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.

New Decorations

   After holding our project fair at INS Marina, we decided to keep our students’ panels on display in our school’s hall to everybody can really see how our students deal with literature and language.

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.

Logo Contest GoFor

   Before Christmas break, our 4t ESO students have been working hard designing a virtual logo, their proposals to represent our Erasmus + project : Go For Literacy to Enlighten your Future. 
   Congrats! It's been a great job! Now the project comission formed by our headmistress, Erasmus + projects coordinators, among other Spanish, Catalan and English teachers are voting for their best 3 logos to take part in the final contest of the project. This will take place on 10th and 11th January. So, please teachers stay tuned and vote for the best! Our INS Marina winner will be revealed on Friday 12th Jan!
   These are our students proposals: