1. ‘Language is the result of the creativity of thousands of generations.’ Edward Sapir

2. Links with Our Community

3. Visit to the Local Museum

4. We explored the historical links between Ireland and Spain

5. Claudia (The educational officer) and our Spanish teacher explained some of the links Some of the links: Rock Art, St Brendan voyage, The walk of Santiago, The Dún an Óir siege, The Spanish Armada, etc S

6. The galleon “Santa María de la Rosa” sank near the Blasket islands and it’s still under the sea! Map of the shipwreck at Blasket Sound Map of the trip of the Spanish Armada in 1588 Felipe II Isabel de Inglaterra Monument about the Armada in Dún Chaoin

7. We had a table quiz in which we had to look for information and pictures around the panels. We were timed with a stop watch!

8. Our worksheet about the Spanish Armada

9. Visit to the Spanish Class in the Local Secondary School

10. We visited a 2 nd year Spanish class in Mounthawk secondary school

12. We showed projects and performed songs and conversations.

13. Visits from Guest Speakers

14. With our guest speakers we: Practised our Spanish Talked about the experience of learning a foreign language and living in a Spanish speaking country Played traditional games from Spain on the school yard Showed our “Rincón del español” and sang a few Spanish songs Gave a card to our guest saying “Muchas gracias”, decorated and signed by the whole class!

15. Sabela, our guest speaker from Galicia (España)

16. Helen talked to us about Madrid (España) We also played the traditional game ‘El pañuelo’ with her.

18. Her giant puppets talked to us in Spanish!

19. ‘La lengua es el resultado de la creatividad de miles de generaciones.’ Edward Sapir