REPORT of the SHORT-TERM EXCHANGES of GROUPS of STUDENTS

                                                             "A country in the ocean"

CELFF Centro de Estudos Línguas Formação Fogueteiro SA - Colégio Guadalupe

AMORA, PORTUGAL - 29.09 - 03.10.2022

The mobility lasted 5 days.

DAY 1:After a brief presentation of the school by the headmistress, Mrs Paula Freitas, the host teachers and students took the visitors for a visit of the school building.  Students from Colégio Guadalupe presented the work they’ve been doing in the project: videos, leaflets, posters, and workshops (specially chemistry workshops – analysis of the sea water. They also paid testimony of the campaigns they participated cleaning beaches.Then they presented their works: videos, leaflets, posters, and workshops (specially chemistry workshops – analysis of the sea wate)r. They also paid testimony of the campaigns they participated in cleaning the beaches.In the afternoon they participated in a dolphin watching trip. They could closely see a big family of dolphins in Sado river, watching their interactions and becoming aware of the importance of preserving the habitats, especially the Ocean. During the catamaran trip, they had a Workshop from biologists of the “Dolphins Bay”, where they could see the dissection of “pata-roxa”, a small shark species. This activity let them have a better understanding of the connection between the Portuguese and the sea. 

Day 2 Students participated in an art workshop, conducted by Mrs Joana Barros, painting different interpretations of “The Great Wave of kanagawa”, from Hokusai. The paintings were used to build a mura. In the art area, a music is being made, with the sea as theme, and will be presented, finished in the last mobility. Then they visited Cristo-Rei, Frigate D. Fernando II and Glória and went sightseeing in Cais do Ginjal.

Day 3 The partners visited the Pena Palace, build in the XIX century, by D. Fernando de Saxe-Coburg and Gotta, the “King artist” 

Students and teachers continued the visit through the World Heritage historic vila of Sintra, visiting Quinta da Regaleira, a very symbolic palace and garden, designed by Luigi Manini.

Day 4 The students spent the day with their host families. In this way they were able to learn more about the Portuguese way of life, habits and culture. Bonds of friendship and complicity were created,and families grow bigger.

The teachers visited some of the most important monuments in Lisbon (Mosteiro dos Jerónimos, Torre de Belém, Chiado and the Oldest Bookshop in the world, Miradouro do Príncipe Real, etc.) and exchanged some impressions about the ways of life and educational systems.

Day 5 Students and teachers visited The Oceanarium, where the four marine habitats give the illusion of a single aquarium and a sole ocean. Then the host students delivered the certificates of attendance to the teachers and students and finally teachers and students produced an evaluation questionnaire about the mobility.