European Quality Label

   Our project "Go For Literacy to Enlighten your Future" has been awarded the European Quality Label. Thanks to all participants, families, teachers, school staff and European partners and students for your effort, support and participation. I

   It's been an awesome experience as a coordinator in this adventure that started two years ago and it ends up now. GRÀCIES, GRACIAS, THANKS!

Jornades Sol.licitants Erasmus Ka2

We have been invited by the Catalan Education Department to join the Erasmus Ka2 seminar for future applicants of projects in order to introduce and explain our Erasmus experience under the Ka2 project “Go For Literacy to Enlighten your Future”( 2017-2019) as a succesful practice. We were extremely grateful to show all we’ve been producing, analysing, sharing and assessing inside our project.

Catalan writer Arturo Padilla at school

  We invited the writer Arturo Padilla to come to school to take part in a workshop with ESO students. Arturo talked about his last novel published; Despertant la Ira del Faraó. He usually writes novels for teenagers and he's a writer who was born in a village quite close to ours, which helps students to get engaged and interested in reading.

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.

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. 

Erasmus Day 2018

    On 6th June we celebrated our Erasmus day at Institut Marina where authorities from townhall, students, teachers and parents were welcomed. We organised different project intineraries where our project students explained and showed pictures and video from the different mobilities, school activities and other actions implemented in the 3 different Erasmus + projects that we have; Smile, LTSDU and Gofor.

Getting ready to our Erasmus Day 2018

   As a dissemination action, our Erasmus students, teachers and members of the management team are involved in the organisation of our Erasmus day which will take place 6th June 2018. We'll show La Llagosta inhabitants the way we've been working, the outcomes from the two projects that are about to finish as well as the actual actions implemented in our Erasmus + project GoFor during its first year. Parents, students, families, teachers and authorities will stroll following an itinerary where our Erasmus students will explain their experiences during mobilities, the project outcomes, connections to Skype with other countries' partners as well as a permanent Erasmus corner where they can get a photocall picture as a memory of the event.

The Horror Show Play

   Today all of our 1st ESO students have attended a play in English to deal with Gothic novels and great figures such as Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Bram Stoker. In this way, we help our students to improve their listening skills while getting to know other novels and key authors who belong to the English literary tradition.

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.

                            

Twinspace and Youtube Channel

   

   The most important thing in this kind of European projects is our students' engagement and involvement in the tasks proposed. To get so, partners decided to implement a paralell Etwinning project where our students will be the protagonists. Now they've got their own project site, their project Twinspace, where to implement reading projects, share opinions and discuss their findings.        Moreover, we've launched our project Youtube Channel where to upload our students' videos because....a picture is worth a thousand words, isn't it?

This term... Frankenstein!

   Our students have started reading the graded book Frankenstein to celebrate its 200th anniversary this year 2018. We'd like our students to meet and know deeply one of the most influential 19th century writers and topics such as creation, appearances, revenge, sciences, compasion, forgiveness and sacrifice.
   To start with, a brainstorming in pairs is convenient. Our students have been working to deal with anticipation activities, guessing and infering what can comes next by means of answering an inital questionnaire:

• Who wrote Frankenstein?
• When was it written?
• Who was Victor?
• Who does the Monster kill? what do you think?
• What do you think happens to Victor in the end?

• What do you know about Frankenstein?
• What do you want to know?

World Read Aloud Day 2018

   2nd February 2018 we celebrated at school World Read Aloud Day 2018 #WRAD2018 to celebrate reading as an essential skill in our languages and communication learning. Our students were encouraged to bring their favourite read books to class, select some paragraphs and read them aloud to the rest of their classmates. They shared their favourites stories and enjoyed them a lot!

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:

                 

1st TPM GoFor

   From the 28th November to the 2nd December 2017 we've hosted two teachers from each country taking part in our project such as Estonia, Germany, Turkey and France to work with us and share their education perspectives. We've spent some days having meetings at INS Marina as well as taking part in other activities to get to now La Llagosta and Barcelona's culture. It was an enriching experience! See you all again in Germany, next mobility :)

   Here you've got general information about the 1st TPM.

   Here you can see a video and some pictures of the mobility.

Prior to our 1st TPM

Dear friends,

We've been working really hard to design a programme that meets our project partners' needs. They are coming to Barcelona today and they will spend two days with us at INS Marina.. We're attenting meetings, we're visiting the school (job shadowing) as well as La Llagosta town with our Mayor. Hope you have a great time! Welcome dear partners!

Teachers' Meeting

  Today we've met to discuss and agree to implementing an Etwinning project at school which is linked to our Erasmus + project "GoFor". This project, which is students-oriented and competence-based , will be useful for our 4t ESO students to improve their linguistic competences and enrich their European conciousness. Moreover, our aim is to give visibility to the projects and other lively activities we implement in our language lessons here, as well as getting to know other countries' methodologies, activities and students' projects by implementing this collaborative project.

 Thanks a lot for your effort, dear workmates!

Our project "GoFor" is in AniraM press

AniraM

LA REVISTA DE L'INS MARINA

Hi everybody!

Time flies and now there are only two weeks times left for our project's partners to come to La Llagosta to spend some days with us at Ins Marina. To get ready, our students have introduced the project "GoFor" to disseminate project's objectives, participants and expected results in our school's magazine "Aniram". Good job dear students! Check it out HERE.

"Gofor" Erasmus + Corner

Dear friends,

   This year "Literacy Day" last 8th September was celebrated across the world under the theme Literacy in a Digital World. At a record speed, digital technologies are fundamentally changing the way people live, work, learn and socialise. In order to meet our students' and scholar community needs, we've created our Erasmus + corner digitally online. Do you want to know more about this new project that has been approved? Which are the countries involved? Where are the students' mobilities planned? When will they take place?...

   For this information and even more, scan this qr code with your smartphone from time to time...stay tuned!

Literacy Day (Part II)

   Our 4t ESO students celebrated their literacy day by means of presenting in public their favourite books and the cover they designed by themselves using the app "Canva". Items such as topic, author, as well as reviewing the book were included in their presentations to the rest of the class. Books such as Robinson Crusoe, Happy Potter or Buenos dias, Princesa are among their favourites. What's yours?

Click here to see our students presenting their book covers.

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