Holiday break

Gudemsskolam and IES Siberia Extremeña wish you

 a Merry Christmas and a Happy new year 2017!

THE ORIGAMI CRANE CHALLENGE

The activity of the following two months is a school activity and it will be called “The one thousand origami crane challenge”. Students in different subjects are reading “The one thousand origami crane legend”and we are trying to make 1000 origami cranes. So far we are doing very well…675...we hope to have this activity completed by January 30th “The World Peace Day”.

Here is a summary of the legend of the crane as a symbol of peace.

“Sadako Sasaki was a Japanese girl who survived the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which marked the end of World War II. She was two at the time of the bombings and as a consequence of radiation, Sadako developed leukemia. When she was in hospital she started to make origami cranes inspired by the Japanese legend that says “anyone who folds one thousand paper cranes will be granted a wish”. Unfortunately, Sadako died at the age of 12 without completing the task. Her classmates continued to fold cranes up to one thousand. Then a monument was built in her memorial and the crane became a symbol of peace around the world.”

 

LOGO

This is the final version of the logo. We finally decided to combine two logos one Swedish and one Spanish. And this is the result:

Crane Festival 2016 (Spain)

Our project at the Crane festival! This year the festival took place on 26th November and it was rainy but we had a great time! It was a great opportunity to promote the project!

Our project live in "El sol sale por el oeste", a radio programme in canal Extremadura

Yesterday the coordinator of the project, Sonia and two students, Pedro and Judith, were invited to "El sol sale por el Oeste", the radio programme hosted by Ana Grajera and Antonio León in Canal Extremadura. Here is the interview and some pictures.

http://www.canalextremadura.es/alacarta/radio/audios/el-sol-sale-por-el-oeste-2h-221116?t=00h30m15s

RESULTS OF THE 1st TRANSNATIONAL MEETING

Here are some of the pictures of the working sessions last week, we revised the project objectives and expected learning results, talked about the development of the programmed activities, planned the mobilities for April, planned collaborative tasks for the next few months. It's been a pleasure to work with our colleagues Asa and Veronica. Thank you!

PROJECT LOGO

One of the objectives of the 1st Transnational meeting was to choose the logo. First, students were asked to vote for the best two logos of each country. Then, teachers and students voted for the best one. Here are some pictures.

And the winner is...

Thank you all for voting! !

MAPS

These are the maps designed by the Swedish and Spanish students. It's been very interesting to learn not only about the crane western migration route from Sweden to Spain but also to have a wider knowledge of the countries in Europe.

 

Meeting with the Mayor of Talarrubias

The 1st transnational meeting in Spain. Here's a picture of the reception with the mayor and members of the parents' association. 

 Welcome to Spain!

Our friends in the media

Our Swedish friends have sent us a photo and a link to an article with information of the project in a Swedish magazine.

http://www.falkopingstidning.se/article/foljer-faglarnas-fard/

OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL

We have just opened a youtube channel for the project activities.

Please click on the link which is on the right side of the blog and follow the activities.

The first videos are different presentations of Siberia Extremeña school made by 3 year ESO students. We hope you like them!

                                         TRIP TO VALENCIA

Sonia, the project coordinator in Spain has attended the first Erasmus+ information meeting in Valencia, 10 and 11 October.

The meeting took place at "Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias" and the members of SEPIE were very helpful solving doubst about management of the projects.

Sonia

Members of SEPIE

This school has been granted a Project for the next two years

2016-17 y 2017-18

ERASMUS+

Action Key2 project (KA219)

"SCHOOLS AND CRANES FLYING ACROOSS EUROPE"

We start this school year with a new Erasmus+ project.

This project includes a wide range of interdisciplinary activities and a students exchange with Gudhem, a secondary school in Sweden. During the next two years both schools will work together with the same objective: to improve the students’ scientific, digital and linguistic competence.

The common crane is the connection between our schools, since our areas “Lake Hornborga” and “La Siberia Extremeña” mark the beginning and the end of this bird migration route. The crane will be present in all the activities.

As the crane, we will fly to achieve our objectives and we hope this project will give us the opportunity to learn and widen our horizons towards Europe.

Foto cedida por Álvaro Sánchez (Camping Puerto Peña)