OCTOBER: LOGO COMPETITION

As some of you already know in October we are running our Logo Competition. The winner of our School will be show in Ireland with others European winners. If we are lucky enough will use it as a symbol in any activity carried out during our Project. We will post soon some pics of pupils working on it.
Comenius Leader,
Mario Cortijo.

VISITING CORK, IRELAND

On the 17th and 18 of November we are running our first meeting in Cork. We are taking with us 8 pupils and 3 teachers and we probably spend like 4/5 days away from School. We are all looking forward to this new experience in our School.
For more information about Cork, please read on the following link: Cork, Ireland

SEMINAR COLLAGE

SCHOOLS IN COMENIUS

1. St. Mary's on the Hill N.S (IRELAND). 2. Miguel de Cerventes School (SPAIN). 3. Tynewydd Primary School (WALES). 4. Podstawowa w Rokitach School (POLAND). 5. Giovanni Verga School (SICILY). 6. Blåsbo förskola School (SWEDEN).

UNIQUE EUROPEAN CITIZENS (UEC)

This is the title of our Project.
After a long discussion we decided this title was the ideal one as we
want our pupils, parents and us of course to become more
Europeans and more open minded to others´culture and ways
of life.

COUNTRIES IN COMENIUS

WALES, IRELAND, POLAND, SWEDEN, SICILY AND SPAIN.

These are some of the aims we will try to achieve:

• To encourage active citizenship.
• Display examples of a healthy lifestyle in regards to food and sport and learn about healthy lifestyles in our partner schools.
• To experience cookery demonstrations of healthy foods that are unique to each country.
• To celebrate unique National festivals.
• To implement the project from pre-school stage to senior level.
• To include children with special needs in various aspects of the project.
• To include pupils from socio-economically disadvantaged areas in the project.
• To support the education of migrant workers.
• To encourage digital competence for pupils and staff members in relation to e-mailing, video conferencing, blogging etc...
• To encourage a sense of initiative and entrepreneurship.
• To develop cultural awareness and expression.
• To communicate in mother tongue.
• To exchange experience and good practice with partner schools.
• To engage in exhibitions, production and dissemination of information material.
• To extend participation in educational opportunities through sports activity.

COMENIUS CALENDAR

Here you can view the variety of activities we are doing during the two years of our project:

Timetable for 2008-2010

2008-2009 & 2009-2010