Comenius final year
- 10. To be able to face this new academic year and develop our objective, Social Awareness, we started where we left off last year Our Community. FAITH COMMUNITY SOCIAL AWARENESS
- 11. In that way we卒ve tried to explain the term Social Awareness, looking for or trying to identify the problems or situations that threaten our society.
- 12. To facilitate our students work, we卒ve divided the society that surrounds into two environments. The environment closest to us The environment farther away
- 13. In the closest environment, we卒ve included our school and the neighborhood in which it卒s located
- 14. environment farther away from us, we卒ve included every situation that promotes social awareness of our students outside the first enviroment. While in the second one, the
- 16. Within this setting, aside from putting all situations in which we find ourselves on a day-to-day basis, we卒ve also included those which require social action.
- 17. We wanted to focus on, however, those situations that affect in a specific way our school and our neighbourhood, to the end of simplifying social action opportunities
- 18. Our students have detected situations where they were able to give help or demonstrate social action in the communities that directly affects us: Reading Sponsorship Programme School Garden Care Packages.
- 20. With the objective of participating in the learning process of their younger schoolmates
- 21. The class of 6th Primary has initiated a project to take advantage of their reading abilities in helping first primary students.
- 22. All students who participate in this project have to sign a contract in which they commit to making an effort to work on another objective: IMPROVEMENT
- 25. Another situation detected by our students was the pollution problem that we suffer in big cities like Madrid.
- 26. For that reason our center has started another project aimed to make the society around us aware of the pollution problem in big cities. With this objective in mind, different works related to recycling and the correct use of everyday materials have been developed. Similarily, a school garden has been planted by 6th Primary class.
- 28. Making use of the teams created by the participants in the reading project, the 6th primary class wanted to show their mentees the work done in the garden.
- 31. Other realities which have raised concerns amoung our pupils were Inequality and Poverty. Upon realizing that there are children like them with limited resources, they started a project to help those people. We卒ve prepared care packages where each student deposited everything they consider useful (toys, books, clothes)
- 34. While looking for those situations that require social help in our environment, we卒ve also wanted to focus on those that cross our borders. With this objective, the center has held: Solidarity Dinner for Haitii.
- 36. To the end of attempting to help in the development of Haiti, our center organized a solidarity dinner. The members of the school community families, teachers and non- teaching staff participated. With the earnings we managed to help Haiti卒s situation in some way .
- 38. We hope you卒ve liked this tour of our school and the projects that we卒ve enjoyed working on throughout the academic year.