This blog is to publish about all the task and information about the eTwinning project which the Colegio San Gregorio (Aguilar de Campoo) and Holy Trinity School (Guildford, England) are going to carry on along the school year 2018/2019.
¡Felicidades! Acabamos de concederos el Sello de Calidad de eTwinning por vuestro proyecto «Cultural Heritage is important for me, for you, for us.».
Queremos felicitar a los docentes por su participación en "Cultural Heritage is important for me, for you, for us", donde han participado España y Reino Unido. Se trata de un proyecto desarrollado por alumnado de 5º de EP dentro de la asignatura de inglés. A través del mismo no solo se ha trabajado el Patrimonio Cultural, sino el respeto por el mismo, las tradiciones y las costumbres.
Uno de los puntos fuertes que presenta el proyecto es el plan de trabajo, que está perfectamente organizado y estructurado por parte del coordinador, así como la participación del otro docente del centro.
Por todo ello, el proyecto es merecedor del Sello de Calidad eTwinning. Para futuros proyectos que, estamos seguros que el docente llevará a cabo, proponemos algunas propuestas de mejora:
- Dar de alta al alumnado en el TwinSpace, para que puedan subir materiales al mismo e interactuar con compañeros, trabajar en foros y reaccionar al el trabajo de otros alumnos.
- Implicar a un número mayor de docentes del centro. Esto permite tener más tiempo para el desarrollo del proyecto y trabajar de manera interdisciplinar, enriqueciendo así el trabajo.
- Intentar mayor interacción en el TwinSpace, debido a los beneficios que tiene y la seguridad que ofrece para el alumnado.
Cultural Heritage are also the people who lived in the past and did important things for our society or village. We used to thank them calling a street with their name. In this task of the project we investigated about these people: The name of our streets.
The 16 students of Holy Trinity School from Guildford (England) participated in a week of exchange from the 20th May to the 24th May. With the following videos and products you can have an idea about everything which took place during it.
It's
time to continue with our eTwinning Project "Cultural Heritage
is important for you, for me, for us". This time we are going to focus
our attention into the names of the streets of our town, trying to investigate
about the names of them.
This time
the organization of the work will be different, we are not going to offer you
the Working Plan, you are going to create a planning to achieve the final aim
of the task.For that idea we are going
to say you which ones are the simple pretask you have to do in order to
organize your planning.
Investigation of
the character the street is dedicated to:
Resources for this
pretask: You can look for information at internet but be careful don't
copy you should rewrite it with your own words.
Video with an
interview of the character talking about his life.
Write the script
(use the information you look for).
Four questions
about his or her life and history.
Include 5
questions about what he or she likes or doesn't like. Grammar Reference.
Rehearse the
video.
Record the video
(You will need an adult to go with you).
Scenes about the
character.
Five scenes
(picture and description) about what he or she is doing now use present
continuous. Grammar Reference.
You need to
include the pictures and the sentences in the final post.
Create the final
post in your kidblog.
Send the post
through TEAMS.
Now you
need to complete the planning in order to organize your time and your work. You
can use the colours to write the different task. You need to set an aim for the
day and the task you are going to do.
The 12 students of Colegio San Gregorio from Aguilar de Campoo (Spain) participated in a week of exchange from the 25th February to the 1st March. With the following videos and products you can have an idea about everything which took place during it.
A GRAPHIC SUMMARY OF THE WEEK.
A SUMMARY ABOUT THE WEEK in Twitter.
THE VIDEOCONFERENCE WE HAD WITH SPANISH STUDENTS FROM ENGLAND.
SOME OPINIONS OF THE STUDENTS ABOUT THE EXCHANGE.
"During the Spanish Exchange week I have learnt lots and enjoyed it all!!! I did no know that hey had lots of monuments so I found it very interesting. I have had fun while they were here and thought it was a great experience!! "
Abbie Hovington.
"The thing I enjoyed are learning about the Spanish culture and thinking aobut the differences between the two countries. I have also had fun enjoying trying to speak Spanish (which failed!) I really liked comparing our eTwinning work and making new friends. As a School I think it is really good that we lweran about countries that are not England"
Mi-Mae DrayCott
"It is wonderful to see the works of the English students and they explain it very good so we learnt a lot. I think that the eTwinning Project help us to be better on thinking, and also speaking English. We make lot of friends and it is really cool. In the eTwinning we checked that English and Spanish people are really different but we can be close friends"
One of the main important thing when we are talking about Cultural Heritage are the monuments of our areas. To be aware about the importance of them we worked on a task: Support a monument.
During Christmas time we work on a task for the project in which we were investigating our traditions for Christmas time: Talking about Christmas Traditions.
Along the last weeks the twelve students and the teachers, who are going to participate into the Exchange week to Guildford (England), were preparing the trip with different task and moments. We tried to make the exchange week an experience of life more than a trip to a foreign country.
We have started with the "Diary of the Exchange" with this document the students prepare their trip, they know the time and the means of transport we are going to use, what we going to to, what they will pack into the suitcases, etc..... We tried to make them more autonomus in the trip.
Also in this diary we reflex everyday about our learning during the exchange with some questions they have to answer. If you click on the picture you can have a look to the complete document.
We think about the expectations of that week for each one of us using the thinking routine I SEE - I THINK - I WONDER. Here you have their final conclusions.
On this year
eTwinning project we are working on Cultural Heritage, and we are focusing on
our surrounded area. On this task we are working on the monuments we have
around in our town and area.
What questions do you want to learn about? Does any
of the Wonder part ideas that you want to investigate about it?
We are going to
support a monument of our town: "Aguilar de Campoo" investigating
about them and inviting to visit them.
AIM of the task: Create a PowerPoint presentation
about one of the monuments.
STEP 1: Let's create the learning
diary of your group, remind you have an example at the beginning of the
eTwinning Section in One Note. Let's copy and paste into the collaboration
space, teacher have already created a section for that purpose.
STEP 2: Read the task completly with your group
collegues including the given rubric, it is the moment to ask your questions or
misunderstandings to your teacher. When you read the rubric remind you have to
think about what things you should pay more attention because you are not very
good at them.
STEP 3: It is time to choose a monument from
Aguilar de Campoo or the surrounded area. We are going to create some work
about it to "support" it. Let's have a look to the following website
to choose one of it.
STEP 4: Create a logo for your work to display
into the class working board. This logo will be created into a word document.
It includes a picture of the monument, the group's name and a chart or some
empty space to write down at the end of the lesson where your working process
stops.
STEP 5: Look for the complete name of the
monument, a picture of it and look for it in Google maps (You will need a
picture of this last action to include it into the final product). Save
everything into the final products section.
STEP 6:Write seven sentences about what you CAN DO and three sentences about
what you CAN'T DO in Aguilar de Campoo. Save everything into the final products
section.
STEP 7: Write five sentences about the history
of the monument. Let's use on, at, until and from. (Review the grammar in your
class book)
STEP 8: Write five sentences describing the
monument. You have to use Some, any and lots of (Review the grammar point in
your class book).
STEP 9: Create a poster with a short sponsor
sentences to invite people to visit that monument, this will be use to take a
picture with it and the group.
STEP 10: Let's go on a route!!!! We are going
to go around the selected monuments of the class members. Every group will
explain something about that monument and we will take the pictures with the
posters.
When we arrive back
to the class students will do the following thinking routine:
What did we do?
What did I learn?
What did I surprised by?
What do I want to continue
investigating?
STEP 11: Create the final product. A Sway
including all the information. You have here an example to do it. If you
consider you can copy and create your own one from it.
At the upper right
corner you will have … if you click on Iniciar sesión (if it is
not done yet), and then again click on …. Duplicate this SWAY, you will have a new
one , please rename it (My guide of a good mycologist (Your name))
Follow the
instructions you will find into the Sway for adding the different
subproducts.
When you finish
remind to remove all the text box and to change your personal data in the
title and in the Licence.
When we
are talking about Christmas we could think that in every country they celebrate
like us, because Christmas it is also part of
our cultural heritage.Do you
know that Christmas finish on the 2nd of January in England? Or that Spain is
the only country in which we have 12 grapes to celebrate the New Year.
We want
you to think about what are exactly our traditions at Christmas time. For that
purpose we are going to take pictures during our holidays about what your
family and you consider it is a Christmas tradition:
Christmas'
Eve.
Christmas
Day.
New
Year's Eve
New
Year's Day.
The
Three Wise Men day.
Process of working :
STEP 1 During Christmas Holiday.
You have to take a picture or record a short video (always English speaking)
about the different moments we purpose you previously. And take some notes
about how you are celebrating this moment.
What
did you have for lunch or dinner?
Who
are with you?
What
do you usually do on this moment?
Let's complete all the information in the following chart.
Let's
try to be concrete because you will write a post into your blog when we return
from Christmas Holidays.
We are sure
that you had a great time with your family and friend along these days. And now
it is time to create a post to summarize them and check the different cultural
habits.
You have to
create a post into the digital portfolio with the following parts:
The first task for the project was the presentation of each student and teachers. From the Colegio San Gregorio we have prepared a task to work during English lessons in order to create the presentation and to asses the topic of the didactic unit. The task was titled: Presentations for eTwinning.
This year we have worked a lot before Christmas Holidays in order to celebrate Christmas time with our eTwinning partners with two important activities:
