The activities of this pilot action will help them and their families voice their needs and ensure that they are heard by the other stakeholders in education: teachers, local, regional and national policymakers.

This pilot action will take place in kindergarten, primary and middle schools with a culturally diverse pupil population ranging from 3 to 14 years of age.

The aim of this pilot action is…
to help children/families/communities find their voice and bring their real needs in education to other stakeholders as well as policymakers at the local, regional and national levels. The activities of this pilot will be co-created by taking a multi-pronged approach based on the whole-child/school, bottom-up, and participatory action research theories. This approach will help integrate the learning dimension with the cultural, social, and emotional sphere thus contributing to promote and enhance inclusion.

Allowing children, families, teachers and communities, especially those with an immigrant background, to express their voice to overcome barriers in education increases their agency and allows them to make their real needs in education visible to decision- and policy-makers.

The co-created activities will focus on the real needs of children with and without an immigrant background in education. They will also contribute to disseminate the objectives of the project and outcomes of the pilot action to a wider audience by:

  • creating videos and animations using different tools and software such as the i-Theatre, Lego bricks, shadow theatre, PowerPoint, Genially, etc.
  • using good and established practices that the schools have already developed successfully
  • collecting written and graphic narratives

Presentation of the repilot My ideal school; the school I would like pilot action

Presentation of the pilot My ideal school; the school I would like

Conversations on the My ideal school; the school I would like pilot action

Multimedia gallery

Video of the transformation process of a basement at the school into an artistic laboratory

Photos of the pilot activities conducted in the repilot phase, in Cyprus

Gallery of the posters produced to show the different activities carried out at schools