During the award ceremony the teachers explained how throughout the whole course they focused on the Aragon region, as they attempted to record the whole culture to be found in the villages and local traditions making use of all the teaching areas concerned.
During the first term they concentrated on curious people. “We asked the children to find the information using various means: Internet, their parents and especially their grandparents and old people in the villages they usually go to at weekends” the teachers explained. In the second term we looked at imaginary creatures examining fairies and elfs in all the traditions. In the third term they were able to put questions to a collection of experts such as Enrique Satué, Paco Paricio and the historian José Antonio Adell.
Using the information collected by the children “travel books” were produced and sent to all the homes and villages of the pupils to share with their parents. So the pupils had read, written about and drawn the people with the help of the teachers and families all working together. On the final evening there was a presentation of all that had been achieved with sketches and games about the characters such as “the Dragon of Oroel”, the elfs and other imaginary creatures from Aragon myths.
The Award is an attempt on the part of the “Saint Cecilia” Association of Folklore to preserve and recover the traditions at risk of being lost.
Published 09/02/2011
