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.

Erasmus Day 2019 at our high school

   We have been holding two different Erasmus Day, one on the 6th June 2018 and another one on 5th June 2019 to show other students, parents, school teachers, authorities and members of La Llagosta community our progress on our Erasmus + project "Go For". 

   Programmes included our project's students explaining and showing their project actions and mobilities, as well as, a kahoot for everyone, and even a contest with awesome project memories for everyone! In this edition, students were given their Europass certificate of mobility that certifies their project objectives and mobility details.

Three, two, one...action!

As part of our last mobility programme in Estonia, all the teachers participated in a project recording at the old quarters of the national TV in Estonia. We recorded some news to spread our project objectives, aims and results as well as showing our enthusiasm in visiting these days this the great country. Watch it out:

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. 

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

St. Jordi's GoFor Book Fair

   On 23rd April, on International Day Book and the daw we celebrate St. Jordi in Catalonia, we'll also hold our Gofor Project Book Fair to promote reading habits among our students.

   In order to get so, our students have been working hard preparing some panels to share with the rest of the students book  they found attractive to read. Moreover, they also suggest other readings that can be interesting for teenagers. Books can be in English, Catalan, Spanish or French. Other students are in charge of showing some motivational quotes regarding reading on a wall, quotes they did themselves. And our youngest students will show the comic book they did themselves about Franskenstein.

   On that day, we'll get some students to recite their literary creations for our Marina literary contest; poems and novels as well as inviting Mireia Vancells, a well-known writer in our town who will come to do a workshop with students on how to write to make people's lifes happier and get some money whenever possible.

We're working hard to celebrate this important day in our scholar community. Our major and parents are welcome!

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.

                            

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!