ROBIN HOOD

Robin Hood theatre On Thursday 13th of February the school Pins del Vallès had some visitors from England. They have prepared a Robin Hood theatre in the school gym. Staring the Sheriff of Nottingham and Robin Hood. On some scenes they would chose someone in the crowd to play games or act. Robin Hood was a generous person who would steal from the bad and give to the poor. The Sheriff of Nottingham was a rich tax collector, he takes money from the poor and keeps their money. But Robin Hood was a very clever person who had tricks up his sleeve. The Sheriff of Nottingham was in love with Lady Marian who was a maid who worked at a castle. And Robin Hood was also in love with Lady Marian. Of course Lady Marian was in love with Robin Hood because he was such a generous person. The Sheriff of Nottingham always tried to trick Robin Hood in prison. The Sheriff of Nottingham unsuccessfully failed, because Robin Hood was very intelligent. At the end of the theatre we were allowed to ask questions to the actors. The theatre was very fun and interesting.                                                                                                            Júlia and May

SHORT FILMS

Hi there!
A little bit late, but here are the SHORT FILMS  that  6th graders recorded.
ENJOY THEM!!!

TOONTASTIC STORIES

5th grade pupils have been having a good time using Toontastic. Toontastic is a really nice app to create stories.

The pupils make pair and have half an hour to familiarize themselves with the app. Once they knew the application they write a story taking into account the three parts Beginning, Middle and Ending.

Here you've got some of the stories :

MACHINES

Hello there, Here we are again with the machines. Pupils in 6th grade have been investigating and studying the energy and the different types of machines. At the end they have build their own compound machines.



Below you've got their machines. They are really good.

HOBBIES!!!

5th. grade pupils have been working on hobbies. 
After watching a video and reading about some English pupils hobbies, they have been working on the vocabulary and language to  write about themselves. At the end we have recorded some of them speaking a bout their hobbies.
HAVE A LOOK!

THE PLANTS

5th grade pupils were working last term on the plants.

Look at them investigating at the computer room

Here they are making the posters

And practising the presentation

And here you have them  presenting the posters to their classmates

RAPPING ENGLISH GRAMMAR

Hello there,
6th graders have been working a little bit on grammar. At the end they have written a poem and have rapped it. Do you want to know the process:

1. first they watched some rap from previous years.
2. they split up in groups of 4 or 5.
3. they choose a grammatical aspect.
4. they became expert in this aspect and did the activities related to it.
5. Then, they explain to their classmates their grammatical topic and ask them to do the activities. 

1. While doing the activities they go through the groups helping them.

1. when all the group finish their explanation, they start to write their poems. they could use the Google bar. What for? ask them to explain ...

1. finally they memorise the rap and dance it.

Here you have the rap they wrote:




And here you have some of them RAPPING IT!!

SHORT FILMS AWARD CEREMONY

Hi there!!
Pupils in 5th. grade have scored the films. Do you want to know the winners? Have a look at the award ceremony:

FIRST PRIZE

SECOND PRIZE

THIRD PRIZE

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SALAD OF STORIES

Anna,the trainee teacher is finishing her internship period in our school. She has bee working hard. She programmed an activity with 5th graders. This activity adapts the classic strategy Salad of stories proposed by Gianni Rodari in Grammar of Fantasy.

Pupils have been working hard too. they chose characters from different stories and they have been creating a new story with the characters chosen.

What is interesting about the project is that Anna has been working in collaboration with another trainee teacher in a different school, whose pupils were creating stories too.

Pupils in Pins have read the stories written by  the pupils in Sant Jordi School and have scored them. Pupils in Sant Jordi school have done the same with our stories. 
All the group has gotten a prize. Here they are with their certificates and their stories. if you click on the photo you'll be able to read the story they wrote.

PINSWOOD 2018

Hello there!!
Here we are again with the second edition of the Pins Short Film Festival. The process is similar to the other years:

1. First I try to motivate them by watching the last Award Ceremony, some short films by former pupils, and another ones more, professional so that  they can pick up ideas.

2. They split up in groups and work on the vocabulary related to the cinema, the different genres of the films, the structure of the script...

  3. They think on the content and decide a title for their film.

4. They go on thinking on the content and typing the script. they use Google drive, so that they can share and work on them at the same time. They can use Wordreference to look for individual words and Deepl as a translator.

5. They memorise their  part and work on the pronunciation.

6. They sit on a circle and do a dramatized reading of the script.

7. They record the different scenes 

8. Pupils in 5th grade make the jury. They split up in groups of three, watch the films and score them.

→Evaluate the short film by writing the numbers from 1 2 or 3.  Being 3 the best mark and 1 the worst one
	1.-	2.-	3.-	4.-	5.-	6.-	7.-	8.-
Do you understand the story?
Do they use a clear and audible Voice?
Do they have a good pronunciation?
Do they act well?
Does each actor/actress speaks more or less the same time?
Is the short film original?
Does the film convey positive values?
TOTAL

And here you've got THE FILMS: