Tuesday 30 September 2014

(RO) The Romanian Educational System


Educational vision and mission

Teachers in School 49 aspire to provide an excellent basis for life-long learning by developing the physical, intellectual, social, emotional and creative abilities of each child.
Teachers struggle to provide a safe learning environment that enables critical thinking and engenders a love of learning.
Teachers emphasize inquiry, teamwork, mutual respect, and collaboration and are sensitive to the needs of all students and to their varying learning styles.
Teachers are committed to ensuring that all students are welcomed, respected, and challenged to realize their full potential.
Teachers believe they play an important role in engaging all students in the learning journey and making every child’s experience rewarding and successful.




Rules of behaviour


Students in School 49 must be respectful to their mates and teachers.
Students must wear a uniform (white shirt and black or blue skirts or trousers).
Students must behave and sign a behavior code on the first school day.


Schedule

School 49 requires a schedule that operates 2 shifts:
Preparatory classes & Classes I, II, III are at school between 8:00 and 11:45 (45-minute classes, 15-minute breaks);
Shift rotation: 11:45 – 12:10;
Classes IV, V, VI, VII, VIII: 12:10 – 18:00 (50-minute classes, 10-minute breaks).



Parents’ Meetings


Parents are invited to participate in the parents’ meetings held 5-6 times per year.

Besides this, they may meet the class teacher on a certain day of the week. Each class teacher is entitled to choose this “consultation” time according to their timetable and preference.

Parents are informed about their children’s marks and absences through the virtual gradebook or the student’s grade notebook (which is personal and must be brought to school every day by the student).


Students’ Council


Students’ Council consists of 11 – 15 members (students + 1 teacher) and they discuss students’ issues and suggest measures to improve the teaching activities, extracurricular activities, behaviour and absences, student-student relationship, student-teacher relationship, etc.


Class Teachers (2014 – 2015)
Class
Teachers
PREP. A
POPESCU COCA
PREP. B
GHERGHE IOLANDA
PREP. C
VASILIU CATALINA
PREP. D
ALDEA IRINA
PREP. E
DUMITRU NICOLETA
I A
SILVESTRU FLORENTINA
I B
PETRE MADALINA
I C
KERI CECILIA
I D
NEDEA MARIA
I E
IONESCU OANA
I F
STAN LIGIA
II A
OLARU AURORA
II B
ROTARUS GABRIELA
II C
PISCANU CORNELIA
II D
LEONTE MIHAELA
III A
DUMITRU MARIOARA
III B
DEAK CORINA ELENA
III C
MANEA ANDA
III D
DINU DANIELA
III E
SARBU IOANA
IV A
BUZNOSU VASILICA
IV B
ALDICA JUSTINIANA
IV C
RADU MIHAELA
IV D
CRUDU SOFIA
V A
SIN VALENTIN
V B
GATA RAMONA
V C
JUGANARU MONICA
V D
CORBU NICOLETA
VI A
IVASCU ADRIANA
VI B
COLEC SANZIANA
VI C
DAESCU RAMONA
VII A
VASS ANGELA
VII B
SARACIN CRISTINA
VII C
FIRU ALIN
VIII A
PETRE ECATERINA
VIII B
DUMITRASCU RALUCA
VIII C
ERDELI LUIZA


School year structure


2014-2015 school year begins on September 1, 2014, ending on August 31, 2015 and is divided into two semesters, as follows:

Semester I

Courses – Monday, September 15, 2014 – Friday, December 19, 2014
Between 1 to 9 November 2014, primary classes are on holiday.
Winter Holidays – Saturday, December 20, 2014 – Sunday, January 4, 2015
Courses – Monday, January 5, 2015 – Friday, January 30, 2015
Holiday – Saturday, January 31, 2015 – Sunday, February 8, 2015 


Semester II

Courses – Monday, February 9, 2015 – Friday, April 10, 2015
Spring Holiday – Saturday, April 11, 2015 – Sunday, April 19, 2015
Courses – Monday, April 20, 2015 – Friday, June 19, 2015
Summer Holidays – Saturday, June 20, 2015 – Sunday, September 13, 2015

Days on which students and teachers don’t come to school:

May 1st (Labour Day)
June 8th and 9th (Pentecost)
November 30th (St. Andrei, the protector of Romania)
December 1st (Romania’s National Day).

(RO) Romanian Folk Dance "Hora"





Hora mare The round La ronde


The pace of the round is 1-2-3-4 / 5-6-7-8.

The children come in pairs and make a circle; they hold hands.
They take four steps forward; four steps back (4 times).

Girls, hands at the chest, take four steps forward, then four steps back ; after that, the boys, hands on hips, take four steps forward, four steps back ( in turn, the girls repeat 4 times and the boys 3 times).

The dancers hold hands again and take four steps forward, four steps back (4 times).

The dancers break the circle, forming two lines with the same number of pairs and they beat the rhythm on the spot; then they take ​​four steps forward and four steps back (4 times) .


Le rythme de la ronde est 1-2-3-4 / 5-6-7-8.

Les enfants viennent en paires et forment un cercle; ils se tiennent la main.
Ils font quatre pas en avant, quatre pas en arrière (on répète 4 fois).

Les filles, les mains à la poitrine, font quatre pas en avant, puis quatre pas en arrière; après, les garçons, les mains sur les hanches, font quatre pas en avant, quatre pas en arrière (à tour de rôle, les filles redoublent 4 fois et les garçons 3 fois).

Les danseurs se tiennent la main de nouveau et font quatre pas en avant, quatre pas en arrière (4 fois).



On rompt le cercle, on forme deux lignes avec le même nombre de paires et on bat le pas sur place; puis, on fait quatre pas en avant
et quatre pas en arrière  (on répète 4 fois).

Friday 26 September 2014

(SP) THE SPANISH EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM






THE SPANISH EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM


C.E.I.P. EL PICACHO

NURSERY AND PRIMARY SCHOOL

Constitución Avenue

11540 SANLÚCAR DE BARRAMEDA

Year:  2014-2015

Phone: 956386500

Email: 11007259.edu@juntadeandalucia.es

Website: picacho.wikipaces.com

Headmistress: Mercedes Enríquez Gómez.



THE EDUCATIONAL PROJECT OF THE SCHOOL




AIMS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE SCHOLAR EFFICIENCY 

  • We want to give to the students an academic training connected to the real life and their own abilities, respecting plurality and achieving all their personalities’ features, adapting the academic activity to the diversity.  
  •  We expect for the children to know and use properly Spanish language developing initiatives for the improvement of expression and understanding, both oral and written, favoring Reading habits as a source of information, learning and entertainment, fostering the use of the school library.   
  •  We also hope to initiate our students in the use of ICT as a resource for the learning process.
  • We have established common strategies in the cycles (3 cycles of two levels each in Primary education and 1 cycle of three levels in nursery) for the developing of key competences favoring coordination among teachers with the establishment of measurements that give continuity to the students in their stay in different stages and educative cycles.
  • We use strategies for the children that facilitates acquisition and development of techniques in resolution of mathematical problems and calculation

AIMS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF COMMUNALL LIVING AND ATMOSPHERE IN THE SCHOLAR PROCESS. 

  • We are working on instilling basic values to our students (respect, freedom, solidarity, responsibility, sincerity, generosity and equality) that regulate human coexistence, acting according to them and rejecting violence, authoritarianism, racism, sexism or intolerance. 
  • Children are constantly acquiring skills for the prevention and the pacific resolution of conflicts that allow them to manage autonomously in the scholar, familiar and domestic scope and in social groups which they relate with.



AIMS FOR THE PARTICIPATIONS AND INVOLVEMENT OF FAMILIES. 
  • We are fostering the involvement of families together with other local institutions in the educational process to improve the academic efficiency of students and the communal living establishing ways to participate altogether.

AIMS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE ORGANIZATION AND COOPERATIVE WORK IN THE SCHOOL

  • We are working on establishing ways of coordination to increase efficiency and productivity in meetings with the different educational teams in the school. 
  •  We promote participation and involvement of teachers, students and families in educational plans and projects promoted by the Government.


  
AIMS FOR TEACHERS TRAINING

  • Teachers in the school are always improving their skills going deep in active methodologies, conflict resolution and improvement of coexistence, use of libraries and development of new technologies according with the school needs.



GENERAL LINES OF EDUCATIONAL ACTION  

     
  • Achievement of scholar success in students following criteria for the establishment of students’ group and the assignment of classes to the teachers.

  • The principle of teachers working in teams are taken into account when planning meetings.

  • Paying attention to the students’ diversity detecting early learning difficulties and establishing special support for children.

  • The involvement of families in the school living making them easier through different ways as School for Parents, Parents association, Scholar Council, tutoring, parents’ representatives in all the classes.

  • The effort principle for all the members of the scholar community and an important agreement building motivated and demanding learning surroundings.

  • A flexible and open methodology centered in the student.

  • A significant learning adjusted to the level of each student. The educative contents are related to the previous students’ knowledge. They are orientated to the consecution of relevant learnings.

  • A proper coexistence and respectful climate that facilitates the students’ ant teachers’ work what is very important for the development of education.

  • Participation in plans and projects that improve the educative work and give quality to the teaching process in our school.

  • Development of autonomy of our school taking into account the rules with responsibility.
     


DECALOGUE FOR COEXISTENCE

1.- We arrive on time to the school.

2.- We respect to all the people in our school.

3.- We use the dialogue to solve problems and conflicts.

4.- We avoid bad words or inappropriate gestures.

5.- We speak without shouting and we don’t run in class, corridors or stairs.

6.- We participate in all the activities in our class and in the school.

7.- We take care of our personal things and others’, recycling in the proper containers. 

8.- We are responsible of our homework and our calendars.

9.- We assist to classmates that need our help.

10.- We take advantage of time and work respecting the others.






EDUCATIONAL DISTRIBUTION

  • In the morning: Beginning of the class at 9:00 am, end at 2:00 pm 
  • Extracurricular services:
·         Morning class: From 7.30 am to 9.00 am
·         Dining Service: from 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm
·         Extracurricular activities (voluntary) : from 4.00 pm to 6.00 pm

PARENTS ASSOCIATIONS:

  • Communication with families
    • All the relevant information about school is given to parents through a notebook. Most of this information can be founded in our website and noticeboards in our school,  
    • Scholar calendar.


  • School attendance monitoring:
    • Quarterly Evaluation Report about evaluation of personal work of each student.
    • Collective and individual tutorials. Meetings with parents in Each class at the beginning of the year or personal meeting with parents of one student and their teacher.



EDUCATIVE TEAM

The headmistress of the school is Mercedes Enríquez. She also teaches maths in Primary 5 

Pre-school Cycle:

Pre-school education 1: 3 years old.-  Aurora

Pre-school education 2: 4 years old.- Esperanza Altozano

Pre-school education 3: 5 years old.- Manuel Gálvez
First Cycle:
Primary 1: 6 years old .- Carolina Díaz

Primary 2A: 7 years old.- Vicenta Cabillas

Primary 2B: 7 years old.-  Virginia Molero
Second Cycle:
Primary 3A: 8 years old.- Caridad Zarazaga

Primary 3B: 8 years old.- María José Mejías

Primary 4A: 9 years old.- Amalia Sánchez

Primary 4B: 9 years old .- Félix Cuadrado
Third Cycle:
Primary 5A: 10 years old.- Jeshica Cabo

Primary 5B: 10 years old.- Mercedes Oliver

Primary 6A: 11 years old .- Manuel Gutiérrez

Primary 6B: 11 years old .- María Soledad Gómez
PT.- Inmaculada Alcón
AL.- Carmen Carrasco
Reinforcement.- Alejandro Barba
Religion.-  María Dolores Márquez


SCHOOL HOLIDAYS: YEAR 2014-2015

  • Christmas: from December 22nd to January 7th
  • Holy Week or Easter Week:  from March 30th to April 5th
  • Feria: The first week in June
  • Summer: from June 22nd to September 10th.