What are the objectives we would like to achieve?

Social inclusion to enable pupils to exchange information on the individual traditions and cultures of our 6 differentcountries. This will involve the creation of a European tree (created by the lead school Thornfield & in Europeanblue with the trunk covered in our European stars.) The branches & leaves of the tree will be populated with information about our various European cultures and traditions by each country, with individual branches allocated to individual countries. This will increase the social inclusion of all our participating pupils and also the staff. Another key objective for the project is the development of key and basic competencies. The exchange of information between our students will take many forms letters and pen pal opportunities, it will take the form of emails and will also involved video conferencing, These opportunities address disadvantage and disability as they will be supported via staff who will ensure the level of exchange is appropriate to meet the abilities of our special school students and be structured so that the challenges of disability and disadvantage can be over come. It is intended that a collection of the correspondence between our students will be collated in a correspondence file and this file shared at a local level amongst neighbouring school and also with the education authority in our owncountries. Staff development will be a key objective in the project development and a training file will be produced by the partnership and copied for all its participants, this file will log the training focus over the plan period and also serve as a reference file enabling staff the revisit the various branches of professional development and training rolled out during the project. Examples of this will include social skills training, ICT focus, e safety, behaviour management & Autistic spectrum disorder support. This training and file will map out the professional development offered to staff and also ensure staff capacity is developed to ensure lessons cascaded to pupils are innovative, interesting and up to date with recent trends and current approaches. By the project end we will have a clear record of revised teaching approaches in operation. An assessment of the pupils work on the project initiatives and areas of focus and an assessment of the contributions and ICT skills base on the 5 E`s of UK ICT develpment ie Explore, Exchange, Exhibit, Evaluate and Express . Additional concrete examples of this work will demonstrate a raising of staff skills in the use of Green Screen for e.g. to invgorate lessons and higher quality exchanges of information by students These approaches will demonstrate the the progress our students and staff have made in Social inclusion, development of key & basic competencies for all , addressing SEN disadvantage via participation and the celebration of successes addressing disability through the successes of our disabled pupils and their a record of their achievemen.