Gazi Osman Paşa Ortaokulu

Our school is a public, non-profit Secondary School. It is located in Yenimahalle district of Ankara. It started its educational period in 1957. In 2016, the Ministry of Education decided to build new school buildings because our school buildings were very old and couldn’t meet our needs. Now, at the beginning of this year 2021, we moved to our new school building that has many social and functional opportunities. There are about 587 students, 51 teachers, one headmaster, and two vice-masters. The school building consists of 24 classrooms, one workshop room, two special rooms for mentally disabled students of different ages, a multifunctional hall, an ICT room, a science lab, a library, a sports hall. There are 12 SEN students,2 of them are autistic, 4 light mentally disabled and 6 inclusive students at our school, and they have 2 professional special needs teachers. But the number of SEN students changes each year. We have also two school counselors trying to help the students and their parents and a parents' association. Our school is well-known for its academic and sportive success in this district. Our students take part in many scientific, sportive, and social projects and activities in which they get many awards and degrees. With these activities, our school aims to contribute to our students' mental and physical development.We successfully completed an Erasmus+KA219 project, called NEVER GIVE UP() which was written by our project writer and coordinator but got approval from the Polish NA. In that project, our priorities were the students having similar problems; motherless or fatherless children, the children whose parents were divorced, intravorted students who have antisocial personality disorders.Our aim was to help them to be a part of the society and to raise them to the level of their peers and to teach these disadvantaged students necessary abilities of living, to support them academically and especially to eliminate their social deficiencies while socializing them and support their sustainable lifelong learning process and to avoid these children from early drop out of school. We have always tried to empower our disadvantaged students, to socialize them, to love their school, to build self-confidence, and to support them by discovering their talents. While doing these studies, one of our main goals was to prevent early school dropouts for these disadvantaged students. In 2018, our project writer detected another disadvantaged group of students, the special education needed students. Now in this new project we have a very motivated team to develop our school and making a qualified project.The project team consists of two language , a PE, an ICT teacher, two special education teachers and two school councellors.The teacher of English,( person) has the necessary experience and ability to run this project successfully. She is the writer and coordinator of the current Project ‘’I Have The Power’’. The project team is very experienced about the EU projects so they will guide the other teachers in the partnership. The special needs teachers have a great deal of experience with EU projects and are very enthusiastic. Besides they have many innovative teaching methods,( including kinaesthetic teaching methods) to contribute to this Project. The headmaster, Gökhan Şallı is eager of conducting EU projects, internationalism, innovative projects so he will be able to provide any support he can. Nearly all of the school staff will be very helpful to implement and disseminate this project both through the project period and after.