POSTER ABOUT THE SCHOOL TOUR!

Hey!

If you look deeper at the School Entrance, you will rapidly find this poster to invite you to next School Tour to show what your children have learnt during the development of this centre of interest. 

Remember that... it will take place on next Friday 7th April 2017 at 16:30 hours. We are waiting for you!!

NEW FAMILIES' NOTE!

Hello to everyone!!

This note is for inviting you to the School Tour that your children are preparing about all what they have been learning and discovering from this project. 

Best regards!!

P.S.: In case of having any doubts, please don't hesitate and contact me.

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Benvolgudes famílies,

Sóc la Raquel, l’estudiant en Pràctiques de Magisteri que està a la classe dels vostres fills/es. Com ja us vaig informar a la primera circular, estem a punt d’acabar el projecte Walking through Campins! i és per aquest motiu que us voldria fer la proposta següent:

Ara que s’han convertit encara en més experts per conèixer Campins a través de la llengua anglesa i múltiples activitats, arriba l’hora de mostrar-vos-ho a través d’una exposició que es farà a l’interior de l’Escola el proper divendres dia 7 d’abril de 2017 a les 16:30 hores.

Hi esteu tots convidats: mares, pares, germans, avis… Els nens/es porten molt temps treballant-hi i del que estem tots ben segurs és que tenen moltes ganes d’ensenyar-vos tot allò que han anant aprenent i descobrint. Us hi esperem!

Finalment, aprofito també per animar-vos a veure i comentar el blog del projecte (enllaç: https://walkingthroughcampins.blogspot.com.es/) amb aportacions o curiositats que vulgueu compartir.

Moltes gràcies per la vostra atenció.

Keep in touch!

Raquel Pagès Amenàbar.

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SESSION 6: LET'S DRAW INSIDE MONTSENY AREA!

Hi again! What's up?

Time runs very fast and I was ready to do my sixth session with an active listening attitude and lot of things to share in a different place: Sant Guillem’s Hermitage. Before getting there, they took their bags and had breakfast at class, and also they went out of the school in turn to listen to what they were bound to experiment. For a while, we were walking with each one’s folder and an imaginative bag full of imagination.

I got impressed by how most of them said to me that they were feeling a bit sad because I was leaving this Pràcticum Period very soon with a phrase that let me think a lot with a sensation of both melancholy and satisfaction because they appreciated me a lot like: if you don’t come at class, I won’t go to school because you make classes become different! You are cheerful with us all and you make activities that are so much fascinating! You will be always one of our best teachers!

Sant Guillem was illuminated with an added light apart from its own essence: the Sun. The sky was looking as brilliant and the landspace was transmitting a sensation of relax in turn to get inspired by the nature and sounds from multiple birds mixed with the air. I told the activity that they were likely to start: it consisted in drawing a part of this area around Sant Guillem while enjoying the possibility of being in a non-usual school place and applying the techniques of charcoal.

To do this, each one had a piece of charchoal and a specific sheet to draw on it and time to move around the zone and find their inspiration. I loved how they rapidly found a place to sit and start to make an initial scheme that then turned to be a drawing similar to reality. I found necessary that they had tissues to clean up themselves, the area, and a bag to put the materials used all together. At the mere beginning, two of them seemed to be not as much motivated as desired because they looked tired, but they progressively started to feel free by a motivating purpose inside the nature which made me feel proud of them too.  

When they had almost finished, we went back to school and they wrote a title behind the drawing on a piece of cardboard that summarized it, and at the end, they pasted the final result on a cardboard in order to get a lovely and artistic composition. From my point of view, this session worked excellently well as they were joined to learn from experiences about a new material, the charcoal, while cohabitating among classmates and getting their bodies relaxed to reach their final drawing.

Once at class, it was time to... rethink of how cardboards would be pasted to get the final... the final... pieces of art!

Is there a better way to finish than with a video about views from our immediate nature? I think here you can find your way and get inspired as your children did on last day too!

SESSION 5: GETTING TO KNOW RICHARD!

Good afternoon!

It was turn to perform a new session, the fifth one, about Richard’s interview. After entering to the class, I could see how they were looking for him as they were revising the questions and taking a microphone. He was punctual and we were ready to start with the following roles: I directed questions’ rounds, Roser offered to register some clips and take some photographs of the experience and our main protagonist, Richard, was the main interviewee of the session.

To sum up, I am satisfied because of different reasons to be pointed out: first of all, they respected him as being older than them; secondly, they could listen to an English native speaker apart from their teachers’ accent or others from audiovisual talks. At the same level, I am so proud because of their final pronunciation because as they said them several times, they knew how they sounded.

Similarly, I stress out that another key ingredient was the microphone. It made them feel as journalists while showing a well-mannered role and a polite attitude all the afternoon long. With no doubt whatsoever, I especially show gratitude for Richard that was disposed to come from the start and also Roser and my group of students for giving me the chance to plan this different and English activity too inside the project Walking through Campins!.

SESSION 4: BECOMING JOURNALISTS FOR A DAY!

Good morning! 

Had you got any magic dream on last night? I began with a new session of my educational plan with such a nice question to make them feel connected with the class just with that type of touching question. As they were able to prepare a questionnaire for Richard, an inhabitant from Campins but that belongs to Wales, I also introduced them this theme through two videos about the parts of an interview.

From a general view, I have chosen videos to refresh their minds behind the question ‘how to make an interview with success’ because they all looked as seeming very similar to reality, and also with a different touch of creativity and visual attraction. After sharing common visions about them and get the sequence for creating a clear questionnaire, we moved on to think questions that could be interesting to know better Richard.

To do this, they had a worksheet to write their answers while I was writing them on the Interactive Digital Board. I liked how I gave them time to say an extended list of questions making reference to name, age, hobbies,… that were bound to get to know about him in deeper detail.  Finally, I can now verify that they reached a total of 20 questions, so there were two questions per person to be pronounced.

In reference to this last word, I prepared for them nearly real microphones to say the question as if they were current journalists from the BBC Channel! To close this fourth session, we did two several actions that I consider they were motivating them since the mere beginning: first of all, uttering the questions turn by turn with their best voice and writing then an email for Richard all together from my Gmail account to know the place where he would like to meet.

From this class, I can mention that what comes to mind is a common ingredient: learning by doing. It does signify that if they know that they are strengthening and learning in order to apply it, results in terms of didactics and meaningful enrichement tend to become more positive both for the teacher and the group. I believe that this is also because they can participate in an ordered way as they are feeling understood. I imagine myself in a future preparing those types of sessions with a group of students that want to know more and more as these ten pupils do now.

Before lunch time, we received news from Richard: he said that he preferred to meet at school on next Friday's afternoon at 3 o’ clock as he loves a lot this centre! They started to laugh and feel comrtable as a symbol that he was seeming to be interested in coming questions.