The Jenaplanschools in the Netherlands are probably one of the biggest organized groups of nongraded multiage schools in the world. One can describe the Dutch Jenaplan -movement as a bottom-up social movement of teachers, schoolteams and parents, a movement that later was acknowledged by the government by being invited to contribute to a new legislature for primary schools.

For us as a Jenaplan primary school we try to:

- Learning (better) to see and to hear and to smell and to taste the world around is.

- Learning to ask questions and devise simple ways to answer them.

- Infering, connecting bits and pieces of knowledge and formulating hypotheses, as contributions to concept formation and learning to think. - Communication about observations and interpretations.

- Reflection (dialogue). - Reporting: the reports of childrens' investigations can become a part of the reference library of the school, as a part of an ongoing movement, building on each other.

- Discovering that common things are fascinating if you are concentrating on them, dive into the material and act on them in new ways.

- Feeding curiosity and the sense of wonder about nature.

- Exploring diversity in phenomena, some simple relationships and change.

- Developing of independece in learning and contributing to a feeling of fate control, as far as possible.

- Contributing to language-development and the learning of mathematics.

- Developing an attitude of alertness.

- Development a sense of objectivity or intersubjectivity: 'how do you know?' These are all basic educational aims for the educational years, to which SEL is an important contribution.

We are a primaryJenaplanschool which is situated in Leiden, in the western part of the Netherlands. Leiden is a well known city due to its university and Rembrandt van Rijn. Our school belongs to a group of 15 public schools in Leiden. There are also several pupils with learning difficulties of different type (dyslexia, disorders). We have students who need special education. These children don't have a specific class at school. It
means that they also go their lessons in the their own classes. The age of the pupils is between 0 and 12 years. The mean aims are: Everyone is a unique person, with an inherent and inalienable value and dignity. Everyone has the right to develop an own identity, regardless race, nationality, gender, sexual disposition, social environment, religion or life-view.