School improvement plan 2020-2023

Approved by the Governing Board the 26th of may, 2020

The school improvement plan of the European School Lille Métropole is the result of a reflection carried out jointly by staff, parents and students. It reflects the values and missions of the school. Established on the basis of a shared diagnosis and the aspirations of each individual, it reflects our common ambition to build a flourishing school community.

AXIS 1 / EUROPEAN DEVELOPMENT = Opening up to Europe and European values.

Objective 1 = Open the school to its cultural and European environment

Areas to develop:

• The cultural and artistic openness of the students
• Relations with historic and accredited European schools

Action plan

In the classroom

• Have the students work on presentations about European countries and their history.
• Organize exchanges of letters with other schools in Europe (not just the European school)

In the school

• Submit Erasmus + projects to finance teacher and student mobility.
• Host language assistants and young German volunteers.
• Design a program to develop Europe-focused class activities across the school.
• Promote cultural diversity: festivals, day of languages.

Outside the school

• Organize teacher mobility in order to create a network of cooperative professionals.
• Organize visits of European landmarks: the Parliament, the Museum of Europe, the house of European history, the cities where the EU was founded.
• Organize student exchanges.
• Take part in meetups within the EE network: Eurosport, FAME, Mini Parliament, Science.

Objective 2 = Train European citizens by promoting tolerance and care for the environment.

Areas to develop:

• Knowledge of the cultural diversity of the members of the educational community
• European citizenship of our students
• European values: tolerance, social and civic skills, environmental protection

Action plan:

• Mark the dates of national holidays (with flags) in each class.
• Organize the intervention of parents who are nationals of a European country in the classes.
• Increase awareness of sustainable development among stakeholders in order to become certified
• Organize waste sorting in the school
• Create a vegetable garden, build an insect house.
• Work with non-profit organizations (poverty, etc.)

Axis 1 performance indicators

• Number of Europe-focused projects
• Number of school trips abroad (staff and students)
• Number of European partners

AXIS 2 / THE SPIRIT OF COLLABORATION = Develop exchanges and collaboration between students, teachers and partners.

Objective 3 = Build a common professional culture

Areas to develop:

• Collaborative work
• Continuing education

Action plan:

• Welcome new teachers, tutor them.
• Harmonize our pedagogical tools based on each other’s practices.
• Organize peer-training (mutual observation, conferences, etc.)
• Organize interventions by European teachers who are experts in their field to train school teachers.
• Train together within the network of European schools: work on partnerships with EEs for the construction of common training modules.

Objective 4 = Build a united school community

Areas to develop:

• Unifying events
• Internal communication

Actions envisioned:

• Jointly define and enhance the values and missions of the school.
• Build community projects at the school level (logo, metamorphosis, choir, assembly, rally, etc.).

• Welcome newcomers (families, students, teachers, non-teaching staff).
• Organize cultural conferences for parents and staff.
• Appoint a coordinator to communicate on what has been achieved in the classes.

• Use tools to share the class activities with families: Class Dojo, Newsletter.
• Highlight the different projects: videos on a blog (ENT) or edition of a school newspaper.

Objective 5 = Promote the school to the outside

Areas to develop:

• The reputation of the school
• Partnerships

Action plan:

• Develop the school’s outreach with European authorities to increase awareness.

• Update the website and define a protocol for keeping it up to date.
• Build projects with classes from European schools in the network.
• Participate in local organizations and initiatives: film festival, sports program, …
• Develop joint projects with nearby schools (reading, sport, solidarity).
• Build local partnerships with European / linguistic associations (the friends of Ealing, Franco-Croatian association, etc.).

Axis 2 performance indicators

• Number of peer-observations
• Number of community projects at the school level
• Number of projects carried out with local partners
• Number of visits on the school’s website

AXIS 3 / THE SUCCESS OF ALL = Streamline the student’s personal journey in order to put them in a situation of success

Objective 6 = Streamline the personal journey of students

Areas to develop:

• Support policy
• Harmonization
• Educational differentiation

Action plan:

• Strengthen the procedures for identifying students with special needs.
• Build tools and harmonize practices to best meet the needs of

students(activities, assessments, etc.).

• Adapt and harmonize teaching practices.
• Streamline the pedagogical proposals to ensure a continuity (avoid

redundancies, beware of the cohort effect).

• Create school-specific guidelines for transitions between cycles.

Objective 7 = Develop student autonomy

Areas to develop:

• Autonomy
• Student engagement in school life

Action plan:

• Use individual responsibility as a basis for behaviour policies (independent travel, group work at the library, etc.)

• Build shared behaviour policies with the input of the students.
• Carry on class activities on harmonized rules and regulations within the school.
• Work on dedicated spaces in the playground.
• Train student mediators for recess.
• Establish a student board and a student lounge.
• Promote educational activities that develop the children’s autonomy (group work, independent workshop, work plan, project-based learning, etc.)

Axis 3 performance indicators

• The proportion of students affected by the support policy
• Promotion rate
• The success rate in exams
• Behavioural performance (truancy, sanctions)