Jornades Erasmus at INS Celeri Bellera

   Catalan Education Department invited us to join the latest Jornades Erasmus to disseminate our project results and show other Catalan school teachers our enthusiasm while working under our Erasmus and Etwinning project Go For Literacy to Enlighten your Future.
 Attendees were given pencils and pens of the project, our evaluation actions and selection of students actions were shown as well as other project issues such as dissemination, project's fair, results, our twinspace and etwinning project; reading circles and storytelling.

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.

Last project mobility in Hatay

Finally....Hatay!

   We travelled to Antioch to spend some meeting days with our Turkish friends. From the 29th April to 3rd May 2019, we met to discuss and share project conclusions. We also met to check if we had got project objectives and implement final assessment actions.

   During three intense days, we visited many different places to get to know Hatay's culture, history and values. We enjoyed a lot the huge Hatay Archeology museum, St. Pierre Cave church and Titus tunnel.

   It was a great chance for all of us to conclude this awesome partnership which has been working really hard to implement all required project actions and products in an ongoing way as well as sharing and dicussing everything needed in order to enrich our professional experiences, both for teachers and students.

Go for the future!

Working on Storytelling in class

   During the 2nd year GoFor project, partners agreed on start working on storytelling in our classes. This will be the motto of second students' exchange mobility in Estonia, where they will be working in mixed nationality groups in order to write a story. In order to be successful, we considered essential to work on this previously in our classes, as well as creating a mail chain where each partner will develop 3 pages long section of the same story. This will be a model for a our project students.

   During January, we've been dealing with stories' structure, grammar, vocabulary to get our students ready for the project task. Moreover, our students have participated in an itinerary of storytelling tasks: sequencing, free writing, whole-class story, grammar exercises, create your hero... timed. This helps our students to develop their language skills, their critical thinking, creativity and autonomy, as well as learning to work under pressure.

   After the lesson, students were invited to leave their comments (the most you like and the least you like) in a panel.

Follow-up work

   It's nice to see how partners get so much involved in our project. Meeting on Skype helps us to make progress in our project aims, get better results and a bigger impact on the actions we implement.

   Thanks a lot dear partners!

C2 Gofor Mobility France

   During one week, from the 28th May to 3rd June, we spent some days together in the first pupils' Gofor mobility in Collège Saint Anné ( Bordeaux).
   We met in order to develop our teachers’ oral skills manual to improve our teaching practice. Our students took part in different activities and workshops to improve their listening and speaking in both English and French languages. For example, they developed a story, created dialogues, perfomed a play, and even interviewed other school members, among others tasks.
   Moreover, the French Gofor project fair took place during one day in the mobility. We met at school to do a book crossing, as well as sharing with others our love for reading. Students also watched a traditional shadow play puppets show made by pur Turkish partners calld Karagöz.
   Regarding culture, we had the chance to participate in a photo rally activity in Bordeaux city centre as well as visiting le Dune de Pilat as the biggest dune in Europe, it was such a fun!
   Here you can check the project pictures as well as all of our students productions on our youtube channel.

C1 Mobility in Borken (Germany)

   From the 18th to 24th March we've spent some days in Borken (Germany) to visit its vocational studies school Berufskolleg in Borken where we have attented quite interesting workshops as well as sharing the best stratetegies to work reading in our classes.
    Among others, we've been discussing which activities to include in our project manual "The Teaching of Living Abilities with Literacy: A Training Manual, Reading Strategies". We also assessed previous actions and future actions to be implemented at our high school, among others, The Project Book Fair. We also set the date for Estonian mobility next September 2018.

                            

Etwinning Project Reading Circles

   Our 4t ESO students have been involved in a new project entitled Reading Circles where , in circle groups , deal with an autonomous study of the graded reader Frankestein (Oxford Readers B1). By means of performing a study role (collector, word master, discussion leader, passage person, culture collector and summariser) , each student dives deep into the novel, prompts open questions and discuss with other his/her views. One session per week will be devoted to this task. And roles will be each week rotated.

   To help slow learners, they are provided with a set of question cards to encourage to brainstorm questions and possible answers according to their role assigned.

Workshop Coordinators of a recently approved Erasmus + project

During the 28th and 29th September, we've spent two days in Tenerife where we attended the workshop organised by SEPIE (our National Agency) to give us feedback and information on how to deal with an Erasmus + project. In the workshop, we learned about coordinators' tasks, partners' tasks, dissemination and impact measure and ideas, outcomes and requirements by our NA. It was indeed a profitable experience. #ErasmusPlusSepie #ErasmusplusCat #Goforliteracy