La Diada de Sant Jordi

We received beautiful rose from Paquita to remind us about Saint George`s Day!

La Diada de Sant Jordi  - Saint George's Day is a Catalan holiday held on 23 April. The main event is the exchange of gifts between sweethearts, loved ones and colleagues. Historically, men gave women roses, and women gave men a book to celebrate the occasion—"a rose for love and a book forever." In modern times, the mutual exchange of books is also customary. Roses have been associated with this day since medieval times, but the giving of books is a more recent tradition originating in 1923, when a bookseller started to promote the holiday as a way to commemorate the nearly simultaneous deaths of Miguel Cervantes and William Shakespeare on 23 April 1616.Barcelona is the publishing capital of both Catalan and Spanish languages and the combination of love and literacy was quickly adopted.Catalonia exported its tradition of the book and the rose to the rest of the world. In 1995, the UNESCO adopted 23 April as World Book and Copyright Day.

source:wikipedia

Easter in Catalonia.

Sport Day in Artes

SPORTS DAY in Dr Ferrer school, Artés In the morning, all the pupils walked together carrying the flag of the country they “represented”, like in the Olimpic way. Pupils of different ages were mixed. Then they enjoyed the different sports. They all had a great day.

Shrove Monday in Artés

This week we celebrated “Shrove Monday” every day. Yes, every morning pupils came to school wearing or bringing something related to a fairy tale: On Monday there was the Little Red Riding Hood’s Day… Tuesday was The Three Little Pigs’ Day Wednesday was Cinderela’s Day Thursday was The Tiny Tom’s Day And Friday was La Rateta que escombrava l’escaleta’s Day. Pupils had fun every day by seeing how everyone was dressed or what they brought. On Friday, the “dress” was organized by the school about a Catalan traditional tale: “La Rateta que escombrava l’escaleta”… look at the power point…

Shrove monday 2 from Małgosia Łupicka

“””On Shrove Monday, every year pupils from Dr Ferrer school in Artés go to the forest to play and have lunch… see more in the power point.”””

Shrove Monday in Artés from Małgosia Łupicka

The International Day of Peace and No Violence in Artés.

The International Day of Peace and No Violence was celebrated in our school, Dr Ferrer school in Artés.

All pupils gathered in the playground to make a SIGN with our bodies. We also sang a beautiful song about PEACE: “Heal the World”, by Michael Jackson. All participants had made a “medal” with a drawing related to Peace.

Parents could enjoy the performance, and some of them had tears in their eyes by listening to their children singing…. 

THREE WISE MEN arrived in Artés

THE THREE WISE MEN arrived to Artés on 5th January.
Hundreds of people went to the streets to welcome them.

Children were so HAPPY seeing them.

At night they deliver all the presents to children!

CHRISTMAS IN ARTÉS.

From Dr. Ferrer school we wish you a MERRY CHRISTMAS

In the power point you’ll see pictures from the different Christmas performances our children did.  

POWER POINT PRESENTATION

Dressing Autumn Fruits

At the school we made an exhibition with Autumn fruits dressed in a “convenient way”.

Some of our Mediterranean Autumn fruits are quinces, sweet potatoes, pine cones, pomegranates, chestnuts, pumpkins… and they turned into hedgehogs, fishes, birds, hens, people… even Cinderella’s lovely carriage !

Children make the characters at home, and they brought them to the school for an exhibition.

POWER POINT PRESENTATION

THE CHESTNUT FESTIVAL

Every year, when Autumn comes, a traditional festival is held in all the schools in Catalonia.

Please watch POWER POINT presentation:

THE CHESTNUT FESTIVAL 

DUTCH TEACHERS VISIT OUR SCHOOL

As you can see, our Comenius project continues…

Last week, our school were so lucky to welcome Mr Ben Hiemstra ( the Head of Orange-Nassau school in Nijkerk, Holland) and his family (5 adult members). They all were in Barcelona spending some days of holidays, and from there they came to our little village.

We all had a nice time together; our teachers and pupils were very happy to meet so important visitors.

We are so grateful to the Dutch family who spent one day of their holidays visiting us.

Teachers and pupils from Dr Ferrer school, Artés.

THANKS A LOT

Una abraçada

Paquita`s Power Point Presentation :-) in Barcelona

The National agency in Barcelona every year organizes a Comenius meeting for all the schools in Catalonia involved in Language Projects (Comenius, Pile).

This year the meeting took place on September 18^th in Barcelona.

Before that, the Comenius heads from Barcelona came to our school to evaluate our project. They praised us for the work done, and they invited us to participate in that meeting to tell the audience - the Comenius heads from Barcelona and Madrid and 500 teachers from all around Catalonia- about how we had worked in the European Legends. There were two Comenius Projects chosen as the BEST in Catalonia: one was OURS, the other was from a secondary school.

Of course we were very proud that we had been invited and we got a big success in the presentation.

SO, I want to THANK YOU to our Comenius partners: Poland, Holland, Slovenia, Portugal and Latvia for all the work we did TOGETHER in that Comenius Project. The success is also YOURS.

A big hug

Paquita

PPPP - Paquita`s Power Point Presentation :-)

THANK YOU!

Dear Friends!

Today is the last day of our project "Once upon a time in Europe" It was a great time for me and I am happy that so many people could enjoy the activities and mobilities. I would like you to continue the postings on our blog so we still can be in touch and maybe create something new in the future. Thank you very much to all who made this project possible from very start - Paquita, Melanie and Brigita and all who were eager to contribute and meet through these two years. Especially our lovely hardworking coordinators and headmasters who let us mess a little bit in their school routine. Thank you for great meetings you all organised! It would not be possible without support from all the teachers and parents as well as local authorities (Town Halls) and school friends. I must not forget our pupils who worked hard and I just hope that they learnt and experienced a lot. 

Have a lovely summer !

Gosia 

For the last day of our project - Comenius Dance :-)

THE PROJECT ENDS :(

Our project is coming to the end. On the 31st July it officialy ends. We had wonderful two years of cooperation and friendship. We met fantastic people and did interesting activities. I hope we continue the blog and will share some news from our schools, which will help us to be in touch. Before we say goodbye here are some views to remind us all the fun and laughter we had together. 

Watching Shrek :-)

One of our task was to watch Shrek 1 and find as many fairy tales creatures  as possible. Donkey is our favourite character

but in the film you can also meet... can you imagine somebody has already made the list !


List of Shrek characters 


Anyway we translated some into 6 languages of our project. 


English - Polish - Slovenian - Latvian - Portuguese - Catalan - Dutch 

Cinderella – Kopciuszek – Pepelka – Pelnrušķīte – Cinderela – Ventafocs - Assepoester

Snow White – Królewna Śnieżka – Sneguljčica – Sniegbaltīte - Branca de Neve – Bancaneus - Sneeuwwitje

Sleeping Beauty – Śpiąca Królewna  – Trnjulčica - Guļošā princese - Bela Adormecida – La  Bella Dorment - DE SCHONE SLAAPSTER

Witch – czarownica – čarovnica -  ragana – bruxa – bruixa – heks

Fairy – wróżka – vila – feja - fada – fada - fee

Pinocchio – Pinokio – Ostržek – Pinokio – Pinóquio – Pinotxo - Pinokkio

3 Little Pigs – Trzy małe świnki - Trije prašički -Trīs siventiņi - 3 porquinhos - Els Tres  Porquets – De Drie Biggetjes

 Gingerbread – Pierniczek – Piškotko - Piparkūku vīriņš - Pão doce - L’Homenet de Pa - HONINGBROOD

Ogre – Ogr – Oger – milzis – ogre - L’ogre - ogre

Wizard – czarodziej – čarovnik – bur vis – feiticeiro - bruixot - tovenaar

Magic  Mirror – magiczne lustro - čarobno ogledalo  -  burvju spogulis - Espelho mglico - Mirall Magic - MAGISCHE SPIEGEL

Dragon – smok - zmaj - pūķis – dragão – drac - draak

Prince – książe – princ – princis - principe – princep - prins

Princess – księżniczka – princeska - princese – princesa – princesa - prinses

Knight – rycerz – vitez – karalis - cavaleiro – cavaller - ridder

Castle – zamek - grad – pils -  castelo – castell - slot

Dwarves - krasnoludki – palčki – punduri – anões - les nanes - dwergen

THE LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD – LA CAPERUCITA ROJA

Pupils from our school learn Castellano as a second language.  The 3rd class grade did a performance of the tale for the other pupils. 
Little Red Riding Hood in Castellano  is called La Caperucita Roja 

TEACHERS IN ARTÉS PERFORMING FOR THEIR PUPILS

The last school day,  the male teachers of  Dr Ferrer School did dress as a tale’s heros and performed for all the pupils.

We could enjoy the performances of the Indian, the pilgrim, the pirate… we all had fun with those characters ! 

COMENIUS CORNERS

The news from our project, some souvenirs , materials , booklets, pictures and stories decorated our Comenius Corners. 

• EB 1 N 1 DE Montemor-O-Novo

Osnovna šola Gustava Šiliha Laporje

Szkoła Podstawowa nr 11 , Przemyśl

Escola Dr Ferrer , Artes

Oranje- Nassauschool , Nijkerk

Rāmuļu pamatskolā, Rāmuļu 

Escola Dr Ferrer , Artes 

Our games

The games based on our legends were one of our project tasks. We made board game, puzzle and memory.

Presenting project work at Artes

During our meeting at Dr Ferrer School we could see how our Catalan partners work in the project. All the classes were involved in preparing show based on our chosen legends. 
There was a performance of Dutch legend of Hans Brinker who saved Haarlem.

The Latvian legend of "The Time Man and his Lantern"

Polish, Catalan and Portuguese legends was prepared as Power Point  and presented in Catalan and English. 

click here POWER POINT  and look for PRACE UCZNIÓW Z ARTES

LEGEND OF GOLDEN GOATSKIN

LEGEND OF PRZEMYSL CREST

The youngest pupils showed a nice Slovenian Legend about 

THE CAT WHO STEALS SLIPPERS

CAT WHO STEALS SLIPPERS