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S . I . L A M I QU E L A
A HIGHLY-QUALIFIED STATE AND EXPERIMENTAL SCHOOL, EAGER TO ENCOURAGE INNOVATION AND CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT Origins
Present
The Educative Project
S.I. La Miquela de Bescanó is a state At present, in 2013, S.I. La Miquela
school of the Education Department of Generalitat de Catalunya, founded on 7th September in 2010 in order to fulfill parents’ demands.
has: 2 groups of 1st grade of ESO (41 students in total) 2 groups of 2nd grade of ESO (48 students in total)
It started with fifty students and six teachers. However, every year it has 2 groups of 3rd grade of ESO (42 grown, up to present with around students in total) 200 students and 21 teachers. 2 groups of 4th grade of ESO (51 students in total)
NEW TECHNOLOGIES
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The Educative Project is thought out and created for: Firstly, promoting trilingualism. S e c o n d ly, e n h a n c i n g d i g i t a l competence. Thirdly, encouraging the diversity of capacities and motivations, Finally, promoting high-qualified e d u c a t i o n w i t h a E u ro p e a n dimension among our students, taking part in partnerships.
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Bescanó and its educative community Location and village facilities
villages to keep on their compulsory
Bescanó is a 4,600-inhabitant village studies and can get advantage of all located in the province of Girona, in these facilities to fulfill their academic the north-east of Catalonia. It is needs.
FACILITIES
developing a modern and dynamic econmoy based on industries and services. Most of its citizens work in the nearby city of Girona, the capital city of the area.
THE EDUCATIVE COMMUNITY IS FULLYINTEGRATED INTO THE VILLAGE
Despite its tininess, Bescanó has the following facilities: town hall, a School facilities dispensary, a multi-sport facility, a S.I. La Miquela was set up in a sports hall, a theater, local shops provisional building in 2010 close to a
L O C A L T H E AT E R
(bakeries, fishmonger, supermarket, nursery and primary school. It has bookshop, stationer’s, ...), restaurants e i g h t o rd i n a r y c l a s s ro o m s , a (traditional , Italian, kebahs, ...).
computer room, two labs, two
Concerning educative matters, hoops, a volleyball net and a tennis Bescanó has two nursery schools table. (from 1 to 2 years old), a primary All classrooms as well as labs are school (from 3 to 11 years old) and fully-equipped with a projector, an since 2010 a high school (from 12 to i n t e r a c t i v e w h i t e b o a r d , t w o 16 years old) as well. loudspeakers, WIFI connection for
NUSERY SCHOOL
Thanks to the council’s back-up and Ipads and EVA space for learning the village facilities, young teenagers courses. don’t need to commute to neighbour
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COMPU TER ROO M SURROUNDINGS
School projects 1:1 Project
Every student from the 2nd to the 4th grade of ESO owns a laptop which allows them to enjoy both the printed books
1: 1 P ROJ E C T
and digital resources such as ebooks. They can also download and upload material from Moodle ( on-line school courses platform). ,... Moreover, this allows students to work with
SOME SAMPLE WORKS:
every subject using Information Communications Technology
JOURNALISM
(ICT) tools such as blogs, podcasts, glogsters, videos etc. Since September 2013, students from the first grade of ESO have been given an Ipad instead of a laptop in order to
TECHNOLOGY ROBOTICA
remain up-to-date with new technology. Obviously, this change has pushed all the staff to enroll in training sessions to be able to use all these new devices and its apps. The project aims at enhancing the use of new technologies in order to raise students’ interest and motivation in the learning process.
A HIGHLY MOTIVATED STUDENT IS THE KEY TO SUCCESS PILE
The Project PILE (Pla Integrat de Llengües Estrangeres) is classified as learning English following the CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning Methodology) approach. This approach involves learning subjects in English as a vehicular language.
PILE
In the 1st and 2nd of ESO, apart from the three-hour English Language subject, students are doing a 3-hour elective subject on Natural and Social Science in English. They are studying concepts such as photosynthesis, the water cycle etc. in English. This enables them to widen their range of vocabulary. Thus, students are taking six learning hours per week in English. Our scholar curriculum for 3rd of ESO involves not only the English Language subject but also Social Science (Geography) and Journalism in English. And finally, in the 4th of ESO, the English Language subject as well as Social Science (History) and Ethics are taught in English too. Thus, this language project means that at the last stage of Secondary Education our students are studying nine hours of English on a weekly basis, giving them those 6 extra hours compared to other secondary schools in the area.
SOME SAMPLE MATERIAL PILE WEBSITE
European partnerships All the European projects are conceived and written in order to easily fit into the students’ curriculum and to be fulfilled in a cross-curricular way. This helps enormously in enabling all the students from one level (two groups) to get involved in the project and allows teachers from different subjects to work in coordination to carry out a wide variety of activities.
SINCE S.I. LA MIQUELA IS A SMALL STATE SCHOOL, THE EUROPEAN PROJECTS ARE AIMED AT AS MANY STUDENTS AS POSSIBLE, NOT ONLY IN ACTIVITIES BUT ALSO IN MOBILITIES
In 2011/2013, we took part in a Regio Comenius partnership in the Lifelong Learning Programme. Leg@mi di Parole is made up of two European regions: Abruzzo, an area known as "The Green Area of Europe" and the
L E T ’ S C R E AT E A MULTILATERAL PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CZECH REPUBLIC, TURKEY REPUBLIC AND POLAND. T H I S PA RT N E R S H I P F O S T E R S S T U D E N T S F RO M F O U R V E RY DIFFERENT EUROPEAN COUNTRIES TO THINK OF A BUSINESS THAT CAN HELP OVERCOME THE CRISIS. THEY WILL CREATE AND ADMINISTRATE A LOCAL COOPERATIVE WHICH WILL ESTABLISH COMMERCIAL RELATIONS WITH LOCAL COMPANIES SET UP BY THE OTHER COUNTRIES.
BUILDING BRIDGES T H RO U G H A RT A MULTILATERAL PARTNERSHIP WITH THE NETHERLANDS AND FRANCE. THIS IS A PROJECT DEALING WITH ART T H R O U G H STUDENTS‘ PA I N T I N G , D R AW I N G , 3 D A RT AND PHOTOGRAPHY. ALL THESE ARTISTIC WORKS WILL LEAD THEM TO DISCOVER CHARACTERISTICS AND ASPECTS SUCH AS LANDSCAPE, HISTORICAL BUILDINGS, FESTIVALS AND ART IN GENERAL FROM THEIR OWN COUNTRY AND THE OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES.
Catalan village Bescanó, Girona Catalonia (Spain). The aim of the project was to understand the low reading comprehension skills of
FO OD - H E RE A N D TH E RE , N OW A N D TH E N !
children and teenagers and to explore the improvements of reading and writing practise of the participating countries. At present, our students are involved in three Comenius partnerships in the Lifelong Learning Programme framework.
ABILATERAL PROJECT WHICH A I M S TO E N C O U R A G E S T U D E N T S F RO M BESCANÓ AND G Ü T E R S L O H (GERMANY) TO DEVELOP AN AWARENESS OF THE I M P O RTA N C E O F A HEALTHY DIET FOR THEIR PERSONAL WELLBEING.