Special Olympics Antonio Gala School

Integration Activity: Special Olympics

In few days you´ll be able to see several photos and a video about the event, it was incredible, our students enjoyed and learnt a lot sharing their time and smiles with the Special Olympics friends...

INTERMEDIATE ASSESSMENT /COMENIUS PROJECT:

INTEGRATION AND EQUALITY IN THE FIELD OF EDUCATION BY MEANS OF PHISICAL ACTIVITIES, GAMES AND SPORT.

The objective of the following questionnaire is to analyse and evaluate the development of our project during the first year.  All data results will be analysed in the forthcoming meeting in Cyprus aiming at setting specific improving proposals.

PROJECT	4,7
ENGAGEMENT AND IMPACT	3,9
ACTIVITIES AND PRODUCTS	3,8
VISITS AND MEETINGS	4,6
PARTNERS	4,9

PROJECT	0 to 5	4,7
Level of satisfaction with the Project in general.4,8	54555	4,8
Level of satisfaction with the Project coordination.4,6	54455	4.6
Is the Project initial planning being followed?4,6	54455	4.6

ENGAGEMENT AND IMPACT	0 to 5	3,9
Level of engagement and work among the different partners in the Project.	44455	4,4
Integration of  the Project within the School life	43345	3,8
Level of engagement among the general teaching staff  at your school	43443	3,6
Students’ participation in the Project in the Centre	54345	4,2
Family participation in the Project at your school	43413	3
Is the educational community at your school aware of the development of the Project?	53445	4,2

ACTIVITIES AND PRODUCTS	0 to 5	3,8
Level of satisfaction with the activities and  Project results	44554	4,4
Inclusion of the activities within the teacher’s syllabus and planning.	42345	3,6
Benefits from the activities and the project results carried out.	42455	4
Practical use of these project results at School	42344	3,4

VISITS/ MEETINGS	0 to 5	4,6
General  level of satisfaction attained during  the visits to other schools	45555	4,8
Visits length	54555	4,8
Financial cost of the visits	43555	4,4
Level of satisfaction attained with the work developed during the meetings	44545	4,4
Level of satisfaction with the programs  during  the visits	45545	4,6
Balance concerning  work and leisure time  during the visits	45554	4,6

PARTNERS	0 to 5	4,9
Relationship among the different partners in the Project	55555	5
Level of communication  among the partners	55445	4,6
Active participation and engagement among the partners.	55555	5

REMARKS

BULGARIA. Our school finds the project participation very useful because it provides intercultural experience for both students and teachers. Almost all of the teaching staff is involved , as well as the majority of students in the 8th, 9th, and 10th grades. The visits up to now have been very well-organised and productive, with the exception of Norway, where the time set aside for the work session was reduced to a  very short time  and not all expenses were known in advance.  We have experienced some problems with our certificates, but we have been assured by our Spanish, Latvian and Norwegian partners that the issue will be resolved during the visit to Cyprus. In general we find our partners very cooperative and responsive. LATVIA. Latvian partners would have wished better engagement from the teaching staff in our school. There is still the feeling that the project is mainly for the teachers of English and sports. The beginning of the second year in the project has shown greater progress in the meaning of the attitude. Up to now all the activities have been described in English and the materials from other schools are also in English. That is a problem with some teachers (including sports teachers) in our school. At the end of the project the coordinator promises to translate the games and other activities in Latvian and compile them in a separate file. We haven’t managed to involve more parents in the project activities. They have been supporters, but our wish was that they had taken more active part in the project. (The problem in our school in general) We have analysed the conclusions about the visit to Latvia. The main critical point could be a very compact programme versus too much free time.. The guessed would have wished it more balanced. But it could have been influenced by quite extreme weather conditions in January. CYPRUS. We love Comenius but we hate crisis!!!! PORTUGAL. Well done everyone!!!!

CYPRUS MEETING. 7-10 NOVEMBER

INTEGRATION AND EQUALITY IN THE FIELD OF EDUCATION BY MEANS OF PHISICAL ACTIVITIES, GAMES AND SPORT.

CYPRUS MEETING. 7-10 NOVEMBER

MINUTES:

1. GO THROUGH THE PROJECT DESIGNE AND CHECK “TASKS”.

Firstly we review our Project Design. We list the different project stages and sum up all the activities and products we have already done. We set the current stage and point of the project. We are somewhere between stages 4 GENDER EQUALITY and stage 5 CULTURAL INTEGRATION. (Attached the Power Point with all Project Information which was shown)

We check all the tasks we had to bring to Cyprus:

1. Creating a new Co-educative game. Students will collaborate to invent and develope a new game. This game had to be co-educative, both genders must participate and be useful at the same level. Games will be exchanged and played in P.E. lessons. All the partners had something to show, some of us had the games in a CD which were exchanged. Sadly we hadn’t enough time to put all the games into practice with students. Anyway writing and sending the games into a table model to be compiled will be a task for the next meeting.

2. Sport Event collaborating with local institutions. Organize and take part in a sport event in collaboration with institutions within the work frame of disability integration. None of us had got to reach this objective. Nevertheless during the visit our partners from Cyprus prepared a football match with Special Olympics, congratulations!!! The rest of us will have to try harder to take something to Bulgaria.

2. TASKS PLANNING FOR THE NEXT MEETING IN BULGARIA

The tasks we must work in and have ready for the next meeting in Bulgaria are:

• Writing and sending the CO-EDUCATIVE GAMES created by our students into a table model to be compiled. There is attached a “model table or blind form” (I’m not sure about the name in English). You must pass all the games to this format and send it to me. I’ll compile all of them and resend you the whole document to work with them in your PE lessons. It must be done before Christmas, please!!!!

• Local sportswomen interviews. Students will interview the best ranked sportswomen from the school or town or area, even country. They have to choose the media and format: paper, magazine, web, video, radio… and design the interview. The point is to remark the role of women within sport field. It must be done in English. We will upload the works to our blogs and will bring them to Bulgaria to be exchanged.

• Games from other cultures. Students belonging to minority ethnic, religious or cultural groups will teach the others how to play their traditional games in P.E. lessons. We can organize a school event or just a PE activity. The best way would be to record the games and make a video and upload it to our blogs. Anyway we have to write them in the same model table to be compiled in our final Handbook. Please send it when it is done and bring the documents to Bulgaria.

• Sport Event collaborating with local institutions. Organize and take part in a sport event in collaboration with institutions within the work frame of disability integration. We have to keep on trying to get this point. Don’t forget that establish collaboration with this kind of institution is one of our main objectives. Please don’t give up!!!!! And try to bring some stuff to Bulgaria. Record it.

• Body rhythm choreography. It is a long term task. Assisted by the Music or PE teacher, the students have to create a choreography clapping hands or others body parts, even table or furniture. The music was already sent. Some of the partners have already done the work. We have to finish and record it and send to us to make the mixed final video.

3. DATES FOR NEXT MEETING IN BULGARIA

23 -27 January

4. INTERMEDIATE ASSESSMENT (The whole research is attached)

We analyze the assessment results and work in groups about the less valued items.

We drew some conclusions and proposals to be taken into count during our work at school:

PRACTICAL USE OF THE PROJECT RESULTS AT SCHOOL Group Proposals: Publish all the materials (videos, photos, texts…) on our blogs for wider usage. Move CDs with the materials and exchange them To practice: a task for students to prepare a game from other countries and present it at PE lessons Use the products at the English lessons Coordinator commentary: We must keep on uploading as much stuff as we can to our blogs to be published, sometimes we forgot it. About the usage of products in PE and English lessons, please notice that every task finishes when we use the products in PE or English lessons. We just have to follow the instructions.

INCLUSION OF THE ACTIVITIES IN TEACHER’S SYLLABUS Group Proposals: Presentations for the teachers and parents Increase school website usage Interviews the coordinators Publish our Project in media, papers, radio, local tv… Organize Comenius Day at School involving all the community. Coordinator commentary: Absolutely agree. We must, in general, try to publish and spread all our activities and products. We have really good ideas to put into practice at school

FAMILIES AND REST OF THE TEACHERS INVOLVEMENT Group Proposals: Publish all the stuff in the school website Update our blogs School boards usage Use local public spaces to display our results, squares, malls, City-Hall… Present the project to the teachers and parents at the beginning of the course, and try to involve them giving them some task. Invite the families to take part in some of the project activities Use the involved students to present the project to other students, teachers or families telling the experiences Coordinator commentary:  Ok. Let’s do it!!!!!!!!! Little by little we get that more teachers are working on the project at school. We just have to plan when and how are we going to do that, better than waiting for them to come. It’s the same with families. Here we have some feasible suggestions which could work.

Just in the middle!

Hi Comenius people,

            We´re in the middle of the project and we´ve several things to do yet. As you know, the most urgent is to create different coeduational games by our students. These games must be shown at our and at Cyprus' school.

            At the beginning of the academic year we had a staff meeting where we explained to the rest of the school teachers what we had to do during this year and how much would be involved the school. In that meeting we highlighted these outstanding issues that we're going to recall you:

–                    Fill the questionnaire: intermediate assessment.

–                    To contact with a handicapped people sport association. We are in touch with Special Olympics in Seville and we´re waiting for a date to participate in an event with these dissabled people and some of our secondary students.

–                    Interview to a paralympic sportwoman.

–                    To attend to a lecture made by an expert in sport integration.

–                    To close the project: to create a choreography rhythm between all the countries with the “yakety sax” song as base.

            The next tryp is approaching, in a few days we´ll meet again in Cyprus! We´re sure that we´re going to live great moments there, similar or better than we´ve lived in Riga, Rena or Seville. Here you have a collage that we´ve made up to remember the marvelous moments from the first year.

 

Some Videos about first year project works

Here You Have a kind of summary done around different videos in our first year project.

We hope you enjoy it!!!

 

 And the last one is about our European School Cross...              

  http://youtu.be/zBEbba4ocBY

Norwegian meeting photos - May 2012

Here you have some photos about our meeting in Norway! Better late than never! Enjoy them!

Pinfuvote: Dos Hermanas Tournament

The Pinfuvote is a game which is promote in Dos Hermanas because the creator is a teacher from Dos Hermanas.
Our school and mostly our PE Teacher, Jose Luis, took it to our Comenius Project because he found in this sport a really good tool to work the cooperation, integration, coeducation... through the physical education.

Our school presented it to the comenius partners like an example of integrator game.

With this idea, our school created a team in primary school and they started to training... Jose Luis did a good job!! He have now a really big group of students and families who are Pinfuvote lovers.

This weekend was the primary tournament in Dos Hermanas with several teams from differents schools, and we presented two teams... and after have fun, smile and really good moments... they got be winners!!!

Both teams were first and second in the tournament... They were there to have fun and enjoy and  I think it was the secret to be the two best teams...

Congratulations to our students... and specially to Jose Luis, he have done a incredible job (and these words are not related with the position in the tournament)

Final Logo!!

Here You are our Project Logo... It was a portuguese teacher creation, Rui. He used the differents logos which were done by students from each country involved in our project.

Congratulations, it is really nice!!! isn´t it??

Brussels Congres - Information about our Comenius Project

OFFICIAL MEETING COMENIUS - RENA, NORWAY - MAY 2012
TREATED POINTS AND INFORMATION TO CONSIDER

- Members are reminded about organization and structure of the goals of our project and the stages of work we are developing:
§ Integration at the cultural level: Knowledge about different countries, school questionnaires, contact with students via Internet, traditional games ...
§ Integration at the level of disability: Adapted games, relevant disabled athletes, European sport day...
§ Integration at gender level: We start now to work this section.

- Tasks to be performed within the project schedule:
§ Each partner country of the project should conduct a sports event in collaboration with an NGO or Association of people with disabilities in a local or regional level in each partner country of the project. (In Cyprus, if Stelios get contact with Special Olympics, we could make a global event project). It would be ideal if our students could take part in the organization and development of the event.
§ To create in each school one or more co-educational games, in which the rules promote equality and non-discrimination between genders.

- Tasks suggested by project partners to carry out the next year of the project (both have been received very well by the other partners, supporting their realization):
§ Spain: Make a music video editing, in which, through a definite rhythm,

Each country should create a choreography with corporal percussion, according to a musical base that the Spanish team is going to sent you before the end of the school year. All the countries would participate in the project, plus the other Comenius project countries we conducted in Spain, plus African partners from an e-Twinning project that is being developed in our school.
§ Portugal: We propose to analyze the organization of the educational system of each country. They´ll send attached the application form with the information needed.

- Date closed for the next meeting in Cyprus. It will take place from 7^th  to 11^th  November 2012.

- EVALUATION: We must receive the evaluation information of the project by agencies, if not change the format from previous years, there will be a common part that makes Spain as coordinator, and one specific to be completed by each center. Also, as coordinators, we intend to make a small improvement project questionnaire, waiting assessing achievements and contributions of new ideas and / or activities.

- REMINDERS

§ It is recalled that Norway should make the questionnaire asked for the first meeting in Latvia, is one of the most relevant. Similarly, although they did at the meeting that took place in May the European sport day, they should provide at least 2 adapted games to the project. In both Spain and Latvia were exhibited some adapted and integrators games, which are very important to the bank of resources, priority objective of the project.
§ All partners: we must collect the games and activities carried out during the two years in order to create a resource bank for integration through physical education, will match the co-educational games that have been screened at the meeting.
§ All partners are invited to suggest ideas, promoting new activities, make bilateral cooperation, including exchanges, etc.
§ Remember that our project has been selected to attend a conference in Brussels where we were shown an example of good practices to promote the integration at school. The information has been sent by e-mail.

News!! We have been selected in Brussels...

                      CONFERENCE: "HELPING SCHOOLS TEAM UP ACROSS EUROPE". 

BRUSSELS MAY 2012

One of the projects developed at European level in the school Antonio Gala, "Integration and Equality in the field of education by Means of games, sports and physical activity", which is part of COMENIUS partnerships, was selected as a model project for be presented during a series of conferences held in Brussels in this May.This activity brought together directors, teachers and politicians from 33 European countries who discussed how to make more successful cooperation between schools and how to achieve greater social impact of their results, developing the skills of teachers, schools and internationalization integration in classrooms.Our project was exhibited in a permanent stand along with other 11 projects were grouped into 4 different themes. "Schools That Work for all" grouped 3 projects that dealt with integration in schools. Our project focuses on the integration of students through physical activity and work 3 domains: physical and mental disability, gender equality and integration of cultures.During the activity, attend conferences work in thematic workshops with other teachers and made a presentation of our project in which we include exhibitions of some of the adapted sports activities developed by the students.During the days of exposure we found that both the objectives and proposed activities from our project inspired and motivated by other participants. Likewise, returned full of new and good ideas for future projects.

NORWAY VISIT MAY 2012 - LAST MEETING FIRST YEAR PROJECT

We have also made the last visit of the first year of the project to Norway in the town of Rena. We have reviewed the recent work and prepared the program that runs until the end of the course until the following working visit to be held from 7 to 10 November 2012 in Cyprus.By now you must have performed a sporting event - with an NGO or educational asoación working with disability and social integration at the local or regional, and elementary students will have to invent, in the course of EF and citizenship, a sports in which it promotes gender equality.

Comenius Meeting in Norway - May 2012

Nuestra colega Montse, en su primer viaje de proyecto comenius, ha realizado un artículo sobre sus impresiones y sensaciones con la nueva experiencia que ha tenido a nivel profesional y personal.

Que la disfrutéis...

Comenius Meeting in Norway

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Comenius Exchange - Students from Norway

We received in our center these days the visit of friends from Norway, in a Comenius project we have in school.

Have been conducting educational and cultural activities for a week ... within the work they have done we have recorded a series of programs of short interviews where we were told, in English, sensations, feelings and experiences that the exchange had. Of course not in vain, our students, now in 4th of ESO, had visited Norway last year.

European Sport Day. 22-3-12

Last Thursday 22nd March, The Antonio Gala School celebrated the European Sport Day as part of the Comenius Project: Integration and Equality in the field of PE by means of game, sport and physical activity.

The Portuguese School, which is involved in the project too, was invited to the event. They came by bus from Tavira with some Secondary School students. Our school took part with students from the third level of Primary School and the Secondary School students. All the Secondary students, Portuguese and Spanish, were mixed into different country groups. They wore flag sticks to identify themselves.

The event carried out in the Manuel Utrilla Stadium, in Dos Hermanas, facilities provided by the City Council. Our school showed a lot of different traditional games from the different nationalities which belong to this project: Latvia, Bulgaria, Norway, Cyprus, Portugal and Spain. We showed several adapted games and sports to support the project which we are working for. We organized a total number of 12 stages where the groups were passing. In each stage there were a Spanish student explaining in English the game to the participants.

The morning passed successfully and we got our mains goals: the students enjoyed a lot, they could learn traditional games from others European countries, they practiced a little English and they interacted with new students through the game and physical activity.

Of course, none of these would have been possible without the help of the students of the 4th level from Antonio Gala School, which learnt the procedure of the different games in order to explain them to the groups.

We hope all the students from Portugal and Spain have enjoyed and they have profited from this day.

María José Dorado Segura