APRENDIENDO A CONOCERNOS: EL PROYECTO - GETTING TO KNOW EACH OTHER: THE PROJECT

Here we are, ready to celebrate the Europe Day 2010. GETTING TO KNOW EACH OTHER is a project aimed for students aged 12-18 from different countries. We would like to celebrate the Europe Day in an original way so we've thought about the following some different schools are needed for the project, and if possible from different countries. Each school should group students into ten teams according to their ages and topics. That day, schools should arrange the classrooms and time schedules so that each group can write about a topic in one hour. Previously, teachers should have taken photographs of each student (13x15 approx), in which just their faces are shown. On 9th May, the photographs should be handed out to the students , who are to write about the topic at the back. Photographs in each group should be kept in an envelope with the address of the group and country assigned to them so that we can build a spider web. When the activity finishes, a representative of each group will go to the post office accompanied by a teacher (It would be a good idea to take a picture of that moment so that we can publish it on the blog.) When the photos are received in each school, students can share the information given by their pen-pals and decorate the classrooms with the pictures. Topics: Me, my school, my town, my country, Europe (eldest students.) The project is based on ordinary mail, but we are following the process in a blog. Students mustn't write their names to keep privacy This project aims to encourage pupils in each country to examine their school community, the local area, their country and Europe. By comparing these ideas with the partners, pupils will be able to develop creativity as well as it will help them reach positive conclusions about their own lives and those in other cultures. We are looking for teachers of English (or other subjects) in other European countries in order to develop this project, in which our students will practise English and other languages.







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All our students at Santa Teresa School have already finished their essays and sent them to you. We are looking forward to recieving yours. We all agree that the experience has been wonderful. Most pupils were motivated and eager to know more about you, so we hope to meet you in the Tweenspace soon so that we can comment on it and share our ideas. Now, the Blog is open to all the readers in order to make access easier.
Todos los estudiantes del colegio Santa Teresa que participaban en el proyecto ya han escrito sobre los temas previstos y enviado las fotos. Esperamos que os gusten y estamos deseosos de recibir las vuestras. La experiencia ha sido fantástica. La mayor parte de los alumnos estaban motivados y quieren saber más sobre vosotros, por lo que esperamos veros pronto en el Tweenspace para intercambiar puntos de vista y compartir comentarios. Ahora el Blog está abierto a todo el mundo para facilitar el acceso.


These are all the students at secondary school that participated in the project. They worked hard trying to write about the topics. Some of them also wrote in Spanish to the group of Bolonia. Hola amigos de Bolonia.
Then, a representative of each class, secondary and Bachillerato, went to the post office to send all the letters.

 

Obviously, after such hard day, we stopped to have a drink and relax. See you in the Tweenspace