Welcome to our school

Our high school, IES MELIDE, is quite big but not much. It is around ten years old more or less so it’s not old. It is placed in a town of around 8000 inhabitants, in a rural area, 50 km. From Santiago. We are on the famous St. James’s Way, the old pligrimage route leading to Santiago. If you can come here you will see how nice it is, and maybe we can walk a stage.

The building: there are three floors and there is one gymnasium, one football field and a basketball field too.

We have a very big library with around 14000 books in Spanish, Galician, English, French… and others. It’s organised in such a way that every term we work on a theme. This term’s one is the Medieval Ages. You can see it on the picture: we decorate the place, select books that deal with the topic, and teachers will invite some writers who have written some books about Medieval times.

There is a canteen where we can buy food and drinks in the morning when we are in the playtime and we can chat with our friends too.

We also have vocational studies in our school, so there is a woodcraft workshop, where students study to become carpenters. Have a look at the picture, and see how big it is!

The high school has got a radio station and the students can broadcast programmes on it. It’s beautiful because many people listen to you! If you click here you can hear us speaking, and it may be interesting for you to hear our own language, Galician (did you know that in Spain there are more languages than Spanish???)

There are a lot of classrooms because there are many students! In our high school the teenagers are between twelve and eighteen years old or more so there are a lot of us!

An important prize!!

Hello, dear Lithuanian friends. We are having some problems with the pictures we want to send you, but tomorrow everything will be solved. In the meantime, we want to share something very, very important with you: our Education ministry has chosen our school as an example for the work we have carried out with Jolanta Karaliute last year. And we've been the only ones in the whole country to be selected! We are very happy, and very proud, because so much work has finally had good results. We just wanted to share it with you. And tomorrow Friday...more pictures of our school.

On this picture you can see the conference in Madrid (600 km. away from Melide) where we have been this week, showing our experience to other schools.

Tomás (English teacher)

Hello from Lithuania

Hello! This is the group from Utena Adolfas Sapoka Gimnasium, Lithuania. Our names are (from left to write): Ignas, Greta, Justas, Dovile, Edvinas, Rokas, Agne, Gailė, Justinas, and we are 15-16 years old. We are keen on this project and we would like to make it successful. It is really nice that you are interested in our country and culture because Lithuania is not as famous as Spain is.
We are really eager to present our country and our home town, we will also introduce ourselves and later on we will write about typical Lithuanian families, home, food and routine, maybe. Furthermore, we expect that it will be interesting to see and feel those differences that exist, or, maybe, we will even be able to find some similarities.

Ispaniška savaitė - Spanish Week

We had a Spanish week in spring. We were doing projects about your country and culture. We found out a lot of stunning facts about that! In our English lessons we were working in groups. Each group chose a different topic and we were working on the topic chosen. Some of them were about traditional food, dances and songs, leisure time activities, mother tongue, nature and landscapes, and other things. After that all the members of different groups were presenting projects. The presentations were really interesting and attractive because some of us had even learnt useful Spanish phrases, some were reciting funny and easy poems in Spanish and one boy was wearing a sombrero hat. Thus, that is all about our projects in our English lessons!
We also had some other subjects involved in the Spanish week. Spanish culture, the way of life were discussed during geography, Spanish (we have Spanish at school as an optional subject), music and dancing, lessons. We were dancing such dances as Flamenco and Pasadoble, doing and presenting projects (again) and discussing the differences in geography; we were introducing ourselves in Spanish and singing Spanish songs. We filmed everything and produced a CD of the Spanish week in Adolfas Sapoka Gimnasium.
It was a really interesting and exciting week!!! :)

Hello from Melide

Hi, this is the group from Melide (Galicia - Spain). We are very excited to speak to you (well, to write to you). We are 14 and 15 years old, and we attend Melide Highschool. Why are we here?
Because we are very interested in meeting new people, new cultures, new places, new.........
And because we also like travelling and opening our minds. On the picture you can see above we are a small group (although there are more of us, usually). Our names are (from left to write):
Patri, Cris, Fanny, Eva, Ana and Mr Fran.
We hope this will be the beginning of a good friendship, and that we will meet personally some day. We want a picture of you all.
Cheers!

Welcome back

The new school year has already started, and from Melide we want to say HELLO to our Lithuanian friends. We hope this year will be very interesting, and we will know a lot of things about each other.

Semana de Lituania - Lithuanian Week - Lietuviška savaitė

The Lithuanian Week in the high-school of Melide was inspired by the lifelong learning programme Comenius, the main objectives of which are not only to encourage linguistic exchange among member states of the European Union, but also to create a necessary environment for cultural interchange.

During this event, students, teachers and members of the local community of Melide had a possibility of getting acquainted with this faraway little country. Here are some pictures from the event. Let them speak for themselves!

21st - 25th of April, 2008

Lithuanian Week coincided with an arrival of some students of another exchange. A group of teenagers from the high-school of Mugardos also had a chance of taking part in the activities of the Lithuanian Week. The first one was a radio interview with Jolanta, the teaching assistant from Lithuania.


Second activity was a PowerPoint presentation about Lithuania. The speech was delivered by Jolanta and based on common stereotypes that foreigners normally have about Lithuania. During the presentation the imaginary myths about its geographical facts, language and culture have been denied and the true facts introduced. This topic has only be addressed to the 9th and 10th graders and the guests from Mugardos.


This is the area of school where the information stand with books, leaflets, booklets and brochures about Lithuania was installed. It also had a Spanish-Lithuanian dictionary, some books in Lithuanian so that visitors could familiarize themselves with the Lithuanian language. Short words and useful Lithuanian phrases translated into Galician were displayed on the walls for volunteers to learn.


3 screens with different presentations about the country (video and/or PowerPoint) were some of the most important informative means throughout the Lithuanian Week.

1o different departments (English, Galician, History, Economy, Arts, Music, Biology, Geography, Physical Education, and Woodcraft) with the help of students compiled 8 posters with the information about respective aspects of Lithuania.


Students had to complete a mini quiz with the data from the posters.


For the presentation with the 8th graders, the school's hallway was transformed into a classroom. The passers-by could also join the group.


11th and 12th graders listened to a presentation about the collapse of the Soviet Union. Due to its complex content, the speech was delivered to each class individually and took place during History classes.


History of the Soviet Union is an important part of the History course in Spain. Having a visitor who witnessed the times of the communist regime was an interesting and useful experience for the students.


One more goal of the Lithuanian Week was to record a CD with the Lithuanian folk tales. With the help of teachers students translated the tales from English into Galician and recorded a bilingual version of them. During the Lithuanian Week students, teachers and guests could order a copy of the CD for themselves.

For the information in Galician click this link: http://www.lavozdegalicia.es/santiago/2008/04/22/0003_6755520.htm