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EARLY SCHOOL LEAVING PREVENTION. The example of good practice from Secondary School of Economy and Tourism in Bar. Facts about the school. Situated in the port town Bar, in the south of the Adriatic coast – Montenegro Founded in 2003, attended by 200 students
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EARLY SCHOOL LEAVING PREVENTION The example of good practice from Secondary School of Economy and Tourism in Bar
Facts about the school • Situated in the port town Bar, in the south of the Adriatic coast – Montenegro • Founded in 2003, attended by 200 students • Nowadays it has more than 800 students and 50 teachers • The approximate number of drop-outs per year is 20 • Vocational type of school with 5 different departments for: Economy Technician, Tourism Technician, Sales Technician, Cook and Waiter
Activities that we implement to prevent students from leaving school • Third and forth graders have their Practice classes at the employer’s - in various tourist agencies, hotels and restaurants. So they spend one week day in real working surroundings doing the practical part of the subjects Running Hotel Business and Running Tourist Agency Business. Through that experience, they are able to reconsider their choice of profession.
Visits to: (inter)national fairs, tourist resorts, hotels, companies, forwarders, customs offices, tourist attractions, museums, other schools, universities… • Opening of the Entrepreneurs’ Centre two years ago where students can practise making business plans. With those plans they take part in numerous competitions and the most successful ones get awards. Students can also express their creativity within EC as they make souvenirs there and then sell them on the festivals held in our town.
Volunteering • Collaborating with the local NGOAdriawhose target group are people with disabilities. • Cleaning the beaches • Visiting the orphanages and organizing charity activities
We participated in international partner projects within ACES network (Academy of Central European Schools). By being selected from the international jury twice – in 2011/12 and 2012/13, we were awarded grant to realize our projects so a great number of students had excellent opportunity to travel round Europe, visit other types of schools, be the host to foreign students and be the guest in their families, too, shoot a TV programme, participate in radio programme, organize a number of different events, write narrative reports, act as a photographer, a journalist or a tourist guide • Teachers attend many international trainings and afterwards they organize workshops at school on the themes such as European Values, human rights etc .
Lectures given by the experts from different fields • Famous chefs prepare their favourite dishes • Artists demonstrate their work of art • Psychologists hold the workshops about career orientation • Successful businessmen teach us what the enterprising spirit is.
Sport competitions • Basketball competition in winter • Football competition in spring • International competitions in summer Thank you for your attention