Between 1 and 4 February, students from P3 to 6th grade of the Escola Jaume Balmes, the Escola Mossèn Josep Arques and the Escola Les Savines de Cervera lived the Festa Major del Santíssim Misteri from a pedagogical proposal.
This initiative is part of a cross-cutting educational project, which aims to bring popular culture closer, the Catalan language and traditions to all pre-school and primary school students, and also to their families.
The pedagogical proposal of the Winter Festival is organized in different didactic units, one for each educational level. Includes motivating activities, experiential and meaningful in Catalan and English to work on festive elements such as the eagle, the flag of the city, the traps, the macers, the story of the Holy Mystery, the giant Joan Balaguer, the velvets and the Complete ones.
Among the activities proposed are school visits to the Parish, the Chapel of the Holy Mystery and the exhibition of festive elements (city flag, traps, clubs and dresses) from the city to the Paeria.
These school trips are included in the Environmental Education Plan of the Department of Education of the Paeria de Cervera and are carried out thanks to the city’s tourist guides.. Visits to meet the eagle and the giant Joan Balaguer are led by volunteers from the Brotherhood of the Eagle and the Giants of Cervera, respectively.
Behind this project, which aims to explain the Festa Major del Santíssim Misteri to the little ones, there is the group of the Seminar of Popular Culture in the Schools, of the Seny Major Group, working with cabbage·collaboration of the Segarra Education Service of the Department of Education. This initiative has been carried out in schools in the municipality since the year 2010.
Besides, it also has two more pedagogical proposals: Corpus and the September Festival.
Information and image provided by the Popular Culture Working Group in the Schools of Cervera.
Cervera, 9 of February of 2021.