Values

Águeda:

As I said before, I have studied primary and secondary school in the same centre. There they were very focus in giving us some values, above all the respect. The school was known because this focus in the teaching of values.

Since the first day, we learn that we should respect everybody, but they were insistent in the respect of women, immigrants or homosexual people. To do that, besides of celebrate a lot of “important days” like the women day, the peace day, the solidarity week… and do a lot of trips and groups activities (as I said before), we work in class every weeks different themes. When we were in primary school we do that in the “tutorial” hour, but when we were in secondary school, we have a special signature only for that, which was called “orientación”. There we went deep in the lives of some women, for example.

In addition to this, the school was very focus in the respect of the environment too. So they teach us to recycle and we used to use recycling materials. For example, when we celebrate the carnival day, we used to make our costumes with things that we have.

Cristina:

In my school, the values were the most important thing on the student’s education. My school was religious and worked values as friendship, community, solidarity…

I remember that every year the school chose a theme based on a value. All the year we worked all the important values but we devoted more time to the theme chosen. 

All the years, we celebrated the week of solidarity, we did different activities related to solidarity like a solidarity race or “operación bocata” (we paid 5 euro for Panamá and we ate a sandwich).

In conclusion, Thanks to the values that have taught by the school, I am what I am. My personality is based on these values.

Marina:

I think that my school had very good values, because even though it was a religious and some people might not like religious schools, mine used to work, besides the religious one, moral values such as solidarity, friendship, love… and every year they used to focus and work in one value.

It also encourages students to go volunteer in many activities they offer like “la gran recogida de alimentos” with supermarkets or others with ONGs.

One week every year it was “the solidarity week” in which they used to collect founds for a different cause, this year was for the refugees, other year was for philipines, etc.

Paula:

In primary and high school I was at the same school. The values that were worked there were so good to me.

Talking about values, I mean the different ways that our personality can get. We can be competitive or we can cooperate with ours mates, maybe we can be selfish or maybe generous, arrogant or humble…

In my school, teachers worked to show us the good values, (cooperate, generous, humble…) with activities, excursions, educational class…

All firsts days of school, we talked in class about the different values that we wanted for us and we chose one of them, the one that class most needed, so we worked the all year with this value to improve it.

Cecilia:

In preschool, primary school and secondary school, the teachers begun, step by step, to teach us important values like the solidarity, the friendship, the company, the concord, the empathy, etc. They taught it to us with games, activities, trips, etc. and we had lot of fun.

In the high school (in secondary school too, but less), they taught us this values and more, but more abstract values, or better said, life lessons.