WELCOME TO BARCELONA!!!

Our Comenius Project is a bilateral school association from September 2008 to June 2010 between these two schools: Escola Pia Nostra Senyora from Barcelona and Tornedalsskolan from Haparanda, an upper secondary school in Haparanda, Norrbotten, northern Sweden on the border to Finland.

Swedish and Catalan are two minority languages which are spoken in the northernmost and southernmost parts of Europe. We aim at studying their vitality in teenagers’ lives, together with the difficulties they face in two territories in which they aren’t the only spoken languages. Bilingualism is a common characteristic of both Barcelona and Haparanda’s every day’s life. Therefore, we’d like to study how these minority languages manage to survive in our teenagers’ worlds, what resources they have available in their societies and what challenges lie ahead of them in the near future.

The approach to these similar yet obviously contrasting realities will be done, not only by learning the basics of each minority language, but mainly by using English and ITC skills to learn about the different aspects of teenagers’ lives in the Catalan and Swedish contexts. Observing differences and similarities in teenagers’ lives in the northernmost and southernmost European countries in the context of their minority languages will help students to strengthen the idea of a European network from which to learn and to form lasting friendships for the future.

Students in the rural area of Haparanda in northern Scandinavia will meet students from Mediterranean Barcelona in October 2008 and will learn to deal with their everyday activities in a hectic city centre. Likewise, Catalan students will discover what it is to live in snowy Scandinavia in February 2009, trying activities and various sports connected to snow.


How was your comenius experience in Barcelona?

Thursday, 23 October 2008

23/10/08 - Gaudi's spirit



It was an exciting day for all of us, especially for the Swedish students.
First of all, the Swedish students were divided in two groups. One half learnt the days of the week, months and seasons with Sònia and Judith. The other half learnt the different colours with Berta, Sofia and Marc. The Swedish group had a great time together and after a half an hour, they started to learn the other part.
Once the class finished, the rest of Catalan students came to the Comenius classroom and we started the Comenius project class. We spoke about the differences between the languages in Spain and in Sweden. It was interesting to know more about the country that we are going to visit.
During the rest of the morning the Swedish students did a workshop with our art teachers, and they worked a lot in their paintings.
At 15:30 they went to visit la Sagrada Familia and they did an activity with numbers with one of our mathematics teachers.
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1 comment:

pitypang said...

Hello!
Goods photos:)!!
I'm Andrea from Hungary.I greet you.

18 January 2009 at 10:21

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