St. Patrick's Day Gymkana

We had a ball last Friday, the 17th March, celebrating St. Patrick's Day at CEIP Salvador Allende.Children and teachers from three schools gather together that day to enjoy a specially created gymkana  (2ºA CEIP Tierno Galván, 2º A & B CEIP Salvador Allende and 1º A & B CEIP Los Morales). It had ten stations or games and we all formed the Irish flag with the colours of our T-shirts and a giant clover full with our best wishes! They did a treasure hunt with a treat at the end and they took bookmarks to remember the day. Thanks so much to AMPA Los Almendros and AMPA Averroes for collaborating and helping make such a great event! Here you have some photos! 

 

 

 

 

BILITRAMS' Stop motion video

 We learn and enjoy ourselves at the same time... This is our BILITRAMS' stop motion video!

2nd training session and March meeting

Dear all:

Our team had the 2nd training session on Thursday, the 9th of March. As we did last month, we met at CEIP Salvador Allende's library. This time nine teachers from the five schools came to the meeting. 

In this session, we practiced editing podcasts, using the podcast we created last month, and got familiar with editing with Audacity. We also had a great introduction to stop motion and learned a lot about how to create videos in class. 

Our trainer/teacher, Alejandro Burgos, even recorded one with all of us for our BILITRAMS blog!

Thanks again to CEIP Salvador Allende for supplying us with all the digital resources, and for the wonderful tea we enjoyed there! We also had time to coordinate for our St. Patrick's Day Gymkhana and do a check-up of the training. In the next session, in April, we will continue programming the activities for the third term. We will keep you informed... See you!

 

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3ª Reunión Bilitrams. Formación.

Hello, again! 

Our team had a training meeting last Thursday, the 9th of February. This time we met at CEIP Salvador Allende's beautiful library. We were a total of 10 teachers from the different schools and Salvador Allende's Head teacher.

The training was orientated to raise our competence in digital tools, especially about podcasts, using Audacity. We learnt about the different aspects of a school radio station, how to write and record scripts and use the Audacity programme to edit them. 

Our trainer/teacher, Alejandro Burgos, is a radio expert and gave us a very interesting and practical session in which we got a final product: an advert, a piece of news and an interview. 

Thanks to CEIP Salvador Allende for the great welcome and for the delicious tea we enjoyed there! We will have the second session next month. Can't wait! 

2º BILITRAMS Meeting

 Back from Christmas, we held our second meeting in CEIP Tierno Galván, on Wednesday, the 18th of January. 

This time we decided to change the next two meetings, to the 9th of February and the 9th of March respectedly, to have our digital training, which is going to improve our knowledge in making podcasts with Audacity audio editor and Stopmotion short films. We are very excited to learn about their endless possibilities in our classes!

Also, we agreed to pair according to same or similar year classes to meet for "Meeting friends" & "Find someone who..." activities; as well as preparing a "St. Patrick´s Day Gymkhana" for the little ones in primary in two of our schools. 

As always, we enjoyed a productive meeting in a very positive and motivational environment and finished it with a good dose of sugar!

Thanks so much to our Tierno Galván team and their Head of Studies for making us feel so welcome!!

Bilitrams Christmas Carols

 Our schools would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

Here is our very special Season's Greetings... Sing and dance with us! Enjoy!

 

BILITRAMS is back!

 It´s the 8th year! And we started with a very special Thanksgiving... 

This first meeting was held in CEIP Los Morales on the 16th of November, a week before Thanksgiving. As almost all our linguistic auxiliaries come from the United States and there were 6 of them sharing the meeting with us, we decided to pay a little tribute and welcome this 8th year celebrating with them. 

There were also 8 teachers from the 5 different schools that belong to BILITRAMS and it was a very productive meeting. 

We agreed to start planning interactive activities again visiting each other schools, exchange giant Christmas cards and make a Christmas carol video to greet our communities. 

We are also continuing other projects, like the travelling notebook and we are going to receive digital training from the Teacher training centre (CEP) to improve our digital competence and be opened to other ways of communication and digital activities with our schools.

Our auxiliaries had the chance to meet and know each other and they were very happy to be part of and collaborate in our projects.

We finished our meeting with a feast! Here you have the photos. See you all in the next meeting!