LIVING THINGS AND NON-LIVING THINGS

Grade 3, Unit 1, Teacher Sara Molina.

Hello buddies!
We are studying living and non-living things in Science class. It's so interesting!
People, cats and flowers are living things.
Books, computers and water are non-living things.
Do you know why?

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INTENSIVE ENGLISH CAMP FOR BILINGUAL TEACHERS

While the most of teachers were enjoying their holidays, others participated in an English Camp with an intensive program, in order to improve their language skills and be able to apply them to their bilingual classes at school. This was the case for Fran and I.

It was about a camp organized by the Consejería de Educación de la Junta de Andalucía and led by a prestige English learning company called Berlitz. It took place in Chipiona and there were around 60 people, divided into four English groups and one German group, with two native teachers in each group. Teachers were from many English speaking places: Miami, New York, London, Oxford, San Diego, Brighton, and so we could compare the differences in accents, including American and British English too. They were hard-working people and also friendly with us. That’s why they deserve recognition.

For 12 days, we followed a full schedule with a lot of activities. In the mornings, we had English classes from 9.30 to 14.30h in small groups of 15, where we studied grammar, vocabulary and useful sentences, and practiced listening and speaking most of the time. In the afternoons, from 16.30h to 19.30h we could choose what skill we wanted to improve and we worked on more funny tasks regarding our jobs: role-plays, theater, karaoke, gymkana, debates, brain-stormings…

Taking into account that we studied a lot, we also enjoyed our free time, almost always speaking in English, of course. We could go for a swim after lunch and before dinner, not for much time, but the camp invited us to spend time at a fantastic beach. After dinner, we went out and enjoyed seeing beautiful landscapes from the promenade. We got to know the rest of the participants, teachers, and had the opportunity of learning through our colleagues' experiences and teachers’ lives.

In conclusion, we spent many hours practicing and improving our English in a paradisiacal context. 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 end this essay congratulating the organization and the Junta de Andalucía for their work. This kind of program is really worthwhile.

Ismael Carrasco

Romeo and Juliette

Hello everybody!
Here you have our work about Shakespeare in the last Book Day.
Our students did a great job.
Congratulations!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igzC6--ZWTQ

Book week

Hi everybody!
Like every year, our school celebrates Book Day for a whole week called BOOK WEEK. The bilingual team has chosen Shakespeare as a topic for this year. We will try to approach Shakespeare's life and his most important writings this month.

The English writer and poet William Shakespeare is considered by many to be the greatest playwright of all time. While most people are familiar with the name of William Shakespeare, no one knows when he was born. Experts know that he was baptized on April 26, 1564 and believe that he was 3 days old at the time. This is why the April 23 date has been adopted as his officially recognized birthday. This date is also the day he died on, 52 years later in 1616.

When Shakespeare left his home in Stratford-upon-Avon for London, it is rumoured that he had to leave because he was caught poaching (hunting illegally). Shakespeare married at 18 and wrote his first known play when he was 25 years old. He was a very well known actor as well as a playwright, performing in his own and other people’s plays.

Shakespeare worked with a company of actors called the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, for whom he wrote his plays for and performed with. Most of them were played in the Globe Theatre, that was originally built in 1599, destroyed by fire in 1613, rebuilt in 1614, and then demolished in 1644. The modern reconstruction is an academic approximation opened to the public in 1997 as Shakespeare 's Globe.

Shakespeare is credited with 39 plays, including Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Julius Caesar. His plays are usually divided into three types: comedies (which have a happy ending), histories (which are based on real events) and tragedies (which have an unhappy ending). William Shakespeare’s writings have been translated into more languages than those of any other author.

Here is a really surprising fact: this great writer’s wife and children were all illiterate — they couldn’t read! You can learn more about him watching the video song.

Andalusian Day

Hi students!
Like every year, we are going to celebrate Andalusian Day with our particular SPORT WEEK. This year we will get the XXI edition. Students prepare different sport activities in physical education classes and the best of them can participe the day before on 28th of February. We also have our personal Champion league in football and Euroleague in basketball.
Here you have some students participating in previous years.