TIP 1: SCHOOL!

We are a group of four students of the Institut Roquetes, in Catalonia, Spain. We are going to talk about our school. Our school is not too big, there are about 700 students between the age of 12 and 16 (ESO, obligatory education) and between 16 and 18 (Batxillerat, for students who want to go to the university, like us. We study in another building because of the very fast increase of the number of students these next years). One of the best things of our school are some very helpful and cool teachers. In our school we have an orchestra, the Orchestra STOP. We are a "Escola Verda", wich means that we recycle, we make conferences about the environment, we help to preserve the Ebre river, we reduce the water and energy consumition... During the year there are many activities and trips that help us to learn lots of things wich are complicated to learn during the lessons.

 

TIMETABLE	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thrusday	Friday
08:30	optative 1	optative 3	optative 3	optative 1	optative 2
09:30	optative 2	tutory	optative 1	optative 2	optative 4
10:30	catalan	optative 4	optative 2	optative 3	science culture
11:30
12:00	optative 3	optative 1	philosophy	optative 4	castilian
13:00	filosophy	english	PE	catalan	PE
14:00				english
15: 30	optative 4	castilian		COMENIUS
16:30	english	science culture		COMEMIUS

The optatives of the first course of Batxillerat (16 years old) are: economy, history, castilian literature, universal literature, french, ancient greek, latin language and civilisation, maths, physics, chemistry, biology, geology, technology, catholic religon, technical drawing...

OUR PARENTS SCHOOL

Our parents school was very different. All the mornings they had to sing the "Cara al Sol" wich was the imposed song by the Franco's dictature, catalan language and culture was banned and most of them couldn't learn to write in Catalan, a language wich only could be used in the private life. Most of the teachers used to hit the pulpils if they didn't know the lesson, for exemple, most of them studied French instead of English at school. Catholic religion was obligatory. If you wrote with the left hand instead of the right maybe they immobilize your left hand and bind you to write with the right one.To start working at the age of 14 or 16 in the agriculture, construction or industry was very common then. There was a Franco's image and a christian cross in each classroom.