Project Updates Meeting

This Friday we have met with our high school's headteachers to share with them all the activities, meetings, experiments and cultural trips we did during the last mobility in San Giovanni Valdarno (Italy) last March. Here you've got some pictures and our presentation:

  

                       

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!

Flipped Classroom PPT

   During our last mobility in ISIS Valdarno school in San Giovani Valdarno (Florence), we were introducing some previously chosen methologies that could be used in order to improve our science lessons at school, as a way to engage our students in science. Ours was Flipped Classroom

   We also introduce our attempts to use modern methodologies at high school such as flipped classroom, inmersive learning,cooperative learning, BOYD, learning by doing as well as project-based learning in order to get our students into science.  Here you've got the presentation that we explained and shared with our partners.

 

Short Term Projects Teachers Meeting @ Isis Valdarno March 2017

   From the 6th to the 11th March we've spent a few days at ISIS Valdarno school where all the teachers have taken part in different activities and project meetings.

    Our guests, the Italian teachers, made us a tour around the three different centres they've got, where we've been observing lessons, visiting laboraties and doing some experiments. We've also had some meetings to analyse the different methologies suggested to improve our science lessons such as Finnish Educational System, Flipped Classroom or our Czech partners introduced us to their Experimentarium park. We also met to decide future mobilities' schedules; among others, Czech Republic in May 2017 and Hungary in October 2017.

   It's been a rewarding trip where we have learnt a lot from our Italian partners, we also got into contact with the Italian culture and their daily life in Tuscany.

          

Carnival Day @ INS Marina

   On the 24th February, staff, teachers and students celebrated what is called as "Carnestoltes", that is to day, our Carnival day at high school. It's the day to celebrate it in a fancy dress, dancing and eating chocolate non- stop!

Next Stop...Italy!

   For a week, from the 6th to the 10th March, we're speding some days in Italy, visiting our Italian partners at Isis Valdarno where we'll attend some seminars and workshops, visit museums, do some presentations and work on the project as well as meeting their culture and customs. We're looking forward to it, a presto!

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!