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!

First Term Speaking: 1ºB Bilingual Section

Students were asked to choose any topic and make a presentation about it in front of their classmates. They were also asked to grade the other presentation. I should say that all the students did an excellent job but the best ones chosen were:

First Term Speaking: 1ºBHB

This term students made a presentation providing detailed information about a person in their family circle or a friend. Each studen was also asked to grade their classmates'  work.

The results were as follows:

HALLOWEEN 2019

As every year, on 31st October, Cuatro Caminos High School has once again surprised everyone, not only teachers and students, but also visitors, with its creepy Halloween decorations. An excellent job carried out by the ACE Department.

Moreover, the English Department has organized a Halloween Poster Contest to encourage students to take part in this celebration. A huge poster has been shown in the school foyer with all the works that fulfilled all the relevant requirements. Everyone was able to vote the two best ones.

I am highly proud because all my students took part in the contest and came to school dressed in black.

1ºBHB

1ºESO B 
Bilingual Section

1ºESO B 
With their teachers Estrella & Marta

Also, my students of 1ºESO B decorated two doors and their classroom with their Art teacher, Marco, and English teacher, Marta.

Here are some more posters they made for the contest:

 

Best of all: the two winners were my students of 1ºESO B (Bilingual Section):

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

SERGIO QUINTANA VALBUENA

IRENE PAREJO FERNÁNDEZ

Here I should like to mention the excellent work done by the teacher Alba Pavón with my students of 1ºBHB  disguised as different characters and some important writers of universal literature. By going class to class, the students recited some of texts from mystery and horror books.

Literatura Universal
1ºBHB

Once again, our High School received the Extremagia Award organised by Achikitú in association with Don Benito Town Hall, as best decorated High School. 

THANKS TO EVERYONE INVOLVED

AND

SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!!!!!

Decorating our English corner 1ºB Bilingual Section

The first project  carried out by the students has been to create the seven letters of ENGLISH. All the students have done a really good job showing their own creative skills.

During the English lesson, the best letters have been chosen for our English corner. In this way, all the best projects will be shown on this big poster.

The aim of this initiative is not only to help the students improve using their classmates'  projects as a model but also to decorate the classroom with their work.

Here you can see the best letters:

Adriana Tapia Cuadrado

Claudia Cidoncha Ruiz

Irene Parejo Fernández

Best English Students (School Year 2018/9)

Having taught almost the same group of students for four years, they were used to collecting stickers when getting marks between 9 and 10 points. As this school year was the last one for them at Cuatro Caminos, I decided to continue my long-held tradition.

Imagine my surprise when counting all the stickers got through the year, the results were striking but very, very satisfactory.

Two students tied for each place. Of course, the six ones were given their well-deserved prizes in recognition of their perseverace, hard work and will power.

This year the prize-winning ceremony had to be held in the school playground and only a few of them were able to come since the students were so busy preparing their EBAU exams.

Third Term Speaking: GETTING DIRECTIONS & MAKING PLANS

For the third term, those students, who did not take part in the eTwinning project: EL PODER DE LA LECTURA, were asked to record the following everyday situation: GETTING DIRECTIONS and MAKING PLANS. Once more, the students did such a great job taking into account the following criteria: English skills, perfomance, real life-settings, video editing and, of course, creativity: