PEN PALS PROJECT

We have started a  Pen Pals project with students of 2nd and 1st of ESO with other schools from Sweden, Poland and Turkey. With this project we try to encourage children to write letters instead of using instant messengers and email. Sending instant messages and email has become so easy with todays modern technology that sending a letter could be seen as a novelty, fun experience. I wanted to play on the fun element of waiting for a letter to arrive and sending messages by post. The Pen Pal project is an easy way for children to construct fun letters and send them overseas.

FROM SPAIN

 

                                       

   

FROM SWEDEN 

  

 
There are many ways to say " I love you" to the  members of our family, friends ,pets  or mates . Our students wrote their best sentences with all their love.

Our students of 2nd and 4th of ESO wrote their resolutions for this year:

 Christmas  activities 21st of January 2023

This school year  we have organized different activities to celebrate Christmas.

1st and 2nd of ESO

Here we have some examples of our students' creations :

3th and 4th of ESO " Christmas  Cake Contest "

Our students participated in a cake contest . They had to cook a Christmas cake with a recipe written in English and video where they describe how they elaborated it.

Here we have the winners

                                                  HALLOWEEN !!!!!!!!!

Halloween, also known as "All Hallows’ Eve," is a holiday celebrated annually on October 31st. Halloween is massively popular in the United States. However, Halloween originated in Europe and is celebrated today in countries all over the world.

Halloween is one of the world's oldest holidays. Most scholars believe that the roots of Halloween extend back to a 2000-year-old Celtic celebration known as Samhaim in which people living in what is now Ireland would light fires and celebrate the recent harvest on or around October 31.

The Celts also believed that the barrier between the physical world and the spirit world was easily breached during this time, enabling the dead to return to the Earth. In observance of this belief, celebrants would often try to communicate with the souls of passed loved ones, leave food out for spiritual visitors, and dress in costumes to scare off any fairies that might wish to kidnap them. During the Middle Ages, the practice of carving Jack O'Lanterns —which were originally turnips, not pumpkins— became another Samhain tradition.

At I.E.S. Salvador Serrano, we also celebrated Halloween with different activities. The different non linguistic areas worked on the festivity. Students learnt about the festivity in Geography about how is Halloween celebrated in the world. In the English class, they also worked with famous writers about horror stories. In Art the students created graves of celebrities.

Have a look to the different sections to see everything we did.

Halloween, también conocido como "All Hallows’ Eve," es una festividad que se celebra todos los años el 31 de octubre. Halloween es tremendamente popular en los Estados Unidos. No obstante, Halloween se origino en Europa y se celebra hoy en países de todo el mundo.

Halloween es uno de las festividades más antiguas. La mayoría de los eruditos creen que las raíces de Halloween se remontan a una celebración celta de hace 2000 años conocida como Samhaim, en la que la gente que habitaba lo que hoy es Irlanda encendía fogatas y celebraba la cosecha reciente alrededor del 31 de octubre o ese mismo día.

Los celtas también creían que la barrera entre el mundo físico y el espiritual se rompía fácilmente durante esa época, permitiendo que los muertos regresaran a la tierra. En la práctica de esta creencia, los que lo celebraban a menudo intentaban comunicarse con las almas de antiguos amores fallecidos, dejaban comida fuera para los espíritus visitantes y se vestían con disfraces para ahuyentar a cualquier hada que quisiera secuestrarlos. Durante la Edad Media, la práctica de tallar calabazas –que originariamente eran nabos- se convirtió en otra tradición de Samhaim.

En el I.E.S. Salvador Serrano también celebramos Halloween con diferentes actividades. Las distintas ANL trabajaron la festividad. El alumnado aprendió sobre cómo es Halloween celebrado en otras partes del mundo en Historia. En la clase de Inglés también trabajaron con autores de obras de terror . Y en clase de arte los alumnos hicieron lápidas sobre personajes ilustres.

Echad un vistazo a nuestras actividades para ese día:

También el departamento de religión colaboró con este día con un proyecto sobre "El día de todos los Santos" con un árbol de la vida creado por el alumnado de todo el centro.                  

Proyecto Interdisciplinar sobre el aceite de oliva - Interdisciplinary project about olive oil

Hello everyone!! 

Andalusia´s Day, Día de Andalucía in Spanish, is a holiday celebrated only in the region of Andalucia to commemorate the referendum for Andalucia to become an autonomous community within Spain, which was held on February 28, 1980. This day is celebrated every year on February 28th. 

 We celebrated this day at school!

We had a delicious breakfast: an Andalusian sandwich, olive oil and ham. 

   El equipo de bilingüismo formado por el profesorado de ANL de Historia, Educación Física, Historia, y Biología celebra el día de Andalucía con un proyecto interdisciplinar sobre el aceite de oliva con la colaboración de nuestro alumnado de la ESO. 

 

   On Friday 22nd and 24th, the last days of school before the holiday, we celebrated “Andalusian Day” with an interdisciplinary project about “olive oil” with the participation of our students of ESO.

 

   During the second term , students did different projects on Andalusian olive oil from the different subjects which are bilingual at our highschool (History,Biology,Physical Education and Technology).

 

   I would like to thank for the great effort to elaborate this interdisciplinary project to my team of bilingual teachers: 

• Natalia Espejo Vacas
• Javier Expósito Martínez
• M.ª Eugenia Márquez Alcaraz
• Joaquín Pérez Pérez
• Fátima Porras Panadero
• Lucia Rodríguez Luque
• Javier Romero Vela

Here are some photos of the presentation of the project on those days:

 

Trivia game about the history of of olive oil (History department)

Varieties of olive trees and olive oil (Biology Department)

Old and modern ways of getting olive oil (Tecnology Department)

Healthy recipes with olive oil (Physical Education Department)

Other photos taken at the exhibition:

And now a little video:

 Visita a la cooperativa " S.C.A Virgen del Perpetuo Socorro "

 

From the 23rd  to the 27th of January, we visited the farming olive oil cooperative " Virgen del Perpetuo Socorro" from Alcaudete as part of a interdisciplinary project in which different departments  (History, Biology Phisical Education and Tecnology) are working about olive oil .

Durante la semana del 23 al 27 de enero  nuestro alumnado de 3º de la ESO realizó una visita a la cooperativa " Virgen del Perpetuo Socorro " de Alcaudete como parte de un proyecto interdisciplinar bilingüe sobre el aceite de oliva en el que están colaborando los  diferentes departamentos que imparten docencia en inglés ( Historia, Tecnología, Biología y E. Física).

Our language assistant , Carina Armas, took part in this project, translating some of the explanations given by Manuel Sánchez Muñoz, technical director,for  whom  we thanked his participation.

Nuestra auxiliar de conversación, Carina Armas, participó  ayudando a traducir en inglés algunas de las explicaciones dadas por Manuel Sánchez Muñoz, director técnico de la cooperativa, al que agradecemos su colaboración .