2nd report

2^nd part of the Comenius report (from May to October 2013)                

May

After Saint George Day, we continued working on our project.  We began to work with the assigned part of the pyramid “Fruit and vegetables”.  The students looked for information about the topic and the American assistant who was working in the school, helped them. Those in charge of summarizing the information and preparing the Power point were: Alba López and Alba Velàzquez prepared the topic of fruit, whilst Isabel Serrano and Kathy García prepared that of vegetables.

We wrote an article in the school magazine about the meetings and tasks that took place during the year.  The magazine was printed in paper and also published on line.

We then began to prepare the 5 commandments and the school presentation for our virtual guide.

Following this, we wrote a draft for the Comenius visit to Spain.   The students searched for information about interesting places where we could take our partners, the timetable, prices, descriptions, etc.

June

We only worked during the first week, because the students had to study hard for the last exams.  When they were over, those who passed didn’t have to prepare any more exams and they could go on working on the project.  They designed identification cards of all the Comenius members with the flag of their individual countries and the logo of the Comenius project.

In groups the pupils prepared the Powerpoint presentations about Barcelona.

Additionally, a parents’ meeting took place in the school to organize the welcome event.

We booked all the visits and asked our Town Hall for an official welcome.

July

It was a stressful time because this year we didn’t break up until the 16th July.  Every morning the students came to school to continue working on the project.  They prepared a big poster welcoming the partners which they decorated with the different flags, finished the identification cards for the teachers and students, organized the events, prepared the presentations about “Fruit and vegetables” and about Barcelona.  Patricio Analuiza went to Barcelona and filmed a short film welcoming the partners and recommending the most important sites.  Meanwhile, the other group began to write up our most traditional recipes and Brenda and Kathy García were in charge of preparing the Powerpoints.

The English teacher prepared the visit to Saint Sadurní d’Anoia, the cellars and the chocolate factory and explained the visit to the students.

We wrote a summary about Fruit and Vegetables for the virtual guide.

We worked on the presentations for the meeting, organized the tasks and duties of all the students and revised the activities. With the parents we organized the welcoming at the airport (welcome posters) where they went to pick up their son’s or daughter´s partner.

There was another parents’ meeting in order to clarify the possible questions about the Comenius meeting.  We explained the activities to the rest of the teachers in a staff meeting.

The families proposed to organize a breakfast where the foreign students could taste our dishes and they also made a Comenius cake.

29th Partners’ arrival.

I attach the programme:COMENIUS VISIT TO BARCELONA from  30^th September to 6^th  October  INS EUROPA

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Arrival	9.00-10.00 welcome to the school 10.00 Trip to Barcelona by train 12.00  Pedrera guided visit  and  sightseeing along Passeig de Gracia 15.00 Lunch at Park Güell .  Picnics for the students and restaurant for the teachers. Afternoon: visit to Park Güell Possibility of visiting Sagrada Familia	8.30 Arrival at school to go to S.Sadurní by coach. 10.30 Visit Caves Codorniu 13.00 Lunch in a restaurant in S.Sadurní d’Anoia 15.00 Visit a chocolate factory “Amatller	8.30 Arrival at school 9.00/12.30 Powerpoint presentations. 11.30 Breakfast prepared by the families. 12.45 Students go home with the families 13.30 Visit and lunch at local catering school . Students : lunch with the families and teachers invited by the catering school and Town Hall	8.15 Arrival at school to go to the Town Hall. 9.00 Welcome by the Mayor in the Town Hall.The students and teachers were interviewed by our local TV 11.00 Sightseeing Barcelona : Cathedral, la Boqueria Market, Santa María del Mar and les Rambles Lunch in a restaurant in la “Barceloneta” Dinner at Can Culleretes, a typical restaurant  invited by our school	9.00-11.00 Work on the Project Students: sports day  ( football, volley…) 11.00 Farewell party and diplomas. 12.00 Visit to our local flee market. Free afternoon

We posted all the materials on the blog.  We have been able to disseminate the project thanks to our local TV help( Television de Hospitalet).

An evaluation sheet was made by our students.

We began to work on the next part of the virtual guide “To get fit”.  The students have begun to interview their classmates and Alba, Isabel and Kathy García are in charge of picking up all the conclusions made by the other Comenius students and showing the final results in Powepoint presentations.  Kathy Narvaez is making a poster about “Be fit”.  Anna Jardí, Ruth Cisuelo and Carlos Fernández are preparing more recipes for the grandma’s recipe book.

The students of the 3^rd year of ESO are preparing an article about the Comenius visit for the school magazine.

We hope that by the end of this term the students will be aware of the importance of doing physical exercise in order to be fit and healthy.

Written by Pilar Belloc