DAY 1
Wednesday 26th May started with the opening of this meeting, which had been formerly scheduled for the year before and it would have taken place face to face in Tarragona both to keep on working together and close the project as it deserved hadn't COVID-19 changed our plans.
However, the Spanish team wanted to make the most of this virtual meeting and make participants feel as if they were here, in Tarragona.
They didn't miss the chance to introduce the school to the partners.
Later, they also did a virtual tour around Tarragona together:
The whole grouped watched together the video Glossary in Action sent by the Spanish team months before this meeting and practiced a bit of Catalan and Spanish on the spot.
After that there was the 1,5-hour long workshop "Designing a travel brochure to promote our cities". Long before this mobility, partners had been preparing the material (own photos, information, links) needed to promote the cities they had visited in the previous mobilities. Only Tarragona hadn't been visited and it was the Spanish team who provided the whole material. During the workshop, pupils from the four partner countries gathered in different four virtual rooms to design a tourist leaflet to promote our cities: BARCELOS, GDYNIA, AGIOS NIKOLAOS, TARRAGONA. Each group was in charge of creating a brochure that included the most remarkable highlights in each place classified into the FIVE SENSES mainly used to enjoy them. On the following day, pupils would present their creations to the others.
DAY 2
This day began with the four different teams presenting the travel brochures they had prepared the day before. They explained what a tourist can see, taste, smell, touch and hear at each of the beutiful cities, thus showing their rich heritage.
After that, all pupils from the four schools played together a quiz game to test what they had learnt through the previous workshop.After a short break, pupils took part in a fun workshop called "GLOSSARY IN ACTION".
For the last three years, we had learnt and practiced a series of expressions in Portuguese, Polish, Greek, Catalan and Spanish by watching the "GLOSSARY IN PROGRESS" videos each host team had shared before a mobility to their country and by filling in the "Glossary in Progress"-worksheet while watching.
The aim of this workshop was to produce a final video which compiled the expressions in all languages in a meaningful way.
DAY 3
Friday was a very important day, since it was the day when the game board "Sense Your City" would be fully played for the first time.
During the weeks prior to this meeting, the coordinator had sent a set of the game to each partner and the Polish partner had sent a set of the city tokens which needed to be won to win the whole game. The layout of the boardgame, and cards as well as the instructions had been desegned during the first months of the project. The questions about the cities' heritage classified into the five human senses and the surprise-question cards as well as the photos used had been made by participant teams during each mobility. The city tokens had been both outlined by hand, 3D designed and printed during a workshop in Gdynia (POland). Pupils from the Spanish school had handcrafted the rest of the components and the board had been professionally printed.
Now all partners could play at the same time even if they weren't together as planned originally. Having a set displayed in front of them, we used ICT to help us play as if we were together!
To finish with, each pupil team got a link to a padlet which contained a very easy question: "What do you know about Tarragona/Barcelos/Agios Nikolaos/Gdynia?". This was actually the same question they had been asked three eyars ago, right at the beginning of this project. Stating the differences between what the knowledge we had then and that we have now is simply amazing!
Before COVID-19 changed our plans, the Spanish team of pupils had prepared this GLOSSARY IN PROGRESS video, just as they fellow pupils from the other three countries had done just before each exchange.
Nobody knew when we could meet face to face in Tarragona or if that would happen at all, but because of the lockdown and the experiences which were still to come, the eager for exploring Tarragona's culture was even bigger... and so was the Spanish team's will for sharing it!
