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The Nova škola project {lasting 27 months} supports equality in the education process of (above all) Roma socially excluded pupils. Roma children will be supported by Roma school assistants when preparing for the elementary school education, dealing with primary school learning process requirements, preventing pupils from leaving the education process by providing targeted motivation as well as by building relations of trust among the schools and parents. 5 partners are constituting the project team: 2 local primary schools, 2 local organizations providing social service and a Prague NGO associating top Czech documentary photographers.
Together we are aware of a negative trend in the Czech education system, e. g. its extremely strong dependence on family social and economic status caused, among others, by differentiating the quality of schools as well as their abilities to support socially excluded pupils. This trend is intensified by the geographical location of the schools in an economically extremely weak region.
Four main activities are constituting the project and lead to education system improvements for local (above all) Roma pupils who represent the main target group of the project. There are other target groups, e. g. non-Roma pupils, Roma children''s parents and school teachers. The activities work on the assumption that the pupils need to experience success to build a positive attitude towards school. Nevertheless, Roma pupils lack such experience. Besides school assistants, the project provides specific free time activities as well as opportunities to meet Roma role models enabling pupils to value its Roma origin.