Sofia´s fellings about her Comenius Exchange experience

"A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to experience to understand and accommodate some Polish girls who came to our city exchange. Living with them was very intense, as part of English practice, which was the purpose of this activity, we also know first hand other customs and other forms of life, as they have a way of life very different from Spanish.
We share a week of travel, tours, shopping, fights, disappointments, tears and of course meaningless laughter.
Personally, I was lucky, because I began a close friendship with the girl I play host, and all.
My friends were lucky to go last year there exchange to Poland, but not me. So this was new to me. I was not sure to do the first few days, or how. I was very nervous, because I was not used to having a stranger at home many days, which was only the first 2 odd, and very light we get used to each other, but in the end, we had a very wrong with farewell, and we had caught a lot of care in a few days.
In short, this experience has been the best of my life, never forget. "

" Hace unas semanas tuve la oportunidad de vivir la experiencia de conocer y alojar a unas chicas polacas que vinieron de intercambio a nuestra ciudad. La convivencia con ellas fue muy intensa, y a parte de practicar el ingles, que era el objetivo de esta actividad, también conocimos de primera mano otras costumbres y otras formas de vida, ya que ellas tienen una forma de vida muy diferente a la española.
Compartimos una semana llena de viajes, excursiones, salidas de compras, peleas, disgustos, llantos sin sentido y por supuesto risas.
Personalmente, tuve mucha suerte, ya que entablé una gran amistad con la chica que me toco alojar, y con todas.
Mis compañeras tuvieron la suerte de ir el pasado año de intercambio allí a Polonia, pero yo no. Así que esto era nuevo para mí. No sabía muy bien que hacer los primeros días, ni cómo hacerlo. Me sentía muy nerviosa, ya que no estaba acostumbrada a tener a una extraña en casa tantos días, que solo fue extraña los 2 primeros, ya que nos acostumbramos muy ligero la una a la otra; pero al final, lo pasamos muy mal con la despedida, ya que nos habíamos cogido muchísimo cariño en tan pocos días.
En definitiva, esta experiencia ha sido la mejor de mi vida, nunca las olvidare."

Sofía Blanco

More about the last students exchange in Seville

We are presenting you one of the main activities that we did the last exchange. Our students prepared a show about our culture and music, it was about flamenco, singing and dancing... All was prepared for the students and the polish friends enjoyed a very special flamenco show.

Here you have the film about it...

Comenius Exchange with Polish friends. Seville Oct 2010

Summary with pictures about our last marvelous experiencie with Comenius. The exchange.

More than one week, in which our students, talked in english, learnt tolerance, made friends, felt new fellings, had fun, were radio presenters, and much more...

In this video you´ll see some sereval photos while you are listenig the radio bradcasting that they developed and did in our school radio station.

Sorry about the quality about the radio show... is a very modest radio channel.

Enjoy it!!!!

Great Exchange!!!!

Nine marvelous days with our polish friends at the school, in Seville, with the families, in Isla Mágica, smiling, having fun, being more tolerants, learning, practising english, developing cultural works, playing sports, making friends, making a radio broadcast... and much more!!!

Thank you for all!!!!!!


Now The students open their hearts and talk about their fellings...

Fellings about comenius exchange

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The new comenius year starts in Sicily

COMENIUS 2010 SICILY

Between the 23rd and 28th of September there has been realized the first meeting of this course corresponding to the Comenius project at which we were working the teachers of the school Antonio Gala with companions of Poland, Italy, Slovenia, Cyprus and Portugal. This meeting has taken place in the city of Capo D'Orlando (Sicily) and the activities and meetings have been designed to realizing during this course. It is necessary to stand out:

• The visit and reception in Dos Hermanas of a group of Polish pupils with 4 teachers during the second fortnight of October

• A few days of conviviality, at the end of October, between Polish, Spanish and Portuguese pupils, in the town of Tavira (Portugal)

• The teachers' second meeting in Monópolis's city (Italy), in May

• A final meeting of evaluation of the project in Slovenia

The design of the works to developing during the whole course.These works will be related to the respect towards the ethnic and religious minorities, the rights of the childhood and the importance of the music as vehicle intercultutal.

The group of teachers that we have been present at this meeting, Amaya, Lidia and Jose Manuel, we want to demonstrate our gratefulness to all the Sicilian companions who have received us and there have demonstrated once again, like in each and every countries that we visit that the real European Union is built in this way which it is the real Europe of the citizens and not the mercantile Europe that seems they want to impose on us.

Some Comenius Photo Collage

OUR TRIP TO TAVIRA - 17/06/2010

Elena López (Comenius Student)

We were very excited this morning at the school talking about this trip until the bus came. It was a very long trip for us, because we were nervous.
When we arrived everybody was in the "Clube Nautico" (in english Nautical Club). They were waiting for us with music and very happy faces.
Monica, Cristina, Paula and I met the students who had been in Spain in our homes some months ago, Andre, Joana, Laura and Guillerme.
We were also very happy and excited because we met other students who were very funny and nices too.
Then we got in a sailing boat, it was very special and funny. At lunch, we (I mean spanish students and Alvaro, our teacher) went to Tavira´s island. We took a boat to go there, and in three minutes we were in the shore.
We crossed the island and in the beach were our schoolmates and more teachers (Mª Paz and Pepe). We had lunch and then our portugueses friends came.
We played football, rugby and volleyball and we played also in the sea. When we played rugby (almost all the players were girls) our spanish team lost, but we had fun all together. We had a very, very good time.
At 17:30 we had to go because our bus was waiting for us in Tavira. It was a very difficult moment because we didn't want to come back to Spain. We took some photos and saw them off.
On the way back we were very tired and some people were sleeping, other ones watched a comedy movie.
We came back to our school at 20:45.

Photos from Tavira's Meeting

Thank you for a marvelous visit in Portugal!

They prepared a wonderful meeting, plenty of good activities for students and teachers.

The fair at the school was great, each country showed their culture, gastronomy, folklore... all the visit was colorfull... and enjoy the day learnig to sail or relaxing in the beach... unforgettable!

You have a nice city and a really good hosting people.

We are preparing a beach sport meeting in Tavira with our students, one day at the end of the school year to have fun, to practise sport and to know new friends.

While it happens, look these photos.

Poland Exchange Photos

The photos from the last exchange in Poland.


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Summary of the exchange to Poland.

Comenius Project : Poznán March 2010

Last April 7th the 3rd grade students of Compulsary Secondary Education from Antonio Gala school made an exchange programme with the Ryszard Kapuściǹski school, wich is located in Poznan (Poland). Eleven girl students together with three teachers from our school took part in the project.
The experience has been really positive, as the objectives we worked on home been the following ones. Using English as a means for comunications, they have learnt some Polish words, their traditions and culture (typical food, education, monuments...) We would also like to mention the visits to other cities like Gdánsk, the visit to the Baltic sea, the Malbork castle...
Within this enjoyable exchange, we were taught and we also taught them the typical dances from each city, as well as “sevillanas”.
It has been a week sharing their every day life either at home or at school. Our students adapted them selves to their way of life and they also learnt from it as Polish partipants have learnt about our life styles. But above all, they have become friends and they will meet again next year. They keep in contact by e-mail or facebook.
We must highlight the friendly welcome we were given, not only by the families, but also by our colleagues. We felt al home during our stay there.
We thank the Comenius Project for the chance to approach other languages, speak different languages and enrich ourselves. We truly families to take part in this awesome experience.

Marta Montes and Gertrudis Hidalgo

Some Comenius Activities

Our students are working in several activities this year about our project. The English is developing quickly in our classrooms and our students are talking and using it more and more.

This video shows how our school is living the project. We hope all of you enjoy it.

Poznan TV Show: News from our last Exchange in Poland.

We have received our students and teachers from our last Comenius Meeting. This time was in Poznan, and was very special because it was a students exchange.

They visited Poznan and the Baltic Sea and some others nice places that we´ll show all in nexts links when we prepare the photos about the meeting.

Now you can watch our students and teachers in a tv show which made a program about our time in Poznan...

Students like Elena or Anabel and our teachers appears talking about the experience...

Enjoy it!!

Comenius Cross. European Day

We have celebrated the european day with a sport event, it was a cultural cross in wich all the students participated, from 3 until 16 years old.

Each category was a country, Poland (3 years old), Sicily(4 years old), Portugal (5 years old), Cypruss (6 and 7 years old), Spain (8 and 9 years old), Slovenia (10 and 11 years old) and Italy (Secundary).

The students worked about each country during the week and the last day, on friday, the ran as fast as they could.

It was a nice journey, very european and sporty... so great!!!

Arne, our teacher from Norway who is working at the school during this month was the photographer, he is very good and his pictures too. We hope you enjoy it!!

More Comenius!!!

Cyprus meeting was fantastic...

First comenius experience by Lidia (Primary teacher)

Last 18th of March Amaya, Emilio, Álvaro and me arrived to Cyprus. I had never imagined that I would travel to that fabulous place. I surprised when I realized the some similar aspects that Cyprus shares with Andalusia: the weather, nice, funny and helpful people, landscapes…
We stayed at a hotel located in a small village called Kakopetria, a bit far from Nicosia, the capital. Kakopetria has a lot of narrow streets that hide old houses and cute coffee shops. We met a lot of teachers from different countries like Poland, Italy, Sicily, Portugal, of course: Danuta, Monika, Nuno, Graça,Guido, Luis, Steios, Christine, Demetra , Tula, Anne, Evrydiki (sorry but some names are very difficult for me to write and pronounce). As well as we also met some relatives of these teachers that accompanied us to visit some gorgeous places like Afrodite’s beach, the ruins of Paphos, Troodos mountains and typical taverns of Cyprus that remind me to Greece. I forgot to tell you that Cyprus is invaded by Turkish troops that stay at the northern part. It is incredible to find a church and a few meters later, find a mosque. You can also see people who wears like us and a few meters later, people who wears robes on their heads… It seemed that, you had jumped to another country: Turkey …
To sum up, I liked very much this experience, talk about education and the learning process with foreign teacher that gave me another point of view and have enriched the trip. THANK YOU SO MUCH COMENIUS!!!! I HOPE TO REPEAT!!!

Some photos about our visit to show you the marvalous activities...

News... Comenius Trips

March and April are going to be a really intensive months... At the end of March, 4 teachers from our school (Amaya, Lidia, Emilio and Alvaro) are going to visit Cypruss. They'll know how is the educative system, the comenius friend school, the culture... and prepare the next activities in our project, the videoconference, the cultural guide book, the next oficial meeting in Tavira, Portugal in May...

Another group from our school will visit Poland just after holly week holidays. 3 teachers (July, Marta and Manolo) and 11 students from 3º level of secundary are going to enjoy of polish hospitality. It's a exchange, all the activities will be related with the students. They'll be living with polish families and talking all the time in English!

Marvelous!

Comenius News - Visit from Norway

Our school is going to live a new Comenius experience, this time is a totally diferent activitie.

We are going to receive a visit from Norway. His name is Arne and he is a spanish teacher in his country.

He will be in Seville during one month, working in our school like english teacher and following the physical education lessons.

We'll have the oportunity to speak english with him, and he'll improve his spanish, practising it a lot (only with teachers of course ;p)

If you are interested in his school go to the next link, they have a english version:

http://www.amot.gs.hm.no/english/

Netmeeting Activities

Our students are developing diferents activities about our Comenius Project, one of these is related with the new technologies and comunication.

They are keeping in contact with their new friends from Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Italy... using the Facebook and working with videoconference at the school and some of them at home.

We did it with polish students some months ago, and now we're doing it with slovenian.

Is really good to check that our students can comunicate in english, better or worse, but they can find the real application of the english lenguage, and use it as motivational aspect to learn it.