C.R.A. LENA
Our school started to work as a school in the school year 2005-2006. It is made up of three small schools located in different villages: Campomanes, where the main school is (first image), Zureda (second image) and Pajares (third image). All of them are located in a rural area near the mountains.
The unemployment due to the closure of coal mines has made these villages suffer a socioeconomic crisis and this has caused a decrease in population and socio-economical level. Most of our pupils’ parents work on the primary and secondary sector (stockbreeding, agriculture and mining industry), but just few of them work on the tertiary sector. Some of our pupils have to get up very early in the morning due to their parents’ jobs, so they come earlier to our school in Campomanes to have breakfast and do other activities until the lessons start. They also have lunch at school.
We also have a group of children with special educational needs who are completely integrated in our school. For many pupils the school is the only place where they can have contact with foreign languages and other cultures, so teachers have always felt the need of offering the children the opportunity to have experience that can go beyond the curriculum.
Our school took part in two Comenius projects and it has been a positive experience for teachers and children. With this new project we want to promote the interest in finding and knowing new ways of living/thinking, languages and new cultures.
The unemployment due to the closure of coal mines has made these villages suffer a socioeconomic crisis and this has caused a decrease in population and socio-economical level. Most of our pupils’ parents work on the primary and secondary sector (stockbreeding, agriculture and mining industry), but just few of them work on the tertiary sector. Some of our pupils have to get up very early in the morning due to their parents’ jobs, so they come earlier to our school in Campomanes to have breakfast and do other activities until the lessons start. They also have lunch at school.
We also have a group of children with special educational needs who are completely integrated in our school. For many pupils the school is the only place where they can have contact with foreign languages and other cultures, so teachers have always felt the need of offering the children the opportunity to have experience that can go beyond the curriculum.
Our school took part in two Comenius projects and it has been a positive experience for teachers and children. With this new project we want to promote the interest in finding and knowing new ways of living/thinking, languages and new cultures.