Bilitrams' schools sent us Giant Christmas cards!

 The week before Christmas, we received Giant Christmas cards from the students of the other four BILITRAMS' schools: CEIP Tierno Galván, CEIP Revello de Toro, CEIP Adelaida de la Calle, and CEIP Salvador Allende, to wish us Merry Christmas and a happy New Year. You can see the display in our Bilingual Corner.

They are stunning!

We also sent our Christmas cards to them! These are their displays:

Halloween at Los Morales

 This Halloween has been the best ever!

We had contests, costumes, and for the first time, we organised a "haunted room" (or "Pasaje del terror"), where our students had to find clues to solve a mysterious phrase that would lead them to their sweets in a "trick or treat" end.

They had great fun! Here you have some images to show you! Happy Halloween!

Our language assistants, Madison & Marie, say goodbye and thank you to our school... We'll miss you!!

 

It has been a pleasure working with you two. Good luck with your projects. We will never forget you. Thanks for everything! 😘😘

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Bilitrams´ last meeting and reunion with former members to celebrate our 10th anniversary!

This past Wednesday, 28 May, the last meeting of the BILITRAMS intercentre workgroup took place. The meeting was held with lunch at the Ojo Patio restaurant, close to all of our schools, where we conducted a self-evaluation of our work, using the results of a previously conducted survey, and exchanged views on how to focus our training and intercentre activities for the next academic year.

The self-evaluation turned out to be very positive and we agreed to continue training in AI and to hold more student meetings, either face-to-face or/and digital, with twinning of students from different schools, during the next school year and, if we have the possibility, to schedule a visit of a native English-speaking personality to be interviewed. We also discussed the possibility of producing an article or paper on our work for the dissemination of our activities next school year, and keep working on our website.

Also, at the end of the meal, we celebrated a decade of this working group, awarded with the Provincial Educational Merit in June 2018, inviting former coordinators, such as Rosalía Cano and Gracia Sarriá, as well as other former members, such as Mari Carmen Ruíz, to share with us this special moment. Special pins were made, renewing the group's logo, which were distributed among the attendees. Finally, we took a photo of everyone together with a flag created especially for the occasion.

We hope to continue our work in the coming years with the same or even better atmosphere and motivation to continue promoting the exchange of experiences between ANL teachers in our schools and the communicative competence of our students in the English language.

 

Good bye to our language assistants Madison & Marie

 On Thursday, we had to say goodbye to this year's language assistants, our beloved Madison and Marie, who had been with us from October.

All the students made cards and drawings for them to take home, and express their love for these lovely girls. They also received some presents from the teachers as a token of their hard work.

I'm sure they have had an unforgettable experience this year and will take a little bit of us inside their hearts forever.

Erasmus+ KA 210 final module in Aprilia and Rome

Last week, three of our teachers, Patricia, Rut, and our bilingual and Erasmus coordinator, Aurora, visited the "Istituto Arturo Toscanini" in Aprilia (Lazio, Italy) to conclude our project: "New methods and Technologies for the post-pandemic School Education System to counter learning obstacles" (New MT SES). 

On the first day, each coordinator presented their school and explained how they had applied the concepts learned in the other two modules to the rest of the teachers in their respective schools (Italian, Spanish, and Turkish teams).

On the second day, we had the opportunity to visit the classes and observe the work they do in the Italian school (job-shadowing), as well as how they approach teaching children with learning difficulties, which was really interesting.

We spent the rest of the days visiting places of interest in Aprilia (the city centre, a botanical garden, and the coast), as well as the wonderful city of Rome.

It was an unforgettable experience!

                                                            Istituto Arturo Toscanini, Aprilia

 

Aprilia

Roma

Erasmus+ mobility: We had a special visit from Romania!

This week, from 13th to 15th May, we received the visit of 10 students from the school Liceului Teoretic Alexandru Ioan Cuza, from Coravia, Romania, thanks to the Erasmus+ programme.
Together with our Primary 6th-grade students, they have developed a project on environmental care, creating a podcast and online posters with Canva, they have also enhanced their communicative competence in English, and exchanged culture and traditions, making new international friends.
It has been a great experience that everyone has benefited from and enjoyed to the fullest.