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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. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The Comenius Project2013
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
Explore the CulturePrades and Prades Market
Villefranche de Conflent
St Michel-De-Cuxa
Wine Tasting
The Catalan Culture
The Mountains, the Fruit, the Cafés and Food
Prades
Orgues D’Illes
VilleFranche de Conflent
Le Petit Train Jaune and the Mountains
The Food
The Orchards and the Mountains
The Food
The Coast-Collioure
French-Catalan Cooking Demonstration
The Market at Prades
The Market Café
St Michel de Cuxa
ShadowingObserving lessons
Talking to teachers
Talking to pupils
Reflecting on educational issues
Making links for future exchange possibilities.
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 behaviour and literacy.
Children, Teachers, Curriculum and Schools
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.
Future PlansContinued Links
Exchanges
Further Visits
Joint Projects
Contacts and FundingBernadette Clinton
North London Schools International Network