Comenius multilateral - "My school life - Your school life"

Faro Visit - at APPC

Between 22-26 of march 2010 a team of 4 teachers and 2 students from Special School Bacau traveled to Faro for the second reunion of the Comenius project "My school life- Your school life"
This time we visited APPC( Portuguese Association for Cerebral Paralisie )in faro Faro where we were able to know more about the daily school activities of persons with cerebral paralisie.
It was a new opportunity for our children to meet new children from Germany , Wales, Portugal and Poland , to develop their emotional and social skills. They took part in all the activities planned like planting seeds in the "European garden" activity , cooking Easter sweets, dancing and most of all making new friends . Their engagement in all the activities proved once again that language is not an important barriere.
For us, teachers , it was a chance to find out more about the system of social and school inclusion of persons with special needs , in Portugal, we compared our systems and we got new ideas about organizing the class routine and activities in our country .
Planning of the activities was excellent school routine- extraschool activities - traditions and fun.
For me it was very important to discover once more that in our job we do not have to think in terms of limitation although we work with disabled persons , because i saw in Portugal ( APPC) that it is possible to go over the limits that one might think exists .
When we think in terms of limitations we are basically the ones that can stop or limit the potential of a person.
Often , i think a child with a certain disability cannot do this or that .... well is not true .
Important is to find the way !!!!

Thank you Maria and your team , you did a great job !!!