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!

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.

Post-Estonia dissemination actions

   Back to La Llagosta, we've been spreading all the activities that we implemented in our last C3 mobility in Paikuse Pohikool in Pärnu (Estonia). We also explained our scholar community how is the project going, all the actions implemented during the 1st year by teachers and students, previous mobilities and future ones. In order to do this, we make use of our project's blog, INS Marina website and other school social networks such as facebook, instagram or twitter, project's instagram @ gofor_spain, and its facebook profile, INS Marina magazine, La Llagosta 08120 local press, as well as teachers' meeting where the coordinators and the mobility participants have explained these items in more detail.

   In our lessons, students can also check how the mobility was and all the activities and projects we will implement during the 2nd year. 

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.

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?

Europe for Culture also in Carnival

   Last 9th February we celebrated Carnival at school. Our 1st ESO students organised their traditional Haka dance of Maori culture (New Zealand). It was a vigorous dance and they actually achieved to show us their strenght and prowess as former warriors used to do before a war!
   It was our way to connect our pupils with a different culture from the other side of the world. In a way, we wanted to contribute to Europe's celebration throughtout the year our diverse cultural heritage across Europe and worldwide. Watch this out!

 

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?

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.

Gofor Logo Contest

Dear students,


   After some voting days, we already have three winner logos that will represent INS Marina and the project in the project final logo contest which will take place on 10th and 11th January 2018. These are the results. The designer of Logo 1, Naim Muñoz, will take part in the project and its mobilities. The rest of you will have more points to participate too! Congrats!

Logo 1

Logo 2

Logo 3

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:

                 

"Go for Literacy to Enlighten your future" has been approved!

   We're happy to announce the project Eramus + "Go for Literacy to Enlighten your Future" has been approved at INS Marina. It'll be implemented in 4t ESO courses during two years 2017-2019.

   As as introduction, we hold a teaching staff meeting where we introduced the main objectives, products and impact of the project. This was the presentation: