United Kingdom caring and sharing Meeting UK 15 10 2015

Our strengths Family atmosphere Parental involvement really big Parent committee (invite speakers, organisate week of the book, …) Club of friends (non-profit association actions to get money eg. mussel festival) School council (information and communication parents – teachers – headteacher) Child and Youth panel (children reading group) Volunteers level reading transport supervising …

Family atmosphere Open school Teachers and headteacher are approachable (aanspreekbaar) Free enter for parents in school. Direct communication (weekly info, after school time for parents, …

Educational care : who? Fulltime care teacher Two parttime care teachers primary school One parttime care teacher nursery school Class Differentiation by class teacher Teaching methods which pupils are working Time to remedial learning Time to obervations Structural remedial learning (by speech therapy, class teacher, pedagogical coach, …)

Educational care : how? Close attention to: Targets to study methods Targets to social skills Integrated approach (green moments) Lot of expertise Dedication to all talents of each child Emigrants with foreign language Homework class after schooltime Speech trainers during schooltime Close collaboration with student counseling center (clb)

ICT (information and communicationtechnologie) function ICT coördination on school community level Chris and Mathieu Pedagogical ICT support Johan (ICT support and training – on pupil and teacher level)

ICT function Well equipped computer classroom In each class one computer Activboards or touchscreen Voting boxes Interwrite board 24 ipads

Enthusiastic fellow workers Good understanding between Teachers primary school Teachers nursery school Headteacher Childcare at noon, pre and after school Kitchen staff Maintenance crew Volunteers Parents ...

A lot of activities Forest classes Country classes Sport classes Day of Sport Sport on wednesday afternoon Fashion show Christmas Market Week of Literature (parents are reading …) Child and Youth Jury (discussion groups of literature) Children's farm Culture (museums 1302) Farm visit Flanders Fields (Ieper WW 1) Studio Globo (Organization for global and intercultural learning) Oxfam shop visit Jazz in Paulus (jazz-music evening for parents and friends) Idool St-Pol (playback for children) Open school day Healthy week (fruits and movement for all childrens)

Health policies Many sports facilities 3 big playgrounds with sport facilities (football, basket, skating,…) Movement education (each class gets 1 hours gymnastics and 1 hours swimming lessons) activities on Wednesday afternoon (running races, badminton tournament, …) Football tournament in school Skate Contes in school Healthy food Varied lunch no candy (only on childs birthday) No soft drinks Healthy week Lessons in physics and/or chemistry Close collaboration with student counseling center (clb)

Toddler classes (peuterklassen) Sleep class for the smallest Toddler and preschooler can first take an afternoon nap Separate refectory for toddlers

Life groups (age of 4 – 6 years old) Two ages together Care for one another Learning is also a social event. Children learn from and with each other. Practice social skills independency Preschooler is two years with the same teacher Each preschooler get into small groups specific lessons (eg. Initially count ...)

Spacious and green environment