STARTING THE SESSION WITH A PRESENTATION ABOUT ME.

SHARING A PRESENTATION OF THE SCHOOL WHERE I WORK.

EXPLAINING TRADITIONAL DANCES IN CATALONIA AND FOCUS ON THE SARDANA ONES.

FIRSTLY, TELLING A STORY FROM THE BOOK ‘LA SARDANA I ALTRES DANSES’ TO GET FAMILIAR THOUGH IMAGES WHAT KIND OF DANCE IS.

SECONDLY, SHARING A VIDEO OF THE SONG, ‘COTI X COTI’ BY THE TYETS. THE MOST WATCHED CATALAN MUSIC VIDEO OF 2023, AND EXPLAINING THAT THE SARDANA HAS GAINED PROMINENCE AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE, WHO FOUND THIS DANCE OUT OF FASHION, THANKS TO THIS SONG SINCE IT IS A MIX BETWEEN REGETTON AND SARDANA MUSIC.

DURING THE VIDEO THEY CAN WATCH  ‘LA COLLA SARDANISTA ‘MARAGDA DEL PENEDÈS’ AND FOLLOW THEIR STEPS.

THEN, LET’S GO TO DANCE TOGETHER THE EASIEST ONE ‘LA SARDANA CURTA’. THIS IS THE ORIGIN OF OUR CURRENT SARDANA. A GROUP OF 5TH GRADERS DANCED IT REALLY WELL.

LATER, PRACTISING SHORT STEPS AND LONG STEP TOO.

TRYING TO DANCE A SHORT SARDANA AND FINALLY, THE MOST DIFFICULT PART DANCING THE LONG ONE.

5TH GRADERS STUDENTS WANTED TO TEACH ME A POPULAR DANCE AT THIS CHRISTMAS TIME. THE SONG OF THIS DANCE IS FROM A DANISH CHRISTMAS SERIAL THAT THEY WATCH FROM THE 1st TO THE 24th DECEMBER.

HERE THE RESULT!

SHARING WITH THE DANISH SCHOOL THAT HUMAN TOWERS HAVE BEEN RECOGNISED BY UNESCO AS INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF HUMANITY SINCE NOVEMBER 2010.

TELLING THE STORY OF THE BOOK WE GIVE TO THE SCHOOL. 

WATCHING A VIDEO TO UNDERSTAND HOW WE BUILD THE HUMAN TOWERS.

EXPLAINING THE COMPETITION THAT TAKES PLACE EVERY TWO YEARS IN TARRACO ARENA.

FOCUSING ON ‘XIQUETS DE REUS’ AND ‘CASTELLERS DE VILAFRANCA’. 

SHARING WITH THEM THAT IT EXITS A TEAM IN DENMARK. THEY ARE CALLED ‘XIQUETS DE COPENHAGEN’ FOUNDED IN 2014 BY SØREN DISSING SANDAHL, A DANISH BOY WHO HAS BEEN ‘CASTELLER’ OF ‘GANÀPIES DE LA UAB’ DURING HIS STAY IN CATALONIA.

EVEN TRYING A HUMAN PILLAR WITH THEM AT CLASS!

5TH GRADERS STUDENTS EXPLAINING HOW THEY LEARN MATHS AND SOME OF THE PROJECTS THAT THEY HAVE DONE THIS MONTH.

EATING THE TYPICAL DANISH DISH FOR CHRISTMAS COOKED BY 6th GRADERS.

SPENDING WITH 6th GRADERS THEIR LAST CHRISTMAS AT SCHOOL.

THEY COOKED A SPECIAL CHRISTMAS MEAL AND THEY DECORATED A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS TABLE IN THE MUSIC ROOM WITH CANDLES IN THE MIDDLE, WHICH ARE ALWAYS PRESENT IN DANISH CULTURE, AND ALSO WITH LOVELY HEARTS THAT THEY HAVE PREPARED IN ART LESSON SOME DAYS AGO

AFTER LUNCH THEY PLAYED A FUNNY GAME SITTING IN A CIRCLE ON THE FLOOR. THE GAME CONSIST OF THROWING THE DICE AND IF YOU GET SIX YOU CAN CHOOSE A GIFT. EACH KID HAS BROUGHT A GIFT AND ALL OF THE GIFTS ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CIRCLE. IF YOU GET ANOTHER SIX YOU CAN STEAL THE GIFT OF A CLASSMATE. THE GAME LASTS SOME MINUTES, WHEN THE BELL RINGS YOU CAN’T THROW THE DICE ANYMORE. SOME STUDENTS HAS ACHIEVED ONE GIFT, SOME OF THEM TWO AND SOME OF THEM NO ONE, BUT NORMALLY SOMEONE SHARED. 

OBSERVING THE DUS II. EXTRA ACTIVITIES THAT THEY CAN DO IF THEY WANT AFTER SCHOOL TIME. IT IS TOTALLY FREE. SOME OF THEM CHOOSE TO DO ARTS AND CRAFTS OR USING COMPUTERS, DANCING, COOKING OR STAYING IN THE COTTAGE THEY HAVE RENOVATED. THEY CAN GO HOME AND IF THEY ARE BORED THEY CAN COME BACK TO THIS SPACE. 

COME BACK TO THE APARTMENT BY BUS. IT TAKES AROUND 35 MINUTES FROM THE SCHOOL AND THE APARTMENT.

• To enhance the family relationship by promoting the Danish tradition of watching a Christmas serial with their families following the TV Advent Calendar.

• The richness of exchanging both traditional dances: The Sardana and a popular Danish dance from the Christmas serial.

• To promote a Catalan tradition explaining what a Human Tower is and trying to do a Human Tower Pillar.

• Two meetings per year with every single person who works in the school. Everybody has an important role in their school. They take care of having a good environment with all of the people who work there.

• Sharing is caring! A teacher is in charge of designing a project and the rest follows it. Next project will be in charge of another teacher. 

• Although they use some laptops to search for information or to prepare an exposition, technology is not a priority for them, so no tablets, no laser machines, no robotic kits, no 3D machines, no audiovisual kits…