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The Comenius Project 2013

The Comenius Project 2013. Prades near Perpignan, in the Languedoc, France. Learn and Practise the Language. Common Vocabulary Common Verbs and Endings Prompter Booklet of Common Sayings Group Discussion Examples of School Activities to Teach a Language. Shops, Restaurants and Visits.

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The Comenius Project 2013

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  1. The Comenius Project2013 Prades near Perpignan, in the Languedoc, France

  2. Learn and Practise the Language • Common Vocabulary • Common Verbs and Endings • Prompter Booklet of Common Sayings • Group Discussion • Examples of School Activities to Teach a Language. • Shops, Restaurants and Visits

  3. Explore the Culture • Prades and Prades Market • Villefranche de Conflent • St Michel-De-Cuxa • Wine Tasting • The Catalan Culture • The Mountains, the Fruit, the Cafés and Food

  4. Prades

  5. Orgues D’Illes

  6. VilleFranche de Conflent

  7. Le Petit Train Jaune and the Mountains

  8. The Food

  9. The Orchards and the Mountains

  10. The Food

  11. The Coast-Collioure

  12. French-Catalan Cooking Demonstration

  13. The Market at Prades

  14. The Market Café

  15. St Michel de Cuxa

  16. Shadowing • Observing lessons • Talking to teachers • Talking to pupils • Reflecting on educational issues • Making links for future exchange possibilities.

  17. Lessons Learned • The region is rural, agricultural and “small” compared to London. Particularly in a private Catholic school, everyone knows everyone else. Parents are close to the school particularly for the younger children. • Older children are bussed in from outlying areas. • There is a large consensus between pupils and teachers. Pupils do not challenge authority and are compliant. • French teachers complain about behaviour, standards of literacy, the influence of modern culture and the media, as much as English teachers. • There is a strong emphasis upon grammar. • Learning is broadly formal and didactic, with a few exceptions for group work and peer mentoring. • There is extensive use of teaching assistants for behaviourand literacy.

  18. Children, Teachers, Curriculum and Schools

  19. Lessons Learned • In addition to French, Catalan and English are taught. English is taught from the first year at age 2-3. • Children’s games in the playground include skipping, chase, and ballgames including rugby. • The school had an extensive garden for flowers and vegetables. • Class size is about standard for the UK at around 30 children. • Rooms are decorated in the primary school and less so in the secondary, broadly similar to the UK. Decorations include many posters concerned with the curriculum and some children’s work. • Room seating layouts are the same as the UK with rows becoming more usual in secondary, but groups and squares being the norm at a younger age. • Teachers teach according to detailed plans, in PE directed from a central agency.

  20. Future Plans • Continued Links • Exchanges • Further Visits • Joint Projects

  21. Contacts and Funding • Bernadette Clinton • North London Schools International Network

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