Scoala Gimnaziala nr.1 Branesti* is a primary school, located in a disadvantaged area in a rural suburb of Bucharest. Some of the elderly in Branesti are Bulgarians and they keep their traditions. Our school consists of approximately 470 students of which 23 are from the villages near Branesti, 5 are roma, 12 are special needs, supervised by 32 teachers. 3 students came back home with their families from Belgium, Spain, Greece. They are facing many obstacles, the linguistic one being the worst. 80% of the families have a low income and a low level of education and they are in a tough social and economic situation. The school develops the European school curriculum in order to grow the students' knowledge. The possibility to achieve this partnership opens new perspectives for the students to study the cultural heritage, the social inclusion, freedom, tolerance, diversity and how to work with others (informing, sharing, supporting) and how to get involved in decision making.

We value the uniqueness and importance of every student and will seek to help them form a sense of their own worth through developing self confidence, self expression and the ability to relate with peers and others, while at all times making allowances for diversity among people. Our students show great interest in language learning, the use of ICT, exploration and discovery, the arts, music, dance, sport, literature. They recorded good results at school competitions and Olympiads (Romanian, English, mathematics, civic education, art, music and sport).

Our school’s motivation to join this project is our students. We want to support them by combating early school leaving due to any form of bullying, harassment, and intimidation. A big problem of our school is dropping the percentage of early school leaving, compared with the previous school year. By the help of this Project, we will integrate all students, so everyone will feel valued and appreciated. Also, 10% of the our pupils considered they were online bullied. Our school will bring its expertise in implementing Erasmus+ partnerships, knowing all the steps.

* 2019 info

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