Break

Different activities have been done to celebrate the end of the year. Students have decorated some of their classes, have prepared gifts for their “invisible” friends, have sung Christmas songs and carols etc. and our language assistants have prepared material to describe what people do in their country during this festivity .

You can find some of the activities we have in the classes below.

It is part of our purpose to use our activities in the bilingual programme to broaden our students’ worldview but also to raise awareness about social problems which are too often present in news. That was the idea when the programme of Equality in our school designed several activities for the International Day against Gender Violence.

1º , 2º ESO students and 3º students of the Diversity Programme have collaborated to create a wall on one of the boards in the corridor of our school to protest against this problem expressing their feelings and wishes to find a solution. These meaningful bricks will remind us of the need to collaborate among the different members of our society to fight in favour of a world without this cruel violence. IB students have also created posters with the same aim and they will also be exhibited in the corridor.

1 ESO students receive the visit of 1 and 2 IB students who told them spooky tales to celebrate Halloween. These 1 and 2 ESO students also decorate their classroom doors with iconic images related to this anglosaxon festivity.

1 IB students went to the Centre of Photography to visit the exhibition and use the different images to make students analyze them and expose their conclusions to the other students.

This year, we want to focus on an unusual way of celebrating this festivity. Most of us relate this day to the expression of love to someone else but we usually find evidence of wrong behaviours in the name of love. That is the reason why we have planned some activities on this day which is celebrated worldwide.

First of all, with the help of the Department of Equality and its coordinator Leticia, our students are going to discuss about different english expressions which have become familiar through Internet (“ghosting, benching,stalking,etc) to know what they really mean and try to give advice to achieve a responsible affective life. They will also explain their meaning illustrating some of these words in posters which will be exhibited in the corridors.

Our colleague Amparo and the English Department have prepared an activity using the song “Flowers” by Miley Cyrus to encourage our students to learn to love themselves and to avoid the dependence we sometimes associate with this feeling.

And finally, we will go back to the classics reading some love poems (Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare,Roses are red” by Edmund Spence,etc)

After receiving information about this topic in their Biology classes, 1 ESO students have been making projects about climate change and how to stop its consequences. They have been helped in this task by our language assistants, Jazmin Robles and Nick Mosley. All the projects will be exhibited in their classroom and in the corridor next to their classes.

1° Bachillerato students were asked to make a video about what they usually do during winter holidays,we called it that way because of the different religions/ beliefs our students have.
The video had to be made in pairs because they were able to exchange ideas and performing could be more fun too.
They have enjoyed carrying out this assignment and all of them have said to feel more confident speaking English , which was one of our aims.