Third Comenius report

Report  from October 2013 to January 2014

October

After our Comenius partners’ departure, the students wrote the diary of the fourth meeting in Barcelona and it was published in the school magazine.  The Spanish coordinator wrote the report of the meeting for the blog. 

Parents, students and teachers evaluated the activities done in Barcelona.

Then we began to prepare the materials for the next meeting in Portugal.  The students had to interview other students of the school and see if our students were active or not.

They did the questionnaire “Be active” and wrote the conclusions (all these materials are on the blog in students’ presentations and in the Spain folder). The students who were going to Portugal prepared their own presentations in Powerpoints.

November

The students wrote the conclusions about the questionnaire “Be active” and presented them to the rest of students of their class and to the students of the fourth year of ESO. The conclusions were posted in the “Virtual guide”.

They took part in a pyramid contest about “Be active”. The winner was the one made by Kathy Narvaez.

They organised a campaign encouraging their mates to practise more sports and cut down the time in front of TV or computers.

They began to prepare a menu with typical Catalan dishes.  They chose:

Starters:  Catalan Spinach

Main Course: Sausages with haricot beans

Dessert: Catalan cream

We sent it to the Portuguese team to be posted in the Virtual Guide

They made the powerpoints, practised the pronunciation with the language assistant and presented them to their classmates.

They searched information about Portugal and wrote an article in the school magazine.

December

We didn’t have much time to work on the project because of our local holiday at the beginning of the month, then the exams and evaluations, the preparations for the Christmas festival at school, etc.

They worked on their oral presentations and presented them to the other students of the school. 

When we saw the programme of the activities for the meeting in Portugal, they searched information about the places and they prepared the trip, checked the flight timetables, how to get to Lisbon, planned the activities, because we’d have time to visit it before meeting our partners and going to Torres Novas.

There was a Christmas card contest and we sent the winner one to the different schools that take part in the project, including our Greek ex-partners.

We held a meeting with the parents to present the Portuguese programme for our stay there and to make the last arrangements.

January

We travelled to Torres Novas, Portugal.  Our students took part in all the interesting activities prepared by the Portuguese school.  They presented their powerpoints about the questionnaire “Be active”, looked for similarities, got ideas things they could do to be fit and things they should avoid.  Thanks to the meals offered there and the powerpoint about menus, they could appreciate the Portuguese cuisine and understand better their partners’ culture.  They could enlarge their geographical and historical knowledge thanks to the trips organised by the school.  Staying with the families, they had the opportunity to know a lot about their traditions and culture.  And what’s more, they could see their partners again, speak English and enjoy a wonderful week with them.

When they came back, they prepared the diary of their stay there and showed it to their classmates.  They evaluated the meeting and continued working on the recipes for the grandma’s recipe book.

Written by Pilar Belloc