Escolas António Correia de Oliveira

Agrupamento de Escolas António Correia de Oliveira is a public general secondary school which includes classes for, primary (235 students) and secondary education (621 students). Currently there are 856 enrolled students ranging from 6-15 years old, 79 teachers and 24 non-teaching staff. Our students come from a county whose the main household activity is industry, coexisting with this mode of subsistence the traditional agriculture-oriented activities, where has been a subject of intense human pressure and a certain disordered urban occupation, with some disregard for nature and landscape values included in them. However, the city has assumed an important role in betting on the environment. Our school throughout the years has been developing projects at national and international level in different areas, from arts, portuguese language, sports, science/biology and information technology and communication. Most of these projects were awarded. It has also developed other projects in cooperation with the City Hall, the Municipal Library and Municipal Museum such as interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary activities. The project "Following the Waves of Music around Europe" responds to the needs of the teachers and students of our schools in an international and multicultural collaboration. Music can be an essential meaning to establish the link between individuals and peoples. It will be approached as a mean of communication to propose an ideal of coexistence behavior, also to develop the sense and sensibility towards diversity, integration, multiculturality. Besides achieving moral and social values, they will be able to acquire and apply knowledge, as well as certain competences related to the subjects they study at school.

The key persons are: Albino Neiva, head teacher and Music teacher, involving the whole school community in the educational project and ensuring the continuity of the working group, if any teacher leaves, indicating another person to ensure the continuity of the project; Ângela Novo, Mathematics and Natural Sciences teacher, will assume responsibility for managing the entire project, including budget control and oversight of activities; Maria Alice Pimenta, Portuguese and French teacher, also school librarian, coordinator and responsible for the management of the five school libraries and coordinator of school projects, and also of projects in the field of reading promotion, mainly associated to the new information technologies and ITC; Rui Santos, Arts teacher, responsible for several projects in the national and international scope, namely in school libraries and animation cinema, was also coordinator of a previous Comenius project and, currently, coordinator of an Erasmus+ project.