About us
We are a group of teachers from five European countries: Estonia, Spain, Greece, Italy and Turkey.
We have come together thanks to the great opportunity that the European Union has given us to create an intercultural, educational project. This project allows us to share and exchange the experiences we carry out in our respective schools.
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Using puppets as protagonists, this project aims to promote the basic values ​​of coexistence between countries such as respect, tolerance, group learning and bonding through our cultural heritage. The project will help us to become more creative, develop our social skills and emotional awareness and improve artistic expression and speaking skills.
DES (Interactive European School)
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It is a private bilingual nursery, kindergarten and primary school. which host approximately 300 pupils and 55 teachers.
Dr. Billie Konstantara, founder and CEO of the school, proposes a differentiated educational approach based on the theory of “Multiple Intelligences”, developed by Howard Gardner. DES educational approach is unique. Part of the basic programme, starting from the first grade, is creative learning through literature, arts, story-telling, music, coding, STEM and more. The unique surroundings allow teachers to use interactive teaching methods i.e. pet therapy with the farm animals, plant a tree day, planting vegetables in the green house, art in nature. This encourages curiosity of our pupils and keeps them motivated.
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DES Primary School is an IB PYP World School, teaching the International Baccalaureate (IB) Primary Years Programme (PYP) from Year 1 to Year 6. IB World Schools share a common philosophy – a commitment to improve the teaching and learning of a diverse and inclusive community of pupils by delivering challenging, high quality programmes of international education that share a powerful vision.
In the spirit of international mindedness, starting from Year 1, pupils learn French, Spanish or German as a foreign language and they develop a deeper understanding and an appreciation for the cultures and countries around the world.
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DES school provides a range of social activities: tennis, gymnastics, football, yoga, music, art and STEM workshops, editorial teams, 3 “houses” (clubs) - Pythagoras, Thales, Democritus-with common goals, activities and rewards.
The teachers also encourage the pupils to participate in other social activities regarding charity (collecting books to donate to disadvantaged children, raising money for the poor, spending time with the elderly), the environment (World Water Museum, clean-up days at beaches, plant a tree, recycling) and reading books (readathon, international book giving day).
ESTONIA Sillaotsa School
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Sillaotsa School is situated in the southern part of Estonia, about 12 kilometres from Tartu – the second biggest town in Estonia. Our school work is divided between three separate buildings. The overall number of children is 460.
In the Sillaotsa School building , there are 190 pupils from age 7-16.Our basic school has classes from 1 to 9.
Pre-school education in Estonia is for children aged between 18 months and 7 years. If you want to, your child can stay home until compulsory education begins at age 7.
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Children attending pre-school child care institutions have guaranteed access to speech therapists and special education teachers.Pre-school child care institutions support the development of children’s general skills (personal, social, play and learning skills) and their overall development in seven areas of learning and teaching:
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me and the environment;
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language development;
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Estonian as a second language;
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mathematics;
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arts;
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music;
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physical development and movement.
The national curriculum for pre-school child care institutions follows the Scandinavian approach of combining different child-centred active learning methods such as “Step by Step”, the Montessori method, the Waldorf method of teaching, Reggio Emilia, language immersion as well as research, entrepreneurship and outdoor learning.
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In one of the buildings in Roiu , there are 113 kindergarten children up to the age of seven, in the very new Haaslava building there are 160 children .
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SPAIN - Nuestra Señora de las Victorias (Our Lady The Victorious)
Nuestra Señora de las Victorias-Filipenses is a state-subsidised Catholic school, providing well-rounded education from nursery up until the final year of compulsory Secondary education (3 - 16 years).
Our school is one of six schools in Spain that belong to the “Filipenses” missionary and teaching nunnery congregation.
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We are known as “Filipenses”, a name given by our patron, Saint Felipe Neri. Also known as the Apostle of Rome, he inspired our congregational values and our educational ideology.
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Our school is located in the capital city of Spain, Madrid, in a very well-connected neighbourhood, close to the centre and the main tourist attractions of the city, like the famous Prado Art Museum, The Royal Palace and The Almudena Cathedral etc.
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TURKEY Keskesler Kindergarten
Our kinderarten is a public kindergarten located in the middle of Turkey in Konya which is famous for it's whirling dervishes. Our school has 180, 3-6 year, students and 11 kindergarten teachers, 1 pshychological consultant and guidence teacher, 1 principle and 1 vice-principle. Our school has 5 different workshops hand our 5 year old students visit diferent workshops in every lesson with their teachers and 3 year olds attend their own classes.
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We also have different club classes. In our club time our students learn different subjects and experience different activities. In our music room they learn how to sing with their music teacher and also play the piano, in English classes they learn some basic English phrases, in drama classs they learn how to act and also they have pandomim classes and they perform a play or a show on the stage at the end of every term. Some students attend mind games club and they experience diferrent mind games like chess there by the help of their teachers.
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In our school we have seperated mini gardens for each class and they are caring and growing their own plants and vegetables.
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ITALIA - ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO CASORIA3-CARDUCCI-KING:
IC-Carducci King is a public school. It includes schools of both orders of the first cycle of compulsory education, plus the nursery school (from kindergarten to secondary school of First Instance)
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The name Carducci King is the Union of two different names because in the past, the primary and the secondary school were two different schools. “Giosué CARDUCCI” is a very famous Italian poet and “Martin Luther KING” is the African Politician who made very important campaigns for human rights of black skin people. When the two schools became a comprehensive institute, the last name of this 2 great personalities were mixed together.
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Our School is in the Town of Casoria in the Campanian region in the south Italy. Casoria has about 77.000 inhabitants and it is very close to Naples. Our Town is in a strategic position because it is very easy to go to the most famous touristic sites of the region as Pompeii, or The Amalfi Coast or Capri Island.
