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.