Packing and wrapping time!

We have collected more things and solved the problem of the baby stuff so we have been able to get pacifiers and milk bottles and also an aids box and games. We made it! Now we have to classify, pack and wrap all what we have collected! We have also printed a message with pictures, the logos of Euroscola and our school and a smiling star for the packages, Cristina from Aula d'Acollida has helped us. The teacher says he has a limit of 23 kg of baggage o carry so we have to adapt to that and the space of a suitcase or backpack. This is the practice gif/stop-motion we used as a practice for our story of the Smiling Stars. This is the trip we are making to Senegal through our materials!

All teachers congratulate for our efforts and we are very excited: we have really worked a lot for solidarity and education! Now Humberto will take all these materials for Senegal, He has read the emails received and has already an appointment at SPER (Solidarité Pour les Enfants de la Rue) for Monday 30 April.

Have a nice trip and take pictures!

More breakfasts and VIDEOMESSAGE!

Today we did more solidarity breakfasts. We could sell enough to buy more school materials and footballs but we need more for La Puponnière, because they told us that what they really need for the babies is baby stuff and we haven't collected yet enough for them so tomorrow we will sell breakfasts too. It is a lot of work but Meriam's mother is eager to keep collaborating with us and will help her bake another of her delicious chocolate cakes... the sell very well! Thanks for that!

So... we have to provide baby stuff and we will work for that! However, we already have baby clothes to give them so we are happy as well. We would also like to collect more toys and games: they are part of education too!

Now that we have almost everything ready and we have started packing, we wanted to create a common message (and mutilingual) with some of us for our future friends in Senegal. Here we send you these materials to cooperate with your education. With all our love! Smiling stars project rocks!

Networking Europe: visiting teacher from Finland

Our teacher for EUROSCOLA has tried to contact an MEP for a video conference or a visit of one of her assistants. We chose Paloma Lopez Bermejo because she is in a commission working for Africa (Delegation for relations with the Pan-African Parliament) but the fax couldn't reach her and we couldn't find her email (note for EUROSCOLA: where can we find them?)

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/125047/PALOMA_LOPEZ%20BERMEJO_home.html

However we are lucky! Arnia, a teacher from Finland is visiting our school (she said she is job shadowing) and she told us that they won the Euroscola competition in her country last year! She showed us pictures of their visit, their experience in the Parliament, and how good the experience! We are so excited! We wish we can have a similar experience next year and we hope we can win! Our project and effort deserves it!

After her presentation we could talk to her and ask many question about Education in Finland and told her about the Smiling Stars project. She was enthusiastic about it and took pictures to show in Finland so our work will be already known in at least three countries! Spain, Senegal and Finland!

We are delighted with the collaboration of people. Here we are making a list of all the pieces of clothes and sports materials we are collecting for Senegal kids.

Video for the campaign: SCORE A GOAL FOR SENEGAL!

Videoclip time!! Here the green star flies to the new Senegal flag made the colours of the footballs. How many of us are ther? 28? Like the countries of the EU!

People is collaborating with our campaign. 
We brought the boxes more boxes and decorated them.





 
After the success of the "humanitarian breakfast" to raise money last week, we have been able to buy 3 footballs, 1 softball and a pumper. So good! We also start having school materials and clothes and toys in the boxes we have made. They told us also to buy balloons for small children.

With the three footballs we have created like a lipdub/videoclip. We took the idea from the football game in Euroscola, so we made it real! After playing a football competition, our particular worldcup (teams Africa-Asia vs. Europe-America) ended in a draw (3-3) and all the teams partcipating in Euroscola 2015 (3rd of ESO) have joined to make this video. 

The footballs represent the flag of Senegal. The green star flies to them and we pass the balls to each other, symbolizing our (world-European Union) and finally the three balls are kicked, one by a boy from Pakistan (Asia), the second one by a boy from Chile (America) and the third one by a girls from Mali (Africa). We tried to score goals to poverty, hunger, disease, and pollution (in the barrier). 

We scored 2 out of 3... not bad!! All our energy to Senegal!! We hope you like it!

Here you have our videoclip! We will play for the St Jordi exhibition on the 23rd April 2015 in the Community Centre "Centre Cívic de La Salut" so we let our Smiling Stars project arrive to our families and neighbours and put in the our school blog.
http://agora.xtec.cat/ses-badalona/

Stage 1: Euroscola test

Today is the day of the test! We have been preparing for this moment and we hope we can have a good result! We have worked discussing contents, researching extra materials, reading a lot and watching videos, and revising. We have done a video clip showing our research process. We wanted to use the idea of the video clip we know from French lessons, meaning "Dad, where are you?" as we are working with orphanages in Senegal. The music teacher wants to help us coordinating (and maybe we can do something similar involving teachers and students doing the same actions).

Here is our rehearsing: we created games, glued posters, printed pictures and revised for the test!

ÇA VA? Introducing ourselves to our friends in Senegal

ÇA VA?
Here we have the video we have produced for the children in Senegal to know us! Made by students of French as a second foreign language participating in Euroscola 2015-Smiling Stars!

We chose the locations we liked inside our school. We talk about our origins, our likes and dislikes. We want to know about the students in Senegal! And they to know us personally.

We wish we could go to Senegal with our teacher Humberto! In a way, this is like going there if they watch us! Hope you like it!

Humanitarian Breakfast and sports competition. Rehearsing videos.

The humanitarian breakfast day arrived! We have brought the food we said. One of our mums helped us with a delicious spongy chocolate cake, two more of us baked the strawberry and chocolate muffins and two more filled in the crepes. We have sold our products at the door of the playground and we have sold out all our cakes! teachers and students have collaborated and also relatives who visited the school who were interested in the project and liked it.

We were a bit nervous because today there was a strike in Education and furthermore the students of 2nd of ESO were on an excursion. Things we did not expect but even though all that, we sold all the cakes and raised 20 euros to buy materials. the initiative has been so successful that we want to repeat next week.

A charity has given to us school materials so we can spend the 20 euros in sports materials. We are worried about the price of the footballs and the pumper (it can be 15 euros just the pumper!) but researching we have found one for 5.95. In the same sports shop there are soft balls for 2.99 but opinions in the web say it's better buy the 3.99 ones, they are more resistant. We think for Senegal it is better like this: resistant. So we can buy the balls!

For the sports competition, many students were absent so we could not organize the event. We will try next week!

On the other hand, we have started rehearsing our introduction in French in this class with Joana, the French teacher. Tomorrow we can start recording!