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
