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.

BILITRAMS' Orientation activity to celebrate our 10th anniversary

Spring is here, and to celebrate, we organised an orientation activity with the rest of BILITRAM's schools to celebrate our 10th anniversary as an inter-schools group of teachers: 

On the 29th of April, we gathered all together in La Laguna de la Barrera park to participate in and enjoy the activities.

We must thank Malaga's Orientation Club collaboration (COMA), which set up the clues for the children to find words and form an English sentence about Easter. Finishing correctly, all the kids would receive an Easter egg as a prize, and of course, they all did!

We also had time to do some oral communication activities, such as "Making friends" and "Find someone who", in this lovely park, and finally, we shared a picnic together.

It was so much fun, we didn't even notice the blackout! 😉

Erasmus+ KA 210: 3º and 4th digital workshops for the teachers

On Monday, the 31st March, after our Cologne trip, we shared our recently acquired knowledge in Kahoot, Wordwall and Chat GPT with the rest of our colleagues.

We carried out our two workshops to instruct teachers from our school in the use of Kahoot and Wordwall to make their own interactive activities.

This was also part of what we learned in the second module of our Erasmus project KA-210 Training Lab-Methods Integrated to teaching, in Köln, Germany, together with our associated schools in Italy and Turkey.

This time we had 16 teachers in total, eight in each workshop. They enjoyed this instruction immensely, and many of them are already creating their own content with these digital tools.