2. Programa SOCRATES - COMENIUS - Acção 1 Seminário de Contacto - Herning, Dinamarca - 01 a 05 de Maio de 2002 COMPASS CONTACT SEMINAR 1 - 5 MAY 2002 Herning DENMARK

3. Portugal Geographical Localisation:Meridian Europe Area: 92 065 km 2 Population: 9 927 556 inhabitants (1998) Capital: Lisbon Beja Other important cities: Aveiro, Beja, Braga, Bragança, Castelo Branco, Coimbra, Évora, Faro, Funchal, Guarda, Leiria, Ponta Delgada, Portalegre, Porto, Santarém, Setúbal, Viana do Castelo, Vila Real, Viseu Independence date: 1143 Political Regime: constitutional republic Money: Euro Official language: Portuguese Main religion: Catholic

4. School Group of Cuba

5. Educational Territory of the School Group of Cuba In this area, the organisation of the School Group of Cuba, encloses the following modalities of the teaching system : - Pre-elementary School; - Elementary School (1 st, 2 nd e 3 rd stages); - Special modalities of education: * Teaching for children with special needs; * Teaching for Adults: (1 st, 2 nd e 3 rd Stages) * Teaching for Adults by separated units ). Extra-School Education: Learning to read; Socio-educational courses (Cooking, Computers,...).

6. School Group of Cuba Administrative and Managing Organs, Establishment Co-ordination, Structures of Educational Organisation and Specialised Systems of Educational Support

7. Administrative and Managing Organs Managing Council Administrative Council School Assembly

8. Administrative and Managing Organs School Assembly Teachers6 elements; Educational Auxiliaries 2 elements; Students1 element; Parents 2 elements; Autarchy1 element. The President of the M.C. and the President of the Pedagogic Council

9. Administrative and Managing Organs Managing Council One President; Two vice-Presidents.

10. Administrative and Managing Organs Administrative Council One President- (President of Managing Council); One Vice-President- (One of the Vice-Presidents of the Managing Council); One Secretary- (Head of the Administrative Services).

11. Pedagogic Council Curricular Department Pre-elementary School and 1 st stage Council Teachers responsible for a class Council Local Council Class Councils 1 st and 2 nd Stage Disciplinary Area Council Administrative and Managing Organs Middle Stage

12. Establishment Co-ordination Local Council - Local Council co-ordinator, sitting at the Pedagogic Council; - Remaining teachers and Educators teaching locally; - Representative of the respective Autarchy; - Representative of the parents.

13. Pedagogic Council Languages Curricular Department Exact and Natural Sciences Curricular Department Expressions Curricular Department Humane and Social sciences Curricular Department Parents Educational Auxiliaries Group of Teachers helping children with special needs Adults Teaching Teachers responsible for a class Council President of M.C. Local co- ordinators: -Cuba -Faro do Alentejo -Vila Alva -Vila Ruiva Assessor of Adult Courses President of the Teachers Council: Pre-elementary and 1 st stage Autarchy Educational Orientation Structures

14. Languages Curricular Council Formed by the following teachers: 1 st Group of 2 nd Stage (Portuguese) 2 nd Group of 2 nd Stage (Portuguese/French) 3 rd Group of 2 nd Stage (Portuguese/English) 8 th A Group of 3 rd Stage (Portuguese) 8 th B Group of 3 rd Stage (Portuguese/French) 9 th Group of 3 rd Stage (English) Educational Orientation Structures

15. Exact and Natural Curricular Department Formed by the following teachers: 4 th Group of 2 nd Stage (Science/Mathematics) 1 st Group do 3 rd Stage (Mathematics) 4 th A Group of 3 rd Stage (Physic-Chemistry) 7 th Group of 3 rd Stage (Economy) 11 th B Group of 3 rd Stage (Natural Sciences) Educational Orientation Structures

16. Humane and Social Curricular Department Formed by the following teachers: 1 st Group of 2 nd Stage (Portuguese/History) RMR of 2 nd and 3 rd Stages (Catholic Education) 10 th A Group of 3 rd Stages (Philosophy) 10 th B Group of 3 rd Stages (History) 11 th A Group of 3 rd Stages (Geography) Educational Orientation Structures

17. Expressions Curricular Department Formed by the following teachers: 5 th Group of 2 nd Stage (Visual Education) EDM of 2 nd Stage (Musical Education) TM of 2 nd Stage ( Manual Work) EDF of 2 nd and 3 rd Stages (Physical Education) 5 th Group of 3 rd Stages (Visual Education) 12 th s Groups of 3 rd Stages (Technological Education) Educational Orientation Structures

18. Teachers Council pre-elementary and 1 st Stage Formed by all educators and teachers of the 1 st Stage, placed in the School Group of Cuba. Educational Orientation Structures

19. Teachers Council of the 1 st and 2 nd Stages Expressions -1 st Stage -5 th Group of 2 nd Stage -Musical Education -Technological Education -Physical Education -Group of Teachers helping children with special needs Environment Study -1 st Stage -1 st Group of 2 nd Stage -4 th Group of 2 nd Stage -Group of Teachers helping children with special needs Portuguese -1 st Stage -1 st Group of 2 nd Stage -2 nd Group of 2 nd Stage -3 rd group of 2 nd Stage -Group of Teachers helping children with special needs Educational Orientation Structures

20. Teachers responsible for a Class Council - One element of the Managing Council. -5 th A- Fernanda Rito -5 th B- Rosário Tomaz -5 th C- Bárbara Sousa -6 th A- Margarida Soeiro -6 th B- Belmira Estevens -6 th C- Luís Figueira -7 th A- Jacinta Pato -7 th B- Carmo Carocinho -8 th A- Conceição Mousinho -8 th B- Ana Paula Urze -9 th A- Ricardo Rodrigues -9 th B- Zulmira Pacheco -9 th C- José Palma Educational Orientation Structures - Group of Teachers helping children with special needs

21. Class Council - Teacher responsible for a class; - Remaining class teachers; - Students representative; - Parents Representative. Educational Orientation Structures

22. Cuba Cuba: - Aliete Prazeres (1 st Stage) Base School Base School: - António José Fitas Caeiro (2 nd Stage tutor of student); - Cláudia Isabel Balsinha Barradinhas (1 st Stage) Faro do Alentejo Faro do Alentejo: -Maria Leonor dos Reis Ventura (1 st Stage). Group of teachers helping children with special needs Vila Alva Vila Alva: Maria Fernanda Fialho Costa Anico (1 st Stage).

23. Group of Schools of Cuba Educational Project of the School

24. Educational Project Main Objectives: - To improve the quality of the diligence and funcionating of the school; - To prevent the unsucess and the early leaving of school; - To promote actions aimed at the formation of all the teaching community; - To assure a true articulation of all the involved in the teaching process thus avoiding the evil mechanisms that withdraw the students away from school; - To incentive a connection school-environment,thus promoting a suitable teaching to the social, economic, cultural and surrounding environment reality; - To involve a long and qualified culture of school.

25. Group of Schools of Cuba Human Resources

26. Number of teachers: Kindergarten Teachers 8 Teachers of 1 st Stage21 Teachers of 2 nd Stage20 Teachers of 3 rd Stage and Secondary26 TOTAL75

27. Human Resources Educational Auxiliaries: Administration 7 E.A.22 Kitchen 5 Night Police 2 Socio-Cultural Animator 1

28. Projects in the making Group of Schools of Cuba

29. Projects the making - Project Quality XXI; - Schools Promoting Health; - Project Open Door; - Project wwwebidecuba.pt; - Class Projects.

30. Support and complementary aid to the 1 st Stage Group of Schools of Cuba

31. Support and complementary aid to the 1 st Stage Pre-elementary: 1 hour of Musical Education 1 st Stage: 9 hours of Visual Education 9 hours of Musical Education 9 hours of Computers 5 hours of English

32. Extra Curricular Activities Group of Schools of Cuba

33. Extra Curricular Activities School Sport: - Badminton; - Football; - Volleyball; - Basketball; - Handball. Multi-media Club: - Library/Mediateca; - Video; - Computers/Internet; - Journalism.

34. School Achievement of 2000/2001 Group of Schools of Cuba

35. School Achievement of 2000/2001

36. School Network - 2001/2002 Group of Schools of Cuba

37. School Network 2001/2002 1 st Stage200 2 nd Stage104 3 rd Stage121 Pre-elementary092 TOTAL 589 2 nd Stage Adult Teaching 015 3 rd Stage U.C. 013. Secondary Adults Teaching 044.

38. School Calendar - 2001/2002 Group of Schools of Cuba

39. Basic and Secondary Term BeginningEnd 1 st 17 th September18 th December 2 nd 3 rd January 22 th March 3 rd 8 th April 29 th June School Calendar - to the year 2001/2002 Regular Teaching InterruptionsBasic and Secondary 1 st........................ 2 nd........................ 3 rd........................ 4 th........................ 29 th October to 2 nd November. 19 th December to 2 nd January. 11 th to 15 th February. 25 th March to 5 th April.