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

4º ESO-1 MET in A.E.

4º ESO – 1 MET are having a special time in A.E. this year.  They are Improving Reading, but in English, as part of the new subjects in English that our High School offers.

Here is the summary of their activities for the first term:

They started by reading a witty, funny short story –“Happy Days”. They read it and worked with a comprehension and vocabulary exercises. In a second and third session, they dramatized the text and finally they performed and recorded it.

Their second task was entitled “Classical and Modern Fables”. They learnt how to construct a short story, following the structure of the fables. After reading a few of them, they told them to the rest of their classmates and brought more to be told in class.

Their third approach was “The Black Cat”, a classical short story by the world famous E.A. Poe. The text was read twice. Then, they worked on comprehension questions, vocabulary and the structure of the story. Finally, every one of them learnt a part of the story by heart and performed their monologue.

Urban legends is a must to encourage teen to read. They were handed out a few of them to be read in class and at home. They worked with them and brought more for the next two sessions, which were presented and recorded.

And the last proposal for the current term will be “Poems for Teens”. They will be given some about different teenage topics, and some links to surf the net, too.  After reading and studying them, they will learn part of them by heart, bring one or two each and finally they will create their first English poem.

And that’s all for now. Who said that reading was boring?

4 ESO-1 - MET in A.E. 2014 from J. Carlos Martínez

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 Corner

Comenius students from IES Julio Caro Baroja,Getxo have prepared their first posters for the Comenius Corner at school. Did they enjoy their time while designing them? Click on the picture to discover it.

Comenius Corner

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.