Our pen pals’ letters have already arrived !

The students of 1st ESO and English teacher Sara Vallès have been waiting a long time for the letters of our eTwinning Italian pen pals, but finally last week we received them! So these days the different courses of 1st ESO have been reading them. Everybody is happy to learn about their traditions!

B1 and B2 English Certificate

Students sitting for the B1 and B2 English exam at the EOI, Igualada

Most students from 4th ESO and 1st BTX who took the B1 and B2 official English exam at the EOI Igualada in May got the Certificate. During the school year, the English teacher Marta Fernández has worked with these students to prepare for the exam which officially recognizes the student’s competence in English at an upper-intermediate level in the European framework of foregin languages. Congratulations to all of them !!

May the 9th: European Day with Penpals in acción

Last Monday 8th of May the classes of 1st ESO D and 1st ESO E made a videoconference via Meet with an English class from IC Regina Margherita located in Avellino, near Napoli. These last months we have been exchanging letters with them thanks to the eTwinning project “Penpals en acción” and it is always exciting to put names to the ones we have been writing.
We had some technical problems but the experience was worth it! Have a great European Day with eTwinning !!.

Our English teacher Marta Mercadé visits Canada in her job shadowing

After the stay of the Canadian teacher Ian Wilson from Canada, in our high school, our English teacher, Marta Mercadé, returned the visit to Canada.

The goal of the job shadowing was to get to know the Alberta Education system and share our teacher’s pedagogic experiences and teaching background with a group of Canadian staff from Lacombe, in Alberta, Canada.

During her stay in Lacombe, Marta Mercadé visited the kindergarten, Elementary, middle, high schools  and community colleges of the area in her study of an education system based on life-long learning within an inclusive and respectful environment for all community members, no matter their needs, social or ethnical differences. Thus, She attended several classes of different levels, she met school administrators, and she especially enjoyed talking to indigenous teachers who helped Native Canadian students to learn their mother tongues, such as the Cree language, also in school, and therefore to find their own identity.

Lacombe Schools may be little in size and number of students but great in all their diversity, respect and knowledge of their own people ! Something which this job shadowing experience must bring to our schools in Catalonia. Marta Mercadé would like to express her gratitude for the warming welcome in Lacombe, and for the opportunity staff, families and administration provided her with to have such an enriching stay in Canada. Now she really looks forward to sharing her experience with staff and students in Mercader High School.

The importance of Native Canadian languages in Lacombe Schools: