Getting to know your class

Sara Mcgarry Arena

Mª Alicia Figueroa Fernández

Francisco Reigosa

Jairo Daponte Campos

1. School Profile: “Ría de Vigo” school

Contact details:

- Adress: Policarpo Sanz street, number 8, Vigo, Pontevedra.

- Telephone number: 986 76 85 74

- Email: ríadevigo@edu.xunta.es

- Website: www.centros.edu.xunta/ríadevigo

1. School and Students profileOur school is:

- Urban

- Students with a medium/high economic level

- Parents with medium/high studies level

- 158 students

Our class is:

- Second class of junior school (7-8 years old)

- 18 students with children of different nacionalities: Chinese, English, Muslin and Spanish

- No children with special needs

1. School and Students profileOur philosophy:

Education as the pilar of our society

Provide students with skills that they’ll use for their whole life

Well qualified teachers

Multicultural atmosphere

Use of ICT

1. School and Students profileOur resources:

- Sports: Soccer field, basketball court, swimming pool, yard

- ICT: Computer room with 30 computers, 4 televisións, 4 dvd player and a digital whiteboard

- Library and dining room

Our staff:

- Headteacher, deputy headteacher, assistance headteacher, three coordinators and one teacher for each class cleaning stuff

2. Initial diagnostic Survey to the parents:

- Dear parents,

We are the English teachers of the school Ría de Vigo.

We are sending this survey to all the parents to have more

information about our students. By this, we want to improve

the attention we give and to know their likes and dislikes.

2. Initial diagnostic

1º Has your child any important disease?

2º Does your child have any psychological problem?

3ª Does your child have any allergy?

4º Is your child shy?

5º How many hours does your child study a week?

2. Initial diagnostic

6º How does your child go to the school? (Way of

transport)

7º Does your child assist to extracurricular activities?

8º Where does your child live, in the city or in the

rural?

9ª What´s your child’s favourite subject?

10º Do you and your family practice any religion?

3. Activity: “Our big house”

1. We make a list of “favourite things”

2. Students choose some favourite things and draw them in their room.

3. Students present their room with the structure “In my room, there is ______ because ______”.

3. Activity: “Our big house”4. We make a big house for the class.

3. Activity: “Our big house”

Justification: We think the activity is appropriate for:

- An urban context

- Different nationalities (Personalities/interaction)

- Second class (appropriate vocabulary, simple)

3. Activity: “Our big house”Resources:

- One teacher and some students

- Black board

- Paper sheets

- Drawing and painting material: (colored pencinls, crayons, tempera, magazines)

- Blue and big roll of paper

Timing: Two sessions

Thanks for your attention!