This year we also held our traditional DIY Christmas Jumper Competition.
It was a great success. Thank you to all the participants and the teachers involved - that's Christmas spirits!
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Este año también celebramos nuestro tradicional concurso de jerseys navideños caseros.
Fue todo un éxito. Gracias a todos los participantes y al profesorado implicado. ¡Esto sí que es espíritu navideño!!
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| Here you can see this year's winners!!!! |
Diwali is the most important festival of the year in India, a time to celebrate the triumph of light over darkness, knowledge over ignorance and good over evil. Celebrated by more than a billion people of various faiths across India and its diaspora, the five days of Diwali are characterised by prayers, feasting, fireworks, family gatherings and donations. For some, Diwali also marks the beginning of a new year.
But Diwali is better known as the festival of lights. It derives from the Sanskrit dipavali, meaning 'string of lights', and is famous for the glowing clay lamps that are placed in front of the houses of those celebrating the festival.
The dates of the festival are based on the Hindu lunar calendar, which marks each month according to the time it takes for the moon to orbit the earth. Diwali begins just before the arrival of a new moon between the Hindu months of asvina and kartika, which normally coincide with the Gregorian calendar months of October or November. In 2022, Diwali began on 24 October and ends on 28 October.
Anisha, our language assisstant, is from India and she prepared some activities and worskhops to show us the importance of this festival.
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El Diwali es el festival más importante del año en la India, un periodo para celebrar el triunfo de la luz sobre la oscuridad, del saber sobre la ignorancia y del bien sobre el mal. Los cinco días del Diwali, celebrado por más de mil millones de personas de diversos credos en toda la India y en su diáspora, se caracterizan por los rezos, los banquetes, los fuegos artificiales, las reuniones familiares y los donativos. Para algunos, el Diwali también marca el comienzo de un nuevo año.
Pero el Diwali es más conocido como el festival de las luces. Deriva del sánscrito dipavali, que significa «hilera de luces», y es famoso por las relucientes lámparas de arcilla que se colocan frente a las casas de quienes celebran esta fiesta.
Las fechas de este festival se basan en el calendario lunar hindú, que marca cada mes según el tiempo que tarda la Luna en orbitar alrededor de la Tierra. El Diwali comienza justo antes de la llegada de una luna nueva entre los meses hindúes de asvina y kartika, que normalmente coinciden con los meses de octubre o noviembre del calendario gregoriano. En 2022, el Diwali empezó el 24 de octubre y acaba el 28 de octubre.
Anisha, nuestra auxiliar de conversación, es de la India y preparó algunas actividades y talleres para mostrarnos la importancia de este festival.
Students from 1º ESO 15 have worked on physical descriptions with a very cool activitiy.
They first watched a video and then they played the role of being police officers; they had to draw a protrair robot of a criminal!!!
It has been a great class!!! Thanks to their teacher María for such a fantastic idea!!
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Los alumnos de 1º ESO 15 han trabajado las descripciones físicas con una actividad muy chula.
¡¡¡Primero han visto un vídeo y luego han hecho el papel de ser policías, han tenido que dibujar un retrato robot de un delincuente!!!
¡¡¡Ha sido una clase genial!!! ¡¡Gracias a su profesora María por tan fantástica idea!!
We have just finished the active break activities for this academic year 2021/2022.
Thank you to all the students and English teachers involved in this activity!
English Corner has been a great success. Friday breaks have been different, fun and very English!
Damos por finalizadas las actividades de los recreos activos durante este curso 2021/2022.
Gracias a todo el alumnado y al profesorado de inglés implicados en esta actividad!
El English Corner ha sido todo un éxito. Los recreos de los viernes han sido diferentes, divertidos y muy ingleses!!
On 26th, 27th and 28th April, we celebrated the cultural week of our school with a lot of activities inside and outside the classroom.
Thanks to all the teachers who have been involved in the organisation of these activities so we can enjoy our time together and school life ina different way.
Here you are some of the activities we carried out.
Los días 26, 27 y 28 de abril, celebramos la semana cultural de nuestro centro con un montón de actividades dentro y fuera de las aulas. Gracias a todos los profes que se han implicado en la organización de las mismas para que disfrutemos de la convivencia y la vida escolar desde otro punto de vista.
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| A race |
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| breakout: a trip around Europe |
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| blooket competitions |
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| cinema in English |
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| Composte workshop |
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| welcome event for the Ukrainian family and migrant students in pur school |
On May 6th, the students of 1st and 2nd PMAR and 4th ESO academic attended a training session of Cáceres Ciudad de Baloncesto.
At the end of the training session we had a small meeting with the players who came to chat with us. The Bilingual Section students took the opportunity to practice English in a real communicative situation with the international players.
Thank you very much to the club for giving us this opportunity to get closer to this popular sport in our city as well as to the players.
Here you are the podcast we created after the activity!!.
Click to go to "Raditell" -- PODCAST
Last Thursday 31st March, students from the Bilingual Section and the British Council programme in 1st and 2nd ESO took part in a language immersion day in Valdeopispo, Cáceres.
They enjoyed a lot of activities in English in the middle of nature: track games, dances, archery, theatre performances and activities related to Harry Potter.
After so many months without being able to do this kind of excursions, the experience was wonderful.
We are looking forward to doing many more activities like this one!
El pasado jueves 31 de marzo, los alumnos de la Sección Bilingüe y del programa British Council de 1º y 2º de ESO participaron en una jornada de inmersión lingüística en Valdeopispo, Cáceres.
Disfrutaron de un montón de actividades en inglés en plena naturaleza: juegos de pistas, bailes, tiro con arco, representaciones teatrales y actividades relacionadas con Harry Potter.
Después de tantos meses sin poder realizar este tipo de excursiones, la experiencia fue maravillosa. ¡Estamos deseando poder hacer muchas mas actividades como esta!
We had a great time this week celebrating Saint Patrick!! Here you are some pictures of the activities we have been doing these days.
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| Example of a limerick written by students. |
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| Students scanning QRs code |
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| Watching videos about Irish traditions |
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| Maths and Sain Patrick. Perfect match!! |
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| Having fun in P.E. class!!! |
St. Patrick's Day, the patron saint of Ireland, will be celebrated on 17th March. It is a great day of celebration for the Irish community. Although we are in the middle of exam week, the team of teachers of the Bilingual Section are preparing some activities so you can enjoy yourselves and learn about Irish culture.
We hope you enjoy them and that they will help us to "get through" these last days of the second assessment period.
El próximo 17 de Marzo se celebra el día de San Patricio, patrón de Irlanda. Es una gran día de celebración para la comunidad irlandesa. Aunque estamos en plena semana de exámenes, el equipo de profesores de la Sección Bilingüe os estamos preparando algunas actividades para disfrutar y aprender sobre la cultura irlandesa.
Esperamos que os gusten y nos sirvan para "llevar mejor" estos últimos días de la segunda evaluación.
As you all know, Saint Valentine's day (lovers' day) is celebrated all over the world on this day.
We are aware of the importance of LOVE to rule the world and make it a better place for everyone.
The students from the Bilingual Section and the British Council have worked on this issue from a Literature point of view. They have looked for British and American poets who wrote abour love and they have noted down some of their words on paper hearts. They have learnt about English poetry and they have enjoyed a "lovely morning".
To end up
the first term we have enjoyed some activities to warm up for Christmas holidays.
We have held
our traditional Christmas Jumper competition. Students wore their DIY jumpers
and they tried to convince the jury to vote for their creations. It was a very
funny morning!!
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| The moment of the winner and the prizes. |
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| Students and teachers with our Xmas Jumpers! |
We have
also designed traditional Christmas cards. We brought some of them to Alba
Plata Primary school to wish Merry Christmas to our friends!
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| some of the awsome cards our students made. |
We have been decorating the school with European Christmas scenes. Germany,
Austria, Italy…and of course United Kingdom had a place with us!!
Students doing the crafts to decorate the school.
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| Here you are some examples of our British artworks!!! |
