Roquetes Theme One summary

This is the summary of the work our students here in Roquetes have done on theme one for our Comenius Project.

Our High School has taught classes since 1996 and we had two buildings. The centre welcomes students from Roquetes and towns around.

There are transport services and dining hall. We have an open consultation too.

In our High School we have an orchestra: The orchestra "STOP".

The orchestra "STOP" started in the course 2005-2006, now five years ago. The basic motive for the creation of the orchestra was, and is, the motivation of the students.

Things in favour about our school: Our school is well equipped. Now we have pcs in the classes to help us learn, the government says that this is better but some studen

ts are not convinced.

Our school is divided in two buildings, one for ESO students and the other is for batxillerat (post compulsory studies) and hairdressing studies. In our school there are people from eight different villages in the area. The good thing about this situation is that we have the latest technology, a lot of teachers and a lot of equipment, but there are also so

me bad points like that we have more than six hundred students. It is next to the road, the classroom acoustics aren't very good etc.

We would change the location of the building and we would put all the students in the same building. If we

compare our education with the education of our parents we think that our education is better.

When our parents were young at school they wore a uniform and were forced to speak to the teachers with formal Spanish. They were also forced to speak Spanish if they did not, they were punished. Religion was a compulsory subject.
Regarding education today the lev

el has increased in many aspects, such as speaking in Catalan or dressing as we like.

Our parents' school was different from our school. For example, they had to sing the "Cara al Sol" (an anthem of Franco's reg

ime) because of Franco's dictatorship. In addition, the catalan language was officialy banned and they had more difficulties and less help and freedom. However, some of our parents think they learned a lot and that education was better.At our parents' time there weren't any optional subjects.

Our parents think that our school now is different but generally better, they also think we have a lot of exams, just like we do.

When they think about their time at school they all think that their time was useful for them, because maybe everything that they have learnt will be useful in their lives.