School 7 of the Amazon Guardian Schools Network
Four school years with the same classFrom Year 3 to Year 6
Escola El Palau is in Molins de Rei, the same town where Associació Guardians de l’Amazònia was founded. It joined the Amazon Guardian Schools Network (the AGSN) in May 2023, when Puwê Puyanawa and his daughter Txuku Kaytxi visited the school.
What makes this school special is that the project has travelled with the same class for four years: the visit in Year 3; the class project and the letters in Year 4, with their teacher Maribel; the second year in Year 5, with Marta; and the first video call in Year 6, with Paula.
On the other side of the Atlantic, Escola Ixubãy Rabuī Puyanawa answers, from the Puyanawa Indigenous Land (Acre, Brazil). Letters, questions, photos and drawings have travelled back and forth between the two classrooms.
- Molins de ReiBaix Llobregat
- May 2023joins the network
- Years 3 to 6the same class, four years
- December 2025first video call
Puwê and Txuku’s visit, in May 2023. 
Every pupil, with their own copy of the storybook. 
The Puyanawa dances, danced in a circle.
The school’s timeline
Four school years of joint work between Molins de Rei and the Puyanawa Indigenous Land, with the same class.
- 9 May 2023
Puwê and Txuku visit the school
Puwê Puyanawa and his daughter Txuku Kaytxi meet two classes, Years 3 and 5. They explain how they live, where their people come from and they teach them their dances. The next day the delegation goes to Escola Guillem de Claramunt, in La Secuita. A week later, on 16 May, Molins de Rei town council announces that the school is joining the network. The Year 3 class is the one that will carry the project through the following years.
- School year 2023-2024 · Year 4
A class project about the rainforest
With their teacher Maribel, the class works on a project about plants, the environment and the Amazon. They plant bulbs and wait for the tulips to come up, study seeds and read the book “The Amazon River”.
- April 2024
The letter with nine questions
The class writes to the Puyanawa children. They tell them they have read “L’Eruga de colors” and that its message stays with them, and they ask nine questions. They send photos of the Festa Major of Molins: the Gegants, the Camell and l’Enxuscat. The letter goes in Catalan and in Portuguese.
- 18 June 2024
The answer arrives from Acre
The pupils of Escola Ixubãy Rabuī Puyanawa answer from the Puyanawa Indigenous Land, more than eight thousand kilometres away.
- 21 June 2024
The close of the project
Every pupil receives the storybook and their letter from the Amazon. The session ends dancing the Puyanawa dances they had learnt the year before. The school posts about it the same day.
- 13 March 2025 · Year 5
Second year in the network
Now in Year 5, with their teacher Marta, the class holds an awareness workshop and shares a Puyanawa dance again. The activity is part of the Ixubãy 2.0 project, supported by the town councils of Molins de Rei and Begues.
- 12 December 2025 · Year 6
Getting ready for the video call
In Year 6, with their teacher Paula, the class prepares for the meeting with the Puyanawa school. The session is led by Queralt Solsona, who tells of her journey from Barcelona to the Amazon and her stay in the community.
- 15 December 2025
The first video call
The two classrooms see each other live. They introduce themselves, ask each other questions and talk about food, games, their surroundings and animals. Afterwards, in class, they discuss what struck them most and what they might do next time.
The letters from Acre, in the classroom. 
Letters and drawings, one for each of them. 
“Els Puyanawa i l’Eruga de colors”, open.
What they wanted to know
These are the nine questions the class sent to Escola Ixubãy Rabuī Puyanawa. The teachers did not write them: they came from the children.
- What is your school like?
- Which subjects do you like best?
- How many hours are you at school?
- Which plants do you use to make medicines?
- What is your main food?
- Which festivals do you celebrate?
- How do you make your face paints?
- What games do you play?
- How are you reforesting the rainforest? What support do you get?
And before the questions, this sentence: «Valorem molt que vosaltres estigueu cuidant la selva i que l’estigueu reforestant, això ens beneficia a tots.»
The book they read in class. 
Inside pages of the book. 
The answer, from the Puyanawa Indigenous Land.
The dances they learnt
Puwê and Txuku taught them two Puyanawa dances. You dance them; you do not explain them.
- Puyaka Puyaka Hê Hê — a song about animals. It is danced imitating the animals of the rainforest.
- Nûpãnarê Pãna Pãna Panarê — the dance of the long walk.
“Txai: half of you lives in me and half of me lives in you.”
It is the idea that runs through the storybook «Els Puyanawa i l’Eruga de colors – Hêda Cêkaya» and the one the pupils of El Palau picked out in their letter: «Tots depenem de tots.»
In the media and in the network
- Escola El Palau · June 2024El tancament del projecteThe storybook, the letters from Acre and the Puyanawa dances, told by the school.x.com ↗
- Press · MolinsTV, May 2023Visita d’una tribu amazònica a l’escola El PalauThe local television report on the visit.Open the item in Press
- Press · Molins de Rei town councilL’Escola El Palau participa en el projecte de la xarxa d’escolesThe council’s announcement on the day of the visit.Open the item in Press
- The networkMap of the schools in the networkEach school in its town, with its summary and its story.Go to the map
- School networkEscola Guillem de ClaramuntThe other school with its own page, in La Secuita.See the page