EDUCATIONAL PROJECT
In the third practice, we chosen the school CEIP Juan Manuel Montoya and we analyzed the educational project and annual general programme. To do this practice we had to obtain both documents from a school’s website, it was very interesting.
1. - According to the documents you obtained from the website, what are the parts of an educational project?
According to the documents that we have obtained from the website of the public school these are the parts of their Educational Project. We have searched for information about the CEIP Juan Manuel Montoya which is a public school in our community, the Valencian Community.
2. - According to the documents you obtained from the website, what are the parts of an annual general programme?
According to the documents that we have obtained from the website of the public school these are the parts of their Annual General Programme. We have searched for information about the CEIP Juan Manuel Montoya which is a public school in our community, the Valencian Community.
3.- With respect to the previous questions, which parts of the documents are not included in the files obtained from the website?
EDUCATIONAL PROJECT
- The educational project has to be approved by the director after listening to the school council.
- Any modifications need to be approved by the school management before the end of the third quarter of the academic year.
- It doesn’t clearly mark which are the relations that the school has with private agents. For example: the relation that they have with the council of the town, or the suppliers
- They include what they have in their curriculum but the specific school day plan isn’t shown.
- Information about the school dining centre
ANNUAL GENERAL PROGRAMME
- Clarifications referring to the Educational Project
- The updating actions of the Community-Building Plan proposed for the current school year based on the previous school years community-building report.
- An administrative report that adds the organisation document of the centre, the statistics at the beginning of the academic year and the condition of the facilities and equipment.
- It shows the school calendar, but it doesn’t facilitate the pedagogical criteria that they have followed.
4. - Briefly outline how educational projects and annual general programmes are drafted.
Unfortunately, we haven’t been able to access the information on how the school we have chosen drafts the educational project and the annual general programme. However, we were able to find some information about these but from a different school so that we have a brief idea on how it all works.
On the one hand, we have the Educational Project. This states that all schools have two years to develop its Educational Project, which is really the School Ideology. This project must be public and must be available to all parents once it’s been developed.
On the other hand, we have the Annual General Programme. This says that all activities of the school are reflected in the PGA. Unlike the Educational Project, the AGP doesn’t have to be public, and the people who have access to this are the representatives of the parents of the school, without being able to leave the centre, due to the personal data contained within. It is true that there are schools that publish an extract of the AGP (the AGP of a school can have more than a thousand pages, since because when it starts, it gets more dynamic every year).
5. - What aspects do you think should be improved in both documents?
It was difficult to find a public centre of the Valencian Community that included both documents, the Educational Project and the Annual General Project. Despite the fact that we have had some difficulties to find the information, we finally found it. From our point of view, an aspect that should be improved is the lack of important information, as we have said in the question 2. We think that some essential aspects like the information about the dining centre or the relation that the school has with the town council, needs to be included in the Educational Programme. As far as we are concerned, it is also very important that the updating actions based on the previous school year’s community-building report should be a part of the Annual General Programme.
To sum up, we think that all the centres need to have in their own webpages this information because it’s very important that families with children in the school are informed about the essential issues of the education of their children. Don’t you agree?
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