ERASMUS + “TO BE OR NOT TO BE A HERO”

Meeting in Bulgaria

September, 2016

Mangualde is a small town located in the center of the country (). Near Mangualde there’s the Serra da Estrela and the beautiful city of . Centre of the city Monuments – Nossa Senhora do Castelo Gastronomy - bean pastels Industry - PSA Peugeot Citroën Public Library of Mangualde Group of schools Our group of schools is one of the biggest in the all centre region formed by: Felismina Alcântara - Secondary school Gomes Eanes de Azurara - Basic school Ana de Castro Osório - Basic school

Seven Primary schools: EB1 de Fagilde; EB1 de Tibaldinho; EB1 de Chãs de Tavares; EB1 de Abrunhosa a Velha; EB1 de Moimenta; EB1 de Mesquitela and EB1 de Santiago de Cassurrães.

And 11 Kindergartens: JI Conde D. Henrique; JI São Julião; JI Vila Garcia; JI Água Levada; JI Contenças; JI Cunha Baixa; JI Matados; JI Cubos; JI Fagilde; JI Tibaldinho (in the primary school); JI Moimenta; JI Mesquitela (in the primary school) and JI Chãs de Tavares. Our vision We intend to be an organization: - with high academic standards as evidence by the external evaluation of students; - with a strong sense of identity and belonging, inclusion and equity which generates a climate of trust and well-being; - as a recognized framework for innovative educational practices, promoting challenging experiences for our students; - where responsibility and work values are highlighted. The school in numbers

228

2314

Teachers Staff Students Students’ distribution Secondary 3rd cycle 7th, 8th and 9th years 2nd cycle 485 students 5th and 6th years 622 students Primary school 379 students

Kindergarten 591 students Total – 2314 students 237 students What make us singular?

We provide all areas in the secondary education: - Science and technologies - Arts - Economics - Languages and literatures Several professionalizing and vocational courses:

- Mechanics; - Computing; - Electronics; - Stage arts; - Chilhood suport; - Accounting; - Logistics; - Tourism… Integration:

- Specialized support units for students with autism spectrum disorders and multideficiency. - Reference School for early intervention in childhood education. - Educational and social inclusion of students with special educational needs. - Psychology services. Partnerships and close cooperation with several institutions:

- Town council or city council - Local companies - Health services - Public library - … Organized school librarys to suport the educational process We have:

Peaceful, safe and an organized school environment.

Inexpressive rate of dropout in primary education. Our Gym Class

Our Gym Class has been participated in many international events like EuroGym (Coimbra (2012), Sweden (2014) and Czech Republic (2016). Articulated teaching of Music in all school years Religion (optional) Subject aims: Be solidary; Living in society; Be understanding and tolerant; Respect all human beings, animals and plants; Be better; Give yourself to others; …. Some activities

Walk through Mangualde: enjoying life and be aware of the Sharing affects in Mangualde’s city beautiful World and Nature, by respecting them. Study visit to Santiago de Celebration of the Family Day Study visit to Taizé, France Compostela, Spain Physical education and school sport Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro – Brazil, 2016

Our students But our school is also… a place where students, teachers and other school community “feel good”! We developed a lot of projects like: - National Reading Week - Internet Safe Day - Reflection Cycle on Human Rights - Math Olimpics - Healthy Food Week - SOBE - Oral health - National competitions in reading and writing. Finally most of the projects in our school, including all Erasmus + Projects are boosted by… EduFor

School Association Training Centre (CFAE) of the municipalities of Mangualde, , , Sátão and Vila Nova de Paiva.

The EduFor Training Centre created a Future Classroom Lab based on the existing in Brussels, by European Schoolnet.

You can learn more about Mangualde in:

http://www.escolasdemangualde.pt/

http://www.mangualdeonline.com/

http://www.cmmangualde.pt/

http://www.edufor.pt/

http://bibliotecagea.blogspot.pt/

http://esfabib.blogspot.pt/

http://bibliotecaaco23.blogspot.pt/

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangualde Thanks for your attention!

Produced by the Portuguese team Carla Vanessa Sequeira and Helena Gonçalves