Warsaw Regio Project

The aims of the Project were:

• To provide opportunities for newly arriving communities to gain full access to and to become socially included within the context of different and new education systems.
• To facilitate opportunites for social cohesion, intercultural dialogue immersion and full intergration and inclusion within the school system, local communities and society in general.
• To prepare current and future teaching and non-teaching staff to meet the needs of migrant communities and their institutions and in the wider community.
• To improve teachers' undertsanding and training which enables them to access the skills necessary to write and deliver effective lesson plans taking into account new and recently arrived communities.
• To develop documents, adapatable for individual schools, which will serve as a flexible toolkit to assist schools to address the identified issues.
• To support newl qualified teachers and student teachers in preparing them for the future employment in the evolving educational environment.

Key activities were:

• Establishing a parent support group.
• Establishing an information and support system for newly arrived parents.
• Developing and disseminating a Welcome Pack for new arrivals in a number of community languages.
• Carrying out regualar school audits.
• Developing and delivering student teacher training.
• Write and deliver awareness workshops for schools.