Disseminating our project at primary schools

   Our project students have happily come back to their primary schools to explain to primary students and teachers our project Go For Literacy to Enlighten your Future that this scholar year ends.

   By means of visual presentations, students have been shown the tasks done in class as well as some videos to explain their experiences in other foreign countries, such as Estonia and France. In fact,  our students have expressed how wonderful this experience has been by means of a wordcloud.

   Moreover, mentors have been given a sample of our students' stories written during the 2nd year Etwinning project as well as a copy of the manuals done by Erasmus teachers that compile the most useful activities to put into practice in class for students to improve their linguistic competences. It has also been a chance to disseminate our latest Erasmus event, our Erasmus day that we held last 5th June 2019.

Estonia...again!

   From the 25th to 29th March 2019 we travelled to Parnü to visit again our Estonian friends from Paikuse Pohikool, this time to participate in the last students' exchanges from our project. During a week, students stayed in their hosts' homes where they got to know the Estonian culture deeper.

   During school days, the Estonian coordinator prepared a wonderful programme of workshops and outer activities that we really enjoyed and we will never forget. Among others, we visited Parnü municipality and Kihnu island for a day. We also visited Estonian capital city, Tallinn.

   Regarding school work, our students were encouraged to work in mixed-nationality groups to create their own stories for some days. They took part in different workshops to get to know each other, find the keywords of their stories following the kinesthetic learning, and start working in their stories plan.

   In order to create a certain mystery and interest to read their stories, they also recorded a short story trailer at school and its surroundings. What a great week!

GoFor... Estonia!

 From 24th to 28th September, five teachers from Institut Marina attended the 4th teachers' training mobility under the Erasmus + programme GoFor at Paikuse Pohikool in Parnü (Estonia). 

   We spent a week working collaboratively to review project objectives,  continuous assessment actions (partnership swot analysis), collecting best activities to deal with writing strategies in our lessons and getting conclusions, reviewing Twinspace second-year tasks for our students to implement, as well as agreeing on 2nd-year mobilities. 

   Apart from all these issues, it was a wonderful week where we also had the chance to meet first-hand Estonian culture and people living in Parnü. Indeed, this will be the location of our next students' exchange mobility last week of March. 

Etwinning Label

   Our project, Go For Literacy to Enlighten your Future, has been awarded with an Etwinning label for its collaborative students' work.

   During one year, our students have been implementing reading circles based on different English novels. Moreover, our work has also been focused on Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein to celebrate its 200th anniversary in 2018. This innovative methodology has helped out students to become a bit more interested in reading and their reading and speaking skills have considerably improved. During our second year project, we'll continue working on Twinspace to write a collaborative story in groups. 

Module: The Guide of Teaching Abilities: Listening & Speaking skills

   We've been working hard this first year of Gofor project and as a result of our sharing of good practices and continuous debate and assessment; our French partner was the responsible for coordinating the second module which deals with listening and speaking skills.

Module : The Guide of Teaching Abilities: Reading Skills

We've been working hard this first year of Gofor project and as a result of our sharing of good practices and continuous debate and assessment; our German partner was the responsible for coordinating the first module which deals with reading strategies.

Twinspace Reading Circles

    Our students have started their own Etwinning project based on Reading Circles where they will be working in groups formed by one student from a different country. Prior to meetings, they have been discussing how to plan meetings as well as the distribution of chapters.

    Once done and agreed, they have started meeting online to discuss their role worksheets and reach agreements. Their conclusions will be published on project Twinspace by the discussion leader after every meeting. This seems it works, go on like this, both students and partners!