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Here’s the news about the Josep Pallach award. Thank you again Vall de Llémena!

Escaping War, awarded the Josep Pallach National Prize for Education

We want to thank all the Vall de Llémena community for their help and all the work done since we started the project in 2016. Principal Neus Heras and teachers Faló Garcia and Xavier Cortina were awarded the prize this morning at the Caputxins auditorium in Figueres.

Every family has a story to tell. Covid edition

Here are the student’s products for this year. Here you have some online work samples

Two of our teachers, at round table on new and old exiles

Teachers Faló Garcia and Xavier Cortina will be talking about the project tonight on an online round table debate. You are all invited!

Say it with Art

Task 7: Make a work of art to express your feelings about exile children around the world

 

Every family has a story to tell. Part 2

Escaping War project tasks 5 and 6: Turn one of your family Civil War stories in your group into a script and create a video dramatisation of it.

• Make a list of objects and clothes you will need
• Find pictures you will use as chroma key settings. Plan indoor and outdoor locations
• Write the script
• Act it out

Click on the image to read the full script for this group

Every family has a story to tell. Part 1

Escaping War project task 4: Ask your parents or your grandparents about a story in your family related to the Spanish Civil War. Did they have to leave? How was life for those who stayed? Did they have to fight?

• Write the story, adding as much detail as you can
• Read the story to your classmates
• Sit in groups and choose one of the stories to dramatise it in a short film

Click on the image to read the 4 stories in this group

History repeating

Escaping War project task 2:

• In groups, find pictures from the Spanish Civil War depicting bombings, daily life, refugees leaving, refugee camps.
• Find pictures from active conflicts today as similar as possible to the ones you found from the Civil War
• Cite sources and reflect on the pictures

Escaping War project task 3:

• Show the similarities between the pictures by editing an iMovie project. Add suitable music, remove the Ken Burns effect, choose proper transitions

Active conflicts in the world

Escaping War project task 1:

• Look for 10-15 active conflicts in the world involving a refugee crisis
• Make a google map with them
• Specify country, cause of conflict and approximate amount of refugees
• Choose an appropriate icon and a picture to illustrate the conflict

There is hope

. . . as long as there are people like Elizabeth Eidenbenz, who managed to help mothers in the Argelers concentration camp deliver their babies at the Maternity of Elna. She saved about 600 children.