After a research work, our students created a tourist guide about Terceira Island, which will be explored by our partners when they come to visit us.
In this guide, we contemplate cultural monuments, natural monuments, museums, gardens, gastronomic traditions and swimming areas.
EBI Francisco Ferreira Drummond is a small countryside primary school in Terceira Island, Azores, hosting around 500 students and 70 teachers. We provide schooling, both regular and vocational, to students between the ages of 3 and 14-15 in São Sebastião, a rural community where most families are traditionally involved in farming, and traditional fishery. This community, however, is very dynamic in traditional and popular culture. Our school is very well equipped concerning technology and classrooms with a wi-fi connection.
We are a new school (2011) and our mission is to provide quality education to our educational community. To do that, our educational project is strongly rooted in innovation, Europe and inclusive education and we aim at promoting digital skills, citizenship values and competencies-oriented education for all. To overcome our ultra-peripheral situation- both in the borders of Europe and far from the main cities on the island- we engaged, since 2014, in a Europeanization process, through eTwinning projects, Erasmus+ Programme, in KA1 and KA2 projects, and also becoming a UNESCO ASPnet School.
We are, therefore, an experienced school in Erasmus+ partnerships and a leading school in the Azores when it comes to innovation processes. These European educational dimension activities and the advances they foster are supported by dynamic and dedicated leadership and by a set of innovative teachers, committed to collaborative work and peer learning strategies.
Portuguese Local Newspaper from our little village has essential how-to guides and cultural explainers about life in the Azores. It is called “Vida na VILA” – Life on the Village.
Our school is always an active member of the local newspaper. It is our gateway to all of the news on everything going on around us.
In January, our students had an online meeting with students from Estonia and Slovenia. It was an online activity entitled “Mystery Call”.
According to the activity, they had to find out, through general geographical questions which partner school the students with whom they communicated were from.
After the discovery of the country, the students from both schools asked each other general questions about their schools and their place.
First, our students heard the legend of Sete Cidades, which is a story of the oral tradition on the island of São Miguel in the Azores. It´s a fairy tale about the origin of the caldera lagoons of the Sete Cidades volcano, which, although united, have two different colors, one is green, and the other is blue.
https://www.storyjumper.com/book/read/97125516
After the students worked on the interpretation of the legend, they translated the story into English and then drew the illustrations for the digital book.
As the Greek school “4º Dimotiko Scholio Edessas” asked, we prepared a multi-language dictionary.
According to the chosen words, we had to read in English, and then in Portuguese. The students prepared an áudio recording.
Erasmus Corner is the place where our students can learn more about other partners and also our activities and work done by them.
Everyone can see our activities concerning the project.
Portuguese team wish our dear partners Happy Holidays.
The logo competition was an extraordinary experience for the students. They learned several techniques on how to design a logo.
The final products were incredible, that´s why it was so difficult to select only tree.
