EASTER EGG DESIGN CONTEST

To finish the second term, students are asked to take part in the following contest:

Our high school closed its doors on 13th March, so it was impossible for the students to take their decorated eggs to school. As they have done their job, I asked them to send me pictures of their Easter eggs and prepare an exhibition. In this way, we will be able to choose the best ones through Google Classroom.
A total of 28 Easter eggs have been presented to our contest:

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Many thanks from me to all who have taken part in the contest!!!

The results are due to be released shortly. Meanwhile please do not forget we are not still on holiday. We must continue working and from time to time, I advise everyone to have an egg-cellent bath in order to achieve our goals in one of the most difficult situations we are experiencing today.

eTwinning School Label

Dear MARTA FERNÁNDEZ MENESES

Congratulations! Your school has been awarded with the eTwinning School Label 2020-2021 and this is a great achievement by the eTwinning team in your school!

The official announcement will be made on the eTwinning.net Portal this week and on other eTwinning and European Commission's news channels.

What's next

• You can proudly use the eTwinning School Label on your school's website.
• Shortly, we will send you a package containing some eTwinning materials and of course the eTwinning School plaque.
• You will be invited to participate in the eTwinning Schools' Group and in the various activities dedicated to eTwinning Schools.

Congratulations again for being an example for all the other schools: we count on your dedication and commitment to promote eTwinning and its values, which are represented by the eTwinning Schools' mission.

eTwinning project: FOUR WAYS TO CHANGE

LET'S SWAP! This is the name of one activity we have been preparing for our new eTwinning project since February. Thanks to all the school community, we have succeeded in collecting a great amount of second-hand items, such as different types of clothes and accessories, as well as all the stuff sent from Ireland. The teachers and students involved in the project have started a shop in one classroom so that people can go there to buy or exchange items. Both all the money raised and unsold items will go to charity.

In order to advertise the so-called 4C second-hand shop, before its opening, some volunteers from First Bachillerato have gone to different groups of students to explain what this activity is about and how they can take part in.

In the following video, we can see Sofía Castaño and Lucía Hurtado giving an explanation to one of the bilingual group: 1º ESO B.

Second Term Speaking: 1ºB Bilingual Section

This term, students formed into groups of 4 in order to record a video.  Previously, students were taught how to talk about the different members of their family and describe the parts of a house or flat. They were also asked to grade their classmates' videos. The students did a great job but in some videos, important requirements were omitted. However, I should also mention that a team work means to work all together, not individually. This is something they must take into account in following tasks.

Videos will be shown in the order in which they were elected:

NUMBER 1:

José, Sergio, Alejandro & Andrés

NUMBER 2:

Vicky, Irene, Nazaret & Sara

NUMBER 3:

Carla, Isabel, Jimena & Irene

NUMBER 4:

Claudia, Natalia, Ricardo & Adriana

WRITING ABOUT A PHOTO

In Unit 5, first ESO students are explained how to write about a photo following the writing plan shown on page 70. They must structure their texts in three paragraphs, use the present simple for routines and present continuous for things happening now correctly, and give examples, using like, such as and for example.

Most students have demonstrated notable levels of imagination and creativity. The following projects were chosen for our classroom poster:

José Gallego Aparicio

Nazaret Nieto Almaza

Andrés Ruiz Gómez-Valadés

Sara Trenado Amaro

HOW TO WRITE: A DESCRIPTION OF A PERSON

One of the first activity carried out by the English teachers in our new eTwinning project was to teach their students how to write a personal profile. This content appears in unit 4 of their student’s book, so we thought that it would be a good idea to teach them the vocabulary and the structure of a profile that they have to create for a real purpose. In that case, the final product was to upload it to the eTwinning page so that they can introduce themselves to their Irish colleagues.
Some lessons were used to explain the structure of a good profile and to give them vocabulary related to the appearance as well as the order of the adjectives. They had also to talk about their hobbies and interests. They wrote a draft in their notebooks and, then, they logged into the eTwinning platform, uploaded a picture of themselves and, finally, they wrote their profile.
Students did a great job, Here you can see some examples:

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

by SOFÍA CASTAÑO RUIZ

by LUCÍA HURTADO COBOS

by LORENA NIETO ALMAZA

by ANA RUIZ NIETO-GUERRERO

XMAS TIME!!!!

Everybody was looking forward to Christmas, or, simply some time to relax for a little bit and recover energy to start working harder again.

I would like to wish my students and their families a happy new year and all the best for 2020 with this Christmas card:

I should also like to take this opportunity to thank my ESO students for the significant contribution they made to take part in the Christmas Contest. They created special ornaments and decorated their classroom door. If only they had this illusion hanging over their heads and others could follow their examples.

I give my sincere congratulations to Claudia Cidoncha and Isabel González who were the winners of the Xmas Ornament Contest this year:

Now, students, it is time to relax but do not forget: 

There is time for everything. 

The key is knowing how to organise it!