The following key areas in which we needed improvement have been identified: - developing and enhancing management competences. Improving competences for educational leadership: getting a bigger picture perspective through approaches of good teaching at European and international level, including knowledge and skills in decision making and problem solving, capacity building as well as interpersonal and team skills; - developing and enhancing staff competences in the following areas: organizational and pedagogic development; - improving cooperation and collaboration between teachers and parents by developing and expanding their skills in order to build strong relationships and increase parents' involvement and engagement in school life and their children's education; - improving teaching methods and tools - identifying more modern teaching approaches available for use in schools today; - European dimension through the European added value of the training of teachers and staff – establishing links with other European teachers/schools and the exchange of examples of good teaching; gaining experience in an intercultural international context; establishing connection with a community of educators from a variety of European countries.
The project “New kind of bridges - out of the box” is an extension of the efforts our school makes to create learning environments which engage students’ hearts and minds, and provide real-world relevance for learning, as well as, develop and enhance staff competences and improve cooperation and collaboration with parents in order to build stronger relationships. As a primary school we devote ourselves in being active and try to develop our student’s sense in different areas by undertaking a lot of projects inside the school as well as taking part in wide range of projects outside the school (local, national and international). At the same time, every successful school should pay particular attention to planning and providing a continuous professional development to its staff, which is considered to be one of the key preconditions to a quality education, effective teaching and learning and attaining high achievements. Continuous professional development means gaining new and improving the already existent teachers' competences which are important in 21st century education.