Gibraltar Trip

Last month the classes of 1º and 2º ESO went on a trip to Gibraltar, they visited the British colony and could appreciate what a bilingual society was like. The students took many photos and some of them prepared some powerpoints about this visit. They stayed overnight in Marbella and, the following day, they had a boat trip and visited Sea Life in Benalmádena Costa. We had lots of fun, even though some pupils didn't sleep much at night in Marbella. Below you can see in the slides what your classmates did, I hope you like it.

Trip to Gibraltar by Luis Alberto Prieto, Clara Ligero, Alejandro Cuevas

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Gibraltar by Lorena, Miriam, Rocío and Almudena 2º ESO A-B

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Gibraltar project by Laura Díaz, Carmen Abreu, Rosángela Pazos, Sofia Bizi, Isabel de Sola

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Gibraltar[1].ingles by alberto, alfonso, javier

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Trip to Gibraltar by Ismael Mora, Manuel Cuevas, José Carlos Rodríguez, Jesús Moncayo

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Trip to Gibraltar by Beatriz Mendoza, Isabel Berraquero, Helena Cáceres, Elena Reyes, Marina Vázquez

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Gibraltar trip by Nerea and Marta Quesada

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Easter food and crafts

Our teaching assistant, Alex, explained to the bilingual groups of 1º and 2º ESO the typical Easter traditions both in the UK and in the USA. As a project for the English class, some pupils decided to make some Easter crafts and they also prepared some traditional Easter meals like hot cross buns or chocolates. The results can be seen in the slideshow below.

British or American English?

People in the USA and in the UK speak the same language but some words aren’t used in the same way in both countries. Other words are almost the same but they may have slight changes in spelling and pronunciation.

By Laura Díaz 2º ESO B

The burning of Judas

The celebration of the burning of Judas is a popular festival that is held in Somontin, Almeria.The eighteen year-old youngsters climb a mountain and cut a tall and large pine tree. On Holy Saturday some teens take the tree down to the village and decorate it with old clothes and then they place dynamite, plants or branches next to it. On Easter Sunday after mass, they set fire to the tree and, as a result, the dynamite blows up. The resulting fire is seen as a symbol of purification. This celebration is also popular in other parts of Spain and in South America.

By Rosario Navío 1º ESO A-B

Easter traditions in the UK and in the USA

Easter is a very popular celebration in England and it has got a lot of traditions. For example, it’s very popular to hide eggs: parents hide them in the garden on Easter Sunday and then, they make their little children look for them.They tell them that the Easter Bunny has hidden them there. That tradition comes from many centuries ago, when people hid the eggs during Lent because they couldn’t eat them. Then, after Lent, they boil and decorate the eggs and they give them to each other as a symbol of the happiness of Easter.There is a similar tradition,called the egg hunt, that is the same but a lot of children look for eggs in a big place.
It’s common to eat hot cross buns on Good Friday: they are buns with a cross on the top that remind us that Jesus died on the cross.There is a popular race too: the egg and spoon race. There, children make the eggs roll down a hill and whoever’s egg goes the farthest without breaking , wins. This race is celebrated each year on the White House hill.
So,as you can see, there are a lot of ways to celebrate Easter in England or USA, because in Spain, we have the celebration of Holy Week.

By Carmen Abreu, 2º ESO A

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

On March 8th our school, as many others worldwide, celebrated the International Women's Day. The bilingual students of 1º ESO made a project in which they had to research and write about some famous women from the past and from the present. Below you can see an example in the powerpoint made by Marta Quesada Villaescusa, Nerea Montañés Montaño and Luis Enrique Ruiz Carreño.

International Womens Day Project

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THE EARTHQUAKE IN HAITI

The earthquake in Haiti happened on the 12th January 2010. The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.0 degrees on the Richter scale. This earthquake was the strongest recorded in the area since another in 1770, which measured 7.5 degrees. The bodies recovered since January 25th are more than 150,000, and the deaths recorded more than 200.000. There are also more than 250,000 injured and one million homeless. Now Puerto Príncipe is the poorest city in America.The survivors were transferred to the Dominican Republic.

WHY DID THE EARTHQUAKE IN HAITI HAPPEN?
The Caribbean plate has got a concave plate. It was a movement of this plate that caused the earthquake. It happened 15 km from the capital, at a depth of 8 km on the Enriquillo fault. Each year it separates one or two centimetres and there are little earthquakes, but there hadn’t been an earthquake for 167 years. The pressure had been accumulating until this year when it exploded and there was a big earthquake of 7.0 degrees.

By Sofía Bizi, 2º ESO