The Glasgow meeting: impressions from the Catalan team

The Catalan Young leaders speak their mind!

Hello everybody!

We are Andrea, Edgar, Irene and Marta, the young leaders who represented Catalonia in Glasgow last November.

We feel very lucky we had this opportunity: we had the time of our lives! We made really good friends and we want to keep in contact with them. After that experience we want to make our classmates feel the same way we felt, showing them our photos and stories. Now we are going to enjoy

the project more and feel it closer .

Have a look at this video we’ve done about our stay in Glasgow:

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BzSj9cMqSIygZDA3ZTlkMzEtNDY0Yi00ODgwLTlhNTYtMjk4NTJjMjRlNjE0

Now a few words from the Catalan teachers too!

About the project

‘I think we had a great time in Glasgow while we were developing our project for year 2. It was necessary to get in touch with the other teachers and students participating in order to make this project ours. In fact, our students feel more confident and enthusiastic with the project, they have clearer ideas and they are willing to share them with our partners from other countries. About teachers, I personally believe it was fantastic to meet them and feel that we are working hand in hand and that we also have the same concerns.´  

by Noemí Torres (a Catalan teacher currently working at INS Valerià Pujol i Bosch in Premià de Dalt, Barcelona)

‘The Glasgow meeting has become a cornerstone of the project: we all

expected our visit to Scotland to be the agora for all partners to share our project ideas for Year 2, and it was indeed! Teachers, young leaders and education authorities where given a valuable time and place for exchanging and agreeing on this year’s project guidelines. And after much hard work and lively discussion, our new project was born: ‘Exchanging and enriching’, a clear reflection of what those two days working together had meant.’

by Marc Julià (a Catalan teacher currently at Thalassa Secondary School in Montgat, Barcelona).

About the students

The Glasgow meeting was a great opportunity for students’ representatives to express their ideas and interests and to feel the project more “theirs”. Our students had a wonderful time from the very first moment they got off the plane. Everything was new for them and they took advantage at any time  to ask , to learn and to have fun with their international partners. They did a good job  participating in all discussions , giving their opinions, transmitting all these feeling and enthusiasm to the rest of students once back in Barcelona, and, the most important thing: they enjoyed every single moment so much !

by Marien García (a Catalan teacher currently at Cabrils Secondary School in Cabrils, Barcelona)

About the sessions

The sessions organised by the British Council to work on the Connecting Classrooms project, gave us the opportunity to get to know Peter Hall Jones and the way he works, which I consider to be excellent. I would have never imagined the amount of different things we managed to do in two days and the ability he had to take the whole thing to a good end. It is not easy to combine people from different nationalities (four), different ages (students and teachers) and different ideas (a lot!)  to come out with a unique project to work on through the whole year. We had time to meet colleagues, laugh, think, speak, understand, exchange and finally enrich ourselves with what we decided to work on.

by Josep Mayolas (a Catalan teacher currently at Sagrada Família School in Masnou, Barcelona)