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European Adventure is a brand new communicative board game created by the students and teachers of Lyseo comprehensive school of Joensuu and IES Miguel de Cervantes. The players travel from Joensuu, Finland to Fuenteálamo, Spain and vice versa, tackling different … Continue reading →

24 students accompanied by four teachers from Lyseo comprehensive school visited the Spanish partner school at the end of March 2017. Read more about this amazing experience: Short-term student exchange in Spain

We sent an invitation to a couple of primary schools in Joensuu to participate in our games project and were delighted to get a response from the preschool teacher of Utra School, Leena Horttanainen. Their group of 6-year-olds practised and … Continue reading →

Check out the Adobe Spark presentations by class 9A /2016-17 that will teach you how to play some popular Finnish games !

We are pleased to inform that the Spanish students’ visit to Joensuu in October 2016 went according to plan and was a really rewarding experience, both for the Spanish students of IES Miguel de Cervantes as well as for a … Continue reading →

The first student mobility (Short-term student exchange) will take place on October 3rd-7th, 2016.  Preparations in Joensuun lyseon peruskoulu are underway to receive 22 students and three teachers from our partner school IES Miguel de Cervantes. The Spanish students will … Continue reading →

We organised a competition for our students (and their families) asking them to come up with new ways to use the traditional “Pekka”-cards for the purposes of language learning. We promised a reward for the best three suggestions. Unfortunately, participation … Continue reading →

Our theme week in March-April was successfully implemented, thanks to our active Erasmus+ team members and many foreign visitors! Read more about the activities here:Erasmus+ theme week

One of our students comes from China and wanted to contribute to the project by providing us with an amusing overview of what we Finns are like as people. I think we Finns have to admit that despite being somewhat … Continue reading →