Evaluation and Presentation of Comenius in English Classes

The Comenius participants have finished all that work, and they have done it very well.  Students and teachers feel  proud of themselves and of the products they have carried out.
But all that has to be evaluated.
Workshop VI is just for the Evaluation and for the Presentation of the Comenius Projects in Evening classes.

Evaluation  Comenius in English Classes - 2015

National Evening - 4th Day (2nd Part)

No doubt, the National Evening is the long awaited event of the week.
Why is it so?
Every country has been preparing something special for the evening. Our hosts offer a buffet to recover from so much activity during the day and week. Music, dances, food, prizes, friendship... enlighten the evening. There are no more countries, only European friends living in different cities - Getxo, Bergen, Herouville Saint Clair, Garbsen.
Just look at the pictures and see.

National Evening 2015 from J. Carlos Martínez

Comenius - Day 4th: Presentations (1st Part)

It has been a very hard working and ambitious day today. During the Workshop IV the participants have been finishing their works and preparing the presentation.
At 12:30 they have been to the cafeteria to have lunch and after lunch, during Workshop V they have presented their tasks.

Trilateral 4th Day

Comenius Trilateral Meeting - 3rd Day

Today all the participants have been to Berlin, an amazing city for all of them. It's the day for the field trip. They have started visiting The Wall Museum. After that, in multinational teams, with a citymap and a camera in hand, they have explored the city.

Comenius Trilateral Meeting - Third day

Second Day in Garbsen

In the following PPT you can see the activities our Trilateral Meeting Students have done today.

First, the students went to regular classes for two periods with their German partners. Later, they started Workshop II and were working during the rest of the morning. At 12:30 they had lunch at the cafeteria. At 13:30 the began Workshop III and were working until 4:30 p.m.

On the other hand, in the evening, the teachers went to see another classical Comenius colleague and friend, Christoph Brehmer  in concert (he was in Getxo two years ago). It is most rewarding to enjoy time with our creative engaged teachers on these special occasions. Congratulations, Christoph!!!

Comenius Trilateral Meeting - Second Day

Trilateral Meeting in Garbsen, 1st Day

The First Day of the Trilateral Meeting in Garbsen has been exciting and amazing in many aspects.

At 8:30 a.m.the Headmaster of Geschwister Scholl-Gymnasium, Garbsen welcomed the students from the four different countries: France, Germany, Norway and Spain-The Basque Country at the cafeteria of the school.

At 09:00 the activities for the day started.  Over 100 students went to different rooms with international teachers in multinational teams, according to the activity they had previously chosen. They started with different enjoyable ice-breakings. After that, they answered the Quiz on European Landmarks.

Comenius Trilateral Meeting - 1st Day

Workshop I started the activities: National Evening, Press group, Photo story, Art, Comic group, Drama/Music group, European game and Euroean Youth Meeting. They were working for over three hours.

At one o'clock p.m.they went by S-Bahn to the city center of Hannover. They had some free time and lunch and made the field trip. They had a rally through Hannover in small groups. They started in the Opera House and the point after the rally was the entrance of Marktkirche (4:30 a.m.)

They had a free time evening.

On the other hand, all the Comenius teachers from the four countries attended an amazing profesional performance of the musical "Rent" directed by the teachers and performed by the students of the School GSG Berenbostel. Amazing, unique, fabulous are some of the adjetives to express the high level of performance. Congratulations!!!

Comenius Trilateral Meeting in Garbsen (Germany)

Our Comenius Project for the current school year is on. Our 15 students flew to Hanover yesterday. They were very excited and happy to meet their counterpartners and to live the "German experience".

Yesterday at 22:00 sharp they landed in Hanover Airport. The German families were waiting at the airport to take them to their new homes. All of us were given a special welcome.
Today they have been visiting places and playing games together, Basque and German students.
Tomorrow, we are starting the Trilateral Meeting together with the French and the Norwegians.

Comenius nTrilateral Meeting in Garbsen - March 2015

Comenius Pre-Trilateral Meeting Work at school

Since January, our Comenius students have been working via the internet on the Timeline of the European history. Our History teacher, Nerea Acebo, previously gave them an introduction to this period of our recent history. They have been researching on historical and cultural backgrounds  of the EU from World War II to nowadays by decades.
Finally, they have also refreshed the Comenius Corner, prepared some questions for the quizz on European history and rehearsed the song to be sung altogether in the Multilateral Meeting in Garbsen: "Welcome home, to Europe", which we expect to sing altogether with the other participating countries.

Pre-Trilateral Meetings in Getxo, March 2015

Comenius Bilateral Meeting - Day 7

Last but not least.

In Workshop 5, students finished up preparing their power point presentations, the blog post, the site report. They wrote new documents and rehearsed. At the same time, a group of them gave presentations for the English lessons. They explained what the Comenius Project is like and what they had done during the Bilateral Meeting.

In Workshop 6, in teams of 5, they presented their products, in digital format and in posters. They showed their research finding on national identities by explaining the similarities and differences between both countries. This has been the first step before studying our Common European Identity in the Trilateral Meeting next term.

Bilateral Meeting Day 7 from J. Carlos Martínez

After break, they started their last session with a song: Iratxe Cea and Carlos, the Comenius teacher and composer,  sang “Welcome Home, to Europe”, our Comenius  students’  European Anthem which will be sang by students of four different countries (Norway, France, Germany and Spain-The Basque Country) in the Trilateral Meeting in Garbsen in March, 2015.

Finally, they answered the questions of the Evaluation of the Meeting, which another group of students had previously prepared.

At quarter to three, German and Basque students kissed and hugged one another and expressed their  strong wishes to meet again, this time in Garbsen, Germany in March, 2015. But a little surprise was reserved to them at Bilbao’s Airport.

Comenius Farewell

Comenius Bilateral Meeting - Day 6

Thursday 27th was a very hard day. To begin with, they had a very long non-stop session of tree hours (Workshop 3) in which they searched and discussed about similarities and differences between Germany and The Basque Country-Spain. In new teams, some reflected their ideas in posters and others created digital documents (docs, pp, etc).

At break our guests enjoyed an amusing and amazing break  by playing traditional Basque Games (Herri Kirolak). 

After that, a three-hour workshop-4 was held. Those who had finished went on with new tasks such as writing a post for the Comenius Blog or a report for the Comenius Site, record the activities and take pictures of the different teams for the Slide Show, review the activities for the National Evening, etc.

Bilateral Meeting - Day 6

The National Evening was a real success in many ways:  It was started by giving the prizes to the winners of the Treasure Hunt. Later, two teams competed to win the European Quiz they had created. Prizes were handed out, too. Then, they moved to the school canteen, where they enjoyed wonderful food prepared by families. Finally, they were surprised when they went into the gym and saw that Itziar and Ignacio’s team had made a wonderful disco of it.

Time passed very quickly, but it resulted in a memory for all their lives

Comenius Bilateral meeting - Day 5

All the Comenius students received a lecture on The Basque Country (Euskal Herria) by María Jesús Domínguez, supported by a PPT offered by Begoña  Ibarra (Basque Department), in order to understand the importance of their visit to Gernika (Assembly House, Peace Museum, Historical events through centuries, etc.)

At 9:00 a bus took them to our emblematic small town in the heart of Biscay. Once there, their watched a video about the Assembly House and Gernika, which was very instructive especially for German students. "Below the Oak Tree"  an iconic picture was taken to be remembered for the rest of their lives

The Peace Museum, once more, made them realize and think over the physical and moral destruction that all wars convey. As everybody knows, it is a small museum with big ideas to preserve Peace as the best gift among human beings.

Bilateral Meeting - Day 5 

In Mundaka they had lunch. Fortunately, rain had not arrived yet. They took wonderful pictures of the Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve.

Finally, Bermeo closed a wonderful field trip day. The small fishing town discovered them our sea traditions and a particular seaside landscape.

Comenius Bilateral Meeting - Day 4

Comenius participants have enjoyed a varied time full of  novelties today.
They started their second workshop with a new discussion and conclusions about their findings.
They produced  posters that were displayed in a gallery show where everybody could appreciate the similarities and differences between the German and Basque (or Spanish) identities.

In order to deepen in our common European identity, there were put into new binational teams to work out similarities and differences concerning the following: food, clothes, music, sports, works of art, daily routine and events, religion, festivals, folk traditions, etc.

Comenius Bilateral Meeting - Day 4, 2014 

At midday they visited the Diputación, where a guide explained in English the way we are ruled in Bizkaia. They were also given a short lesson on our History through that institution and government.

After lunch, they visited our world famous Guggenheim Museum, where they learnt a few things not only about modern architecture and Frank Gehry but also about the new concepts on arts.

Finally, they spent the rest of the day on shopping and enjoying their time in Bilbao.

Comenius Bilateral meeting. Day 3

Today it has been a very interesting day for the Comenius participants: After the welcoming by the Principal of the school, and some warm-up games to meet one another, they were received by Kepa Miñanmbres, representative of Getxo's Town Hall.

Later, they walked from Ereaga Beach to the Suspension Bridge in Las Arenas. During the walk they had to complete the Treasure Hunt questions about the Municipality.
In the afternoon, they started their First Workshop session.
As usual, we upload a visual diary.

Comenius Bilateral Meeting Day 3, 2014

Comenius Bilateral Meeting, Garbsen - Getxo

Yesterday, November the 23rd, Saturday,  at 16:50 p.m.15 German students from Garbsen and their teachers, Martin and Nora, arrived at Bilbao Airport.
All our Comenius students and parents were waiting for them. Having arrived earlier, nerves and excitement floated in the air.
But, as the saying goes,  an image is worth more than a thousand words.

Bilateral Meeting, Day 1, 2014

Today, Sunday the 24th, our new friends have spent all day with families. Some of them have gone sailing or  have had a basketball game; others have been sightseeing our beautiful country.

Tomorrow, The Comenius Bilateral Meeting Project, 2nd year, is starting at our school.

Let's welcome them

Comenius Bilateral Meeting: Getxo - Garbsen (Germany)

There are only 3 days left for the 15 German students from IGS High School - Garbsen (Germany) to arrive at Getxo for the Comenius Bilateral Meeting

They are spending a whole week with us, from the 22nd to the 28th of November. 

They will be accommodated in our students' houses. During the week they will work together, share information on the Comenius Second Year Project and live new experiences.

They will visit our Town Hall, The Diputación and Guggenheim Museum, Mundaka, Bermeo, Gernika... they will go on working on the Second Year Project "National and European Identity? and they will even have time to have a go at surfing and other freetime activities.

In the following pictures we can see parents and students in the last meeting (18th November)

Comenius 2014-2015 First Meeting

Yesterday afternoon, our students held their First Comenius Meeting. 

This is the second year of the European Project "Our Identity: National and European?" The Principal handed out the Trinational Calendar designed by last year's Comenius students. Later, the same students explained to the new ones what they had done and how they had lived the Comenius experience

After that, the new students went upstairs to the computer room to write their profiles for the matching with the Germans. In November they will host 15 German students from Garbsen, Germany, In March they will fly there to meet and work with students from France, Norway and Germany.

As everybody knows, this is a School Project.

Comenius 1st Meeting - Sept 2014

TEACHERS' MEETING in BUDAPEST SEP-OCT 2014

Our meeting started on Monday, September 29. We were greeted by Viktor, the coordinator of the hosting school, in the conference room of our hotel.

On Tuesday, we met at the school, which is located in a beautiful building erected in 1914.

We managed to plan the second project year in great detail. The reward was a fantastic boat tour on the Danube around sunset followed by a tasty dinner at a very typical Hungarian restaurant.

The field trip took place on Wednesday, Oct 1st. We were guided by Gabor, who is a teacher at the host school; he used to be a professional guide. Among the many magnificent sights were Hero Square, Castle Hill and the President's palace.

As we are facing major changes in our project with the introduction of ERASMUS+, we needed

to come up with new ideas for the application for the new project starting from 2015, which were discussed on Thursday, Oct 2nd.

After a very exhausting day we all went to the city centre for the farewell dinner.

On Friday we visited the Parliament, shared documents and pictures and most of us went back home.

Comenius Teachers' Meeting, Budapest 2014

Comenius Teachers' Meeting in Budapest

Two teachers of the English Department of IES Julio Caro Baroja BHI are holding the Comenius Meeting for Teachers from the 29th of September to the 3rd of October, 2014 in Budapest, Hungary.

First, they will evaluate the first year's results of the project. Then, they will organise the students' meetings for the current school year 2014-2015. Eight countries take part in it (Norway, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Turkey, Greece and Spain-The Basque Country).
They will organise the contents for the meetings and the working project details.
Finally, they will come to agreements for a new application for the next two years.

Trilateral Meeting: March 28th, Friday

Friday has been an exciting work day. Teams have finished their tasks.  Some students have been to regular classes to present the project on Comenius Trilateral Meeting, and then they have presented the whole project to their pairs.

In the evening they have celebrated the National Evening Party. Polish,  Hungarians and Basque students have presented their countries by means of PPTs and videos. Ander Arias danced the "Agurra", and all students sang "Welcome home, to Europe".

After a food break where  the trikitixak played by Markel, Haize and Ane were listened to, they had a disco at the gym, which had been  beautifully decorated by the students.

Finally, the Image Team showed a video with "the best of the week" before leaving, which made all of them feel that something important had been done during the week.

March 28th, Friday from J. Carlos Martínez

Trilateral Meeting: March 27th, Thursday

Thurday has been a really hard day. But there has also been some entertainment time.
They started working dividing the big group into several teams to prepare the new activities:
- Some prepared the Presentation for regular English classes.
- Others worked hard with the Timeline to upload all the National Festivals from the three countries with all the information they had got.
- A third group prepared a Debate.
- A fourth one worked on a Roleplay.
- Others were wrting a Report for the Comenius blog.
- Onother team wrote another Report, but for the Comenius site.
- The image and sound team took pictures of everything and prepared the gym for the "National Evening"
-Finally, the big group prepared a short Drama Play on two of the festivals they had been working on: Christmas and World War II.
At break, after having a sandwich or a cup of coffee, they enjoyed two amusing activities: Basque dances and sports -Herri Kirolak-  led by them themselves.
A lot of energy, interest and work was given in the workshops.
In the evening, surfing, shops and TV interview were waiting for them

In the following PPT we can see a summary of the activities.

Trilateral Meeting: March 27th, Thursday from J. Carlos Martínez