We are all very excited because our Irish friends are coming over to spend five days with us. The weather is going to be very good, so we are going to do many things with them so they can make the mos of their stay.
I'll upload some photos these days!
Thursday, 15 May 2014
TRIP TO BILBAO!
The 8 of May we went on a trip to Bilbao to a conference about the importance of languages in our future professions. It was very interesting, as the experiences of the for proffesionals who spoke were great. Although we were in the middle of our exams, it was a great trip. From now on, every time I have an opportunity I will learn another language! You should do the same, It's never to late!
IT'S TIME TO SAY GOODBYE!
After a short but good school year, we finished our exams yesterday. We have worked on many different things during the whole year but I'd like to explain something about the project we have been working hard on these last months.
Firstly,we had to focus on a target group and explain how the economical recession affects them. We thought that it would be interesting to do research about young people like us and we've learnt a lot. It is quite shocking to see how different our life is to others.
Secondly, we needed to think about a slogan to involve everyone in our project. We thought that FEEL,THINK,ACT! was a good one. The message is very clear and it's short. First, you need to feel when something is not going on well, then you have to think what is the best thing to do and lastly It's your time to act!
Moreover, we had three volunteer girls with us one day to talk about different activities we could do as a volunteer. I told you about it in a post.
We also created a poster , where you can see a tree with hands. We tried to sinbolise that if everyone does something little we will do something really big together.
Finally, came the most important and difficult job: THE CAMPAIGN. We needed to find a way to involve the whole school and make them realise what's happening in our world. So we thought of two different activities to do with them:
Firstly,we had to focus on a target group and explain how the economical recession affects them. We thought that it would be interesting to do research about young people like us and we've learnt a lot. It is quite shocking to see how different our life is to others.
Secondly, we needed to think about a slogan to involve everyone in our project. We thought that FEEL,THINK,ACT! was a good one. The message is very clear and it's short. First, you need to feel when something is not going on well, then you have to think what is the best thing to do and lastly It's your time to act!
Moreover, we had three volunteer girls with us one day to talk about different activities we could do as a volunteer. I told you about it in a post.
We also created a poster , where you can see a tree with hands. We tried to sinbolise that if everyone does something little we will do something really big together.
Finally, came the most important and difficult job: THE CAMPAIGN. We needed to find a way to involve the whole school and make them realise what's happening in our world. So we thought of two different activities to do with them:
- A gymkhana that simulated our world and they had to try and survive. (click here for further information).
- A quiz on Europe's day. (click here for further information)
We've had to work very hard to finish this project and we have had many problems as we were under pressure but we finished it today and the result is fantastic! If we win this competition we will get to go to Brussels to visit the European parliament. Lets see if we are lucky!
TO GO TO THE BLOG OF OUR PROJECT CLICK HERE.
TO GO TO THE BLOG OF OUR PROJECT CLICK HERE.
OUR AD IS FINISHED!
Here's the ad we have been working on this term. The people that appear on the video are some of the students of our year. Thanks a lot for participating! As it says in the video, we can all do something to change the world, BE A VOLUNTEER!
FEEL, THINK, ACT!
Monday, 28 April 2014
DO YOU WANT TO HELP?
As you know this term we have been working about volunteering work. Before the holidays a man from Hezkide came to talk to us about how we could be volunteers and what we could do in our city. Today, some people came from different associatons to explain how they work and to make us interested. I'm going to talk to you about Atzegi as I thought it was the most interesting.
Atzegi works with people whose intelectual coefficient is under the average. They´ve got two groups under 16 and over 16. They started in 1960 when some families got together as they saw that these people needed some kind of support in our society. They've got three main aims:
- To avoid these people feeling lonely.
- To help them develop their autonomy.
- To make the society have sensibility towards them.
Atzegi organizes different activities during the week, weekends and they go on holiday. All of these are done by volunteers starting from the age of 17. During the week they have cultural or sport activities, at the weekend they sometimes go on a trip for the day or just meet to go to cinema and on holiday they go to different places three times a year to places like Mallorca, Salou, Logroño, Salamanca... (it depends on their autonomy).
They also do a campaign every year, here´s the poster of this years and click here to watch videos of different experiences of the volunteers.
It looks very interesting and It´s a big opportunity to meet new people. If you´re interested, here´s the website for further information.
Tuesday, 25 March 2014
HERE'S THE IDEA OF OUR POSTER!
As you might have realised, this term we are woking on a project to enter a competition and if we are lucky we might go to Brussels! To start with, we are working in little groups and then we have to chose the best projects. Andoitz, Ainhoa, June and I are working together and we have made an idea of how our poster is going to look like. Here's a photo of the draft:
FEEL, THINK, ACT!
FEEL, THINK, ACT!
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