Looking for architectonic hindrances

The final outcome of this year's project was the map of Premià de Dalt that you can see below which highlights the architectonic barriers that elderly people can find on their way around Premià de Mar. The map was taken to the Town Council so that they could take it into account and improve our town.

They were spotted while we took some elderly people from the Elderly People's Home for a walk. Some of them were on wheelchairs or medical walkers so we could check how difficult it is sometimes for them to move around the town. 

Look at the pictures below and you will see some examples of problems we came across during our walk from the Elderly People's Home to the cafeteria where we took them to have something to drink, chat and spend a while together. Young and old really had a good time sharing experiences and anecdotes.

A map of Premià de Mar with the architectonic hindrances our students detected

The group of elderly people. students and teachers before our walk

People on wheelchairs came across some problems 

People on medical walkers had problems too

Helping hands

A walk hand in hand

Loved to help

Extra help needed

Nacho showing us how to use the wheelchair

An example of an architectonic hindrance

We loved to help

Enjoying each other's company

Having coffee together

Having fun

A men's talk

Coffees and cokes

Our way back home

Scottish air in our school

After being twinned with Glasgow we were really looking forward to having a Scottish experience at home. This is why we got in touch with David Vivanco, a scotsman who took a piece of his homeland to our school. He played a bagpipe, he sang some beautiful traditional Scottish songs and the funniest thing of all, he taught us how to dance some Céilidh dances.

If you want to see how well we managed to do it, have a look at this link: Un tast d'Escòcia a l'INS Valerià Pujol i Bosch

Raquel Soto suffers from cerebral palsy

Raquel is a funny brilliant girl who made us laugh a lot telling us lots of anecdotes in her daily life. After being with her, our students chaged the way they look at handicapped people completely. She faces life with real optimism and lives a normal life with her partner and son. She is always helping people and she is involved in many organizations that support people with physical problems. She has also collaborated with the famous singer Macaco and here you have the link where you can see her playing a part in the song "Mensajes del agua".

http://youtu.be/JPWFtapYOXQ

Neil Harbisson suffers from acromatopsia

To make students aware of the physical problems that some people have to live with, we organized a series of talks by different people.
Our first visitor was Neil Harbisson, who was born with an illness called acromatopsia which unables him from seeing colours. So, instead of seeing them, he listens to them. How? He has got an electronic eye that turns colour into sound through vibrations sent to his brain using bone conduction. Because of this, he likes being called a cyborg.
Through funny anecdotes he changed the way students thought his life is like. For example, he can listen to a Miro's picture and he can paint a Lady Gaga's song. He showed us how some famous people's faces sounded and how Prince Charles sounded much like Nicole Kidman because both had blue torquoise eyes and very red lips.
We strongly recommend you to watch his lecture at TED because we enjoyed it very much and our students from 1st and 2nd year of Batxillerat thought that it had been awesome.
Have a look at the pictures we took during his stay among us.

Our second trip to Glasgow

At the end of October two of our students and a teacher travelled to Glasgow.
This was our hectic schedule there.
Look at the photos below and the video our students made to show in Scotland.

Just landed at Glasgow airport.

A warm welcome from the Scottish students

Catalan and Scottish together

Working together

Making friends

We visited a number of different schools

Spanish class

Spanish class

Teachers' meeting

Catalan students in Glasgow

They know about us here

Spanish classroom

They really know about Catalonia

Cooking class

Dancing Zumba for charity projects.

 Proud with their shortbread made at school.

Very happy after visiting St.Thomas of Aquine.

At the Town Hall reception.

Catalan delegation with the City Mayor.

Our students and teacher with the Mayor.

Beautiful autumn landscape.

Farewell at the Stirling Castle.