The project aimed to promote citizenship and the common values of freedom, tolerance and non-discrimination, as well as enhance the quality of education and internationalization, enable the school staff to raise their professional qualifications, to improve the educational process, integrating the skills acquired through mobility, and to expand the opportunities for European cooperation in order to modernize and internationalise the curriculum.
The need of the project Outstanding Inclusion arose from Barton Hill Academy's strategic action plan. It was found necessary to improve the following areas: the inclusion of children from different cultural backgrounds in the educational process, development of teachers’ and pupils' ICT skills and improving the quality of education through internationalisation. We had been involved in KA2 projects, but felt we needed something to support teacher professional development to help drive our journey to outstanding.