Project Meeting on Malta
25th – 30th January, 2005

The Project Meeting was attended by Project Co-ordinators Mirjam Francetič and Magdalena Bobek, our Headmistress Sonja Vodopivec and teachers Mateja Penko, Dragica Gerželj Marinšek and Slavka Glažar.

Our main aim during this visit was to prepare, with the other participating schools, our plans for the next year of the Project. Our Maltese hosts had prepared however daily meetings and other activities which filled each day and spilled over into the late hours each evening. Our accomodation was arranged in Sliema, a town about half an hour from the capital city Valletta.
During our stay we visited four schools, where the education system follows the British system. From the age of six to eleven boys and girls attend school together, then they attend separate schools until the age of fifteen. Students wear school uniforms and schools are both public and private.

Some of the schools , like for instance Guze' Diacono,Zejtung Junior Lyceum in the town of Zejtun, which is attended by girls aged eleven to fifteen, gave the impression of an old, not particularly well appointed school, however we saw some beautiful works displayed there done by the students in their Art and Technics classes.
The Margaret Mortimer Junior Lyceum was a more modern school, with very up-to-date equipment. We were also warmly welcomed at the school for children with special needs, where the teachers from the Drama Unit School performed a play for the children.
Our friends from the Drama School, Alexandra, Deo, John and their colleagues showed us some of the workshops with the students, acting out some scenes of things that can happen at school, with these they try to help with problems that arise at the school.