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"Two French primary schools in Normandy and 2 Greek primary schools in Corfu have decided to work together on an Erasmus project that will enable young pupils from different backgrounds (pupils from the city centre, pupils from isolated rural areas), some with disabilities, to meet other young Europeans and share the fight against discrimination and develop respect for differences. The project is part of the Normandy Academy's policy to develop a European learning pathway from primary school to the end of high school years. It also responds to the reflection carried out by the 4 schools on the topic of inclusion and the way to live harmoniously together at school.The four schools want to: - provide every student, regardless of their geographical, social origin, or disability, with an openness to the world through an exchange with a European Partner - enable students to develop an authentic ability to live together at school and in society using sport as a tool for inclusion and social, geographical and cultural diversity, - promote the construction of European citizenship from an early age by giving pupils the opportunity to travel abroad and experience situations in which consideration and respect for differences, mutual support, solidarity and commitment are favoured.126 French and Greek pupils aged 8 to 10, in grades three to five, and 28 teachers, educational and medical school staff, are involved in the project. French students with disabilities, schooled in the Local School Integration Unit or partly cared for by the local Medical Educational Institute, as well as French and Greek students with social difficulties are fully integrated into the project: they will participate in all activities through collective and cross-sector work of the teams for optimal support and activities designed so that students can help each other and develop solidarity and commitment.Because the two French schools are engaged in the territory project ""Together, Share the Passion of the Games"", which aims at making young Normans aware of the values of Olympism as part of the 18th students Olympic Games that will take place in Normandy in May 2022 and because the two Greek schools have developed inclusive sports practices, the project will be based on the theme of sport, a tool for integration and inclusion.The project's activities will be carried out both within the eTwinning space of the project and when the pupils meet. All the activities related to learning about others, their school, their territory, their region and country will bring an opening to the world to the students and enable them to identify what differentiates and what brings together the two partner countries. These encounters will contribute to the construction of European citizenship among young pupils . The specific work on the history of the Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games, on the symbols of Olympism as well as the meetings with the high-level French and Greek athletes who sponsor the 4 schools will facilitate the students' understanding of the values in sport. The sports activities of the project in which all pupils, including students with disabilities, will participate, will enable them to put into practice the values of mutual help, solidarity, team spirit, respect for differences on which they have debated before.This project, in which students will have to organize activities taking into account the difficulties of classmates with disabilities will help them to develop a citizen attitude , greater openness to others and self-confidence that will make them consider mobility as an opportunity to discover other people and cultures.We hope that the project will make school inclusion a reality in all areas, including mobility, and that inclusion will become an asset for schools and pupils who will make it live in classrooms, schools and territories. The concrete results are the full participation of socially disadvantaged or disabled students in all project activities through close collaboration by teaching teams, socio-medical teams, specialist educators and families.The focus here is inclusion and equity in schooling. The entire educational Community of the 4 schools will be mobilized around this central objective. Schools involved in the project will develop new skills in welcoming specific needs audiences: the result will be an increase in the number of special needs students integrated into learning activities and extracurricular activities, including mobility, in the 4 schools."
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