The best for the New Year 2023

 Dear friends,

Hope you are enjoying Christmas holidays with family and friends. We wish you the best for the new coming year 2023, too!!

Relax and have fun!

:-)

Our student Carmen is in Canada this academic year.

 Dear friends,

Carmen Moreno, our 4th ESO student last year, got one of the Amancio Ortega´s grant to spend a whole year in Canada and going on with her upper studies.  We are in touch with her and has sent us info about her new experience there. Her aim is to encourage students to go and study abroad as she is doing!!!

Thinking to study abroad?

Hi, I ´m Carmen and I ´m studying grade 11 in Canada with a scholarship. 

I ´m living with a host family in Camrose, a small town in Alberta 8000 km far from Spain.

Learning English, meeting new people, learning a new culture, and traveling is all what you ´re going to do studying abroad. 

I ´ve already learnt many things about Canada since I ´ve been here. 

The high school is completely different from what it is in Spain. You can study subjects such as foods, cosmetology, mechanics, woods, design studies and many more. You can play sports in the high school. I ´m in the curling team.!!!

Going by bus to the high school every morning is awesome.

After school, I ´m doing bowling on Mondays and I ´m volunteering some Saturdays with the “special Olympics” which is an organization for handicapped people in my town. And I love it because I ´m going with my host brothers who actually have Down syndrome and they are twins. I ´m so glad I ´m leaving this experience with them. 

I ´m going to start giving Spanish lessons to some kids, which I ´m very interested in.

Have you ever wanted to skate in a lake? That´s something Canadians do in winter. Eating marshmallows, celebrating thanks giving,rememberance day…… Depending on where you are you ´re going to learn many new things about that culture.

And not many more things I can tell you. There are as many things you want and as you can imagine to do. So far, this is being the best year of my life. Don ´t be scared if you ´re thinking to  go abroad, just be self confident.

English activities for bilingual primary students at our school

 Dear friends,

Last Friday, bilingual primary students (year 6) from CEIP Graciano Atienza,  paid us a visit and had the opportunity to play online games with our 1st and 2nd  ESO students.

They enjoyed English lessons which consisted on taking part in contests such as Who wants to be a millionaire (Christmas edition) and American Song contest. They also found out about USA Culture and customs. 

We were delighted to share our lessons with them and hope they learnt a lot and had a great time among us.

   

Hope to see you soon  :-)

Erasmus + :Jobshadowing at Publiczna Szkola Podstawowa Nr 34 W Radomiu (Poland)

From the 19^thto the 23^rdSeptember, Paqui Peinado, Ana Casas and Ulpiano Losa, three teachers from our school, travelled to Radom, in Poland, to observe lessons at Publiczna Szkola Podstawowa Nr 34 W Radomiu. They could get an insight into both their Bilingual Project and the structure of Polish educational system.   

Among the fulfilled objectives, our teachers gained new English teaching ideas and methods and exchanged good practice thanks to the teachers who let them observe in their lessons. Remarkably enough, our teachers attended Citizenship lessons taught in German, which is the vehicular and target language in their Bilingual Project. Additionally, they could assess the methodological and psycho-pedagogical basis for the teaching of other Non-Linguistic Subjects, namely ICT and Physical Education. Interestingly, our teachers gathered for a meeting with the Pedagogy Team at the school to discuss on problem-solving strategies and the different manners they address diversity. 

                                               

For sure, it was a great experience, which contributed to both job and personal enrichment for our teachers. On the first day of their visit, some English and History teachers at the school hosted a guided tour in Radom downtown, revolving both around the city’s history and Poland’s relation to Germany and Russia. On the second day, out teachers had the chance to fancy the Radom Village Open-Air Museum, showing real settlements in the area from the Middle Ages. On the third day, Paqui, Ana and Ulpiano were invited to a Certificate Ceremony Awards; former students at Publiczna Szkola Podstawowa Nr 34 were awarded with the B1 German Language Certificate. On the fourth day, our teachers journeyed to Krakow, where they could enjoy the city-center atmosphere, as well as the astonishing Salt Mine. On the fifth day, our teachers were received at the school, where they exchanged presents with the host teachers and school board. 

They arrived in Spain full of energy and ideas to share with the whole school community. This would not have been possible without the Publiczna Szkola Podstawowastaff ´s help and hospitality and our Erasmus + Project KA-101 Plurilingüismo: nuestra hoja ruta. We are proud of this experience and hope to go on working in the future. 

   

 

Halloween ´22

This year again, we celebrated Halloween at school. ...and this time it was awesome!!!

Many teachers and students took part in the decorations and activities that were carried out during the week from the 24th to the 29th October. 

Among all the activities, we are going to show the bilingual ones:

Music: Teacher Pilar and her 1ESO students danced Thriller. You can see how scary it was!

Maths: Teacher Jesús played a Halloween board game with 1ESO and 2ESO students:

Teacher Roberto practiced spooky logarithms with 4ESO:

 

TIC: Teacher Pablo encouraged 4th ESO students to design Halloween posters:

                           

Physics and Quemistry: Teacher Antonio practiced Halloween problems with 3ESO students.

English: All English teachers carried out digital escape rooms with all students. They had a terrific time!

Teachers Irene and Ana made spiders pins with 1ESO students. They were so frightening!!

    

Photograph contest: All ESO students had the opportunity to take part in this scary contest-. Here you can see some examples:

   

             

Thanks to all the teachers who celebrated Halloween and all students who enjoyed it a lot!!!!!

  

Erasmus + KA 101: Multilingualism: our road map - Structured Courses for teachers in summer 2022

 Hi everybody,

Thanks to our Erasmus + Project: Multilingualism: Our Road Map, two bilingual teachers and our French teacher could travel to different European countries for teacher training related to the acquisition of a second language. 

Our principal, Roberto Llorente Mata, travelled to Malta in July to improve his knowledge about CLIL methodology.

Then, our music teacher Pilar Ferrer travelled to Budapest in August and attended a course about Orff Schulwerk. 

And finally our French teacher travelled to Vichy in France for two weeks and practised her French language in a course about Improvement of the French Language for teachers.

Thanks for being interested and trying to collaborate to improve our bilingual project at school.

                                                  

AM language school in Malta

      

Orff Schulwerk course in Budapest

                           Cavilam, in Vichy (France)

                                                                                         

European Day of Languages at school

 Hi everybody,   

Our students celebrated de European Day of the Languages on the 26th September. 

In the different groups, they carried our activities and reflected about the importance of languages for every country in Europe. 

Among the activities, they watched this video and did the Guess the Language:

                                            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGYtRSFo73A

GUESS THE LANGUAGE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn5Vpt-pAnA

Then, they prepared posters with Congratulations messages in different languages.