Goodbye Alaina

Alaina, our assistant teacher form Pennsylvania, has finished her teaching period with us. We had a little farewell party in 3ºA - one of her favourite groups. 

We wish her all the best for the future. See you soon!

Collaborative Working

Este vídeo, realizado por el Servicio Nacional de etwinning y con participación de alumnos de 4ºA, nos da ideas sobre el trabajo colaborativo entre diferentes paises en un proyecto.

Se puede ver a los alumnos de 4ºA trabajando en un proyecto de colaboración del minuto 5' al 6'.

Student Exchange with Sankt Ingbert (GERMANY)

From April 10 to 17, a group of students from 4ºA together with German and English teachers Rosa and Henar travelled to Sankt Ingbert, Germany, for the second part of the student exchange which started last September with the visit of the German students to Spain. This is the diary that our students kept during their week there.

Monday, by Alex Teubel. 

I started Monday attending three hours of classes with the German students, I was surprised when I saw all the new technologies and new material in the class compared with my class in Spain. The gymnasium was the best part because they had new material and enough for all the students.

I was impressed with how German teachers gave the class. It´s very different because they had two hours of class for each subject..

Walking the alpacas

The headmaster presented his school and he said that we had to have a very good experience in Germany.  

In the afternoon we were in the alpaca farm, where we were feeding the alpacas. After that we took some alpacas for a walk. Our alpaca´s name is Camelito and it was very funny to walk with all of them.

I was very lucky because I found a piece of obsidian. We walked with all of them in a forest near the alpaca farm.

For me this day was the best one because the alpacas were very calm. We named one Ñe because he always said "ñee".

After the beautiful day we went to the families and I had dinner with them, then I went to bed.

That´s all of my Monday in Germany, I had a very good experience there and if I can I want to repeat it.

Tuesday, by Inés Gómez.

On Tuesday, I got up at 6:45. Later, I had breakfast - a glass of orange juice and a piece of bread spread with Nutella. Then, we went to the high school of Sankt Ingbert where we  met the other students of the exchange in order to travel to Saarburg. We went to this place by bus and when we arrived we began a touristic route throughout the city of Saarburg. We visited the castle of this city which is known as the “Trier”. Then we had two hours of free time at which we saw over the city and bought some presents for our families. After that, we took a boat ride by the Saar River. It was very exciting because we rode in a lock. After that, we ate something in the boat. And finally, we climbed up a mountain for an hour. So, when we had finished the climbing, we returned to St.Ingbert and each one of the Spanish students went to his exchange partners'. It was raining a lot.  In the evening, we met most of the other students of the exchange to see the football match Real Madrid-Wolfsburg. The Real Madrid won and we ate something to celebrate . At 23:00 we returned home and we went to bed. It was a complete day and was the day that I liked most of the trip. 

Saarburg

Meander in River Saar

 

Wednesday, by Pablo Gil.

On Wednesday morning we went to the school for a few hours. Later we went to the Mayor Hall with our German partners, where the mayor received us and invited us to a drink and a snack. Then, only the Spanish, went to Saarbrücken by train to carry out a rally, where we had to look for some landmarks or curiosities around the city. After the rally, our German partners met us near the train station and we went to a restaurant (a not very cheap one)  to have lunch. Then we went shopping through the center of the city until we went back to St Ingbert, where each one went to their home to have dinner and sleep. 

 In Saarbrücken, the old telephone booths have been changed into 'libraries', where you leave your old books for anyone to borrow.

Thursday, by Tomás Tognozzi.

First, I got up at 6:30am. Then I had The typical German bread with butter for breakfast. Then I attended some classes. After class, we took a train which took us to Völklingen where there is a steel and ion factory. The factory had been turned into a museum and we had the chance to explore it by ourselves. The visit lasted until 2:00pm when we took the train back to Saarbrücken. There we ate some snack while doing some shopping. I was lucky to buy a T-shirt my size and a PS game for my dad. By 6:00pm we went back to St.Ingbert where we met some friends in a bar where we watched a football match - Bayern München vs.Bendica. To be honest, I didn't have any preferences and the match finished in a draw. When the match ended, my hostgirl and me went home and had a light supper. Finally, as I had to get up early the next morning, I went to bed to rest. 

 

Völklingen Ironworks has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

Friday, by Alfredo Maestro.

Today was the last school day of the week, so we went to five classes: two of Spanish, two of French and one of maths. I like a lot one thing that it’s different from Spain, they don’t have a break of 30 minutes but instead of that they have longer small breaks between classes. The last two hours we went to another classroom with all the exchange students and teachers. Then we ate and drank something, and our teachers gave us some prizes of the city rally. Finally we all read a small text that we had made with our partners. The Spanish students read in German and the Germans in Spanish, so it was a bit funny.

The students of 4ºA got the first prize

When we went to home, we ate with the family and I played a board game similar to billiard for a while. I really enjoyed it because I won the two games. Later we had a shower and we met all the exchange students in a bar. There we talked about all the week and all the things that we had done, because it was the last day that we were all together. We also made some jokes so we had a very good time. We all went home early  because the next day everyone was going with his family to new cities or the countryside. This was probably the best day of all the week!

Proyecto premiado

El proyecto etwinning realizado por alumnos de 3ºA con la profesora de inglés Henar Marchesi  ha sido uno de los 12 proyectos ganadores en el concurso europeo que anualmente organiza el Servicio Nacional de Apoyo eTwinning (Alemania) en colaboración con ‘Europäische Bewegung Deutschland' (Movimiento Europeo Alemán) Cada año el concurso se engloba dentro del marco temático europeo vigente, el lema escogido para este año es «La convivencia en Paz ». Los premios oscilan entre 800 y 300 euros por proyecto y nuestro premio ha recibido 300 euros a repartir entre el IES Jorge Manrique y los otros dos institutos de Alemania e Italia que participaban en el proyecto.

El nombre de nuestro proyecto es Peace is an Art (La Paz es un Arte) y en él hemos analizado obras de artistas actuales de Alemania, Italia y España que abogaran por la paz y la no-violencia. Asimismo nuestros alumnos han realizado una obra artística con la misma temática.

                               

Celebrating Diversity

Etwinning promotes diversity at schools. Through debates in our classes, we can find out what European teenagers feel about diversity. In 2B we defined diversity, discussed about it and then prepared a video with some of our conclusions to post in the Etwinning Live page in order to share it with thousands of other European schools who said YES to DIVERSITY...

Laura, our trainee teacher.

(Sent by students from class 4A)
Our trainee teacher´s name is Laura Antón Fernández. She was born in Palencia in 1993, so she's twenty three years old now. Although she lives in Palencia with her parents and her older sister she has visited a lot of countries such as Belgium, USA, UK, Mexico, Canada and Ireland. She has gone to two different schools, La Salle and Villandrando. In the future she would like to work as a teacher in California. She studied her career in the University of Valladolid and also in Manchester, England. She speaks Italian, English, German and Spanish.
She decided to study English just two days before she had to fill in the inscription because she was so good at it and also because her mother was an elementary school teacher. Before coming to our school she had worked as a private teacher and as an elementary school teacher in San Francisco.


Laura monitoring a class 

On the one hand, the things she likes the most about teaching are the way we learn, to deal with teenagers and she also finds it funny.
On the other hand, the thing she hates is when the students don´t stop talking and don’t pay attention.
Laura chose this school for her training because she had very good references and also because her mum had studied here when she was younger. She thinks our school is so big and that we have very good and friendly teachers. During her school training she has learnt how to deal with teenagers, some teaching techniques, and the most important thing, teaching requires tonnes of patience. Before coming to our secondary school she preferred teaching in elementary schools, but during this experience she has changed her mind and now she prefers teaching teenagers because she can speak faster.
(Interview and report made by Lidia Arija, Julio Cabria, Sara Fernández y Paula García Abarquero from class 4A)

Programa de Intercambio Escolar con Centros de Regiones de Canadá

(Sent by the eTwinning team in 3°A)

Last Friday, Andrew Gorge, a Canadian boy who’s in an exchange program with a student of our school, talked to us about his country and Kelowna, B.C, the town where he lives.

According to what he told us, Canada was founded in 1876 by John A. Macdonald, being July 1st its National day. There, they have the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which, without any function, are just symbolic. He also mentioned Tim Hortons, a popular shop there located in almost every part and where everyone goes, and the Canadian flag, whose most representative part is the maple leaf.

When he talked about its geographic features, he said that Canada, with its 9,984,670 km² of land, is the second biggest country in the world, and so, a drive across it, would take 82h. However, without the 8.9% of its whole territory that lakes represent, Canada would be smaller than the US.

At the same time, he told us that hockey is the national sport, and mentioned the Toronto Raptors, a basketball team that forms part of the NBA, and the Toronto Blue Jays, one of their best baseball teams, as they’re two of their best known sport teams.

He talked a bit of the Okanagan Valley too, whom is located in the border between Canada and US, having a semi-desert climate with four seasons and 15 towns in it. One of these towns is Kelowna, which is divided into Kelowna, founded in 1905 and with a population of 120,000 inhabitants, and West-Kelowna -which is newer and has a population of just 50,000 people.  

He said that almost any crop can be grown in Kelowna’s orchards and an unusual wine called ice wine is prepared during winter in their wineries. And are these popular wineries where adults can make wine tours. Of course, there are other activities, like Pond Hockey in winter, when the temperatures go from -10 degrees up to 2 and golf, water ski, water board or any other water sports during the summer, when there can be up to 40 degrees.

So depending on the season, their main attractions are Mission Hill-West, the Harvest Golf Club (where Andrew works during the summer), the Big White ski hill and the Main Beach.

Kelowna has their own sport teams as well - Kelowna Rockets, Kelowna Falcons and Okanagan Sun. Kelowna Rockets is the hockey team, Kelowna Falcons the baseball one, and Okanagan Sun is their football team.

Talking about education, University of British Columbia is one of the best schools in B.C and top 20 in Canada, being as well very close to Kelowna and specialised in Engineering. There, there are different high class sports teams and exchange programs and it has a Nursery program too.

Finally, he talked us about his school, the Immaculata Regional High School. One of the top schools in both, study and sports with 250 students. It has great soccer and volleyball teams, a basketball team too, and an International program since 2012, when Blaine Melnyk founded it. As it is a catholic school, its logo is formed by a cross. Also they take part in the Terry Fox Run, which is held in July to raise money for charity to help with cancer issues.    

                     (By Marina Emilova and Miguel Onecha)

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Hello Andrew. We would like to know a little bit more about you.

-What is your favourite subject?

Physical Education

-Do you have any hobbies?

Hockey, golf, deer hunting…I play golf in summer and go sledging in winter

-Do you have a job?

Yes, I work part-time in the golf club. This is my first year and I work from April            to October, 3 days a week in the summer time. I earn $10.25/hour plus tips

-What is the most popular sport in your school?

In male teams basketball and soccer and in female teams volleyball

-What would you like to study after school?

Medicine and sport

-Do you like travelling?

Yes, I do. I've been to Mexico, USA and Spain. In Spain I've visited Madrid and                Palencia.

-Do you like Palencia?

Yes, I love it.

-What can you tell us about this exchange program?

I applied for this program because I wanted to come to Spain and to have a nice          experience. My partner is Jorge Manso - a student in 6F- who came to Canada during the first term. My host family here is very nice.

-What do you think about our school?

I like it. It’s a big school with nice people. It's bigger and older than my school and you have more classrooms. Besides, in my school we don’t study philosophy.
-Thank you very much. We hope you enjoy the rest of your stay in our city.

                                                             (By María González and Lúa Arconada)