Celia Viñas Bilingual Learning Site
Today,with the music of the eternal John Paul Young as a backdrop (“Love is in the air”), some fantastic students from 1º ESO. A have read and shown their beautiful handmade Valentine’s cards: self-love, platonic love, deeper-healthy romantic love,… all of them have a place in their works and in our hearts.
Let’s celebrate love and make it our driving feeling in life!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNC0kIzM1Fo (Click to listen to the song)
Most of you have enjoyed the exhibition which has been displayed in the corridor with the posters made by 1º ,2º and 3º ESO students in their Art classes. We want to show just a few examples to compliment all the students on their great works to visualize the importance of measures to avoid wars and violence to solve problems all over the world.
Our language assistant, Nick Mosley, has been explaining about the varied musical expressions in Canada throughout its history. From indigenous music to the latest songs in the top charts. He has also talked about his experience as a musician and how relevant music could be for any kind of listener.
I’m sure you have enjoyed it and if you want to read or listen to some of the music in this presentation, just click in the link below.
Last Monday, our 4º A students celebrated the day of Non-violence and Peace in the anniversary of the death of Mahatma Gandhi. Our students listened to the famous speech which Martin Luther King, another icon of the Peace movement, gave to defend civil rights in a period when segregation laws existed in USA. These role models make them be aware of the importance of peaceful movements to remind us that violence is never a solution. These students also read a short biography of him and did some fil-in-the-gap activities.
These images were made by the students in the International Baccalaureate Programme ( 1st year) to condemn gender violence and its consequences. Solutions can be found if we join our forces to support this worldwide movement.
The IB students (2nd year) have also created leaflets with the same theme. You can see some examples exhibited on our board in the corridor.
The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against women was created by the United Nations . This year, the campaign’s theme is “Orange the World: End Violence against Women Now!” where they want to encourage all the countries in the world to create ” a brighter future free of violence against women and girls”.
https://www.un.org/en/observances/ending-violence-against-women-day
We want to collaborate with the Equality Programme (Programa de Igualdad) in our high school and we will go on preparing activities related to this topic like Talks on the bench , an activity where we will create dialogues using the symbolic bench placed in our playground next to our well as the background for our stories.
Video made by the 1º IB students and their teacher Raúl Sánchez Quesada.
Poster made by one of our IB students
Next 25 November, a lot of activities will be held in Celia Viñas by the Equality Programme (Programa de Igualdad) to raise awareness about the dramatic circumstances of those persons who have to suffer mistreatment, harassment and violence. Once more, the bilingual programme wants to collaborate on this day with different activities in their classes.
Some of our groups have prepared digital posters with images and messages related to this subject ,this will be the incentive to make our students talk about it and ,in the following months, they will also make up dialogues reproducing some situations using the red bench (a symbol against gender violence) placed in our school .
All these actions will help to show our refusal against any kind of violence.
Enjoy Halloween time making easy monsters with paper and glue. Visit this pinterest site and choose one of the ideas to make your own thrilling creature. You can bring it to class during this week (25th- 29th October) and we will decorate our classrooms with all of them. It will be the best background where your teachers will tell you about the story of Halloween.
(click on the link )
https://www.pinterest.es/lamamac/halloween-monsters/
1 ESO students are also rehearsing and playing some Halloween songs in their classes of Music during all this week. The perfect soundtrack for this scary week.
If you want to try some online activities, visit the British Council site where you can find some amazing games to practise English and learn more about this tradition.
(click on the link )
https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/category/topics/halloween
Have fun!
Some photos
