Bilitrams´ last meeting and reunion with former members to celebrate our 10th anniversary!

This past Wednesday, 28 May, the last meeting of the BILITRAMS intercentre workgroup took place. The meeting was held with lunch at the Ojo Patio restaurant, close to all of our schools, where we conducted a self-evaluation of our work, using the results of a previously conducted survey, and exchanged views on how to focus our training and intercentre activities for the next academic year.

The self-evaluation turned out to be very positive and we agreed to continue training in AI and to hold more student meetings, either face-to-face or/and digital, with twinning of students from different schools, during the next school year and, if we have the possibility, to schedule a visit of a native English-speaking personality to be interviewed. We also discussed the possibility of producing an article or paper on our work for the dissemination of our activities next school year, and keep working on our website.

Also, at the end of the meal, we celebrated a decade of this working group, awarded with the Provincial Educational Merit in June 2018, inviting former coordinators, such as Rosalía Cano and Gracia Sarriá, as well as other former members, such as Mari Carmen Ruíz, to share with us this special moment. Special pins were made, renewing the group's logo, which were distributed among the attendees. Finally, we took a photo of everyone together with a flag created especially for the occasion.

We hope to continue our work in the coming years with the same or even better atmosphere and motivation to continue promoting the exchange of experiences between ANL teachers in our schools and the communicative competence of our students in the English language.

MEETING IN CEIP PROFESOR ENRIQUE TIERNO GALVÁN

In May, 7th we met at CEIP Profesor Tierno Galván for our second training session. 

We worked on the different aspects we want our joint website to have, with all the detailed information for our language assistants, as well as updated information about our working group, and the activities we carry out throughout the school year. We had the invaluable help of a colleague from CEIP Salvador Allende, Juan Antonio, who explained how to handle certain aspects of the website as well as solved some doubts. We also learned how to work with Google Slides with links to create our own story.

At the end, as usual, we enjoyed a shared snack. 

Here are some photos of the session.

                                                                       María José Ruiz
                                            Bilingual Coordinator of CEIP Profesor Tierno Galván

 

 

BILITRAMS celebrates its 10 years with an orientation activity in La Laguna de la Barrera Park!

Spring is here, and to celebrate, we organised an orientation activity with classes from all of BILITRAM's schools to celebrate our 10th anniversary as an inter-schools group of teachers: 

On the 29th of April, we gathered all together in La Laguna de la Barrera park to participate and enjoy the activities.

First, we participated in an orientation activity throughout the park. We must thank Malaga's Orientation Club collaboration (COMA), which set the clues for the children to find words and form an English sentence about Easter. Finishing correctly, all the kids would receive an Easter egg as a prize, and of course, they all did!

We also had time to do some oral communication activities, such as "Making friends" and "Find someone who" in this lovely park, and finally, we shared a picnic together.

It was so much fun, we didn't even notice the blackout! 😉

FIRST DIGITAL TRAINING SESSION AND APRIL MEETING

 

On the 2nd of April, Bilitrams’ members met at Salvador Allende school.  Teachers were at the school library for the first training session, Juan Antonio Pérez was in charge, like last year.  We also had a visit from a Portuguese teacher who is participating in Erasmus with Rectora Adelaida school.  He is job shadowing and he was interested in attending a Bilitrams’ meeting.

At the beginning of the session, our coordinator Aurora López, started with a presentation that she did last month for the Teacher Training Centre, related to our workgroup.  After this, Juan Antonio started to go over the web page we created last year.  The teachers decided what information we could include and how to make it easier to access the contents.

After that, he showed us to use “Create your own story” with Google slides.  It is, a kind of interactive story in which students can choose their own adventure.  We will practice using it in the next session.

We were also discussing about the inter-school activity to celebrate our X anniversary.   Finally, we decided that the younger kids will visit Los Morales school to participate in an Easter hunt, and the older students will do the orientation activity in the La Laguna de la Barrera Park.

To finish, we had a pleasant chat and tea time together. All the members were given a Saint Patrick bookmark, that is the main activity Salvador Allende celebrated, from the bilingual project.

It is always a pleasure to meet with other colleagues that have new and interesting ideas.

BILITRAMS' EASTER HUNT!!!

On Wednesday 5th of March, the Bilitrams Team had a work meeting at CEIP Rectora Adelaida de la Calle with different points according to the decision-making process.

There were some important aspects discussed.

a) Information about Bilitrams Micro-Network dissemination as a Working Group Follow-up Conference on 25th of March at the Teacher Training Centre in Malaga.

b) Decision regarding self-training; the schedule for two sessions on April 2nd and May 7th is focused on the use of digital tools with the activity titled 'Create your own story' (Google Slide).

c) Work distribution to create our Bilitrams' website.

d) Breakdown of the complementary and/or extracurricular bilingual outings itinerary taking into account the assessment provided by different members of the Bilitrams' Team.

5 years old - 'Face to Face' Theatre or English Day Shows by Tell & Show Company

1º- Planetarium 'The Magic Dome'

2º - Workshop on self-sufficient terrarium Ecodecs

3º - Visit and participate in a workshop at Picasso Museum

4º - Visit to the 'Caves of Nerja'

5º - Visit to the airport, 'Skygate', and/or Science Park

6º - Visit to the Torcal in Antequera and/or Gymkhana in the English Cemetery

e) Proposal of inter-school activities to celebrate our Tenth Anniversary: orientation activities in the Morlaco Park on the 29th and 30th of April, about an Easter topic and a shared breakfast.

f) Working Group Project dissemination, with a set of resources developed and good practices, at a Bilingualism Congress.

g) Moodle platform configuration at the same time as our Working Group development.

Finally, we enjoyed our traditional Tea Time with an 'Easter Hunt' theme: decorations, cakes, gifts (bookmarks) and an Easter Egg Hunt educational resource with Egg Hunt Clues.

Our meetings are a great opportunity to share our process of reflection and decision according to improve our teaching practice and, by extension, our students' English learning process as a foreign language.

We are cute TEAM that never ceases in this common purpose.

E. Jurado - CEIP Rectora Adelaida de la Calle

IT´S BILITRAMS' 10th ANNIVERSARY!

 Hi, everyone! BILITRAMS is back and this year we are celebrating our 10th anniversary as an inter-school team! 

Our first meeting took place in CEIP Los Morales, where we welcomed our new members and some of our language assistants. We also reviewed last years work and started planning our activities for this course.

This year we hope to complete our instruction in digital technologies; to finish our BILITRAMS web page and resource bank; to work out a bilingual extra-curricular activities itinerary for all pre-school and primary classes in our centres, and of course, to plan bilingual activities together with the other schools in the team, to celebrate our 10th anniversary!

We also agreed on the next dates and places for our meetings, and made a placemat each with all the information to exhibit in our BILITRAMS corners. 

Here you have the dates and places of our meetings and the photos of our lovely gathering that afternoon, finished as it is customary with a delicious tea, with an apple crumble and vainilla ice-cream... Very British!! 

MEETING DATES:

15th January- CEIP Los Morales

5th March- CEIP Rectora Adelaida de la Calle

2nd April- CEIP Salvador Allende

7th May- CEIP Tierno Galván

28th May- Ojo de Patio or similar restaurant to end our years' work.

5th and last meeting... We say farewell to BILITRAMS IX in style!

The 15th of May we gathered in the final BILITRAMS meeting in this 9th edition of our team group.

We had time to discuss the results of the autoevaluation survey and share ideas about projects and activities for next year, among those, creating reading itineraries and common extracurricular activities, and putting some of those into practice next school year.

The meeeting ended with a nice meal in Ojo Patio, our usual venue to say farewell until next year, which will be very special because we will be celebrationg our 10th anniversary!