AMUSING VISIT TO ORADEA TV STATION

By María Roca Pérez, 4th year ESO.

In an incredible trip to Rumania last May 2017, we, the participants in the Erasmus+ project: What's New on the News? visited many places that we liked. One of them was the television in Oradea.

  

Wawel Castle, the heart of Cracow.

By Elisa Rodríguez Rodríguez, (4th year ESO)

Wawel Royal Castle is a Gothic castle located in Krakow, Poland. Built at the behest of Casimiro III the Great, it consists of several structures located around a central patio. It was rebuilt by Jogaila and Eduviges I in the 14th century.

                                     

AIDS IN A FEW EUROPEAN COUNTRIES TODAY.

  By: Martyna Kocurek, Karol Danielczyk, Marcelina Ścierska, Martyna Skoczylas (from Poland), Emanuella Dance, Agnes Cupin, Diana Domocos, Antonia Crista, Stefania Bogdan (from Romania), Lucía Loureiro, Sergio Dopico, Víctor Sánchez, André Rey and Bella González (from Spain).

This is a research article composed by our students in Romania, Poland and Spain. We all would like to thank these students for their work.

'What's New on the News?' on the air, for the 2nd year.

Last February 24th 2016, a group of students from IES de Catabois and the coordinator of the Erasmus + project 'What's new on the news?' were interviewed at the COPE radio station in Ferrol, to continue with the series started in January 2015, during the first year of the project. Now, after a year and a half involved in it, we had lots more to tell.

 

It was a live programme with Ada Romero as the interviewer again.
This radio station has shown a great interest towards our project since its very beginning and it keeps in touch with us, collaborating in the dissemination of it. We are thankful for that!
 

THE DRONE INDUSTRY IN GALICIA.

By Pablo Rodeiro Rañales.

 

The Rozas Aerodrome is a private aerodrome in the municipality of Castro de Rey, about eight kilometres from the town of Lugo in the north of Galicia, Spain.

It was opened on 4th June, 1943. It is generally intended for sports aviation. The ground where it's installed belongs to the Ministry of Defence, but the airdrome is managed by the Royal Flying Club in Lugo.

The aerodrome was built by the Germans during the Second World War, with the purpose of providing quick maintenance to the antennas of the radio beacon Consol.

Once the battle was finished, the airdrome was recognized as an exceptional place for the creation of a larger airport. It was an airbase for some time, where there was a military garrison for aviation troops. In 1949, Rozas Aerodrome became the Central Airport in Galicia and it kept this status for 2 years , while the Santiago de Compostela airport was being built.

Miguel Bardem films '22 Angels' in Ferrol.

By Marta Díaz Freire.

Ferrol has been chosen, once again, as the setting for a film.

Last February, Miguel Bardem, cousin of the popular Spanish actor Javier Bardem (married to Penelope Cruz), was filming his new TV movie, '22 Angels', in Galicia. 

A TRIP THAT CHANGED MY MIND!

By Jonathan Varela Fernández.

A few weeks ago, the long-awaited trip to Palermo (Sicily) was eventually carried out; we had been waiting for two really long years. The trip lasted seven days in total. 

                 
During the first five days, we stayed in Palermo (in the north of the island) and, for the last two days of our visit, we moved to Catania, which lies on a broad plain at the bottom of Mount Etna, the largest active volcano in Europe and is located in the south-east of the island.

Sicily: An island of contrasts.

Have you ever wondered what a trip to Sicily would be like?
This is what we found on our recent visit to the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an island full of history which wants to keep its rich cultural bakground at the same time as it is trying to meet the new requirements to fit the needs of the modern society of the 21st century we live in.

Through this series of photographs, some of them with comments, you'll discover a little bit of its history as well as some of the most important UNESCO sites on the island, together with their beautiful traditional music and astonishing landscapes and monuments.
You'll also have a look at one of the most important journals on the island: Il Giornale di Sicilia, which we visited as an important part of the project we're working on.

Click here to watch the film.

Oscar Fredrik Church: A nice example of neo gothic in Gothenburg, by Ángela Rodríguez Fernández.

NEO-GOTHIC.

Neo-gothic is an architectural movement that started in the late 1740s in England. It became popular rapidly in the early 19th century, trying to revive medieval Gothic architecture, in contrast to the neoclassical styles which were popular at the time. This Gothic Revival displays characteristics from the original Gothic style, including decorative patterns, finials, lancet windows, hood mouldings, label stops and others.

An effective protection against enemies: Beautiful St. Philip castle, by Jonathan Varela Fernández.

     The castle of San Felipe is one of the military fortresses in the estuary of Ferrol, a town located in
the province of La Coruña, autonomous region of Galicia, Spain.

 In the photograph on the right, Erasmus + international students on a trip by boat to the castle.

Spain celebrates its 30th anniversary as a member of the European Union, by Eli Tatyanova Petkova and Claudia Prieto-Puga Gonzáles.

     Last 12th June 2015, Spain commemorated the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Accession Treaty of Spain to the European Communities, now the European Union.

A sport born from the film: The Salute of the Jugger, by André Rey Vidal.

Jugger is a sport inspired by the 1989 movie The Salute of the Jugger, in which a game of the same name is played. The transformation into a real sport happened independently in Germany and in Australia.
 
                  

Efficient means of transport in Scandinavia, by the Spanish group travelling to Kungsbacka.

EFFICIENT MEANS OF TRANSPORT IN SCANDINAVIA.

         
 

     In a recent journey to Sweden we realized how easy a trip can be when the means of transport you use are well coordinated in terms of schedules as well as in terms of the nearness of the different stations (trains, ferry, bus, underground…) We had been advised by our teachers to pay a lot of attention to the means of transport we were going to use and these are the conclusions we got after travelling from Copenhagen to Kungsbacka via Helsingor. We also found out how security measures can differ from one country to another.

Tanum, Sweden. By, Anxo Fernández Embade.

Tanum, Sweden
Tanum is a municipality in Västra Götaland Country in southern Sweden. The town council is in Tanumshede.
                                             

The first European Cultural Route: The Way of St. James (El Camino de Santiago), by Alba Rama Carneiro.

                    THE FIRST EUROPEAN CULTURAL ROUTE: THE WAY OF ST. JAMES
                                                       EL CAMINO DE SANTIAGO

     The Camino de Santiago, or Way of St. James, is a route used by pilgrims from around the world to reach the city of Santiago de Compostela, where the relics of St.James the Great are venerated. After the Council of Europe’s Declaration of the Way as the first European Cultural Route in 1987 and the adoption of a common European graphic identification system to guide the pilgrims from any nationality or religion, the route has continued to grow, until The French Route (one amongst several routes) was eventually declared a UNESCO World Heritage Route in 1993.

Street art: Las Meninas de Canido are exported to Europe, by Bella Jasmin Kahia González.

      'LAS MENINAS' IN CANIDO ARE EXPORTED TO EUROPE. 

Canido, in Ferrol, and Montmartre, in Paris, share nothing in common but the fact of being located on a hill at the top of the city and keeping some characteristics of the villages they used to be long ago. Those aspects create a personality of their own in both quarters.

Discovering Scandinavia: Denmark and Sweden, by the Spanish group travelling to Kungsbacka.

    In this collection of photographs from the recent trip a group of students and teachers from IES de Catabois in Ferrol took to Denmark and Sweden, you'll experience how it feels getting to know these two beautiful Scandinavian countries and the facilities they offer to the traveller. 

The film comes with traditional Swedish music taken from the following fonts:

http://redmp3.cc/8958575/vasen-pilvi-eskos-brudvals.html

http://musicfree.info/mp3/download/file/wild-whirled-music-secrets-of-the-sands-the-wolverine-trailer-music-official

http://mp3hit.net/kapten/4/ 

http://song.mymp3files.com/genre/nyckelharpa.html

http://caltech.typepad.com/.a/6a0105349b8251970b019affefbe73970d-800wi (Denmark)
https://www.ispor.org/HTARoadMaps/Sweden/Sweden.gif

You're invited to watch the film by clicking in the following link: DISCOVERING SCANDINAVIA

Read all about it!

This autumn Elof Lindälvs Gymnasiet, in Kungsbacka hosted the partner schools from Spain, Poland, Turkey, Romania and Italy. 

Students and teachers visited the school from Monday 11^th to Friday 16^th October and took part in a number of academic and cultural activities. The aim of the visit to Sweden was give the students a closer look into the world of news and encourage them to reflect on how newspapers create their front page. After an eventful week together the students interacted during the final workshop and produced their very own front page based on the events they themselves had participated in. 

They made the news. They were the news. They produced the news.

Wieliczka Salt Mine (Poland): Deep into planet Earth.

During our recent visit to Poland in May 2015, we went on an incredible trip under the Earth, where we even  had lunch! Can you believe it?

   


There's such a place and it's called Wieliczka. Inscribed in the UNESCO world Heritage Sites List since its very beginning in 1978, together with other 11 places in the world, it's one of the oldest companies (not to say the oldest one) still running in Europe today. Its visit is like a quick look onto the history of this beautiful friendly country.
The article explains the mine from the point of view of a group of students, 15-16 year olds, who visited it as part of an Erasmus + KA2 project.
Enjoy the trip!

Link to the document where the article appears:
Wieliczka Salt Mine (Poland): Deep into planet Earth. PDF document.

Erasmus + meeting in Spain

In March 2015, students from six different countries met up in Ferrol, Spain to discuss news and take part in cultural activities. One of the points of the journey was to get together and create connections between the different nationalities by learning about each other’s cultures, traditions and daily life.

We have interviewed two of the participating students and asked them about what they think the journey has contributed to.

Students from Spain and Sweden who contributed to the project.