Starting a new school year

Hello everybody!

It's been a long time since the last time I wrote here! Time goes by so fast...

We have already started with new activities for our eTwinning project: the first one is a short video presenting yourselves, and the Spanish students have created some very original presentations. They are already on our Twinspace, and I encourage you to watch them and leave a comment with your opinions.

I hope you will like them!!!

Warm regards from Vinaròs

Day of Europe!

Last Monday, 9th May, was the Day of Europe. All through the countries which belong to the European Union, a lot of activities were held in schools and high schools to celebrate that we are all European. Our union, based on peace, solidarity and respect, is a very special bond between us.

In our school we also celebrated the Day of Europe, as you can see in these photos.

Our students worked on groups the characteristics of each country belonging to the European Union. They also created some big posters with the European flag, motto (United in diversity), the Euro symbol... of course they drawed a big map with the European countries and sticked to the corresponding countries their national flags.

We enjoyed our first celebration of the Day of Europe and had a good time. 

Did you celebrate the Day of Europe in your school?

Happy Easter from Spain!!

Hello everybody!

As Luisa and Marika have already shown their typical traditions during Easter. I am going to show you some of our traditions here in the Valencian Community.


First, we have the "mona de Pascua". It is similar to your "Titola" in Trieste and the "Tsoureki" in Corinth, but our "mona" is usually round, with one or two boiled eggs. It has also some dried fruit and anised tiny colour balls to decorate. Another typical decoration is a chick figure or a feather on it. They are typically made at home, for example, my mum always makes them for all the family in several shapes, for example, as frogs. The "monas" can be filled with chocolate, they are delicious!!!

Another typical food is the "farinosa". It is made with the same dough but it is filled with "confitura de cabello de ángel", which is a sort of pumpkin jam. They are rolled and without eggs.

And finally, we have also the typical chocolate eggs, or the chocolate figures: hens, rabbits... but also other fashioned figures. This year, I suppose that the most sold chocolate "monas" will be Hello Kittys and Bob Esponjas.


The tradition here is that the godfather or the godmother gives their grandson or granddaughter the "mona" to be eaten during the Easter Sunday with the family or friends. As Easter usually at the beginning of the spring, everybody goes to eat the "mona" to the country, and flying a kite is also a typical tradition.

It is thought that the word "mona" comes from the Arabic word "munna" which means "gift or present". And I have discovered that the eggs and the chicks represent the renewal and the rebirth, the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

I hope you will like all this information about Easter in our region!

Happy Easter!

School trip to Italy

School trip to Italy

An unforgettable experience

This last week was so incredible! We went to Italy with our classmates! It was a 4 days trip while we visited Pisa, Florence and Rome. It was such a funny trip that we won’t forget it!

In this trip we used almost all the transports that exist! First we trevelled from Girona to Pisa by plane. We saw the Pisa’s tower and we took some pictures of it. After a pair of hours there we took a bus and went to Florence, a really enjoyable city in the north of Italy. We stayed there for one night in a really good hotel. Although we didn’t sleep much this day we visited the David in the museum of Florence and some other monuments in the city.

In the afternoon we took a train that brought us to Rome, where we were going to spend a couple of days. Although the hotel wasn’t very good we spent a really good time there, but not much because we were all day walking in Rome. The first day we visited the Vatican City, the Fontana di Trevi and some other places that I don’t remember now. For me the most beatiful thing we visited was the Fontana di Trevi. The second day we visited the Spain’s Square, the Coliseum, the Foros and the Mouth of the Truth.

The food was really good in all the Italian cities we visited, but specially in Rome. Although the good quality of the food the price was in line with what we expected, only a bit more than the restaurants we frequent here in Vinaròs, Casa Pocho and these places, you know…

And to top the travel we returned to Spain with a ferry, we sailed from Civitavecchia to Barcelona in only 22 hours, so we hadn’t much time to do anything in the return trip.

In general we spent a really good time together among friends, like I said on the top, an unforgettable experience!

Written by: Josep Queralt (4th ESO)

Carnaval de Vinaròs

We are in the middle of the Carnival of Vinaròs, and I would like to show you the official poster announcing the Carnival.

And, if you want to see it, here you are a brief promo of the Carnival of Vinaròs.




We have Carnival holidays from tomorrow, Friday 4th March until next Monday 7th March. I hope my students will show you some pictures of the Carnival events next week.

Our map

See Opening our windows to European friends in a bigger map


When I see this map, words like "dreams", "plans", "share", "together", "excitement", "smiles"...  come to my mind.


And you?

What do you see? What do you feel?

Vinaròs, "a piece of heaven"

Greetings from Vinaròs, "trosset de cel", as people here say (more or less, "a piece of heaven").

The Carnival is coming soon, and for "vinarossencs" it is not only a party but mostly a passion. Do you celebrate Carnival in your town?