OCTOBER 2009: Welcome to our assistants!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At last our assistants have arrived! Two lassies from Scotland and Ireland joined us at the end of October. Its great for us and for our students, we all get the chance to improve our spoken English and improve our listening skills through hearing different accents.

OCTOBER 2009: Videoconference with Denmark

In October 2009 we participated in our second videoconference with our partners from Denmark. We communicated through english and spanish. In the beginning our students were a little bit nervous, but after a while they soon warmed up, relaxed and enjoyed the experience. We spoke about future projects and brainstormed new ideas.

OCTOBER 2009: GAZTE Competition.

Zubiri Manteo students took part in the innovation competition. Our students took part in the photography section. If you are interested in what they got up to, log on to http://www.zubiristudents.blogspot.com/.

OCTOBER: 2009 English assistant

We have recently welcomed a new addition to our school. Michael has joined us from America and is working as an assistant in our secondary school. Every thursday we also have the pleasure of his company. Michael´s expertise lie in business and he is therefore proving a great help in our classrooms here at Zubiri Manteo. He´s doing a project with our multilingual students at the moment, researching different industry within the Basque Country, and comparing it to the industry in the rest of Europe as well as the United States.

OCTOBER 2009: Kontsumo gelak results

OCTOBER 2009: Multilingua and Danish students working together

We`ve had five Danish students visiting this month from BEC Business Education. They´ve been doing work experience in our school as well as in Tknika while attending spanish classes and enjoying all that the beautiful Basque Country has to offer. On thursdays they were working with our multilingual students on a project, making contact with different colleges all over the world, sharing information about their business and finance curriculum.

OCTOBER 2009: Visit to Diputación de Guipuzcoa

When our partners from Denmark were here, we arranged a visit to the Diputación de Guipuzcoa. We received a guided tour of the building, which was very interesting and highly recommendable.