T4T - TOWNS FOR TEENS - TEENAGERS' DAILY LIFE

ABOUT US

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 IESO COLONOS is a state school  located in the town of Gévora, which the River Gévora flows through this town and gives its name to it.  Gévora is a little town of about 2300 residents which belongs to Badajoz District ( with almost 153.000  inhabitants)  in southwestern Spain near the border of Portugal and it is  in a rural setting  near Badajoz, which is the main zone of influence with official institutions, social services, a university, a good health system, leisure  and sport areas, medium-scale industrial activities and a small communications network linked with Gévora. Gévora  has  a very good access to the Madrid-Lisbon highway , which makes it a little town with good expectations. A number of 221 students belonging to families of middle-low socio-cultural  backgrounds are enrolled  at IESO COLONOS , coming from some surrounding countryside villages. Students get to the school by school bus transportation. The staff consists of 31 teachers, 8 administrative and services staff on the whole. The levels taught at our school are compulsory secondary educatión (12-16 -year-olds)  and vocational education training (14-16year-olds) for those pupils at risk of dropping out of school. 

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 7th Junior High School of Ioannina is located in the town of Ioannina. Our town has about 200,000 inhabitants and  is in the north-western part of Greece, near the border of Albania, it is only 50 km to the border to our town.  Ioannina  is the capital of the Prefecture of Epirus, a region in Greece which has a lot of natural beauty, a picturesque lake with an inhabited island on it,traditional villages and beautiful scenery.   There is a University in our town with more than 10 Faculties and about  20,000 students. The  history of our town dates back in the very past  and there are very old traditions. It can be regarded as a rural region with a lot of agriculture, farming but there are also  a lot of civil servants  who work in the University Hospital and in the University.

 

  Yıldırım Beyazıt Anadolu Lisesi is a general secondary school established in 1995. It is in a residential district located on the outskirts of Kırıkkale, a newly-developing industrial city in the Central Anatolia Region of Turkey with an average population of 200.000 residents.  Our city is about one hour's drive (76 km) from the capital, Ankara and it is expanding rapidly to become an industrial  center. Main industries in Kırıkkale include state-owned military arms and ammunition factories (MKE) and chemical plants. The economy is almost exclusively based on its steel mills producing high quality alloy steel and machinery. In our school, we have 45 committed and enthusiastic staff members mostly with over 10 years of teaching experience who aim to make learning stimulating for the students so that they are motivated to do their best within a broad and creative curriculum. We have 595 students aged between 14-17 coming from the surrounding neighbourhoods of Kırıkkale after a national qualifying examination to enroll in our school. Our students, mostly coming from lower or middle class families, do not have a very high standard of living in general and some of them need support from their social environment and the state in some aspects of their lives.  

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