Fourth Spanish report

FOURTH SPANISH COMENIUS REPORT

                                                                                           

                                                                                        

February 2014

 

After the visit to Portugal, our students prepared the diary of their week in Torres Novas and explained it to the rest of the classmates.  They talked about the culinary traditions.  The rest of our students could see the powerpoints posted on the blog, so they could enlarge their knowledge about the culture of our partners.  They also explained the activities carried on there and the places they visited.  All of their explanations helped the others enlarge their geographical and history knowledge.

 

We began to prepare the final meeting in Poland.   They continued working on the recipe book to be sent to the Poland team, so they could design it and send the final version to the Italian team, who was in charge of printing it.  So all the partners could get a copy in Poland.

 

March

 

We held a meeting with the families to prepare the trip to Poland.  We gave the families the programme planned for the week, the name and address of the Polish families and the school.

In the “Jornadas de portes obertes”(“Open Day”) we presented the Project to the families of the new students of the school.  They could see the materials prepared by our students and their partners, the activities carried out in the meetings and photos taken there.

The teachers prepared 3 evaluation sheets, one for the students, one for the parents and the third for the teachers who had taken part in it. We sent our proposals to the Coordinator and she created the final versions to be revised in Poland.

 

We prepared our trip to Poland.  The students looked for information about Lubineck, the place where the Polish school is.  They saw the information about the school in the blog, read the presentations made by the Polish team in the different meetings.  So they could be more familiar with the country they were going to visit.

The last meeting was held in Poland where we met our partners for the last time.  There we did different activities mentioned and posted on the blog. 

We agreed to carry out the evaluation questionnaire and send the results in a circle graph to our coordinator.  It could help us think about the positive and negative things carried out in order to improve the activities in our future project, Erasmus plus.

 

April

 

When our student came back, she prepared the diary of their week there, explained it to the class and presented the recipe book.  The students had a look at it, so they could discover more things about the culinary tradition of their teams.  We also talked about the most impacting places we visited, specially the Concentration Camp in Auschwitz.  So they could enlarge their geographical and historical knowledge about that period of time.  It was a good topic to make them think about religious, racial or ideological kinds of discrimination.

On Saint George’s Day, the students of the second year of Baccalaureate who had participated in the Comenius project during these two years got a diploma made by the school and we disseminated the project in that festivity.

In  the school magazine we published different articles talking about our Comenius Project, written by the students and teachers who had taken part in it.

 

May

 

We worked on the evaluation sheets and created the graphs.  The teachers studied them in order to see the things that  should be improved in the future and to know the parents’ opinion, because the students’ opinion had been picked up after each meeting.

In the farewell party of the students of the Second Year of Baccalaureate there was a movie about the best moments spent in the school and the Comenius experience couldn’t be missed there.

We celebrated “la fira del Coneixement”(“The knowledge fair” as every year.  It consisted on preparing different activities for the Primary students who came and visited us on the 21^st of May.  There were different workshops organised by the teachers of the different subjects.  The students of the second year of ESO were in charge of them.  This year the English Department organised a “Green restaurant”, based on the topic of our project “Healthy food”.  The students of our school were the waiters and waitresses of a healthy restaurant and the primary students were the customers, but there was only healthy food in the menu, so they could only choose healthy dishes.  We tried to make them aware of the importance of healthy habits and the fact that there are a lot of delicious dishes that are very healthy.

 

The students are preparing articles about the Comenius for the school magazine.

On the final day we will prepare a lot of physical activities and we are going to focus them on the project aim: ”Be active” with the objective to make students practise more sport, enjoy them and make them aware of the importance of not spending so much time in front of the TV or computers.

 

 

                                                             Written by Pilar Belloc