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Showing posts with label Barcelona. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barcelona. Show all posts

Wednesday, 20 October 2010

Barcelona adventures!

Hola ninos!
Miss Burley and I have arrived at our link school. It is the same school that Mr Ricketts visited last year. School started at 9:00 this morning and the children had a break at 11.30. They have two hours for lunch whilst the teachers plan and meet with each other. They then have lessons from 3:30-5:00!
We have been to some English classes today (the children speak Catalan, Spanish and English!). They were learning about the colours, names and habitats of animals. We´ve done this in Spanish!
We must send these children some photos of your work so they can see how clever you are!
Missing you lots,
Mrs Cole and Miss Burley xxxxx

Tuesday, 12 October 2010

We have arrived!!

Hello all!

We have arrived in Barcelona. It is very windy, 20 degrees, but not raining so its all good! Hope you have had a lovely day. We start University tomorrow to learn lots of Spanish that we can then come and teach all of you! 3B and 6G we hope you have been good and aren't having too much fun without us!!!

We will be in touch as often as we can!!!

Lots of love

Mrs Cole and Miss Burley

Thursday, 18 March 2010

New Spanish Blog!


We have another blog! It's only just been created by one of our hardworking teachers so it's not quite perfect just yet but it soon will be.

The blog is called The Barcelona Birmingham Blog and it's going to have work and pictures on from St John's and our partner school in Spain, Eulalia Bota. To find it you can click on the link on the left of our blog or go to http://barcebrum.blogspot.com.

If you have any message for our friends in Spain please write it down and give it to Mr Ricketts who will make sure it gets put onto the blog.





Thursday, 21 January 2010

The children of Eulalia Bota.


These are some of Mr Ricketts' photos of the lovely children and staff of Eulalia Bota - the school he visited whilst he was in Spain.

The photos are of children from all different year groups although, at the moment, the school does not have a year 4 or a year 6.

All of the children, even the tiny ones, learn English and love to greet English visitors with a "Hello!"

The children study the same kinds of subjects as we do at St. John's but they don't finish lessons until 5 o'clock! To make up for this they do have two hours for dinner although they have to eat what they are given - not like at St. John's where Pat and her team give people a choice. The food, just like English school food is, of course, delicious.

The children don't have to wear school uniform but the younger ones do wear a blue overall to protect their clothes from getting dirt or paint on them.

The school itself looks very different to St. John's. From the outside it reminded Mr Ricketts of a building made out of yellow and white lego.

If you look at these pictures you can see the children, some teachers, the school, the dining hall, the playground (a little bit) and a few of the classrooms. Can you see anything different to St. John's? Do you think schools in Spain are very different to schools in England?

The children in years 3 and 5 at St. John's are incredibly lucky because they are going to be learning more about Eulalia Bota by writing to the children who go there. Maybe they'll make some new friends in a different country!

Mr Ricketts has many more pictures of Barcelona and the children of Eulalia Bota. He's going to put some more on the blog next week so that the children in Spain - who can also look at the blog - can see themselves on the internet.

Just in case they're looking now: "HOLA CHICOS!"

Some of Mr Ricketts' pictures from Barcelona, Spain.





Last October Mrs Smith sent Mr Ricketts to Barcelona in Spain to learn Spanish at Barcelona University and to do some work in a Spanish school. Although he was extremely busy Mr Ricketts managed to escape all the work and studying and, before he was caught and sent back, he managed to take these photographs of the quay and some of the famous buildings in Barcelona. Many of the famous buildings were designed by famous Spanish artists. The magnificent cathedral still being built in the bottom two pictures was designed by an artist called Gaudi.
PRIZE COMPETITION!
The first person to tell Mr Ricketts the name of this cathedral before the end of February will win a special Spanish prize!


(Try researching 'Gaudi' and 'Barcelona'.)