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Dottoressa Giovanna Montalti

Multi Lingual Cultural Club

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Projects

The Multilingual-Cultural Club
It is an educational club that aims to promote and facilitate the learning of the languages and the learning of cultural experiences employing them as a powerful tool to enhance the development of personal and interpersonal skills of students. Therefore, we are delighted to be involved in supporting, collaborating and creating our own initiatives for both individuals and society that help to develop positivity and a caring attitude for a healthy and functional society. Currently we are working on two interesting initiatives:
Building an active and constructive community
By working/collaborating together with the same view. “Las Caritas Felices” is the hand-drawn, personalised T-shirt of Multilingual Cultural Club, and are a way for us to use our enthusiasm, motivation, charisma, creativity and originality to grab the attention of our sponsors, supporters etc., but also to attract future collaborators such as volunteers, students or professionals (teachers, educators, pedagogues, artists, singers, painters, musicians, writers and so on) to form a network, a community that is interested in becoming a part of this initiative. It is the first step to letting us know each other, working as a team and becoming stronger.
The Multilingual-Cultural Club Corner
Another initiative that we are working on is divided in two steps: one is to open a Reading Corner Area where the students are exposed to books in different languages, to promote their curiosity. Our aims would be to use second-hand books (that have been donated to the Multilingual-Cultural Club by our supporters) from different areas such as primary and secondary schools, but also from the local community, educational services and more. The second step would be Fostering Learning Activities such as talks, workshops, cultural activities and online courses where the students can learn, develop and practice their reading, speaking, listening, writing skills, and more. We work with a Mindfulness approach, this is, providing sessions where the students focus on their experiences directly with their full care and attention, practice experiencing the sensations of the present moments in as much as possible, bringing curiosity to those experiences with a non-judgmental attitude.
All of us have so much to learn and so much to share, so be part of our community and join us!
On the World Book Day 2022, we are delighted to be launching the Multilingual Cultural Club Book Corner at Griffeen Valley Educate Together National School in Dublin-Ireland.

Welcome to our Spanish Club Gallery. Here you will find some of the experiences we had during the years as our kids learned Spanish through the many activities we offered

Session: La Fiesta, May 2019

Our Fiesta is the way the we celebrate our “See You Soon”, where the use of traditional activities and customs (for example, the cake and the piñata) represents our engagement with and enjoyment of our “See You Soon”.In this session pupils will practice what they have learnt during the whole year in our Spanish Club, and they will enjoy the entertainment with our tradition of the piñata, which is hilarious and a lot of fun!

Session: Halloween/Víspera de Todos los Santos/Día de los Muertos, Oct. 2019

This Celebration is a Celtic tradition that is also found in hispano-american cultures. The literal translation is: Víspera de Todos los Santos. This diffusion of the tradition began with the immigration of the Irish people to the USA, and it later spread to other areas where it integrated with the local traditional cultural practices in many countries. In fact, Mexico celebrates it as part of its traditional feast of respect for their ancestors - this celebration is called: Día de los muertos. This celebration has also become very popular in Spain and is even celebrated in schools. It is very interesting to note that one thing which is common to all Spanish-speaking countries is their willingness to celebrate and enjoy a festival, so anything is a good excuse to do that! Our purpose in this session was to practice familiar vocabularies in order to recall them better in the context of this international cultural celebration. Our students became very interested and engaged with this kind of learning without losing the interactive and fun approach that we take to each lesson.

Session: Recycling Activities/ Actividades de Reciclaje, 2019

“La tierra no es una herencia de nuestros padres sino un préstamo de nuestros hijos” (Proverbio Iberoamericano). Our children are actively participating in our recycling-inventive session. It is hugely captivating and rewarding to observe how they react with genuine sadness and disappointment when they hear that teenagers and adults (including their parents) are destroying our planet, killing the fish and contaminating the lakes, rivers and oceans. In this session they show us: what they are able to do to reverse this process; how they can be creative with “useless items” if they are given the opportunity; how they can relish and enjoy things that people discard or through away; how we can decrease and manage our household waste; how much money we can save by engaging with these activities. In fact, one of our pupils was engaged in designing a colossal figure made from these “useless times” found in his home. It not only kept him occupied and busy for a long time but he also had a lot of fun in the process.