College Maria Casares (Work in progress)
Work in progress !
Students of English here in France are building this virtual tour of their school for our partner schools.
VR Photos:
Menu
Links:
Other languages coming soon.
Our website
▶️ VIDEO : Sports and the gymnasium
We are working on our virtual visit to the school gymnasium and climbing wall.
Meanwhile, please enjoy this video about strong culture of sport at Maria Casares:
▶️ VIDEO : Dance studio
We are still working on our virtual visit to the dance studio.
Meanwhile, please enjoy this video and article of some students working on their choreography in Dance Club:
You like looking at the sun and the stars?
Astronomy is important to us here at Maria Casares.
Check out these articles about our astronomy projects here at Maria Casares.
▶️ VIDEO : Photography project
In art lessons, students were invited to produce photographs of their school around the theme of "space". Here's what they produced:
▶️ VIDEO : The art room
We are still working on our virtual visit to the art room.
Meanwhile, enjoy this video of a short animation produced by pupils:
▶️ VIDEO : The Gymnasium
We haven't yet created our virtual visit to the gym, but sport if very important to us here at the College Maria Casares as you can see in this video:
This is the "Africa Building"
On the ground floor, this is an administrative building.
On the second floor the I.T. room, technology workshops, art and music rooms can be found.
Click on the hotspots on the building to explore.
This is the "Asia Building"
This is where our two CPEs can be found.
A CPE is a Conseiller Principal d'Education. They're role is like that of a head of year in the British school system. They coordinate pastoral care and behavioural management.
Find out more here (in French): Wikipedia: CPE
This is our medieval garden
Climbing wall
We have a huge climbing wall!
A virtual visit with videos will soon be online.
F.S.E. : A space for clubs & activities
The foyer socio-éducatif (FSE) is designed to help pupils develop a sense of responsibility by providing activities and projects outside of lesson time.
You can find out more about the FSE by clicking here
Our I.T. Room
Links:
Technology at Casares
Our website
Rillieux-la-pape
Walk around Rillieux-la-pape
Click here to walk around Rillieux-la-pape starting outside of our school.
About Rillieux-la-pape
Click here to find out about Rillieux-la-pape on Wikipedia
Official Site: Rillieux-la-pape
Click here to visit the official site of the town hall (in French).
This is the I.T. room.
Where is it?
The I.T. room is on the first floor of the "Africa Building".
Who uses it and what is it for?
Students use the I.T. room for doing research on the internet, for using different software packages for projects and classwork and for producing documents such as posters, presentations and magazines.
The library and resource centre
Links:
Welcome to the library and resources centre
The library and resources centre is called a CDI in French.
It is where students come to read, to do research, to work and to make the most of their free periods.
Click here to find out more about our CDI (in French).
The reading corner
This is where pupils come to hear stories and poems read by teaching staff and the library assistant.
Our second I.T. room
This is the smaller of our two I.T. rooms.
Pupils can come here to do research and to produce documents and coursework.
The Administration Building
Links:
Find out more about this work of graffiti.
This work of graffiti was produced by the students in partnership with a group of graffiti artist who came to the school to teach the students about design, conception and the use of spray paints.
Find out more in this video or in this article:
Principal's office
Trips abroad for pupils of Maria Casares
Click here to find out more about pupils' trips to Germany, Spain and Poland.
"Europe Building" Corridor
Links:
This is a corridor.
Who uses it and what is it for?
Pupils and teachers use the corridor to move between lessons.
Pupils line up quietly outside of their classroom and wait to go in and sit down.
English Classroom (2).jpg
Links:
▶️ VIDEO: Our English lessons in room 212
Click here to see what we've been doing in English in room 212.
Or watch this video:
▶️ VIDEO: We are making a virtual desk!
We're currently working on a virtual version of M. Kirrage's desk.
Meanwhile, we made this video to help us think about classroom vocabulary:
This is the high-speed quiz designed to go with this video and our work on modal verbs:
🌍 #verbathon
▶️ VIDEO: UK and India
A press article about our work with schools in India
*** LINK coming soon ***
Our friends at the Woodham Academy, UK
Find out more here
A day at school in the UK
We use this video to learn about school in the UK
▶️ VIDEO: Meet our friends in Tenerife
Our penpals at the Los Realejos school in Tenerife sent us this video of them receiving our letters:
Find out more here
🌍 Our friends in the USA
Colorado Springs
Meet our friends at Mesa Ridge in Colorado Springs here
▶️ VIDEO: Our letter writing project
▶️ VIDEO: Webcam
This is the camera we use for projecting documents and exercise books.
We also use it for our video conferences with partner schools, like this one:
🌍 Posters by pupils
▶️ VIDEO: Interactive Whiteboard
We like to play games and do exercises on the interactive whiteboard:
▶️ VIDEO: Quirky Questions
We love to ask quirky questions in our letters with penpals:
Find out more here
▶️ VIDEO: Vocabulary Wall
Pupils can use the vocabulary wall to find the vocabulary, phrases and verbs they need everyday. We also have videos to help us such as this video about modal verbs:
▶️ VIDEO: High Speed Quiz
This is our high speed quiz designed to mix modal verbs with classroom vocabulary.
It's really fast!
Why are there numbers on the desk?
Mr. Kirrage uses these numbers to choose pupils randomly for questions, quizzes and games.
Try it by clicking here
📍Interactive map
Use this interactive map (open in full screen) to explore our international projects and partners. Click here if it doesn't work.
🌍 CVs and Cover Letters in English
Created at: 23 Feb, 2017 08:44
Updated at: 24 Feb, 2017 19:45
