MULTILINGUAL DICTIONARY

During this month, our task was to create a multilingua dictionary witht the main concepts to practice during our mobilities!
We all had a great time making the dictionary and we hope you like it!

SPANISH HISTORY

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ITALIAN HISTORY

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POLISH HISTORY

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ITALIAN GROUP

This is the italian group. They are all very happy of being the first ones in getting to know their partners next February:

The students who are going to host the spanish ones are: girls from left to right: Flavia, Paola, Elena. Boys from left to right: Tancredi, Stefano, Andrea

 The students who are going to host the polish ones are: girls from left to right: Federica, Concetta, Alessandra, Carla, Ludovica. Boys starting from left: Mariano, Giuseppe.

SPANISH GROUP

These are the Spanish students who are taking part in the Comenius experience 2012/2013:

This is the whole group, we have 13 students involved in the project.

 These are the students going to Poland. From left to right: ANA- LORENA- MERCEDES- MARÍA- CAROLINA and ALBERTO

These are the students going to Italy. From left to right (upper row): JESUS- ANDRÉS- GLORIA- DAMIEN (There has been a little change so he is going to Poland instead)- MARIA (botton left)- ALEX and NURIA

POLISH GROUP

These are the Polish students who are taking part in the Comenius experience 2012/2013. They are all very happy and excited about it!

This are the students going to Italy: from left to right: Kuba, Przemek, Milena, Justyna, Aleksandra and Gosia.

 This are the students going to Spain: Sandra, Lukasz, Marcin (red T-shirt), Szymon, Agnieszka and Natalia in the front.

WELCOME BACK!

After a long summer break.... Here we are again!
This project will continue during this school year 2012/2013 and we are more than ready to make it even better than last year.
Every month we will do a different task to learn things from our neighbours from Italy, Poland and Spain so....
READY.......
STEADY.....
GO!

SEE YOU IN SEPTEMBER!

Well, after a whole WONDERFUL year when schools, children, teachers and families have all lived a great experience that will always stay in our hearts we have to say good bye for a while.
The children who took place in this project are going to high-school next year so in September we will have new students and  new families involved in this great oportunity.
Once again, THANKS SOOO MUCH to everybody who has made this posible, we wish you all a great summer holidays and see you again in September!!!

COMENIUS VISIT TO POLAND

The last mobility of this school year in Poland (Ligowo) took place from the 28th May till the 2nd of June. 
After a whole year working together and after having met in Camporeale and Lorca, Italian and Spanish teachers and students finally met their Polish friends, students, teachers and families for a beautiful stay in Szkoła Podstawowa w Ligowie' . 
After two wonderful previous experiences we shouldnt be surprised that our stay in Ligowo was amazing! We had one of the best times of our lives and for sure we will always remember the special people we met in Poland and they will always have a little part of Spain and Italy with them. 
The task of our visit was sports and traditional games, so we had a great time learning and specially playing to funny games from our countries. Apart fom that, we did lots of cool things: visiting the Mazovian countryside museum,  riding bikes, painting by the river, visit the gorgeous Warsaw, great traditional meals hosted by parents, visiting Plock, meeting their beautiful local church and meeting their nice priest etc. 
Well, as you can see in these photos, one more time, we can be nothing but extremely thankful to all the people in Ligowo who gave us the chance of living an unforgettable experience. WE LOVE POLAND!  

COMENIUS VISIT TO SPAIN

From the 22nd April till the 28th April, the Polish and Italian group visited the city of Lorca where an excited group of parents, teachers and students were waiting for them.
This have been a wonderful and unique experience for everybody and we hope to repeat it next year.
During this stay in Lorca, in our school CEIP Virgen de las Huertas, we have been doing loads of activities:

-  SWIMMING IN THE SWIMMING POOL
- A GUIDED VISIT OF THE CITY
- A FAMOUS PEOPLE CONTEST IN THE SCHOOL (where we learnt lots of things of famous people from Italy, Spain and Poland)

- VISIT THE TOWN HALL where we were received by the mayor of the city Dº Francisco Jodar
- VISIT THE COAST CITY OF AGUILAS AND SWIMMING IN THE BEACH

- VISIT THE SACRED CITY OF CARAVACA AND THE BEAUTIFUL MONASTERY OF CALASPARRA.
- LEARN HOW TO BULLFIGHT WITH THE ADVICE OF A REAL BULLFIGHTER
- VISIT A POTTER AND LEARN HOW TO WORK WITH CLAY

None of us will ever forget this stay and we all miss our italian and polish friends but..... soon we will meet them again in Poland!
THANKS FOR BEING SUCH A WONDERFUL GUESTS!!!

BE MY GUEST

These are the Spanish children who will host the Polish students during next visit on April 24th.
They are Ana María Ibarra, Maria Angeles Porlan, María Navarro and Alfonso Serrano.
THEY CANT WAIT TO MEET THEIR NEW POLISH FRIENDS!

POLISH FESTIVAL: TALENT'S DAY

Talents Day
On March 21st we celebrated a festival called „Talents Day”. On that day students of our school took part in a specially organisted for that occcasion performance. The topic of this year competition and games was healthy lifestyle. Students showed how talented they are: they sang songs, wrote poems, did quizes. To relax students of Year 6 prepared for us a play called „ The sleeping Princess”.The culminating point of that thay was burning the witch called Marzanna. We had great time and can not wait the next year Talents Day

POLISH TALENT'S DAY: 

ITALIAN TALENT'S DAY: Music Show and Comedy

SPANISH TALENT'S DAY: Music Show about famous myths (Below: "The Beatles" and "Marilyn Monroe")

SPANISH SPRING

Easter is a very important celebration in Spain. The whole of Holy Week is usually a holiday for most Spaniards.
Given that Spain has a very strong religious past, catholic rituals are often held during Easter, for example on As Wednesday people go to church and have a cross made of ash on their foreheads as a way of saying sorry to God.
On Palm Sunday there is a big mass where children hold big palm leaves and branches which are blessed by holy water spred by the priest.
Many regions of Spain celebrate Easter with big parades or processions through the street, specially in the South. There are big and elaborated constuctions called "tronos" with statues telling the story of the death, passion and resurrection of Jesus. This structures are carried on the shoulders of tens of men and women who feel extremely proud of taking part on this processions. This can be quite a hard work because they are quite heavy and sometimes they have to carry them for more than 4 hours. This processions are normally accompanied by drums, trumpets and other instruments, there are also some people who sing special songs "a capella" to the religious statues, these songs are called "saetas".


This is the most important festival in our city Lorca and people spend the whole year getting ready for it and arranging all the things needed which are quite a lot! The last day of school before Easter Holidays we hold a mini-parade in our school commemorating the big one that takes place on the street!

POLISH SPRING

SPRING

In the past the first day of spring was celebrated in a bit different way. To prepare themselves for spring people used to clean their houses and decorate spruce trees with colourful ribbons, papper and pictures of saints. Songs about saying goodbye to winter and welcoming spring were sung as well.

Nowadays the first day of spring is celebrated on March 21^st. In Poland there is an ancient pagan tradition of drowning the "witch" name Marzanna. Marzanna, in this case, is an effigy made by students especially for the occasion. Singing the songs and carring the Marzanna we walk in a procession through the streets of Ligowo. Coming back to school we inform everyone that winter is gone. The colourful branches of tree that are held by us symbolize the new season and the rebirth of nature. At school we organise a display concerning the beauty of spring. The symbol of Polish spring is a white stork.

ITALIAN SPRING

The almond blossom festival

The almond blossom festival is a very popular spring festival in Akragas (Agrigento). It was first started in the early thirties to celebrate the beautiful blossom which flowers in February and March here and in the surrounding area. The festival celebrates the coming of the spring, as well as local folk traditions with puppeteers, singers, poets and actors. In Akragas the Torchlight Friendship Procession is very popular with international folk groups winding through the streets of the old town. The International Folk Festival is the central event; different people from all over the world come together to dance and sing in the name of peace and brotherhood.

It takes place at night in the Valley of Greek Temples. It is an amazing show full of music and dances just under the columns of the Concordia Temple dedicated to the Goddesses Demetra and Persephone.

The myth of Demetra and Persephone

As everybody knows, Sicily was a Greek colony and in our land many myths took place.

Greek people explained to themselves the changing of the seasons with the myth of Demetra and Persephone.

Demetra was Crono and Gea's daughter, Persephone was her daughter. One day, while Persephone was collecting flowers with other girls, Ade, the God of Hell, suddenly appeared and forced her to follow him to the deaths' reign. Demetra heard her daughter's screams but she was too far and she wasn't able to save her. So she began her voyage looking for Persephone; she went away from the Olimpo and because her sadness, she brought sterility to the earth putting in danger the Human Nature. So Zeus, fearing the Human Genre could disappeared, ordered to Ade to give Persephone back to her mother.

Ade wanted Persephone to stay with him forever but at the same time he had to obey to Zeus. So before leaving Persephone free, he gave to her some grains of

“ melograno”. She ate them and doing it she was chained to the deaths' reign forever.

From that moment Persephone spent 6 months on the Earth and these months coincide with the beginning of the spring to the beginning of the autumn and 6 months in the hell. This alternation scans the rhythm of the seasons.

SPANISH CALENDAR

POLISH CALENDAR

ITALIAN CALENDAR

FEBRUARY

Hi again!

For this month of February every school has created a calendar where you will be able to see all different festivities host in every country.....

Come on!

HAVE A LOOK!!!