Our Comenius students at school have been working hard for the last five weeks. After a very short lunch time, every Wednesday they have been :
- Discussing about the National Festivals and Celebrations
- Thinking about the questions to work on those festivals
- Sharing information and making teams
- Updating documents before their next trip to Poland and Hungary.
- Doing the previous work to bilateral sharing communication via the internet
A hard task, especially these days, when exams are calling on their doors.
Yesterday afternoon our students first met to give shape this year's Comenius project.
They had previously been summoned on Tuesday to enrole.
First, we introduced Miss Hannah Roscoe, our smiling Comenius Language Assistant, whom we can see in the pictures and who will be taking part in all the activities of the project.
Then, they thought and wrote about their profile to be sent to their European partners
Later, we tried to establish two different groups. One of them will go to Poland and the other one to Hungary. The aim was to balance both groups but also let the students choose the country if possible.
Finally, before leaving, we took the first family picture for the blog and gave them their first "Comenius homework"
In the next picture we can see our
Comenius participants' parents' picture
at the end of the meeting where teachers explained to them about the
One more year Julio Caro Baroja High School is taking part in the European Project Comenius. This school project gives our students the opportunity to work together with other European students sharing time and experiences.
This school year eight countries are taking part in it: France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Norway, Poland, Spain-The Basque Country and Turkey.
This week teachers from all these countries are holding a meeting in Bergen, Norway, to prepare this year's project entitled:
Our identity: National and European?
A Research of National and European Landmarks
María Jesús Domínguez and J. Carlos Martínez are our representatives there.
The English Department of IES Julio Caro Baroja BHI welcome our blog readers.
In the current school year the Department is ready to work to the English language and, at the same time, to offer a large variety of workshops Citizenship, T-COM, English Workshop, Drama and a special communicative subject as it is COIN for Bachillerato.
Students give you all their warmest welcome too.
Today is just the beginning but, no doubt, loads of surprises are awaiting for them.
Field trips, theatre,
class projects, MET encounters and our COMENIUS PROJECT
with its Bilateral and Trilateral Meetings in Europe
Last Saturday, May 31st, our students of 1º and 2º ESO MET took part in the presentation of all the projects carried out throughout the year.
Students of 1º ESO started by presenting the Project "English in the World", worked in the English lessons but especially worked in English Workshop classes. A project which was the contribution in English to the first MET project "Languages and Speakers", carried out in our three languages.
Then, they explained how they made their project about biographies of famous comedians or people related to humour."Humour" was the topic for our second MET project in the three languages. They showed us their PPTs about Martin Lawrence and Juan Tamariz.
Finally the students of Drama Workshop performed one of the sketches and songs of their musical "Funny School Times-2"
After these lines, you can watch some videos of the students presenting their projects during the MET First Meeting. Some more videos can be watched through the links in this post.
During the next period, students of 2º ESO also presented their MET projects, which they had prepared in the subjects they learn in English. English language, Citizenship, English Workshop and T-COM.
So, different teams presented different projects from different points of views.
One of the teams talked about the tales they wrote as part of their first project. Another team explained the different steps they had taken to develop their second project, which was performed alive by three other students. In this second project, they worked about how Celebrities and NGOs help in case of NaturalDisasters, the common topic in the three languages.
The group that takes part in T-COM showed their posters about "Biomes" and the problems the Earth is facing nowadays.
. . .and finally, as the last part of the project, they showed the materials created about NGOsand celebrities' cooperation. To conclude, the pupils who study religion in euskara also showed their work on NGOs.
Our MET responsible teacher said "bye-bye" to the audience at the end of the meeting.
We worked hard in our COIN lessons during the second and third school terms en D model, 1.4, 1.5 and 2.4 batxilergoa.
We all learned how to make a poster on the internet; it's called glogster. We read articles, watched DVDs, listened to interviews... about risky sports and then we made the glogster about the sport we liked most.
Our most important project was on English Speaking Countries, India, New Zealand, UK, the USA, South Africa, Ireland, Canada and Australia. We searched and worked hard on the country we chose and made a document and a PPT which included lots of useful information and a history timeline; we ended the project planning a trip.
If you want to fall in love with Canada (I did) or know some more about UK, watch these beautiful presentations.
And our last project was a recipe. We watched Jamie Oliver cooking his fantastic recipes, learned that British food is not only Fish and Chips and dared to cook and bring the dishes to school.
Watch our students having a good time cooking
