Escuela Activa La Realidad

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Financié le 22 / 01 / 2018
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Accumulé
€ 9.810
Minimal
€ 8.600
Optimal
€ 11.300
124 Cofinanceurs
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  • Pour € 10

    Our most profound gratitude

    Thank you very much for your donation. We will mention your name on our website in the list of co-financers (if you agree to appear on it)

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  • Pour € 20

    A compilation of articles about pedagogical topics (in English)

    We will mention your name on our website in the list of co-financers (if you agree to appear on it) and you will get free access to download a compilation of articles about pedagogical topics.

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  • Pour € 30

    Let´s plant a tree

    Be a seed in this project! Through your donation you can become the protector of a tree which will grow in our school. Besides we will mention your name on our website in the list of co-financers (if you agree to appear on it). And you will also get free access to download a compilation of articles about pedagogical topics.

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  • Pour € 40

    Spend a day with us

    Come and get to know our project on an event we will organize for all our benefactors. We will show you the school facilities, explain to you the history and the fundaments of the project in person and we will invite you to taste our delicious Paella we cook using ecological ingredients we get from the agro-ecological farm we have next door.

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  • Pour € 50

    Benefactor 50

    Thank you very much for supporting us. We will mention your name on our website in the list of co-financers (if you agree to appear on it), you will get free access to download a compilation of articles about pedagogical topics and we will send you a thank-you-video by e-mail.

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  • Pour € 60

    Social support programme 20, for families without economic means

    We guarantee that 20€ of your donation will be used directly to help families of our social support programme which receives a lot of demands. There are several families interested in our project that cannot afford to pay the monthly fee we ask to cover the basic costs. In exchange for your support you we will get all the rewards mentioned before.

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  • Pour € 70

    Limited edition T-shirt of our school "La Realidad"

    Get one of our limited edition T-shirts especially designed for our school. Available in different sizes and colours. Besides we will mention your name on our website in the list of co-financers (if you agree to appear on it), you will get free access to download a compilation of articles about pedagogical topics and we will send you a thank-you-video by e-mail.

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  • Pour € 80

    Social support programme 40, for families without economic means

    We guarantee that 40 € of your donation will used directly to help families of our social support programme which receives a lot of demands. There are several families interested in our project that cannot afford to pay the monthly fee we ask to cover the basic costs. In exchange for your support we will mention your name on our website in the list of co-financers (if you agree to appear on it), you will get free access to download a compilation of articles about pedagogical topics, we will send you a thank-you-video by e-mail and invite you to spend a day with us.

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  • Pour € 100

    Workshop "Learning to strengthen our children´s health" (available only in Spanish) - ALSO POSSIBLE ONLINE

    4-hour-workshop (ONLINE o ON-SITE IN OUR SCHOOL) where you can get information and acquire practical skills on how to improve your children´s health whether they are healthy or sick. Ways to strengthen the immune system and to prevent over-medication which exists in our present society. We will talk about the main topics that usually concern families (fevers, mucus, diarrhoea, dermatitis, otitis, etc) from a comprehensive point of view, in order to gain confidence and health by understanding the physiological processes of recovery of the organism. Workshop offered by a trainer of "Sembradoras de Salud". https://sembradorasdsalud.wordpress.com/category/inicio/

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  • Pour € 150

    Invitation to be present on a regular school day at La Realidad

    We will mention your name on our website in the list of co-financers (if you agree to appear on it), you will get free access to download a compilation of articles about pedagogical topics, we will send you a thank-you-video by e-mail and invite you to be present on a regular school day at La Realidad.

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  • Pour € 200

    Visit the Natural Park of Doñana by boat from Sanlúcar de Barrameda

    We will mention your name on our website in the list of co-financers (if you agree to appear on it), you will get free access to download a compilation of articles about pedagogical topics, we will send you a thank-you-video by e-mail and we will invite you (and a person of your choice) to visit the Nature Park of Doñana by boat from Sanlúcar de Barrameda.

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  • Pour € 250

    SPONSOR 250

    Become the protector of a tree growing in our school with a special mentioning of your name on our website in the list of co-financers (if you agree to appear on it). You will also get free access to download a compilation of articles about pedagogical topics, a thank-you-video by e-mail and one of our limited edition T-Shirts.

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  • Pour € 300

    Annual course "Woman in body and soul" (available only in Spanish)

    We will invite you to attend IN-PERSON the regular meetings of a group of women (in Jerez de la Frontera or Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Cádiz) treating topics about women and health: 4-hour-sessions one Saturday every month during one school year. There you will get information about how to improve your health from a holistic point of view in order to understand better the cycles of life and providing ways to auto-regulate your well-being , reconnecting with your body, listening to it. It is a group for women of all ages organized by "Sembradoras de Salud". https://sembradorasdsalud.wordpress.com/category/inicio/

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  • Pour € 400

    One week internship in our school + dossier

    We invite you to be an assistant of the guides in our school during one week, including a half an hour meeting after each school day sharing experiences, opinions or doubts. You will also get a dossier with texts and videos about Active Pedagogy. Perfect for teachers, students studying education, mothers and fathers, if you are interested in this kind of pedagogy or thinking about initiating a similar project. There is no better way to learn than by direct experience.

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  • Pour € 500

    Childbirth course and preparation for maternity/paternity (only available in Spanish)

    8-session-course, each session takes 2 and a half hours IN-PERSON (in Sanlúcar de Barradema). It is a group course where future parents can share their experiences during the pregnancy and prepare themselves for birth and the post-birth period. Course organized by Naciéndonos Acompañamiento. http://naciendonos.blogspot.com.es/p/blog-page_13.html

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  • Pour € 600

    SPONSOR 600

    You will become part of this project. We will invite you to come and plant a tree together with the children in our school. Or if you cannot come to visit us you will receive a personal video where the children will plant the tree in your honor. Apart from that: SPECIAL mentioning of your name on our website in the list of co-financers (if you agree to appear on it) and you will get free access to download a compilation of articles about pedagogical topics and one of our limited edition T-Shirts.

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  • Pour € 1.000

    PREMIUM SPONSOR "New Yurt"

    Our new yurt will receive the name of our benefactor or another name of your choice. Apart from that: SPECIAL mentioning of your name on our website in the list of co-financers (if you agree to appear on it), you will get free access to download a compilation of articles about pedagogical topics and we will send you a PERSONAL thank-you-video by e-mail.

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  • Pour € 1.000

    SPONSOR 1000

    Thank you very much for your help! We appreciate that you think our project is worth your support. The rewards we offer are just a simbolic way to show our everlasting gratitude. However, you will receive: a SPECIAL mentioning of your name on our website in the list of co-financers (if you agree to appear on it), you will get free access to download a compilation of articles about pedagogical topics and we will send you a PERSONAL thank-you-video by e-mail and one of our limited edition T-Shirts.

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  • Pour € 2.000

    SPECIAL SPONSORING OF A CHILD WITHOUT MEANS

    With your donation you will cover the annual fee of a child without economic means who is longing to come and play at our school. You will get a VERY SPECIAL mentioning of your name on our website in the list of co-financers (if you agree to appear on it), free access to download a compilation of articles about pedagogical topics and we will send you a PERSONAL thank-you-video by e-mail and information about the family you will be helping.

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À propos du projet

An educative space to be a child and grow up in freedom: A different kind of education is possible and it has become a Reality. We are part of an unstoppable silent revolution.

Budget Infrastructure Minimal Optimal
The new big yurt: a new interior space
The new yurt will have a surface of about 60sqm in order to offer more specific workshops and to be able to admit more children to our school. Thanks to high number of families interested in our project the yurt we use at the moment (30sqm) has become too small.
€ 6.000
Dry Toilet / compost
Installation of a dry toilet with a composting system
€ 300
Budget Tâche Minimal Optimal
Processing fee
We need to cover the processing fees of Goteo 4%, bank transaction fees 0,8%, Paypal fee 3,4% + 0,35€ for each transaction.
€ 600
Scholarship for a single-parent family during one school year
There are several families interested in our project that cannot afford to pay the monthly fee of € 200 we ask to cover the basic costs. In this particular case there is single mum with a three year old boy we would like to help.
€ 2.000
Budget Matériel Minimal Optimal
Materials for the exterior
Acquisition of materials and equipment in order to continue adapting the exterior space to create new play options: a new slide, a ramp, a flying fox and construction material to build wooden huts and material for carpentry or cooking workshops.
€ 800
ACQUISITION OF PEDAGOGICAL MATERIALS
We would like to buy Pikler and Montessori materials and musical instruments to provide more specific tools for the broad variety of ages we have in our project in order to support the learning process of the children in their different development stages.
€ 1.600
Total € 8.600 € 11.300
Indispensable
Optionnel

Informations générales

In September 2015 the Association Active Education Sanlúcar initiated an exciting project: the Active School “La Realidad” (The Reality), a place where boys and girls between two and six can develop their abilities through real experiences. In this school we apply the results of recent investigations in neuroscience about the fundaments of learning and the process of growing up.
The objectives of our school are that the children preserve their intrinsic motivation to learn and that they base their actions on liberty and respect in order to grow up to be autonomous and responsible persons.
We offer the possibility of a comprehensive development by playing, experimenting, experiencing values and healthy personal relationships in a natural and affective environment.

Caractéristiques principales

PRESENTATION

My name is The Reality and I am so happy to meet you. Well, actually, what I mean to say is that I am happy to introduce myself so you can discover me step by step. I live submerged in the middle of nature. If you have the chance you should come and see me. So you could feel the peace that surrounds me. Often, when people come and see me, as they take the first steps their faces are filled by surprise and they usually make a sound that goes like this: "Wooooowwww" (I love to see them in this very moment and I always feel moved). I hear them say that I am beautiful and they would have loved to grow up in a place like me.
I exist for the children, I am a tool so that they can be that they are: children. They can move in my exterior and in my interior parts, as they like. The exterior gives them the opportunity to move their bodies and explore me with their five senses, in liberty and security. There they can find water, wood, sand, leafs, nets to climb, swings, costumes, a theatre, a retreat to talk calmly... The interior space is a yurt. Do you know what it is? It´s a house used by nomadic tribes in Mongolia. It´s a special place, because it´s round and being round there are no corners where the dust can accumulate, the energy flows and everybody who spend some time in it can feel the harmony it provides. Well, I will stop talking now and let you read the things my friends Luda and Kiko (the children´s guides) have written to explain to you how the project works which I help to turn into REALITY. Big hugs.

A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY

In spring of 2015 several people gathered in Sanlúcar de Barrameda (South of Spain) for the first time, to talk and share ideas about different ways of understanding education and looking for alternatives to the traditional school system. Working groups were created which led to the constitution of the Association Active Education Sanlúcar in order to create the school project. In summer of the same year a group of persons started to build the school with a lot of effort and eagerness in order to start the school project in September. Step by step the space turned into what we know today as the Active School La Realidad. Finally, the 10th of September 2015, La Realidad opened its doors for the first time. We started with three kids and ended up with eight at the end of the first school year. This filled us with enthusiasm and every new child joining the school has given us new motivation and has reaffirmed our conviction that this kind of places are indispensable .

Where you can find us: "The ecological farm of Paqui and Paco"

As we consider the contact with nature as something fundamental in the development of a human being, we chose this fantastic natural space to build the school. This gives us the opportunity to be in direct contact with nature every day. The farm of our friends Paqui and Paco is situated in the middle of an eucalyptus grove surrounded by pine woods. On their farm they try to preserve a sustainable balance between all living creatures, with the lowest impact possible, putting into practice a healthy and conscious way of living.
Here we have the possibility to experience firsthand knowledge about the changes during the four seasons. For instance, we can see the orange tree flower in spring, smell it and observe how it turns slowly into a small green ball which becomes bigger in summer and finally pick the mature fruit and eat it below the tree in autumn. This and similar processes can be observed continuously on the vegetable plantation and with the animals.
We believe that the creation of a positive attitude towards nature in the children´s minds depends decisively on their possibility to encounter nature. An intense contact and a variety of positive everyday experiences in nature is crucial for the development of an environmental conscience. Who gets to know nature in his o her childhood, will respect nature as an adult.

"You can only protect what you know“.

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Pourquoi est-ce important

SOME PRINCIPALS THAT GUIDE US:

Autonomy and non-directivity

We consider children as capable beings, that is why we support their autonomy and try to interfere the least as possible in their learning process. Each child has to get to know him/herself and become conscious about his or her necessities and interests. The adult´s function is to create a secure environment for the child to develop his or her capacities and personality. That is why our project is based on the idea of non-imposition and the respect of the human processes. We believe that learning should be originated in personal motivations, without interference or conditioning by the guides who accompany the children.

Unconditional acceptation

In order to create adequate conditions that favour the learning process the children need to feel secure and respected. Their fundamental necessities have to be covered in order to be able to concentrate themselves on identifying their interests. In our point of view the basic necessity of all beings is to be accepted and loved unconditionally. The confidence that this transmits and is acquired by a person that knows and feels that he or she is being loved represents the main impulse to activate the learning mechanism.

Respond to the necessities

The children that are part of La Realidad are aged between 2 and 6. In this period of life they are getting to know what surrounds them through their bodies and their senses, they experience learning through concrete things. The different spaces that offers La Realidad respond to their necessities to develop motor, cognitive and affective/relational abilities.
We are always keeping in mind that learning arises from the inside. That is why we respect the genuine personal drift of each little person, offering prepared spaces and not interfering in the learning process. In this period of life girls and boys live in a world with an egocentric vision. The "me" is being shaped and only parting from this point of view they will be able to expand their vision and construct their real personality. Precisely for that reason we respect their processes and their decisions to share or not objects, spaces or moments.

Free playing

Free and spontaneous playing is one of the fundamental pillars of La Realidad. It comes up naturally from the children who create the game and transform it according to their most profound necessities. When we think that our children are not doing anything, we should observe them a while. Then we would see how things happen while they are playing. We would see that the game is not finished, that it is a continuous act of creation. They create it the very moment and this requires great creative and social capacity. By playing they acquire important social abilities, release stress, become conscious of things, and last but not least they spend a pleasant and satisfactory time which leads to a more fulfilled life.

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Objectifs de la campagne de crowdfunding

In Spain alternative education is still quite a new concept and most of the "different" schools receive no public funding. In our case, we are a private initiative of a few families who believe that a different kind of education is possible. With great effort we cover the basic costs by paying a monthly contribution and working together improving the infrastructure of our school on the week-ends.
In La Realidad, until now, we had two different spaces: the exterior space and the small yurt.

The exterior space

Since we started the project we are been constructing step by step the external space full of possibilities to learn and play. Here the children can climb, swing, jump, all necessary things to develop their motor abilities. It is a secure space with soft soil, as we believe that for growing up and acquiring abilities it is important to have secure surroundings, as well physically as emotionally. It is a place where children can play freely, develop themselves, grow up and learn new things in a natural environment, surrounded by plants, trees and animals. Everything has been built keeping in mind that all our acts affect nature and the environment, that is why we treat it respectfully. However, the process of conditioning of the exterior is not yet finished and that is why we ask for you collaboration to be able to continue to finance it.

The small yurt

The small yurt is an interior space prepared with materials both structured as well as unstructured. It is the space the children look for when they need to be in a cosy place. Inside we speak with a soft tone and everything goes more slowly, it is a space that favours concentration. The materials are placed on shelves in an organized way, so that the children know where to find them, they can use them any time and put them back where they belong. The fact that the place is tidy favours that the children also organize themselves better and that the coexistence is respectfully.

The new big yurt

The new yurt that we are building right now will be a larger interior space in order to offer more specific workshops. Depending on the interests and the necessities in each evolutionary period of the children we will offer music, dance, yoga, crafts workshops and introduce the older children into reading and writing. This new yurt requires a great economic effort which we would like you to support. Each contribution is welcome in order to finish this fantastic new space necessary to offer the children new stimulus in their learning process.

Expérience antérieure et équipe

We are a group of families that are looking for a different type of education for our children. Our convictions have led us to start this project with the support of two educational professionals who are well trained and have lots of experience in alternative pedagogies.
Each family participating in the project contributes to it thanks to their diverse abilities and hobbies. Among us we have musicians, psychologists, computer experts, nutritionists, carpenters, etc.

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Engagement social

Sustainable Development Goals

  • Good Health and Well-Being

    Ensuring healthy lives and promoting the well-being for all at all ages is essential to sustainable development.

  • Quality Education

    Obtaining a quality education is the foundation to improving people’s lives and sustainable development.

  • Gender Equality

    Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world.

  • Reduced Inequalities

    To reduce inequalities, policies should be universal in principle, paying attention to the needs of disadvantaged and marginalized populations.

  • Sustainable Cities and Communities

    There needs to be a future in which cities provide opportunities for all, with access to basic services, energy, housing, transportation and more.