"I prefer the way the ALFA Project works to the secondary school I went to last year. We don't just sit down and write all day, we make things and talk about how we feel. Since we are a smaller group, we get more attention from the teachers and therefore if we don't understand something we get it explained to us" - Walli, 14 -

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I came (here) because I liked the way they did a lot of practical work and it didn't seem to be only about what you got in your exams. I also like that it is more relaxed and you can influence the kind of things you do. Most teachers most teachers in the ALFA Project try and make the work they teach a bit more interesting." - Johannes, 15 -

"We don't have textbooks, only the ones we construct ourselves from our main lesson work. In the ALFA Project there's a lot more art than in most schools: more than a third of the lessons are making something o music or singing. In main lesson, for everything we write we usually draw a picture or a diagram to go with it, which makes it a lot easier to understand things." - Naoise, 15 -

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"The teen-aged years are a vital stage in the development of the human. The ALFA Project offered us the essential nourishment and experience we needed at the delicate time of transition between childhood and adulthood.''

I appreciate the care and effort involved in creating an environment which was well structured but embraced us with freedom. It was this freedom that challanged and awakened our own sense of self'' - Claire Prendergast, 17  -

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