LAST DAY AT SCHOOL

Wedenesday, the 21st of June, was the last day of school for our students in ESO 4. All of them got their diplomas and the students who took part in our ERASMUS+ project were given their europasses. 

Last week they shared their experience in the Erasmus+project with all their partners in ESO 4 and with the students in ESO 3. They showed them the video that they had prepared in May.

Here you can see some pictures of them talking to their partners about the e-Twinning platform and about the work and activities carried out throughout this school year 2016-2017.

This is the video they prepared:

BYE BERGEN!

Saturday was our last day in Bergen. In the morning, we did different things with the families, such as sailing in the fjords! At 15:30, we went to the airport and said goodbye to our friends and Norwegian families! Sad moments! Time to come back home!

LAST DAYS IN BERGEN

On Thursday, first of all, we started with a presentation of NAV. A representative of this organization talked about what  that company does to help people find a job. They do some research in different companies to give you the best option. She also told us about how important soft skills are in order to get a job. After that, we continued with the workshops. We worked in different groups about the  economic situation, soft skills and internship.Some of us also prepared a magazine and a newspapaer with information about the activities carried out during the week.  

We had lunch at the cafe, we ate a typical taco salad. In the afternoon, most of us finished with our tasks in the workshops.We left  the school at about 3 pm and we went home to prepare some dessert for the national evening, for example browni, cakes and biscuits.

At 5 o'clock we went to school again for the national evening, all of as were there. We had a wonderful dinner with tipical Norwegian dishes and we danced and had fun until we got tired. Finally, we went home and this fantastic day ended.

On Friday we started the day with a conversation via skype with Germany and Poland. We shared our conclusions about the chances to get an internship. It seems that is is very difficult to get internships for foreign students of our age.

Then we prepared our oral presentations and performed some role plays.We performed an interview in which some of us were applying for a job and some others were the employers. We had to remember what we had learned throught the week to do this task correctly!

In the cafeteria we ate a really good pizza with salad and water and a bluberry cake.

After  lunch we gave our oral presentations about the different workshops. We had a brochure, a newspaper, a magazine, some posters, documents and slide presentations! Finally, we carried out the evaluation answering to a google questionnaire on our phones.

In the afternoon, we went to the city to know more about Bergen and some of us went shopping, we had  dinner at Mc Donalds.

WORKSHOPS AND VISITS ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY

On Tuesday,we started class at 8:30 am and finished at 10 o´clock. We were working in the same groups as on Monday, completing the subjects. Then we had a little break until 10:15 am and after that we started five new workshops. We worked on different aspects such as: internships, soft skills... After that we had lunch, from 11:30 to 12 o´clock, we ate rice and chicken soup.

Finally at 14 o´clock we finished the workshops and then the funny part started. Everybody went to their houses and had dinner. At around 6 pm we met in the center of Bergen, and all we did that evening was shopping. We had fun!!

Hi! Wednesday has been a very exciting day!

In the morning, we went to the Institute of marine research.First,the director of the institute told us about Bergen, and then, he explained how much fish and how many different species there are in Norway. He also told us what kind of soft skills people need to get a job there.Then, we went to the aquarium , where we saw the penguins  and all types of fish.

When the visit finished, we went to Leroy (which is a salmon factory).There, they told us about the process of the salmon, from the moment it is born until is is sold. When they  finished the speech, they gave us sushi, which we ate sucessfully!

In the afternoon, we went to Fløien mountain.There, we saw all of Bergen and then we got into 3 groups. One group went to Lea´s house. Another group to Stine´s house. And the other group went to Eda´s house. We all played games and ate Tacos.

FIRST DAYS IN BERGEN

We met at Bilbao airport on Saturday at 3:30, after some time waiting, we said goodbye to our families and we took off from Bilbao at 5:20. 1h and 40 minutes later, we arrived at Amsterdam airport. We waited there until 19:50 and we took the plane to go to Bergen. At 23:30 we arrived in Bergen and we met our Norwegian partners. As it was too late, we got home and we rested.

On Sunday we met all our friends to go iceskating. It was fantastic and after being 2 hours iceskating we ate pizza in a restaurant. In the afternoon, we did some different plans, although some of us met. We got home to have dinner and then chill.

Monday was the first day at school. The principal came to give us the welcome. After that, we did a tour of the school. We were all the morning working in workshops about the Economic situation in our regions, the soft skills needed to get a job and possibilities to find an intnership.At half past eleven, we had lunch in the cafeteria. Before we left the high school, two experts from the company  Adecco came to give a speech. They talked about the Economic situation in Norway, the soft skills necessary to apply for a job and how to prepare your CV. At half past two, we took the bus to go to the shopping mall. There, we ate in the Burger King, where we stayed until half past four. We spent the afternoon playing paintball, we had a great time. At the end of the day, we went to Kaia’s house to play games, have a good time, chat, gossip…

IT WAS A HARD AND AMAZING DAY!!!!!!

THE LAST PART OF OUR ERASMUS+ PROJECT

We are already packing our lugagge and getting ready for our trip to Bergen in Norway next Saturday (March 11th). We will stay there for one week. We will have the chance to get to know a little bit of that amazing city and a country so different from ours. But what we are all looking forward to is meeting our friends again!

We have been working this term on two workshops; learning about our economic situation and reflecting on the soft skills that we need when looking for a job. While in Bergen, we will share all this knowledge with all our partners in the project. All of us will be meeting and working on the same workshops and trying to get to common results. Our partners will be meeting in Poland and in Germany.

Now it is time to make the most of this experience!!

FAREWELL

Saturday was a day with the families, and all of them had a wonderful time together. Parents, brothers and friends went to San Juan de Gaztelugatxe where they enjoyed the amazing landscape and Basque food.

Today was a sad day, time to say goodbye, but we are meeting again in March and we can feel very proud of our work and of this great experience.

Thank you to all the families for being such wonderful hosts.

LAST DAY AT SCHOOL

Friday: Presentations, Evaluation and Cultural Evening

In the morning we finished up  our work in the different workshops and by 11:30, after the break, we started giving our presentations.

First, the press group showed us the newspaper they had prepared and we all got a copy. In the newspaper we can read all the activities carried out during the week and some interviews.

Then the posters group explained the aspects that they had wanted to emphasize related to our topic. Youth unemployment means not having enough money, which leads to lack of independence from your parents and makes it really difficult to create your own family.

After that, we saw two different photo stories in which we could see the struggle of young people to find a job. Even though the job you find is not the one you had expected, our two stories had a positive ending!

The Comic group designed two comics. In one of them, the character has to improve his qualifications and soft skills to get a good job. The second comic showed The ¨Good¨ things about being unemployed - our students dealt with this problem using good humour and irony.

Finally, we watched the film created by 5 of our students, they were actors, directors, cameramen, editors…

We had two groups of students who had time to prepare a Cultural Quiz  and the Evaluation Questionnaire. After we played the quiz, we answered the Evaluation questionnaire and did a gallery walk with all our posters.

In the afternoon, we came back to school and we had time to have fun as you can see in the pictures!

THURSDAY WORKSHOPS

Today we started watching some videos with examples of how unemployment affects young people.

Then, it was time for us to carry out some creative work. There are 5 different workshops: designing posters and comics, making photo stories and films and, of course, the press group. The topic we are working on is the following one: personal and economic consequences of young unemployment.

Tomorrow we will carry on with our workshops and will give our final presentations.

Before finishing the day, we went to Tartanga Vocational Training School, where we had a great time. We learnt about the differrent courses that they offer there: audiovisuals, animation, games designing, 3D... They have all kinds of facilities and most of their studies are practical. As in all Vocational Training courses, working practice is part of their curriculum. The best part was to watch a live television contest with four of us as the contestants!

This afternoon we are going to have fun with a laser game in Bilbao.

VISITS ON WEDNESDAY

Today, Wednesday 16th, has been a busy day .First, we listened  to a really interesting talk from Lanbide. Mr Adolfo Alustiza, current General Director of Lanbide in Vitoria-Gasteiz  and Mrs Gotzone Sagarduy, the former Head of Action on Employment and currently Member of the Basque Parliament  came to our school and told us how this institution contributes  to fight youth unemployment.

Then, we went to Bilbao for our two visits related to our project. First, we visited EITB, where we learned about how to work for radio and television and how journalists get jobs after their internships.In the afternoon, we had a guided visit to the Guggenheim Museum, where our teacher Lexuri did her internship.

It has been a wonderful, sunny day  with a lot of information that we can use in our workshops on Thursday and Friday. Now, we are going to visit Bilbao and do some shopping.

In the following pictures you can see our happy faces!!

GETXO - BERGEN MEETING

Last Sunday all the families met at the airport. Everybody was very excited! The Norwegian friends arrived early and they all had time to go for a walk in Getxo.

On Monday we had a very busy day. The headmaster welcomed all the participants of the ERASMUS+ project, and after some ice breaking activities, we went to the Town Hall where Elena Larburu  from Getxolan presented some of the programmes that they organize for young unemployed people.

Back at school, we saw Imanol Landa, the Mayor of Getxo, who took part in the events organized for the 50th Anniversary of our school IES Julio Caro Baroja BHI.

After a break, we even had time to start working with the information that all the countries had uploaded on the e-Twinning platform.

Today, Tuesday, has been a busy day at school. We have finished our work and have given presentations. We have got three different speakers: Jose Luis Losada from Nicolás Larburu Vocational Training School, who has told us about the courses offered to young people, Lexuri Ayo, a teacher at school who did one year internship at the Guggenheim Museum and  Eduardo Berja, a young man who was a student at our school and got his degree in audiovisual studies in Tartanga Vocational Training School.

Finally, we have chosen the workshops we will be working in on Thursday and Friday and to finish up the day, all the students have gone on a Treasure Hunt in Getxo. Tomorrow, we will get their selfies!!!

ERASMUS + 2016-2017

Hello again. It has been a few months since our last post!

This school year we are also taking part in our Erasmus+ project. We have new students, all of them studying 4º ESO, who want to go on working in the project we started last year about Youth Employment in Europe.

In September two of our teachers travelled to Wrzesnia in Poland where they met their colleagues in the project and prepared the work for this second year in detail.

In October, the new students prepared their profiles to be sent to their partners in Norway and wrote their expectations for this project year, then, the teachers showed them our blog and the e-Twinning platform where they can get all the information they need about our project.

After learning about the reasons of youth unemployment from the work carried out  by our students last year, our new students started doing their research about how  we fight youth unemployment in the Basque Country. Some students from 2º Bachillerato answered the questions prepared by the teachers about their hopes and fears for their future. We will use all this data in our meetings that are taking place next week in France, Hungary, Greece and here, in Getxo.

On Sunday a group of 15 students and two teachers from Norway are coming to Getxo for our first meeting.They will be spending a week with their partners taking part in a lot of activities and workshops at school.

All the families and students are looking forward to this new experience in their lives.

Last News about Erasmus+ Project

To finish this first year of the  Erasmus + project  "Youth Employment", on the last day at school our students received their europasses and a flyer  about our meeting in Garbsen last March.

In the following presentation you can have a look at the different activities we carried out from March up to now,  how our students reflected on the project and made their evaluations and how they designed beautiful posters for our Erasmus+ Corner.



To make it possible for a lot of students at school to know about the project in more detail, they also recorded a video that you can see here.




If you want to see a lot of the materials created by our students, you can follow this link to the eTwinning space for our project: Youth Employment.

Day 7: Bye-Bye, Garbsen

Friday has been a tiring day. We left home at about 12:00 to take the flight to Amsterdam, where we had to wait for about four hours. By the time we get home, it will  already be 23:00. It has  also been a very sad day because it was our last day in Garbsen and some of us may not see our partners again. Anyway, we are coming back home after living a really positive experience and looking forward to meeting our families again!

We have learnt a lot about the types of Educational Systems in other countries, especially about Vocational Studies. After comparing the situation of Youth Employment in Germany, Norway and Hungary and that of our country, now we understand how big the problem of unemployment can be for our future.

Today, when we go to bed and fall asleep, we will know that we have two families; one here and another one in Germany.  Ane San José

Day 6 - Presentations and Evaluation

 Thursday was our last day at school. We started the morning finishing up our work in the workshops, and after lunch, we gave the presentations.
Our final task was to evaluate the activities during the week. The evaluation sheets were taken by the guest countries to be analised.
Finally, we all left school and said goodbye to our new friends from Norway, Hungary and Germany. we still had one more day to enjoy the company of our partners and German families before flying back home.

Today we have continued working at school in the workshops that we chose three days ago. Some people worked in filmmaking, photo stories ,advertisements, etc… It has been a sad day for the Norwegian students because they have to go back to their country today. Gaizka Paulin

Today was our last full day here. It was a sunny and beautiful day. I woke up at 8:00 in the morning because we had to be at the high school at 9:00. When I got up and I looked through the window, I realized that the weather was fantastic. I had a shower and then, my German sister and I had breakfast together. We left home at 9:15 and we went walking to the high school. From 9:30 to 12:00 we worked in our workshops and then, at 12:00 we had lunch all together at the cafeteria. After this break, we presented our workshops in the auditorium and we finished the presentations at 3:00. Then I went home with my partner to rest because we were really tired. Finally, we met with the other students at a restaurant for dinner. It was an amazing day and I enjoyed a lot. Maialen Mata

Day 5 - Working at School

On our 5th day in Garbsen, Wednesday, we worked very hard. We started the morning with a Panel Discussion. We listened to 6 different people talking about their experiences. Ms Kremkow (Counselor). Mr Jagla (Entrepreneur) ,Mr Scharnhorst and Mr Rosenthal (two Dual Studies Students), Mr Cardenas (Vocational Trainee from Spain) and Mr Kamphuis (Recruiting Manager)

Our students also asked questions and we all learned a lot from them such as the importance of soft skills when looking for a job.

Afterwards, the Principal of Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium talked to us about the importance of these European Projects and how we can all benefit from them.

In the afternoon, we went on working in our different workshops: Film making, Press Group, Photo Story, Advertisements and Role Playing. In them, we had to prepare creative products related to our topic: Youth Employment. All the knowledge acquired throughout these last six months was taken into account. We also video recorded some students´ opinions about the visits that took place on Monday and Tuesday.

Finally, we took a family picture in the school yard and were really happy reading the article published in Hannoversche Allgemeine Newspaper.  

In the morning, at 9 am, we met at school. We listened to people who are working or doing vocational training. At 11:45am, we had lunch at the canteen. At 2pm, we worked with the computers on the project that we have to do. When we finished, around 3:30 pm, we went back home. Later, we met at 6pm more or less. We prepared everything for the National Evening and at 7:30 pm it started. It finished at 9:30pm, so as soon as we cleaned the room, we went home. Alazne Lopategui

In the evening, we had a Cultural/National Evening. each country prepared something to show their partners, we had wonderful food and we sang and danced a little bit. we would have liked it to last longer, but by the time we left it was already 9:30.

Visits to Companies and Institutions (days 3 and 4)

These two days were very especial. Instead of working at school, we visited different educational institutions and several companies in the area around Hannover. We were divided in groups with no more than 20 students in each group.

On Monday we visited four educational institutions. The International office of Leibniz University, a Vocational School, the Design Faculty in Hannover University and the Police Academy of Nienburg. We were given general information about them, which qualifications are required to enter them, the kind of studies offered, future careers and types of jobs that you will get once you get your degree there.

My group visited  the Design Faculty in Hannover University, where we learnt about the kind of studies offered there. We also learnt how important creativity and team work are to help you find a job. It was a very entertaining and interactive visit with practical games. Gaizka Garcia.

At 8:30 we were driven to the train station. We took the train to Nienburg to visit the Police Academy. They gave us a presentation about the academy and three students explained what it is like to study there, their expectations and why they decided to enter the academy. We had a practical part, we learnt how to take the mark of footprints. Laura de Freitas

On Tuesday, we went to five different companies. Bewernick, a textile company, Grecon Fagus-Werke, a company that makes wooden soles for shoes, Solvay GmbH, a chemical company, the Town Hall in Garbsen and HAZ, a newspaper. On these visits we learned about the kinds of jobs offered and the skills needed for these jobs. Some of the people who we met there were students in their training practice (trainee) or in their internship.

Here, in the following presentation, you can see a few pictures of all these visits.

This morning I took two buses and two trains to go to the Town Hall of Garbsen. There, with other Spanish, Hungarian, Norwegian and German students, we visited the different parts of the building, such as the meeting point or the conference room. Three trainees showed us a presentation with the main information of the type of work they do there. Iker Benito-Butron

In the morning, Tabea and I intended to meet Ola and Leire but we lost the train. Luckily, while we were waiting for the next one, we met Oihana, Leila (her partner), and some of the Norwegian and Hungarian people so we went with them in the train to Haz, the newspaper company.
Hanoversche Allgemeine, Neue Presse. This newspaper is one of the top 10 newspapers in Germany and it was founded by MADSACK in 2007.
We were privileged because we could see the newspaper printing "factory" and the 8th floor of the building. There, the journalists write their news about politics, sports, culture, art, celebrities, etc. It has been really interesting.
After that, we went to Hannover to have lunch. Then, we went to school for some hours to go on with Workshop II and III. We had a choice of 5 activities and we chose Photo-story. It has been very funny and I hope tomorrow it will be funny too.
After school, some of us went to the Kebab to have dinner. We had a good time there too, because the boss of the restaurant gave us free food only because we were Spanish!! And we taught him some Spanish words. Then, we stayed at Leila's house having fun and eating chocolate.
It has been a great day! (Naia Ostaikoetxea)

Today, Tuesday, I woke up very early, at 7 o'clock because some of us had to go to the shoe factory and it was too far. When we arrived there, they explained to us how they work and what you have to do to get a job in the factory. It was really interesting. Then we went to  school where we were divided in different groups. I was in the and I was in the advertisement workshop. We thought about the advertisement that we are going to prepare tomorrow. Then some of us went to eat a really good and big kebab. Then, a lot of us came to Laila's house and we had a lovely time all together. Amaia de Velasco

We started the day waking up at 11 o'clock in the morning. We had breakfast, we prepared ourselves to fight against the cold and we left home at 11:45. We picked up Alazne, Laura M and Aitana as their partners were at a prize delivery, and we went to our last company visit of the week. We visited a little textile factory and we were received by the boss of this company. She told us the amount of countries her company works with and the importance of every employee's job. She also told us that it's a family job that it only includes 7 employees. When we finished this little visit we went back to school and started with our workshops. I was assigned to do a film and Hungarian, Norwegian, German and Spanish students worked together for two full hours. At 6 pm we left school and Kübra, Alazne, Laura, Janika, Rickard, Svenja, Aitana, Jan Ole, Gorka and I met at the Café del Sol where we had a nice snack. After that, we all went back home, had dinner, and went to sleep, hoping that the following days would be as nice as the days before. Gaizka Criado

Days 1 and 2 - Workshop I

Summaries of Saturday and Sunday

                             Gorka and Laura                            Ane and Irati

We spent our first day in Garbsen with our German families. We visited Hannover,went shopping and we bought bus tickets for the week. Here, you can see something  really special that we saw and heard in the city.  In the evening most of us had dinner at a restaurant called Bar Celona. It was a good beginning for our first day with our German partners.

On Sunday, our second day, we started working on our project. We met at the school Assembly Hall, where the teachers from the four countries (Norway, Hungary, Germany and Spain/The Basque Country) welcomed us. First, we got to know all the participants of this multilateral meeting through some ice breaking activities and then, we gave the presentations that we had prepared on Reasons for Youth Unemployment. After that, we were divided into multinational groups, we discussed about the information given by the four countries and came to conclusions which we showed on posters. Finally, we prepared a gallery walk with all our posters. In the following slides you can see what we did, how we did it and our products: the posters summarising the reasons for Youth Unemployment in the four countries. 

After all this hard work on a Sunday, we deserved a good ending for the day so, we went to Hannover and took a lot of pictures of the lake, the Town Hall, the University and The Museum. Finally, some of us went bowling. We had a great time!