Our School: "Ría de Vigo"

1. Sara Mcgarry Arena
Mª Alicia Figueroa Fernández
Francisco Reigosa
Jairo Daponte Campos

2. 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

3. 1. School and Students profile
 Our 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

4. 1. School and Students profile
Our 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

5. 1. School and Students profile
 Our 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

6. 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.

7. 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?

8. 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?

9. 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 ______”.

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

11. 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)

12. 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

13. Thanks for your attention!