Gozo College’s Sannat primary school and special unit, and another school in Qala are taking part in a project entitled ‘Anti-xenophobia for children in all European schools’, together with schools from the Netherlands, Ireland and Austria.

The project’s aim is to develop an environment in which to teach primary schoolchildren to appreciate and respect the cultural, ethnic and racial differences of others, and to teach that there is nothing to fear and much to be learned and valued about all people, regardless of these differences.

Teacher Christine Mizzi attended the first project partners’ meeting in Het Palet, in Opheusden, the Netherlands, where she took part in planning for project and helped set up its website.

Godwine Grima and Maria Curmi later attended a Comenius project week in St Conor’s boys’ School in Bray, Ireland. They visited classes and conducted presentations about Malta.

The Comenius partners will visit the Sannat primary in April 2014.