Colegio Santa Cruz is a school in Mislata, Spain that educates students from 42 nationalities with a focus on social inclusion. The school collaborates with local institutions like a retirement home and refugee center on projects to help those communities. Students participate in Erasmus+ exchanges with other European schools and work on social programs within their own community.

1. ERASMUS +:
PUT YOURSELF IN MY SHOES

2. SANTA CRUZ SCHOOL
• Colegio Santa Cruz is located in Mislata, which is a small town near
Valencia and has around 50 000 inhabitants.
• Our school educates students from 42 different nationalities.
• The methodology of our centre is based on social inclusion.
• Some values that are important in our school are cooperation,
integration, respect for each other, tolerance and gender equaility.

3. PROJECTS IN THE SCHOOL.
•Primary:
- Etwinning: we have collaborated with many
schools from other countries (like the United Kingdom),
making projects through online tools.
•Secondary:
-APS: in this project we work with some
institutions of our neighbourhood (like La Saleta, which
is a residence for the elderly or the CAR, which is the
residence of many refugees), helping them with some of
their real needs.
-Erasums+: this is our second European project,
as the first time we collaborated with a Turkish school.
The aim of the project Put Yourself in my Shoes is to
carry out social activities in a different environment and
to promote our solidary spirit.
-Save the children: it is a programme which
helps students with social difficulties.
•VET:
-Erasmus+: our Office and Administration
students are also involved in European projects with
other centres in France.

4. • La Saleta: Residence
for the elderly
• Refugees Reception
Centre -CAR
• AHUIM: International
humanitarian
association of Mislata
INSTITUTIONS
THAT
COLLABORATE
WITH OUR
SCHOOL

5. AHUIM
• The association A.HU.I.M., is born as a
humanitarian aid association for
development and international
cooperation. It is a non-profit association
that aims to achieve greater awareness of
the neighbours to carry out aid and
cooperation projects with the people from
Sahara.
• In our school we host and educate students
from Sahara who come to Mislata throguh
this NGO.
• We have carried out several food and
clothes collection campaigns in order to
help them.

6. This residence for the elderly collaborates actively with
our centre in different projects such as APS. Thanks to this
project we have the chance to Know these people
through interviews, workshops, games etc. and learn from
their experiences.
Centro de
día Arniches

7. CAR
• The Refugee Care Center of
Mislata currently hosts a total
of 113 asylum seekers from a
total of 19 nationalities.
• The majority of the families
bring their children to our
school and, therefore, some of
our classmates currently live
there.

8. TRADITIONS AND
CULTURE
• Baked Rice is a typical dish of the
Valencian Community. It is made in
earthenware casserole and cooked as its
name indicates in the oven.
• Paella is a recipe based on rice, originating
in the Valencian Community and today ver
y popular throughout Spain.

9. Las Fallas
Las Fallas are celebrations that go from March
15 to 19 Officially they begin the last Sunday of
February with the act of La Cridà.
During the year, craftsmen build some
monuments which are finally burnt on the day
of La Cremà.
The monuments represent social criticism
through the events that happened in Spain
througout the whole year.
Every day at 14 o’ clock, at the town hall
square, we can listen to a big Mascletà, with
thousands of fireworks that produce a lot of
noise.

10. La Nit del Foc
La Gran Nit del Foc is one of
the most important events.
It is celebrated at dawn on
Sunday March 19 at 1:30 am
on the Paseo de la Alameda
and consists of a fireworks
display that is longer than
usual

11. La Crema
La Cremà is the last act of Las
Fallas. On the 19th of March, all
tbe monuments are burnt around
midnight. It’s very exciting for all
the Falleros to see how the work
of a whole year burns into ashes.

12. eTwinning .
eTwinning promotes school collaboration in
Europe using information and communication
technologies (TIC) and supports schools by
providing them with the necessary tools and
services

13. It is a project in which we collaborate with the "La
Saleta" residence for the elderly, and the Refugee
Support Centre of Mislata. Together, we carry out
different solidary activities with the aim of fostering
our students’ awareness and voluntary spirit.
APS
Our web pages:
https://vineiparla.wordpress.com/
https://dejovesavells.wordpress.com/

14. SAVE THE CHILDREN
This well-known NGO collaborates with our center to offer educational
support to our students. The volunteers carry out lessons of school
support, activities and games in the afternoon to promote the social
and educational integration of the students.