Academy for tolerance, creativity and success

The aim of the project „ Academy for tolerance, creativity and success “ is to: Strengthen students’ motivation to participate in the educational process; Involve parents in the motivational process and get them encourage their children to study; Help students get acquainted with the peculiarities each ethnic group has; Bring them up like tolerant people. The project will 15 months. The target group consists of 90 students with different ethnic background from the 9th to the 11th classes, 30 parents and 6 teachers from Vocational School of Light Industry, Ecology and Chemical Technology–Yambol. 120 other students and their parents, as well as 15 other teachers, will participate, though indirectly. Six clubs and art workshops, considering students’ interests and talents, will be organized give them the possibility to develop their creativity and useful skills in an interesting and show way. The work in the clubs will fill in students’ free time, preserve their ethnic identity and give them additional motivation to study. We organize transport for students with Roma origin, who live in the villages Veselinovo, Zavoi and town Yambol to our school and back to give them an equal chance for participating the education. Parents are involved like active partners in the project and in the all school activities. We know that they have influence over their children and can help us to keep our students in the classrooms. We think, that three of the activities, more precisely the summer school of adventure in Tryavna, the excursion to V. Turnovo and the visit to Roma festival „Open heart”, will strengthen Roma students’ motivation to study hard, to get to know the other ethnic groups and to be tolerant. An explanatory campaign among the pupils in the 8th class during which we plan to give them information about the possibilities of high school education. The project will end with a flash mob “These are we”, during which the students will demonstrate the knowledge and skills.

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