'What’s new on the news?” Erasmus + project at IES de Catabois

     A few months ago, a young woman from Ferrol, Aroa Fandiño Serrano, contacted me via e-mail. In her mail, she explained that she is specializing in management of European projects and that, after reading about our Erasmus + KA2 project in a newspaper, she was immediately attracted to it. She expressed her interest in arranging an interview with the person in charge of the project at school in order to get information about its implementation and management, the goals we are achieving, the materials produced and the way both the students and the schools involved in the project are living it, what they are learning and so on... She added that she would like to include our project in her blog europeaconvencida.wordpress.com where she deals with topics which try to get Ferrol closer to Europe by relating different European projects with the town, as for example, the Urban Plan.

     Below is the post that she published in her blog talking about our project, after an interview with Maca Torres, coordinator of the project at IES de Catabois.

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.

An interesting surprising trip, by Ángela Rodríguez Fernández.

AN INTERESTING SURPRISING TRIPSome students belonging to 4th year ESO at IES Catabois travelled to Copenhagen, in Denmark, and to yGothenburg and Kungsbacka, in Sweden, last October in order to take part in the learning, teaching and training activities organised in Kungsbacka as part of the Erasmus + project What's New on the News?
They visited many places and saw a lot of important buildings and monuments. In Denmark, they saw coloured houses, some streets with channels, boats, a tower called Rundetaarn and a lot of people riding bikes.
The coloured houses were amazing because all of them had a different colour.

 

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.

A stroll in Copenhagen, by Alfonso Martínez Ferreño and Xoán Díaz Fonticoba.

     
                                                                  COPENHAGEN

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city in Denmark, with an urban population of 1,230,728 and a metropolitan population of 1,967,727.

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

Our weekend in STOCKHOLM

We started our tour of this amazing town by visiting the City Hall

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My trip to Sweden

By Dishana Thevanantham and Liliana Xu Ruini

This trip was one the transnational meetings organized by the teachers of the Erasmus+ project “What’s New on the News”. This meeting took place in Kungsbacka, a small town near Gothenburg in Sweden where we stayed for four days. 

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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.

Short film about Poland

Film made by the Swedish delegates when visiting Poland in May 2015. Please follow the youtube link for viewing, the file is to big to upload here on the blog.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA9qES8HhXY&feature=youtu.be