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Teamwork in Primary Pumpkins are alive!

n primary we believe that the members of the group you mistakes can improve our learning his year for Halloween the creativity they came up with
Iteamwork is crucial because it work with. Then, working in groups and skills. TSecond Cycle decided to the most original Halloween
is very helpful and beneficial for is very enriching because the In addition, our society is very do something different in Art pumpkins ever! They were all
our students. In fact, we promote students can learn different ways collaborative and we need classes. different, but all great!
teamwork in our everyday to interact with the members of each other in order to reach our They were so impressive that we
routines in our classes. By the group. At the same time, we objectives. Carrying out teamwork Miss Pujol decided to hold a competition and
working in teams, our students all focus on different aspects, and activities in Primary will help our Instead of creating one so all the Second Cycle children
can get to know themselves and working together means that we students to become more skilled craft following the teacher’s voted for their favorite pumpkin
get to know the members of the have different perspectives for and be better prepared for the instructions or using one and we had two winners, as you
group they are working with. the same topic, so sharing the future. technique, the students were can see in the pictures, one from
knowledge with the members just given a specific goal, “You Primary 3 and one from Primary 4.
Mr Ferre of the group gives students have to create a scary Halloween So congratulations everybody for
Of course, we are all different deeper knowledge. What is more, pumpkin”. They were given one your hard work!
and we might react differently teamwork makes our students pumpkin and lots of materials. It was a fantastic experience! We
to certain stimuli; social skills are more critical and helps them to So with all of that and their hope you all had the chance to
very important in order to work discuss and provide arguments amazing imagination and see them in the Entrance Hall!
in a group and they might be about the learning objective
slightly different depending on in class. Pupils also learn how

Trip to Catalunya en Miniatura

his year primary were visited
Tfrom a local NGO called GK
Project.

School
Primary 3 and 4 enjoyed a
wonderful day out at Catalunya Panellets, Halloween
en Miniatura. Having worked
hard to study the geography of and Casanyada
the region, as well as important
cultural facts, the children loved
seeing the architecture and involved a treasure hunt around Finally we took great delight in his short week was full of In addition, in the afternoon
features of the landmarks they had the model village. After this, we riding the train around the park, Tevents in Primary. we celebrated Halloween, the
been learning about. On arrival, had some time to look at each giving us a different vantage point students prepared fantastic
we were greeted by the staff who model in detail, talking about how of the structures. A fun day was Mr Ferré activities and had a very good
led a fun and active workshop that the building related to our studies. had by all! We have been working with time. The students played
our mentoring groups in order different traditional Halloween
to make panellets, the Primary activities for example, pin the
Primary 4 'travelled' to Mexico 6 students helped the Primary bow, Halloween Piñata, bowling

3 students, Primary 5 made with the scary ghost and many
panellets with Primary 2 and more activities.
n Primary 4, as part of our Primary 4 also made them with Then, on Tuesday afternoon
IAround the World topic, we Primary 1. The older students we celebrated ‘La Castanyada’
have been focusing on Mexico, helped the younger ones, they and the ESO students helped
learning all about the country explained how to make the to serve chestnuts to the whole
and it’s traditions, in particular dough and how to make our of Primary and had a very good
El Día de los Muertos. delicious panellets. time.

Miss Stiles
This has been particularly apt
as Halloween and Castanyada
approaches. We have used the
iPads to research geographical
facts about the country, we
looked at symmetry in maths to English to inspire some superbly, and their alphabet, as well
design sugar skulls and make spooky story writing. We have as studying the work of Frida
our own Papel Picado and also also learnt a Mexican song and Kahlo. We even got to try some
watched a short animation in have researched the Mayans traditional Mexican bread!