1. After our trip to
Guildford
(7th -11th Dec. 2011)
Proyecto Comenius
Travel Broadens the mind. Let’s travel together!
2011/2013
Colegio San Gregorio
Aguilar de Campoo

2. What have we learnt?
(Rebeca Martínez)
To understand other
cultures, other ways of
thinking, acting and understanding
of teaching and education.
We have opened our minds to
different working methods. Ours is
not necessarily the best,there are
many ways to reach students and
all are acceptable.

3. What have we learnt?
(Rebeca Martínez)
• To share experiences with
people of our own profession, give
each other advice ...
• There are other ways to distribute
the school time and space that has
nothing to do with our
daily, various
times, classes communicated with
two or three teachers per class, and
so on.

4. What have we learnt? (Carmen Pérez)
Our trip to Guildford with Nubi helped us to have a different outlook in many aspects
and in point of fact to broaden our minds.
As English teachers we have travelled many
times to English speaking
countries, nevertheless this time was
surprisingly different. The way that the
Guildford community welcomed us was
extraordinary; the school staff and students, the
families that opened their homes for us to
stay, even the local institutions created a warm
welcome and made us feel very comfortable.
The activities planned for us gave us the
opportunity to be something else than plain
tourist but to be real travelers and find
ways, manners, even places that only locals can

5. What have we learnt? (Carmen Pérez)
The interaction with the other collaborating countries of the project was very
interesting. We are people from different countries but we all have the same
passion, children’s education. We had long talks about the differences and similarities
in our cultures, educative systems, school organization and methodologies. The
atmosphere was very friendly and lively, and it allowed us to have a little peak at what
this project can bring to our communities.

6. What have we learnt? (Carmen Pérez)
The time spent at the Holy Trinity Pewley
Down School was great, the
staff, especially Helen Pronger and the
Head teacher, Richard Rowe, made us
feel welcome and very fortunate to share
that special time with them. The school
was ready to finish the term and it was
fantastic to be able to see the special
activities planned for the occasion; the
way children worked with topics and
seeing the finished result at the end of
the term, the wonderful play, Alice in
Wonderland, were all the students took
part in one way or another.

7. What have we learnt? (Carmen Pérez)
Even when you are doing your best and with the best intention, especially in
education, it is great to be able to step back and have something so different to
compare your work with. Even when we know that we are different cultures
we can always take what we think it can work with our system and improve
it, education is alive and we need to be ready to open our minds and be able to
try and change.
Thank you so much for the opportunity to be
part of this great project!

8. What have we learnt? (Javier Ramos)
I have learnt the different Christmas traditions of our
Comenius Partners:
• Our Italian partners told us about the leyend of the
famous dessert THE PANETTONE, which is very famous
in Christmas.
• Our Turkish partners don’t celebrate Christmas because
they are muslims so they sang us a song to wish us a
Happy New Year.
• Our Polish partner invited us to sing a Christmas Carol in
polish, but it is very famous in the whole world. It was
SILENT NIGHT, Cicha noc (In Polish)

9. What have we learnt? (Javier Ramos)
• The Islandic teacher told us about a monster
who plays with children during Christmas. Her
name was Grilla.
• We could taste one of the most famous
pudding in England, the Christmas pudding.
• And the two Spanish teachers (Rebeca y
Carmen)told a story about the Christmas Star.
They told it in English and Spanish

10. Thank you,
Holy Trinity Pewley Down School.