Easter Decorations

A week before the Easter holidays, I gave the students some wooden decorations to colour in: flowers, bunnies and eggs. As usual, we held a mini competition with the decorations made and prepared an exhibition in the school hall.

A jury made up of some teachers and school staff chose the best ones. On the last day of school, we held a prize-giving ceremony for the winners and, of course, all of them were given some gifts for their involvement.

Gifts for all of the students:

Prizes for the winners:

And the winners are:

Ana Sánchez
The best flower

David Almaza
The best bunny and egg

Claudia Díaz
The best egg

Irene Molina
The best egg

Camilo Crucera
The best egg

Carlos García
The best egg

And remember this:

St. Patick's Day 17th March

To celebrate St. Patrick's Day, Charlie and I spent a lesson explaining to the students the origin of this celebration and other stories related to it. Some videos were shown to the students and they enjoyed learning a little bit more about St. Patrick, the leprechaun and dancing a rap:

Another activity was to learn new words that had appeared in the videos by means of the following photocopy:

To end the class, each student was given two gifts: a homemade bookmark and a  magnet:

Speaking Task Second Term: a story

The Speaking task for the second term was the production of a video, a story was invented by the pupils and they recorded and edited their videos themselves. Although we all know recording and editing a video take some time, this type of activity gives the students the opportunity to learn how to work in teams, also develop their creativity and above all, they have a great time. The good thing is that our students improve their speaking and technological skills. In addition to the great work done by all of them, the results were excellent. 

Students were also asked to grade their classmates'  work and choose the best videos:

Alejandro, Camilo, Víctor & Carlos

Irene, Ángela, Carmen & Moisés

In our last class with Charlie, he showed us several sample poems to write to our friends for Valentine's Day. From all of them, an acrostic poem was chosen for a new project.

To carry out the project, the students had to follow the instructions given by the teacher. Taking into account the following requirements:

• Size: half of an A4 sheet.
• Material: cardboard
• Follow Charlie's instructions on how to write an acrostic poem:

• Use the examples given as models:

Each student received a poem written by their teacher and a bag of delicious hearts:

All projects were reviewed by a jury and the two best projects that fulfilled all the requirements were chosen:

Desi wrote the poem to Marta

Claudia wrote the poem to Victor

All the poems were recorded in this video:

4K radio program: What do you know about Charlie?

First of all I would like to thank my colleagues, Pepe Burgos and Carmen Aliseda, for the opportunity they have given my students of 2nd Bilingual Section and me to take part in a live radio program. I must also emphasise that I am very proud of them for their excellent behaviour during the recording and for their high participation.

You have the opportunity to see the video recording I made and listen to the radio program in the following link: 

Radio program

I hope you enjoy as we all did recording the program.

What do you know about Charlie & his lessons?

This Thursday, January 13, we will record a radio program in our classroom led by the teacher, Carmen Aliseda, and Pepe Burgos, responsible for our 4K radio. 

We will do a quiz with questions about our conversation assistant, Charlie, and his amazing lessons. 

Enjoy this great opportunity:  Participate live in a radio program that will be recorded on video as well.

Just in case you need to remember any information, here are the links to his presentations:

GOOD LUCK TO ALL OF YOU!!!!

Winners of our mini Christmas stocking contest 2021

This year, the Department of Complementary Extra-curricular Activities in cooperation with the Head of Studies organised a decorated Christmas stocking contest for the whole Educational community.

All the works, made by the participants, were exhibited in the school foyer and everybody could vote online choosing their favourites.

I am really happy with the projects presented by my students because three of them won the prizes of the contest.

Primer Premio: Marina Sosa
Segundo Premio: Desirée Díaz
Tercer Premio: Alejandro Bazán

As has become usual, I decided to organised a mini contest with my bilingual section group because they love making their English teacher so happy. The following were the rules for our  mini contest:

In addition to the gifts received by the three winners:

the rest also received a gift in a small bag with Christmas candies and a Christmas card with my best wishes for the coming year:

The voting was carried out on a google form, only the students of the group and a jury of 6 colleagues were able to vote. These are the results:

and the winners this time are:

To end this entry, three photos of the group with some Christmas decorations from the school: