Erasmus Workshop 3th ESO

   During these last days of lessons, our project students organised an Erasmus workshop to explain to 3th ESO students the robotics activities they've been implementing at school. Moreover, we also welcomed two Italian project students who were visiting La Llagosta this week. They also explained to our students their personal Erasmus experience.

Erasmus Day 2018

   On 6th June we celebrated our Erasmus day at Institut Marina where authorities from townhall, students, teachers and parents were welcomed. We organised different project intineraries where our project students explained and showed pictures and video from the different mobilities, school activities and other actions implemented in the 3 different Erasmus + projects that we have; Smile, LTSDU and Gofor.

Visiting primary schools in La Llagosta

   Our Erasmus + project students team have visited today their former primary schools to give some presentations about their personal Erasmus + experiences, everything they have learned so far and how much they enjoyed the trips they made. Primary students were really engaged and motivated to take part in future projects!

Planning ahead and certificates

   During the last work sessions at INS Marina, our project coordinator has planned ahead final students tasks for the last mobility of the project in Italy. Moreover, our partners have been given an attendance certificate of this La Llagosta’s mobility. It has been a very profitable mobility to assess what we’ve been implementing so far, to get to know each other deeper as well as the problems our teenagers may have and to get ready for the last actions to be taken to finish our project LTSDU.

Roses, books ... and diplomas!

   On the 23rd April every year, we celebrate Sant Jordi's day. In Catalonia the World Book Day becomes an especially romantic festivity. The people in Catalonia celebrate the day of their patron saint, Sant Jordi, with a curious tradition; since that day, couples exchange gifts: a book for the men and a rose for the women. Book and flower stalls are set up along the streets of Barcelona. They are filled will people walking around stalls, looking for a gift for their beloved, and for their family and friends, too.

 This festival comes from a mixture of traditions; one the one hand, it coincides with the fact that Sant Jordi has been the patron saint of Catalonia since the 15th century; on the other hand, it comes from the famous legend of St George and the dragon and the old medieval tradition of visiting the Chapel of Sant Jordi in the Government Palace, where a rose fair or "lovers" fair used to take place.


   This is why Sant Jordi is also the patron saint of lovers in Catalonia. On this special day, we decided that it was the best moment to reward our three most voted logos at school and give our students a diploma as a prize for their effort and creativity.

We Can Science!

Logo of the project

   This was the winner logo that is going to represent our project "Let The Science Discover Us" from now on. After voting for the best logo, this one got the highest amount of votes from coordinators and teachers. Congrats Turkey!

WORLD AIDS DAY on the 1st December 2016

   World AIDS Day is held on the 1st December each year and it is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, show their support for people living with HIV and to commemorate people who have died. Therefore, all the partners of our project also had the chance to show our support holding red sheets to form a lace in front of the townhall in La LLagosta, Barcelona. Good job!

Experiment in the Physics Classroom

   Our Physics teacher, Carlos Garcia, has developed a quick experiment in which students have seen how they can slow down the accelerated dropping motion of an object until getting a simple MRU thanks to the change of the fluid density.They have used air, water and glycerine. 

   By doing these experiments, students can learn more actively. 

Teaching staff Meeting Post Transnational.

   Yesterday we met all the teachers at INS Marina and we introduced them the project, its objectives and results expected as well as showing them all the tasks we've been doing these last months.

First, we focused on the project difusion on the local newspaper 08centvuit , the school's magazine, creation of the project's blog and other social networks. We also talked about the project team formed by science teachers and students from 4th ESO.

Secondly, we mentioned the last transnational meeting hold between the 30th November to 3rs of December in 2016 where we met each other, we introduced our schools and school systems, and we also spent some afternoons in some cultural activities such as going to science exhibitions at Museu Blau or Cosmocaixa. We thanked to Óscar Sierra, La Llagosta's mayor, for his tour. It was the best way to meet the village's culture.

In conclusion, we state that this project will be quite positive for our students to improve their science subjects marks'  but also, it's a great chance for them to visit another school in another culture and get to know their customs and values.

                   

We're on the news!

Our two Erasmus + projects are on the news. The paper from La Llagosta 08centvint interviewed us to get to know a little bit better what we and our students are doing in the two different projects. Our project is being described as an expected improvement in scientific subjects among students from 4th ESO at high school. It will also promote the collaborative work, the learning by doing and laboratory-based learning in subjects such as biology, chemistry and physics.