European hours

European Hours in The Centre for European Schooling is a non-disciplinary curricular area offering an open-ended and broad range of activities whose content is multidisciplinary. European Hours class provides an opportunity to:

• Mix and group together pupils of different nationalities
• Mix and group together pupils of different ages
• allow pupils to interact and work together and to communicate while engaged in common activities
• engage pupils in topics concerning their won and /or other countries

Aims of European Hours Class

• to develop greater awareness of and sensitivity to Europe’s heritage and European dimension
•  to offer pupils an opportunity to get to know, respect and help one another
• to contribute to the social and personal development of pupils. 
• to enable the CES pupils to present to their peer groups a project/performance from their own or another country
• to promote respect, tolerance and acceptance of others among the mainstream school population
• to enhance the status of the Centre for European Schooling as a unit extending beyond the confines of language teaching
• to promote harmonisation across language groups.

Organisation of the European Hours

The working language of the European Hours classes are English and French. Elements of the curricula of the European Schools are used for the European Hours’ programme. 

Timetables are arranged so that teachers work with a group of pupils for a period of eight weeks. A variety of topics are discussed.