A School where Learning comes Alive
Eighteen students and twelve teachers from all of our Comenius partner schools in France, Spain and England came to visit Clontuskert, Ireland in May 2015. The schools involved were CRA La Serrania, Spain, École Edmond Bocquier, France, The Oaks Secondary, UK and Dryden School, UK.
This film gives an overview of their stay here:
Learn more about about the project on our group blog www.stage.scoilnet.ie
This week sees eighteen students and twelve teachers from our Comenius partner schools in France, Spain and England visit Clontuskert. They arrive on Monday and will leave Ballinasloe on Thursday. We will host them in Clontuskert school on Tuesday and Wednesday.
On Wednesday evening we will hold a Community celebration from 7.00pm-9.00pm, in the school hall and all are welcome.
So far students and teachers from Clontuskert have visited France and Spain.
Get a flavour of our adventures in France here:
In March 2015 we travelled to Spain:
About our Project
This Project blog is centred around five schools from all across Europe. In Comenius, schools from across Europe come together, to work on a project to learn about each other’s countries and cultures. The schools originally met at a Comenius Contact Seminar in Durham, England in 2008 and completed a project called STAGE: Seven Towards a Greener Europe between 2010 and 2012.
The Partner schools include two schools in England, a school in France, Ireland and Spain.
We also have two silent partner schools in Estonia and Sweden.
Our project name is SHAPE – which stands for S trong H ealthy hAppy P eoplE
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The five schools involved are:
Edmond Bocquier, St Gilles Croix de Vie, France
Dryden School, Gateshead, United Kingdom
The Oaks Secondary, Durham, United Kingdom
St Augustine’s N.S., Clontuskert, Ireland
Colegio Rural Agrupado, Valencia, Spain
Project Outline:
Year 1: 2013-2014: Nutrition and Food
Year 2: 2014-2015: Sport and Fitness
Year 1: 2013-2014: Nutrition and Food
1. Logo Competition Activity
2. Baseline Assessment of Healthy Eating in each country
3. Mascot Travel to each country and share information about countries
4. Healthy Breakfast:
• Swapping recipes/menus
• Make a Healthy Smoothie
• Breakfast in School
5. Mobility to England: March 2014
6. Healthy Traditional Food:
• Each Country will send a recipe and have one day where each country would make this recipe and post pictures on blog. Also send home
7. Food Language: Each Country’s Language. Each country will create a Powerpoint on Food and send to each other
8. Trip to local food producer. Report and photos on blog
9. Healthy Eating Poster Competition
10. Mobility to France: May 2014
Year 2: 2014-2015: Sport and Fitness
1. Baseline Assessment
2. PP: Famous Sports people and Exchange between countries
3. Film each country’s national/local dance. Upload onto blog. Each country perform during their own School Hosting
4. Mobility to Spain: November 2014
5. Each country sends rules of national game to others. You Tube clips of sport to be uploaded and embedded on blog.
6. Dictionary of Activities
7. SHAPE European Games Day
8. Play each National Game. Share on blog. Community Event
9. Mobility to Ireland: May 2015
We have made a film of our trip to France. Bain taitneamh as!
http://youtu.be/rmrqQfoJ1qc
As part of European Day of Languages Ms. Maerz worked with us on a multilingual play. We learned German, Irish, Spanish, English and French for this play!
Bain sult as!
Today is European Day of Languages! Come celebrate with us! Ms. Maerz will be helping us mark the occasion today! Visit the website to learn more here:
http://edl.ecml.at/
Bonjour !
This time, Mrs. Murray’s students are going to see a doctor… in French ! Isn’t that impressive ?
So, class, what did you think of this task ? Was it useful ? Did you enjoy performing it ? What did you like to learn most of all, and is there anything more you would like to learn on this subject ? Finally, and more importantly : what do you think of your performance ?
Please tell me what you think in the comments !
Bonjour !
Aujourd’hui, c’est (encore) révisions !
A game about “La famille” : http://www.education.vic.gov.au/languagesonline/french/sect07/no_4/no_4.htm
Practice your listening skills and how to introduce yourself : http://www.education.vic.gov.au/languagesonline/french/sect02/no_3/no_3.htm
And, finally, practice your numbers from 1 to 100 with this game, in which you have to select the correct weight : http://www.education.vic.gov.au/languagesonline/french/sect25/no_01/no_01.htm
The instructions for every game are on the top left corner of the page : just click on “instructions” to read them.
Have fun… and don’t forget to comment !
A plus tard !
Madison Motsch of Capital University Ohio came to Clontuskert in December 2011 as part of her teacher training. Today, Tuesday the 17th of April, she is presenting her work in Clontuskert to the University!
Here is Madison with students, presenting at the MissionV stand at Galway Science and Technology Festival with Caroline Healy; Senior Manager of Learning and Development, Medtronic, Galway.
We have made a short film to better explain the learning that takes place in Clontuskert school! Let us know what you think!
Clontuskert NS 2012
Pauvre Victor ! What’s happening to him today ? Where is he hurt ?
Try and make a few sentences yourself using “J’ai mal à + bodypart”.
Need some help ? Le corps humain is still here (along with the games !) to help you with the vocabulary. You can also have a look at this page for a few examples (careful though ! They’re saying where the man is hurt, not where “I” am hurt !). Also, here is a little poem (“Chez le Médecin”), and you have to find out who is hurt where.
Want to practice a bit more on “à la”, “à l'”, “au” and “aux” ? The dustbin game might help : click “start”, then “proceed” once you’ve re-read through the statements, and then place the sentences in the correct dustbin.
Finally, you might need to copy and paste these as your keyboard does not have the French “accents” : à é è
As usual, tell me how well you did !
Bon courage, et à bientôt !
Here is one of the French songs learnt in the Junior Room ! They are doing so well !