CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS IN THE SCHOOL

 

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!!

The moment of the winner and the prizes.

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!

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.

Here you are some examples of our British artworks!!!

Wish you all Merry Christmas and a FANTASTIC new year!!

                                                  Bilingual Téllez Teachers

ALEJANDRA, OUR NEW LANGUAGE ASSISTANT!

 

This year we are SO LUCKY that we have another Language Assistant in our school.

Alejandra is from Canada and she has not come on her own. Her children are here too. Liselle is in 2º ESO and Annel is in 4ºESO in our school. The youngest brother is in Alba Plata Primary school.

Welcome to Cáceres! Hope you enjoy the experience!! We are looking forward to learn a lot from you!!

Alejandra and her family arriving in Madrid last 1st December

ERASMUS PROJECT: SUSTAINABLE CITIES

 

We are working on a European Erasmus Project called Sustainable Citites. Past and Present. We are associated with four more schools from Italy, France, Poland and Greece. Our students are carrying on different activities to learn about our heritage and how our city has evolved from the Prehistory period to the 21^st century.  We are intended to travel to the different schools to share our work and find the differences and similitudes among our countries.

Last week, teachers from the European schools visited us to talk about the different aspects of the project: activities, heritage, schedule for trips…the experience was fantastic. Our students are willing to meet their European mates and sharing this big experience!

BLOSSOM OF CULTURES: PROJECT WITH TURKISH STUDENTS

 Students from 4ºESO are starting to work on an international project in etwinning with a Turkish school. 

We are going to share with them different aspects related to our homeland and country cultures. 

We have already introduced each other using padlet. 

It has been very a very funny way to get to know our Turkish mates.

We will go on working together

MONSTER CALL

                                              A SPOOKY DAY

Last Friday we celebrated Halloween at school. Students were told to come to school in black with a  spooky accessory if they liked.

We also had the recycable workshop contest prizes, spooky songs in the breaktime, trick or treat, a tour around the school to see the class doors students from 1st and 2nd year ESO had been decorated with their English, the Maths pumkin contest, kahoots, the soopky wheel  and, of course, many many many photos in our photocall.

        Thanks to all our teachers from de Bilingual section for their great job so our students could enjoy an awesome and terryinng Halloween morning!!!  👏👏👏👏👏👏

HALLOWEEN IS COMING

        Culture and traditions of English speaking countries can't be forgiven while learning in class. 

     Halloween is, of course, one of the most famous and worldwilde known American and British tradition. But, what do you really know about this day and its origin? 

         

click on the image to watch a video about the origins of Halloween

      

       PREPARING FOR THE BIG DAY: 

      English and bilingual teachers in Ies Javier García Téllez are always willing to bring a piece of Britain and America to our students. We are preparing many things to enjoy the 29th at its best!! Hope you'll like it and you'll participate in all the activities we are setting up for you!!!

         

      

GRANT IS BACK

 HEY!! 

Grant is back and we are very very happy to work with him again!!!

Today, we are warming up for our presentations about traditions in Extremadura and Spain for the etwinning project.

Grant is working with us about the concept of culture and how our typical dance, food, belives, clothes, music, etc. define us. 

Thanks for your help and guidance!!!

WELLCOME BACK STUDENTS

 

  Here we go for a new year, you guys! 

  We have been charging batteries during the summer to get ready for a new adventure. 

  We teachers are full of new awesome ideas and full of energy for your classes!! You know how much we enjoy working with you.

                                                           

ERASMUS+ KA-229 'SUSTAINABLE CITIES': PREHISTORIC CAVE PAINTINGS IN EXTREMADURA

Our school is taking part in the Erasmus + KA229 Project 'Sustainable Cities' with partners from France, Italy, Greece and Poland.

One of the activities carried out by the students in 2nd year ESO is 'Prehistoric cave paintings', which has allowed them to investigate and value our heritage. First, they have analysed Prehistoric rock art: 

• Why did early humans paint? 
• What did they paint? 
• Which materials did they use? 
• Where are the main sites both in Extremadura and in Spain? 

Then, they have created some infographics and QR codes with all that information and, finally, they have made a mural imitating some of the most representative paintings, such as the bisons in Altamira Cave, in Northern Spain, Maltravieso Cave handprints, in Cáceres or the human figures in Levantine paintings, in Eastern Spain. It has been great team work and we are proud of the result, well done, class!  

A TEACHER FROM UNIVERSITY ( PART 3): NICE TO MEET YOU ALEJANDRA

This year we had the chance to have Alejandra  Alfaro  as a teacher trainee in the groups of 1º ESO 15 and 3º ESO 1. She has been an amazing teacher and showed us many different educational tools that we hadn't used before in class such as Bamboozle and Quizlet. 

It was especially in the group of 3º ESO 1 where she put into practice her teaching skills with a huge variety of activities that finally led to the final product shown below. We created a digital display in Augmented Reality ( with Cospaces Edu) where we described where we had been in our last holiday before the pandemic using a range of past tenses as well as the vocabulary learnt in the Didactic Unit that she had carefully planned for us. The truth is that we have missed travelling because of the pandemic but now we miss Alejandra too!! 

Thanks for your hard work and good luck in the future and please feel free to come and visit us again soon! 

A TEACHER FROM UNIVERSITY (PART 1): NICE TO MEET YOU ARACELI

Hello everyone! My name is Araceli, and I’ve been doing my Teaching in Secondary Education Master’s practices in the Centre. 

What can I say except I’m grateful? It’s been an incredible experience. The students were really welcoming and they made my stay really pleasant. I’ve learned how to treat them and how to improve my explanations during classes.

One thing which I had to struggle with was the English level of the students. I wasn’t sure if they really understood what I was saying or explaining, so keeping students focused on the subject was a challenge. Moreover, having two different grades of students, both with the same topic and in English, was also a thing that kept my mind occupied. I had to use different vocabulary and gain more language skills to reach the entire audience, also to speak slowly so all of them could follow the class. 

Students appeared to be interested in the subject and they were really participative, they helped me to explore my limitations and also my strengths. 

As for the rest of the teachers, well, no words for them. Just gratitude for how amazing they were. Guiding me around this adventure, giving me tips and tricks to gain ground with the children. I won’t say goodbye to kids, I would only say ‘see you soon’, because I’m sure that we'll meet again elsewhere. No doubt I would repeat it all if I could!

A TEACHER FROM UNIVERSITY ( PART 2): NICE TO MEET YOU ENRIQUE

     During the last few weeks,  in 4ºESO,  we have had the great company of Enrique Mera Burón, a student from the English teaching trainning programme from the Uex (Universidad de Extremadura).

  He has been working with us in our English lessons with a lot of funny and interesting activities he had designed for us.

  We'd like to say THANK YOU ENRIQUE for your classes, your effort, your hard work and your  sense of humour!!!                       

                                      Ana and students from 4º ESO  ;)