The 5th European Schools Conference took place from Sunday April 14 to Wednesday April 17 at Swadelands School, Lenham, Kent, United Kingdom with 50 delegates coming from the Continent. The UK contingent varied between 20 and 30.

The countries represented were The Neth­erlands, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Spain, Portugal and the UK.

As in previous years the projects of the current year 1990/1991 were evaluated and future projects planned and designed.
 

That the conference was a success was due to the hard work of ALL participants - I am especially grateful to the Dutch team for their contribution.

A few hundred pounds enabled the Dutch and the British to meet around a table at the Polytechnic of Central London one day, and at Swadelands the next day, for the first ESP Conference in 1988. The fifth ESP Conference cost about 20,000 pounds! Can we afford to grow? Some countries have contributed generously to the Conferences' success; some schools have also been gener­ous in sending two or even three teachers abroad - some, alas, have contrib­uted nothing, the cost having been borne by individual teachers.

I should like to thank Walderslade Boys' School and Vinters' Boys' School for the magnificent support given to its teachers. I should also like to thank The European Desk at Springfield (Kent County Council, UK), and the Maidstone Consortium for their financial support of the 5th Conference.

The future success of ESP, in my opinion, depends largely on the support given by the schools to its teachers. If ESP is to be as successful in the UK schools as it is on the Continent, then the Senior Staff of the UK schools must be more closely identified with its aims and know what it is teachers are doing at their teleports; it is not an easy and cheap entry into the European Dimension.

I would like to thank Miss Showan, the Head Teacher of Swadelands School, for the use of the school facilities to hold the conference, and for the on-going assistance which made the production of this report possible; John Robinson, the Computer Network Administrator at the school, for layout and production of this Report; Tom Holloway for the iIIustrations; and all those ESP members who contributed material.

Finally, I would like to thank you, the teacher at the teleport - you know that I know how much time you are devoting to the success of ESP, even if others do not! 

Victor Young /

National Co-ordinator, ESP U.K.