Stăncuța Secondary School is a rural school with its friendly staff and 334 students, from 3-15 years old. Stăncuța Secondary School is located on South East of Romania, on Danube branch, in an area based its economy in agriculture and fishing. There are 21 teachers for all the subjects.It's an ''open school'' to the local society with many activities and events. All teachers are trying to implement new teaching methods and we are trying to be informed by seminars and other inner educational ways.
Some students are from poor background, and a lot of them work hard to help their parents. Being at risk of social exclusion these children understand each other better, they are hard-working and sympathetic. These facts may also be those key factors in building positive relationships between students and staff, and among the students. These relationships help to motivate personal growth and development that includes understanding of life’s values. That is why the teachers try to involve the school into different national and international projects giving the students a chance to travel, to
see the world and to learn other cultures. Stăncuța is surrounded by a very nice nature and the students are familiar with nature around, they are quite knowledgeable about the plants, animals both domestic and wild, a lot of them go fishing, picking up rice and gardening. The teachers and students of Stăncuța Secondary School took part in many different environmental projects and researches and will share all the knowledge and expertise got in previous activities in this new project. Furthermore, our area is a protected area called "The small pond of Brăila” or Small Danube Delta .
The purpose of our school is to prepare students for life and it is based more on the relationship between school - student - family. The school is very active in sports, social projects, environmental issues and other areas that are on the concern of the community. There are folk-dancing group, choir, sport groups (especially orientiering and rugby) and Young Guards at school. We want to develop outdoor learning in particular and the aims and objectives of this Erasmus+ project exactly match our school’s development plan. Outdoor learning and global education contexts are especially relevant to the preferred learning styles of the pupils. School staff who will be involved in the project have different outlooks and abilities. Our project team has good knowledge of English and ICT. Every member of team is aware of all aspects of the project. Everybody within the school supports participating in projects and extra curriculum activities. The partnership coordinator in Stăncuța Secondary School is headteacher Mihaela Râpa. She has worked at school more than 15 years and has experience in projects’ management. Our teachers have various methods to work with such pupils. With this in mind we are fully prepared to support our other school partners.