Spanish report ( June t- July 2014)

SPANISH LAST REPORT: JUNE- JULY 2014                                    

June

We made a copy of the Grandma’s recipe book which was donated to the school library.

We posted the last materials on the blog and supervised all the products.

In the school farewell party we organized a sports day activity related to the second part of the Virtual Guide  ”Be Active”.  Then we held an official ceremony where the students who had participated in the Comenius, got the diploma of participation.  While the diplomas were given, there was an exhibition in Powerpoint of the best and the most important moments of the project.  The students explained to their mates their experiences and tried to encourage other students to take part in the next project “Erasmus plus” if possible.

The students wrote an article about the project in the school magazine and a free copy was given to the parents in the final ceremony of 4^th ESO where the General Certificate of Secondary Education was given to the students who had succeeded.  During the event, a brief report about the Comenius project was explained

The coordinator of the project began to write the official final report and post the materials in the EST web site.

July

The students began their holidays.

The coordinator of the project continued writing the final report and prepared all the official papers.

The headmaster of the school, ICT coordinator of the project, posted the last materials and checked all the products.

The materials were posted in the EST website and the official papers were sent to our National Agency.

Written by Pilar Belloc

Comenius sport

INTRODUCTION

TEENAGERS THROUGH CULINARY TRADITION AND FAST FOOD

We have begun a Comenius multilateral school partnership project with seven schools from: Poland, Italy, Romania, Portugal, Greece, Turkey and Spain. This project began in September 2012 and will finish in July, 2014. Our first meeting was in Romania, in November, 2012, where we decided to create a general blog called “Mum's food or fast food? “and it will be the place where we are going to post all the photos, comments, activities mentioned in our application form, such as the album of the project, Grandma's recipes, the healthy eating guide and the new ones we decide to do.

The aim of this project is to make student aware of the importance of having healthy eating habits. So during this project we are going to focus on the following objectives: to define and understand the meaning of healthy eating, to rediscover the culinary tradition of each country and to know  other cultures through their culinary tradition. The target language will be English.

The project aims to involve teenagers in a debate with the topic of intercultural food style of young generation and the consequences in cultural identity’s field. Students from partner institutions will be helped by coordinators teachers to explore the issues of unhealthy food, and probe the medical, social and cultural implications. They will oppose two concepts, (food type) fast food and culinary tradition, understand the break that happens in the individual mind by assimilating artificial culture that tends to become universal food code.

The teens will reflect on their food preferences, the culinary tradition and family backgrounds. They will explore areas related to nutrition, food technologies, traditional and ecological agriculture they will also confront cultures and traditions by extending the dining experience in partner countries.

Each partner will initiate an investigation in two directions: a foray into the fast -food that will give the possibility to study chemical compounds used in preparing menus (will talk with nutritionists and sociologists, will confront opinions and ideas.

  On the other hand, it will be  a culinary journey in the region to which it belongs, approaching  tradition and customs. The students will be invited by a family that keeps cultural tradition of the place. There they can assist to the preparation of a traditional menu, they will taste the products and  find recipes, ingredients,   traditional ways to  prepare food and natural conservation of food .

These experiences will be shared within   the project visits, on the web site and materialized in the final products (European guide of healthy menus, book of traditional recipes , brochures,

This project will help students improve their English competence, raise awareness of belonging to a common European culture and know their own culture and their partners’.   We will also promote culinary and cultural traditions, having easy access to the results obtained in the partnership.

Spanish student self-evaluation

Conclusions

The first Comenius in our school has been evaluated very positively by parents, teachers and students.

As we can see in the graphs, parents  very much appreciate the possibility what this project has offered to their children in terms of getting to know other countries, cultures, traditions and get used to respecting other realities. Thanks to this, now they can appreciate  their own culture more.

The students have recognised that now they are more motivated to learn English because they see it as a communicative tool that helps them meet other people and integrate into other cultures.  They have also said that they have very much enjoyed doing the activities and preparing the meetings where they have shared their knowledge and experience.

With regards to the topic of ´healthy food´ which included the importance of healthy eating and appreciation of traditional food, the students have added that they are now more conscious of them, but they have not changed their eating habits.  Perhaps it is a question of time and maturity and we hope that when they grow up, they remember the things learnt in this project and they will improve their eating habits.

The teachers are very satisfied with the project.  We have seen that our students are more motivated and more curious to learn about other cultures.  A fact that confirms our statement  is that there are a great number of students who want to take part in new projects and parents are asking for a new Erasmus project now.

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

Poland, Our last Comenius Meeting

 

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