Primary school "Aleksa Dejovic" Project

To improve collaboration with parents and involve parents of vulnerable children in school life;
To improve social integration of pupils with special needs, disabilities and learning difficulties and their progress through extra-curricular activities;
To support peer education and facilitate the exchange of experiences in creating supportive and acceptive environment;
To create a proper environment for diverse needs of learners, for the acceptance and support of pupils with disabilities, learning difficulties and difficulties in educational progress and sensitization of all school stakeholders and the local community

Built in the courtyard of the school, Summer amphiteather will be used for outdoor inclusive activities: Performance and Forum outdoors. Compared to small space in the school, in apmhiteater everyone will be able to take part. During the spring, summer and autumn days it will serve as a summer classroom, where teaching will be carried out in the nature. It will be built with the support of the project and previously collectred funds.

"fixing„ classrooms where two pupils with disabilities are and providing equipment and teaching materials, modern teaching aids adjusted to the needs of multimedia classrooms, creative teaching and special needs of pupils with disabilities.

Parents will be informed on the project and its activities at the Parents' Meetings in September. During 9 months period, about 30 parents will take part in educational workshops. They are mainly parents of children with disabilities and children having problems in progress and adjusting school life and members of the Parent's Council.Parents will discuss on inclusive issues, legal possibilities of support for their child through inter-departmental committee work,using social services regulated by public laws and similar themes. Parents who participated in workshops will share the experiance with others at regular parent-teacher meetings. At the beggining and the end of workshops they will fill questionares designed bz pszchologist and take part in survey on their empathy and awareness of the needs of children with disabilities. The result of the survay will be the document The roadmap for achieving support for the child/pupils. Printed in a few copies, it will be posted on the school website and presented at the Forum. Working plan of the Parents Council for the next school year will be drafted as well.

Mixed groups of pupils, with or without disabilities,from 4th to 6th graders and 8 parents will take part in 3 hour extracurricular activity, on Saturdays morning, during 9 months. Pupils will create and paint puppets, magnets, paint glass and similar. Their works will be exhibited at the Forum. The funds raised will be used to purchase materials for the workshop for the next school year. The pupils, along with the leaders of the workshop, will share their experience at the Forum outdoors

5 workshops: 3 hours of active labour, during 5 months on issues of creating a non-discriminatory, supportive environment and raising the level of pupils' activism in creating school policies.
Final products/results of the workshops will be:
- - Survey on pupils sensibility for inclusion before and after the workshops
- - Document based on the survay The code of pupils' conduct in school life- posted on the school website, printed in a few copies and presented at the Forum in the open.

Forums will be held with guests-speakers from associations and institutions working with children with disabilities, parents of children with developmental disabilities and the child with cerebral palsy, who finished eighth grade and his class teacher. Parents, teachers and representatives of local communities will be invited to the panel and may involve in the discussion.
Canvas with painted and printed messages on inclusive culture will be prepared with the help of teachers of art/ computer science
Printed leaflets on project's activities on inclusive educational practices, culture and politics will be distributed to participants

Round table "Analysis of priority problems of inclusive policies at the local level” (SWOT analysis)
Participants: local community, the Interdepartmental Committee, the Centre for Social Work, School Management, school inspection, representatives of The Parents' Council, The Project Team and interested teachers and parents. The project team will do the action plan for the selected priorities, which can be used in further applying for project grants.
Presentation of the project on the basis of the initial and final survey of the project participants: pupils and parents

Direct beneficiaries: about 30 parents, trainees of the workshop, 20 pupils and 8 parents of pupils attending workshops, 18 pupils peer team members and about 180 pupils of the sixth, seventh and eighth grade
Indirect beneficeries: other pupils of the school and their parents, teachers, school staff, local communities, the Association of Cerebral Palsy and plegias of the Zlatibor District