SKELETON IN 5TH GRADE

Students of the 5th grade have done murals working the different bones of the skeleton. It has been very fun because we are also working on activities for Halloween. It was very exciting!

Teacher Carola

BRIGHTON, ANOTHER ENGLISH IMMERSION PROGRAM

Hello everybody!

This summer I decided to go on improving my English and I applied for another Junta de Andalucía Linguistic Training Abroad Programme. Although I was not admited at the beginning, the reserve list spread like wildfire and I could be part of a group that was going to Brighton, so I had the chance to travel abroad with other fourteen andalusian teachers looking for experiences.

So Brighton was my town for 2 weeks and I could live, study and enjoy their custom and culture in the South of England. It is a city on the south coast of England, in the county of East Sussex and although Brighton was for many centuries nothing more than a tiny fishing community, nowadays it is best known as the Londoners beach, a seaside resort because it is positioned just 76 km south of London and because of the weather, the sunniest place in England. However, this summer was different, drizzly and breezy the most days we were there.

Apart from the beach, Brighton has interesting places to visit, like the Royal Pavilion. It was built in three stages as a seaside retreat for George, Prince of Wales, who became King George IV in 1820 and it was built in the Indo-Saracenic style prevalent in India for most of the 19th century. It is also relevant the Brighton Palace Pier, located in the city centre opposite the Old Steine, Airways i360, a 162 m moving observation tower on the seafront of Brighton, St Peter’s Church, sometimes unofficially referred to as “Brighton’s cathedral”, Sea Life Brighton, one of oldest acuarium in the world, and The Clock Tower, a free-standing clock tower in the centre of Brighton.

Brighton’s location has made it a popular destination for tourists, renowned for its diverse communities, quirky shopping areas, large and vibrant cultural, music and arts scene. Brighton has been called the UK’s “hippest city” and “the happiest place to live in the UK”. We were lucky in this way because the annual Pride Community Parade showed up the weekend we spent there and we could inmmerse into the most exciting visual event in Brighton & Hove’s calendar.

While the most of teachers were enjoying their holidays, others were involved in intensive classes studing grammar, vocabulary, useful expressions (like Inma's idioms😄)... and practicing listening and speaking all the time. It was a 50 hours English C1 course for bilingual teachers, led by a travel company called Interway and the EC English School Brighton, where we spent around 5 hours everyday. After classes, we visited museums, theaters, typical places, and also took part of local activities, sometimes by our own and others with native teachers who guided us in order to get to know the city propertly. 

The accommodation was in apartments of 8 people, in Abodus Student Living residence, with single bedrooms and bathroms for every teacher and a shared living room and kitchen. It is not too bad situated, just about 15 minutes on bus or 30 minutes walking from the city center and the academy.

On the other hand, we took advantage of our free time to discover other cities or towns from this part of England. In my case, I had de opportunity to visit London (twice), Lewes and Seven Sisters, so I could have the big picture of this land, instead of focusing just on Brighton.

According to my subject, Physical Education, I just could visit 2 football teams stadiums, Emirates Stadium and American Express Stadium, from Arsenal and Brighton & Hove Albion FC. As a matter of luck, Rocío and I got tickets for a friendly match in London, Emirates Cup, where the Gunners retained the trophy, as part of their traditional summer match at the Emirates Stadium, but they were forced to rely on a penalty shootout to secure victory against Ligue 1 opposition team. 

Taking into account that we studied a lot, we also enjoyed our free time. We enjoyed the typical pubs with live music, visited some picturesque towns practicing and improving our English in a real context. All in all, we took advantage of the resources and people around us and we are looking forward to applying this knowledge to our classes. I would like to encourage the Junta de Andalucía for going on offering this kind of program. It is really worthwhile.

II PADELNIS CHAMPIONSHIP

Hi everyone!

After some years, we recovered our peculiar racquet/paddle championship in our school. As you already know, we have an original sport called PADELNIS, that is a mix between tennis, padel and even tennis table, trying to improve our skills in racquet sports with school resources.

In this context, our oldest students participated in a championship which was played in physical education classes and during breaks, because there were involved boys and girls from different groups and schedules. If you click on the picture above this text, you will be able to check out how we enjoyed practicing and watching this tournament.

Congratulations to the winners!!

MARK TWAIN in the Book Day 2023

The bilingual team decided to work to Mark Twain this year, approaching another of the great writers of English literature to our school, after seeing Shakespeare and Dickens the previous years. 

The proposal included classroom activities and short tiered activities to expose the other students what they worked at class. We learned a briefly biography of the author and every level focused on one of his most famous works. 

Three of our sixth level students presented the biography of Mark Twain and all the works prepared for the different levels. Click on the picture below to check out the whole performance. We hope you enjoy watching it!

SPORT WEEK 2023 WELCOME BACK

Hi everybody!

At the XXXI Andalusia Sports Day Games, we returned to normal after 2 years of pandemic. Our students competed in Champion League and Europa League in football, as well as in Euroleague in basketball, by cycles but with medals for levels. We also recovered the Ángel Pérez Galán School Race, being the 3rd edition, where our elders ran through the center block, emulating the Cross of Andalusia that gave rise to sports games 31 years ago. We finished inside the school with the race of the first cycle and the challenges in strip rope with mixed teams.

In Pre-School our students practiced popular games adapted to their age, as well as in the Specific Classroom, which culminated in the Paralympic Race among all their students.

We finished with a flute interpretation of the Andalusian anthem, by the students who worked on it in music class. We want to thank AMPA Las Caracolas and the Exmo. Ayuntamiento de Pilas, who helped us so that we could all celebrate this very special week in our center.

Click on the picture bellow to enjoy videos and pictures about that week.

Long live Andalusia!