Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2016

During this term, our students of the first year of E.S.O. have been studying materials and their properties. Wood and paper are good examples of usual materials, so they have made some Christmas trees using recycled magazines. This year has been the third time we do this activity and I have chosen one example of each group (as you can see in the pictures below):

Alexander López - 1ºB

Alejandro Nogueira, Adrián Román - I1B

Have you ever had a favourite hero or heroine? How would yo imagine him/her? This is the one we've chosen from I3P

We'd like to share with all of you a very difficult essay that I4D have done for literature class. It's an essay on Robinson Crusoe's diction.

Have you ever heard of the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur? 

If you want to know more about one of the most fascinating myths of the Greek Mythology, click on this link. Jorge Serradilla and Vanesa Ortiz (I1F) have created this awesome Powerpoint presentation.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5V0ghHbZjsXanYtckZOU3pXeHc/view?usp=sharing

Audio (download it): https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzDeHbIz319wS2xxNzhxTWVzZlU

Merry Christmas (Laila)

Feliz Navidad! Merry Christmas!  

Christmas has always been one of my favorite holidays because it is a great  opportunity to spend time with friends and family, eat lots of food, open presents and decorate the Christmas tree.  Growing up, we had many Christmas traditions, like baking gingerbread cookies, putting our stockings out for Santa Claus and reading a Christmas poem.  This is one of my favorite Christmas poems from my childhood:

By Philip Brooks

Everywhere, everywhere, Christmas tonight!
Christmas in lands of the fir-tree and pine,
Christmas in lands of the palm-tree and vine,
Christmas where snow peaks stand solemn and white,
Christmas where cornfields stand sunny and bright.
Everywhere, everywhere, Christmas tonight!

Christmas where children are hopeful and gay,
Christmas where old men are patient and gray,
Christmas where peace, like a dove in his flight,
Broods o're brave men in the thick of the fight;
Everywhere, everywhere, Christmas tonight!
For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all;
No palace too great, no cottage too small. 

Thanksgiving in the United States

When I asked the students what important U.S. holiday was approaching, the only response they could think of was “Black Friday.” I was a little surprised at the time until I realized images and videos of "Black Friday" would be more plentiful than those of Thanksgiving.

They learned about dense material such as the way that we currently portray the “First Thanksgiving” with Pilgrims and Native Americans, and the way that it actually occurred. Typically it is shown that both groups are enjoying the company of the others, when actually they were just trying to be tolerant to prevent conflict. Paintings done by U.S. American artists at the time present an idea that the Pilgrims were the ones assisting the Native Americans, instead of a symbiotic relationship.

I also discussed lighter subjects such as Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and the traditional NFL games on played on the 4th Thursday of every November. They easily recognized the parade balloons of Spiderman and Mickey Mouse. Also the students should now know the difference between a rugby ball and an American football, after showing them the Charlie Brown balloon carrying the latter.

Of course the food is one of the most important parts of Thanksgiving, and it seemed that not many were surprised when I showed the amount that U.S. Americans eat on this holiday. Many of the foods can be found here in Spain, but there are also some that are unique to the United States as well.

Below is a short video of the history of how Thanksgiving came to be.

Articles written by 1st Year students about P.E. and exercise at school.

MATERIALS' PROJECTS

Our first year's students have been studying materials and its properties in the technology class. Some of them have made such a good work. Click on the link below and you will see one of the best slides about this topic!!!

                       * LAURA AND JORGE'S MATERIALS' PROJECT

(We suggest that you use the "Present" button on the top right hand corner in order to watch it properly)

Cave of Enebralejos

Our students of Loeches have visited the cave of Enebralejos in Segovia. They have spent an instructive day, learning a lot of things about this wonderful cave:

"Although it was not rediscovered until 1932, this magnificent cave is an incredible 40 million years old, boasting spectacular stalagmite and stalactite formations. Visitors can tour three of the three galleries, which 600 of the cave’s 3,670 metres.

It boasts eye-catching figures that are source of inspiration for visitors, who can make out the ‘Burial Room’, the ‘Shrine’ and formations reminiscent of a waterfall, phantom and coloured aall, which form some of the most intriguing visual spectacles. And as if the colours and shapes were not surprising enough, they can also admire the lofty ‘Needle Ceiling’, ‘Upstream’, ‘Birth’ and ‘Torticollis’ in some of the other galleries.

During the Copper Age, the cave provided shelter for our ancestors, who used it as a necropolis, decorating the walls with etchings and paintings that have earned it the status of an Asset of Cultural Interest. More recently, the tales passed down by word of mouth among the inhabitants of Prádena claim that it was closed on the orders of the Inquisition, who believed it was a hiding place for Jews."

Source

The Capsule, I1B

Our students of I1B have participated in the Time Capsule Secondary Competition. They have created and buried a time capsule that describes life in 2015 and how they imagine the future. They have also created a video.

You can vote for them here --> http://woobox.com/dff5vz/vote/for/7491655

Is this a dream?, I2A

Our students of I2A have participated in the Time Capsule Secondary Competition. They have created and buried a time capsule that describes life in 2015 and how they imagine the future. They have also created a video.

You can vote for them here --> http://woobox.com/dff5vz/vote/for/7536618

CAPSULE APOCALYPSE, I3A

Our students of I3A have participated in the Time Capsule Secondary Competition. They have created and buried a time capsule that describes life in 2015 and how they imagine the future. They have also created a video.

You can vote for them here --> http://woobox.com/dff5vz/vote/for/7536520

Saint Patrick's Day

Saint Patrick's Day is a cultural and religious holiday celebrated on 17th March. It commemorates Saint Patrick and the arrival of Christianity in Ireland,as well as celebrates the heritage and culture of the Irish in general. Celebrations generally involve public parades and festivals, céilithe, and the wearing of green attire or shamrocks.

Saint Patrick's Day is a public holiday in Ireland, but it is also widely celebrated by the Irish diaspora. Our school will join this celebration too!

Posters about countries around the world

Our students have made some posters to show the wide diversity of climates, ecosystems and buildings around the world. Three subjects have been involved: Natural Science, Social Science and Technology.

Posters about Shrove Tuesday

Our students made some posters to show the things they had learnt about Shrove Tuesday.