Presentation Silkeborg_Navarre

Silkeborg,Silkeborg,

Deep in the heart of Deep in the heart of Denmark, Denmark,

26th-30th September 201126th-30th September 2011

How we work Science

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1. COMPONENTS OF OUR TEAM. PERSONAL INFORMATION.

•Rosa M. Torró (IES Serra Mariola from Muro de Alcoy, Alicante, Valensia)

•Ane Miren Iruretagoiena (CPEIP Luis Fuentes, Lakuntza, Navarre)

•J. Miguel Bohórquez (IES Arrabal from Carmona, Seville, Andalusia).

2. SPANISH EDUCATION SYSTEM.

Infant & Primary School

Luis Fuentes School

Lakuntza

Lakuntza

37 km west from Pamplona

Population: around 1200

Geography: hilly and wet, good forests

Economy: siderurgical manufacturers & livestock farmers

History: prehistoric sites, roman remains & medieval monuments nearby

Stone buildings

well preserved enviroment

Infant and Primary schools usually go together, in the same centres. The maximum rate of children in each group is 25 and the school days are a minimum of 175.

In Spain, a General Law rules the whole Education System but different regions can develop that law with their own

issues.

Similarities are more than differences between regions, and most of them are concerned to the official languages in each place.

Those schools are municipality properties, so they are in charge of the building maintenance and conservation.

They receive an amount of money from Governement to do so. Governements pay for the workers.

There are quite a lot public nurseries where the youngest ones can

attend, but they are not free. The fees are paid for families according to their incomes, and the rest is

paid by Governement and Municipalities. Places are not guaranteed, as there are more children than

places in public nurseries.

3-6 years old Infant School is not compulsory for families but is

totally guaranteed by state schools. Most of children attend it. The schedule developes their

physical, emotional and intellectual skills.

Concerning to Science, children get knowledge about their own body and observe and search in

their nearest enviroment.

Subjects and time division :

Personal knowledge and autonomy :

7 lessons of 50 minutes a week

Enviromental Knowledge: 6 lessons

Comunication and representation: 6 lessons

There are 4 more lessons for a second language and 4 more for English, and 1 for Religion, if families chose

it.

Each centre can decide the way to work on those subjects but most of them are nowadays working on projects thet children choose or decide, according to

their likes. Teachers try to adapt those projects into their programmes based on activities, experiencies and

games.

http://www.slideshare.net/Lakuntzakoeskola/planetak-9224419

Primary School (6-12 years old)“Enviromental, cultural and social knowledge”

Compulsory,

divided into three stages of two school years each,

4 or 5 lessons a week, which is a compound of Science, Geography

and History items

Science main aims

*getting a knowledge of social, cultural and enviromental issues, trying to focus on preserving and taking care of them.

* getting a good use of information and comunication technologies, trying to be critical to those contents they receive or those they elaborate.

Observing...doing...

experiencing.... Working on it.

Science, to get competences

Linguistic competence,

Mathematical competence

Interaction with the Physical world competence

Information and computing competence

Social and citizen competence

Cultural and artistic competence

Learning to learn competence

Personal autonomy and deciding competence

Following European Comunity advises, we try to get those basic competences:

Science works on almost all these competences:

Getting the changes time produces,

observing what happens at the same time,

searching what comes next,

And getting a better input of future events.

We work on issues related to life, health, natural resources and enviroment, looking for a responsible and sensible

attitude to them.

We try to show the value of scientific culture and the achievements science has got along the years.

We use different codes (oral, writting or images) and several documents, informations or reports to search,

select and analyse about:

human body and its systems

plants, animals and minerals: study, analysis and clasification

universe, Earth, importance of water and air...

energy and materia, their features

engines, machines...

.

We use both, traditional resources and technological ones: bibliography, maps, audiovisual and multimedia to let the students get their own knowledge by activities, experiments, and searching outdoor

We have different blogs to get in touch with families and let them know what we do at school at the moment. Some of them interact with us.

They also offer students more choices to learn and get a wider knowledge on their own.

Internet provides plenty of resources to help us do our work.