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The LAVA Project is a partnership between:

 

• The school management in Varde Municipality (Denmark) 

• Laois & Offaly Education and Training Board (formerly County Laois VEC) (Ireland)

• Two schools in Varde - Brorsonskolen and Nr. Nebel Skole

• One second-level school in Laois - Portlaoise College

• One primary school in Laois - Scoil Bhrde, Portlaoise

• Centre for Undervisningsmidler (CFU) - an education and resource centre in Varde

• Children and Young Persons' Task Group in Laois

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​The overall aim of the project is to identify the key variables that seem to facilitate or hinder a smooth transition for students between primary and secondary school in terms of their;

 

1. overall learning and achievement​

2. social development / adjustment

3. development of positive attitudes towards school, learning and achievement

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Through regional cooperation, we plan to enable school authorities to share inclusive approaches to teaching and learning, ways of improving performance and motivation, and to identify and pilot effective responses to challenges such as young students losing interest in school (school fatigue) or early school leaving.

We will cooperate to develop and pilot materials that can be used in both countries, which will enable teachers/management to promote positive school experience, and will equip teachers with the skills/tools to detect, prevent and manage school fatigue.