COMENIUS PROJECTOctober 2010

“Virgen del Fresno” School Grado (Grau), Asturias

SPAIN

NICE TO MEET YOUHi!! My name is Xandru, I

live in Grado, one little town situated in the center of Asturias, which is a beautiful region in the north of Spain

I’m ten years old and I’m studying at the “Virgen del Fresno” School

Follow me to know it…

AT THE SCHOOL

Welcome to my school, everything is in two buildings and there is also a sport centre and courts for

Infantile and Primary.Are you ready to come with me? Let’s go!!!

Big Building:

Here you find the c l a s s r o o m s o f I n f a n t i l e a n d Primary, room of t h e r a p e u t i c P e d a g o g y , P s y c h o m o t o r activity, computers r o o m , t o i l e t s , …

Ground floor: Infantile

Ground floor: dinner room, music class, …

First floor: computers room, library and Primary classrooms

Small Building

In this building you can find the administrative offices: Secretary, Principal... and also the dining room, Asturian Language and Portuguese classrooms

Rooms

Sport centre and playgrounds

PROJECTS OF THE SCHOOL

I have to say that we do not only study the curriculum, our teachers are engaged in different projects to teach us basic things for life ...

Health

“Moscones Sanos”In this project we learn healthy eating habits, behavior rules in the dining room, good personal hygiene, all of that through active and leisure activities

Comenius

Exchange of experiences, in which several schools from diferent countries are coordinated for a common work

New Technologies

“Asturias en la Red ” is a project that aims to support the use of new technologies as an educational tool, maintaining a constant update and promote their integration into the school

Library

Through this project we can enjoy many activities in the library, learn to look for information for working or travelling in our imagination to amazing places ...

The school opens its doors to the community

In this project we do (outside school hours) collective cultural, environmental, artistic and sports activities

We are going on tour to see places and interesting people

Environmental care: hope for the future (“Presta”)

In collaboration with the Foundation “Aula Vital” aims to raise awareness of the educational community about the importance of environmental care and use of renewable energy.

Did you know that we have hot water and electricity through solar and heat panels?

LANGUAGES THAT WE STUDY IN THE SCHOOL

We study Spanish language and Englishsince we are three years old.

In Primary, we can choose as electives: Asturian language and Portuguese

Farewell

I hope that you liked my school very much, but all that would not be possible without the help and the work of many people:

our teachers and School comunity!!