Third Cycle of
Primary School
Colegio San
Gregorio
On September 2011 we started with a
Comenius Project at Colegio San Gregorio in Aguilar de Campoo. The title has
been: Travel broadens the mind. Let’s travel together!
‘Travel broadens the mind’ is a
long-standing and well-known saying in many societies. It is certainly true
that travel really does widen horizons, broadens experience and enriches the
soul.
By participating in the project,
"Travel broadens the mind. Let’s travel together!", we want both
students and teachers who are participating in it, to realize the
above-mentioned truth. In carrying out the project activities, we will procure
the necessary knowledge and skills for responsible travel planning, preparation
and for the travel itself. Participation in the project - due to increased
language, mathematical and ICT skills, larger geographical and historical
knowledge, and above all, thanks to the experience gained through direct
contact with representatives of other countries - will allow participants to
reap the benefits of travel for the duration of the project and hopefully will
instill a desire to carry on travelling in the future . In today's globalized
world, and even more in our united Europe, the skills gained by participating
in the project are important and necessary, not only because of the enjoyment
of traveling. Increasingly, people in the United Europe move and travel as part
of their job, that’s why it is so important to prepare our students for their
future.
In this project are implied six
european countries:
○ Zespół
Szkolno-Przedszkolny nr 3 im.Jana Pawła II, in the city Rynick, in Polond.
○ Holy Trinity Church of
England Junior School, in the city of Guildford, in England.
○ Istituzione Scolastica Autonoma 6, in
the city of La Spezia, in Italy.
○ Tjarnaskoli, in the city of Reykjavik,
in Iceland.
○ Selcuk Yahsi Ilkogretim Okulu, in the
city of Inegol, in Turkey.
○ Colegio San Gregorio, in the town
of Aguilar de Campoo, in Spain.
Through the idea of a mascot who needs
to travel around Europe to know it and show it to the Comenius partners we have
tried to develop our students autonomy of travelling and preparing a trip. Also
and the most important thing we have focused in the idea of: “we can learn
something from each trip we have”.
In the website you can have a look to
all the activities we have done along the two years it has been amazing because
it has implied many teacher and many subjects in the different activities:
Science, Arts and Crafts, English, Spanish, Music....
We have done many different activities
such as:
● We created a “Talking dictionary” in where each Comenius partner read
some basic words in their own language using Drive and Screencast-o-matic.
● During the last summer they had to
create their own “NUBI” and send postcards and create presentations about their
summer holidays.
●
….
One of the most important activities
has been the visits to the different schools. We had the opportunity of sharing
points of view about education and methodologies. But the most amazing trip was
the one to Guildford, England with six students. They really enjoyed. And, as
my collegue said, we were flabbergasted to see how can our student could speak
and communicate in a foreing language and with foreing people.
Here you can watch a summary of the
visit (It was done by @julisanzmamolar):
We will go to Poland with the students
from 3rd to 7th June.
This kind of project offers many benefits to our
students:
● They will open their minds to other
cultures and ideas.
● They will improve their skills in the
foreing languages,
● The can share time and spaces with
foreing english students.
● They work on short projects in
English, and they are really motivated.
But it also offers many benefits to the teachers:
● They can share time talking about
educational topics.
● They can observe different schools
during the visits.
● They can improve teaching skills
learning from good working practises of other school.
● They can improve English or feel the
necessity of learning it.
Here you have the summary of
the last visit our partners did to our school last month. It was a really
enriching experiences for students and teachers.
I hope you like it. And I want to
give a very big thank you to my colleague, @julisanzmamolar, who has supported
me a lot along the two years this project has lasted.
Javier Ramos Sancha
@javiramossancha
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