(es) Colegio Torrente Ballester in Parla

BACK TO OUR FUTURE — SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT ACTION PLAN — COLEGIO TORRENTE BALLESTER

This sheet should be used to encourage reflection and discussion on the project work.  It is designed to look at how your school will improve through the two years of the project work.    It should enable you to engage the school community in active discussions around the main theme, ie, connecting the past with the future.  

KEY AREAS

KEY STRENGTHS

AREAS FOR DEVELOPMENT / NEXT STEPS

Is developing European Citizenship, including this particular Project, a part of your school improvement plan?

(The EU would like to encourage this.)

List how you implement the project across the school community:

  1. Our experience from previous projects
  2. Having a good agenda
  3. We organize events: Carnival, Opening House days, Cultural Week...
  4. Regular meetings with teachers.
  1. Make real, measurable, stimulating and realistic activities.
  2. Short term exchanges of pupils
  3. Quizzes,  students competitions about EU

 

How do you aim to connect the learning about the past to the way that our (local) communities should live in the future?

  1. Through their parents, grandparents.. experiences (recipes, traditional jobs, games, songs, films, clothes...)
  2. School garden and all the activities involved on it.
  1. Encourage grandparents to come to school and talk about their traditions.
  2. Repairing or making new things from old ones with recycled materials.
  3. Take care of the school garden

How will you use the project to encourage awareness of how to develop healthy active lifestyles?

  1. Encourage children to have Mediterranean food.
  2. Teaching our children to have healthy habits ( doing exercise, brush their teeth, wash their hands before eating, etc...)
  3. Eating fruit and vegetables in our breaks.
  1. Having fruit or vegetables, once  a week, in our breaks with the help of the families.
  2. Preparing healthy recipes for their classmates.

How will the project develop exciting ‘bigger learning experiences’ and enterprise?

  1. Workshops
  2. Erasmus projects
  3. Cultural week
  4. Opening house days

Organizing school events with the whole school community cooperation with the participation of parents, teachers and students.

How do you plan to use the project to engage pupils in learning a foreign language?

 

  1. Increasing the communication between pupils from different countries.
  2. Showing our pupils the different activities from other countries in the ERASMUS project.
  1. Traveling to other countries.
  2. Writing letters.
  3. Handy crafts exchange.

How do you plan to use ICT to enhance and improve the project experience?

  1. New Technologies (PDI; Cameras...)
  2. School Web
  3. Films
  4. Documentaries.
  5. EU games/quizzes.
  1. Using regularly PDI
  2. Recording  videos  with digital cameras.
  3. Watching films, documentaries, series, play games...  in our ITC labs.

BACK TO OUR FUTURE — SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT AND EVALUATION  REFLECTION TOOL FOR TEACHERS
NAME: COLEGIO TORRENTE BALLESTER

This sheet should be used to encourage reflection and discussion on the project work and how it impacts into your school and teaching.   The copies should be kept by the teachers ready for completion at the end of year two.  It may be useful to ask your school project colleagues to also complete this.

REFLECTIVE QUESTIONS  FOR TEACHERS

Start of the project responses  (Year One)

End of the project summary  (Year Two)

How does the project add to your teaching and learning experience in the school?

  • Teachers get new ideas and work together so that the students can learn from different activities improving their skills.
  • To grow awareness about taking care of the environment.
  • Increase students awareness about different aspects of daily life.

 

How do you share the project work with your colleagues?

How does this involve them in the work of the project?

  • We have monthly meetings to get ideas and share information.
  • All the school community is involved in the project. Parents and students are regularly informed about the activities that are being carried out.

 

How does your school benefit from your European work?

  • Students experience the need of learning English as a way to communicate with other people, meet other students, know different cultures, customs/traditions.
  • It gives the school an added value.
  • We have additional funds

 

How does the project encourage pupils’ a)confidence,

b)motivation

c)responsibility?

a) Confidence

- they develop new abilities and new responsabilities and they   

increase their self-confidence.        

- They improve their communication skills

b) Motivation

- stimulating activities encourage them to increase their understanding of different aspects of life.

c) Responsibility

- They learn the way they act has an influence in the environment protection.

 

How do you ensure that the quality of the pupils’ project work is robust?

Teachers guide and check students work

We try to connect the project with the different subjects and activities in the school curriculum.

 


BACK TO OUR FUTURE — SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT AND EVALUATION  REFLECTION TOOL FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS   
COLEGIO TORRENTE BALLESTER 
 

REFLECTIVE QUESTIONS  FOR PUPILS

Start of the project responses 

End of the project summary  (Year Two)

What skills do you already have that would be considered traditional skills?

 

 

Grow, water and take care of plants

Look after the elderly

Cooking

Playing board games with the family

Make your own clothes

 

What skills do you have that you think are useful these days?

Get in contact with new technologies

Speak languages

Interpersonal and Social Skills (working in groups, handle conflict, control their emotions...)

 

What traditional skills does your family and your neighbours  have?

 

Family: A lot of families cook traditional dishes.

Some of them make some artistic activities, such as painting, DIY....

Others work out with their children outdoors.

Neighbours: gardening, cooking, repairing flaws at home, do physical activities,  handcrafts...

 

List some things that you think could be changed for the better in the world today.

 

Encourage children to have  and learn traditional homemade meals .

Teach our children the importance of eating healthy food

Motivate children to protect the environment: thinking about the three Rs : reduce, reuse, recycle (encourage our children the responsibility of saving water, electricity and energy...)

 

What traditional things would you like to learn or to find out about?

Bake bread, repair books,  sewing and repairing clothes, making butter, learn about ancient / forgotten professions, learn traditional dances.

 

What could we do in our project which could

 change things for the future

Teach the students abilities for life and work ( solving problems, working with others, interpersonal skills...)

 

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