This document outlines the plurilingual project at CEIP Puig d'en Valls school for the 2012-2013 school year. Some of the key aspects of the project include: - Teaching English from kindergarten through 6th grade to strengthen the importance of English at the school. - Participating in the school's third Comenius project from 2012-2014 focused on financial literacy. - Expanding English instruction through hiring additional permanent English teachers. - Integrating English, art, science, and other subjects for students in 1st through 4th grade through activities related to the school and village topics. - Coordinating instruction between English teachers and classroom teachers.

1. PROJECTE PLURINLINGÜE
IN CEIP PUIG D’EN VALLS
2012/13

2. • BEFORE
• When the english was complusory in 3rd grade in
1996 Ceip Puig d’en Valls made a new ‘linguistic
project’ and decided to introduce the English
language teaching from the 6th EI (Kindergarten)
to 6th grade.
• We started the SSEE project in 2006/07 with Eco
arts and crafts in 1st grade.
• In 2006/2008 we started with a comenius project
and now we’re participatind in our third
comenius project 2012/14 ‘Money Matters’.
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3. • 2010/11 With the new school board team one of the objectives of the
School board project was extend the English language in the school and
the importance of the English language in the school.
• 2011/12 We applied for a new English teacher with a permanent position.
• 2012/13 We are applying a new English teacher with a permanent job. So,
we will be 4 English teachers in the school with a permanent position.
• STRONG FEATURES.
• Teacher stability and involvement with the projects. Consolidate projects
that we start has helped starting the SSEE project in 2008/9 and now the
‘Plurilingüe’ from 1st to 4th grade although it is only compulsory in 1st and
4th grade.
• Kindergarten teachers with a permanent job in Puig d’en Valls have been
doing teacher training in CLIL and also ‘English Language training courses’.
This implies that primary teachers can teach in Infantil and Infantil teachers
to Primary. 4+2
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4. Teachers and Timetable
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5. ECO ARTS AND CRAFTS
1st and 2nd grade
• 2 sessions 45’ every week
• Eco Arts, related to the ‘Puig d’en Valls green project.
• Related to the School topic.
• We have the support of a language assistant in one of the
sessions in each group.
• Coordinating weekly with the tutor teacher.
• English, Spanish and catalan culture topics (Autumn,
Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Sant Jordi,..)
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6. School Topic ‘monogràfic’
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7. Puig d’en Valls village
• This year the topic ‘tema monogràfic’ is ‘Puig d’en Valls.
• We do activities related to ‘Puig d’en Valls village’ (The
architecture, vegetation, animals, the shops, restaurants,
we interview artists and people of the village,
present/past/future of the village, we prepare documents
in English to inform the families or to invite them to
different events, ‘gentilici’ contest, we work feelings
about the village in a map ‘ love and feelings in Puig d’en
valls’, etc.) The school timeline is part of it. We work the
inventions in English. In Spanish we work Literature and
authors and history and events in Catalan.
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8. Catalan/English/Spanish/
culture
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9. LANGUAGE ASSISTANT 2012/13
ZOE GREEN
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10. COORDINATION with the tutor
teacher
• Coordinating weekly with
the tutor teacher
First graders painting an abacus during the arts and crafts session for maths.
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11. ARTS and SCIENCE 3rd and 4th grade
• 2 sessions of 45’ every week
• We give support to the tutor teacher and work
topics that the student is working or has
worked in the mother tongue in science.
• Practice part of the area. We do experiments
• We integrate Arts and crafts.
• We have the language assistant support in one
session.
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12. Arts and Science 3rd
Grade
• The skeleton Unit. We studied the different
bones and joints and we made this final
production.
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14. Arts and Science 4th
Grade
OUR LUNGS
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15. Our heart and how it
works
Para ver esta película, debe
disponer de QuickTime™ y de
un descompresor Motion JPEG OpenDML.
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16. SCHOOL TIMELINE
Inventions
The airplane, 3rd graders
The camera and
the walkie talkie,
1rst and second
grade
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17. The television 4th graders
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18. Green Point Decorating with leaves
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19. READINGS 30’ twice a week
2 sessions of 30’ every week
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20. COMENIUS Money matters 12/14
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21. Saving water and founts of the village collaborating with the ‘Town Council and
Agenda 21 escolar’.
Saving for the school fieldtrip, making cakes every Friday
Solidarity campaigns (Save the children, Solidarity sandwich ‘Manos Unidas’, etc. )
History and culture and traditions of Northern Ireland. (Music, stories and traditions,
saving ‘sock’
New methodology, saving money and no using language books, we use a language
folder this year.
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