1 st Special Education Primary School of Xanthi

A.BUILDING A COMMUNITY Indicator A.1.3: “Staff collaborate with each other”

1.The specific conditions of our school:  Permanent staff: only 2 teachers  Non- permanent staff (which changed every school year): 4-5 teachers, 1 special education assistant, psychologist, speech-therapist…. That means:  Every school year we have to create and evolve a new team  Again we have to build a team culture and a cooperative environment

2.Teachers, assistants, experts, a heterogeneous group:  The level of the collaboration affects the development and the effectiveness of the school.

A2. CREATING INCLUSIVE CULTURES Indicator A.2.2: “Staff, governors, students and parents/carers share a philosophy of inclusion”

1.The synthesis of the student population:  Our students come from different social, cultural and financial backgrounds. That means:  First of all we have to build an inclusive culture “inside walls”

2.Inclusion as requirement and life attitude:  Inclusion is a politically correct attitude for mainstream schools but it is still a desire for Special Education Schools. That means:  We have to make diversity visible and we have to fight to be equally acceptable

 Inclusion is a procedure which can be developed by a mainstream school.  A Special education School has to fight to be accepted.  In our case we always have to make the first step when planning inclusive activities.

 Questionnaires  Working groups  It will be decided and planned until the end of this school year