11/30/2011

Comenius (Valencia's meeting November 2011)

Great memories. Thank you Blanca.

11/14/2011

Joy after the performance

Back to school after the premiere

Comenius week at Spain (Timetable)

COMENIUS

WEEK PROGRAM

SUNDAY 6th

FINNISH ARRIVAL:

AIRPORT 18.10 H. TRANSFER TO SCHOOL BY UNDERGROUND[1]. AT 20.00 INTRODUCTION TO THE HOST FAMILIES AT SCHOOL.

POLISH ARRIVAL:

TRANSFER FROM BARCELONA BY COACH. AT ABOUT 21.00 INTRODUCTION TO THE HOST FAMILIES AT SCHOOL.



MONDAY 7th

9.00- ARRIVAL AT SCHOOL.

9.15- INTRODUCTION TO OUR STUDENTS FROM ESO AND BACHILLER IN THE THEATRE HALL.

10.00 TO 13.00H- REHEARSE.

15.15H.- VISIT TO THE CITY CENTRE (OLD TOWN) TOGETHER WITH THE HOST STUDENTS. WE’LL TAKE THE UNDERGROUND[2].



TUESDAY 8th

8.00H. – MUSIC REHEARSE. (PERCUSION).

9.00H.-  OUTING TO THE TOWN HALL TOGETHER WITH THE HOST STUDENTS. WE’LL TAKE THE UNDERGROUND.[3]

10.00H.- RECEPTION AT THE TOWNHALL.

12.00H.- COREOGRAPHY REHEARSE.

15.15H.- GENERAL REHEARSE

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WEDNESDAY 9th

8.00H.- REHEARSE.

13.00.- VISIT TO THE CITY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: MUSEUM, AQUARIUM AND X-MAX CINEMA.  HOST STUDENTS WON’T GO. SPANISH TEACHERS WILL. WE’LL TRAVEL BY COACH[4].

THURSDAY 10th

8.00H.- CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES: ENGLISH LESSON.

11.15H.- VISIT TO THE BEACH. WE’LL TRAVEL BY TRAM[5].

15.15H.- EXIT TO THE ESCALANTE THEATRE. TRAVEL BY BUS OR TRAM.[6]

16.00H.- FINAL GENERAL REHEARSE AT THE THEATRE.



FRIDAY 11th

8.15H.- EXIT TO THE ESCALANTE THEATRE. TRAVEL BY COACH[7].

11.11H.- PREMIERE OF THE MUSICAL “MELTING POT”.

FREE AFTERNOON



SATURDAY 12th

FREE MORNING

15.30H.- EXIT TO THE ESCALANTE THEATRE. TRAVEL BY COACH[8].

18.00H.- PERFORMANCE OF THE MUSICAL “MELTING POT”.

21.00H.- FAREWELL DINNER AT SCHOOL WITH ALL THE STUDENTS, TEACHERS AND FAMILIES.



SUNDAY 13th

4:45.- DEPARTURE

FINNISH TRANSFER TO VALENCIA AIRPORT BY COACH.[9]

POLISH TRANSFER TO BARCELONA AIRPORT BY COACH.




Perfomance programme III (Spain)

The musical Project you are about to watch is the final result of the European Educative Comenius Project under the name European Cultural Crisol -Melting Pot. The Project was created for our Secondary pupils by the teachers from our school Ildefonso Martos Carretero and José Manuel Gil Sánchez, with the collusion of our headmaster and the enthusiastic support of our firm’s head. We were chosen among other applicants by the Permanent Learning Program offered by the Autonomous Organization of Educational European Programs through our Government, the Conselleria de Educación de la Generalitat Valenciana, and we were granted with it for two school years 2010-2011 and 2011-2012.



Our Project is being carried out together with two associated European high schools. We have been working with them for these two years and now they are visiting us this week. Thus, we are all together today performing our musical play. Very soon we’ll go to Finland (in January 2012) and to Poland (in March the same year) in order to perform Melting Pot in the other participating countries.



The Project objectives were different. First of all we looked for an improvement in the students’ and teachers’ linguistic competences in English. Next we wanted our students to write a musical play which reflected the common values enhanced by the Permanent Learning Programmes: to make our cultures come closer and to reinforce the feeling of European Citizenship, our common but different reference. And all the work should be done in cooperation with the other countries, to get to know about each other and establish some links through the universal languages of music, dance and theatre.



We have created a play which deals with six fundamental issues: peace, democracy, tolerance, and fight against racism, sex and age discrimination. Moreover we have added a little show of our cultures and traditions and the places where we live, to finish with the performance of a song which shows our union in this wonderful experience we’re going through. All these matters will be mixed inside our Melting Pot, a metal container which was formerly used to mix different metals to create a newer stronger mixture. We’ll metaphorically mix our cultures to create a cresol from them, a newer and stronger Europe, more fraternal and multicultural.



We hope you enjoy the show. Curtain up.





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