Christmas Tree

To celebrate that Christmas time has arrived the 1 ESO students have decorated our Christmas tree with words in English and French related to the season. Here is the result:

Mediterranean Cuisine Day

As part of the Erasmus+ project  the 4 ESO students are involved in we have been working with Mediterranean recipes for a few weeks. The icing on the cake is the Mediterranean Cuisine Day.

After so much theoretical work, it was time to show how good at cooking we were. D-Day arrived and we invited our students and their families, who contributed to the culinary show with some traditional Spanish recipes, to enjoy the diversity of the Mediterranean gastronomy. New flavours, new ingredients, new ways of cooking...and some staple things: good olive oil and wine (only for teachers, of course!). We discovered some really good chefs among our teachers. We enjoyed cooking these recipes (from Greece, Italy, Croatia and France) and also setting the table and putting up the decoration. All in all it was a wonderful lunch in great conviviality and lots and lots of delicious food. Just have a look at the photos to check!

International Day of Inventors

November 9th is the International Day of Inventors. To celebrate it, we have devoted one lesson in each subject to talk about some important inventors and their minds' children. We have talked about such luminaries as Thomas Edison but also about other less renowned inventors, without whom things like a safety pin or a can opener wouldn't have been invented.

We have also conducted a survey. We wanted to know which invention is considered to be the most important for our students. Here is the survey (click here) and these are the results

By the way, why is that day celebrated on the 9th of November? It is the birthday of the Austrian-born inventor and Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr whose main invention was the frequency-hopped spread spectrum 1942. In the USA, however, it is celebrated February 11th, the birthday of Thomas Edison.

HALLOWEEN

Are you frightened of ghosts? Do vampires and werewolves scare you? If your answer is NO, then go on reading. Would you like to go into a haunted house? Would you like to terrify friends and relatives? If your answer is YES, then go on reading.

This year we celebrated HALLOWEEN with a spectacular Jack O Lantern Competition. All the 1º eso students created wonderfully spooky creatures. Have a look!


And the winners of the competition got a delicious prize!

Then, on 31st October, we learned some interesting vocabulary and watched a video about how British children celebrate Halloween.


 The students worked with the new vocabulary and enjoyed learning about Halloween traditions with this presentation:


Finally, they played some games

Tonguetwisters Contest

To celebrate the European Day of Languages we held a competition last Monday, 26th September. Students (2nd ESO - 13 years old) had to memorize some not too easy tonguetwisters in English, French (virelangues) and Spanish. It was really good fun and everybody had a wonderful time! For the jury (some of their teachers), choosing the best ones was not an easy task. Here are the winners in each language.
Español Français English

Juanjo, Antonio and Javi with their prizes

William Shakespeare

This year we are celebrating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death. Santos Isasa School invited the 5th Primary students of CEIP Nuestra Señora del Rosario to a fun activity where they learned a lot about Shakespeare and his time.

Following Shakespeare's timeline we talked about the importance of Shakespeare, his life as an actor and writer, his theatre, The Globe, and some of his most important plays.

We even had some of the characters on stage. Hamlet, Juliet and the Fool appeared on stage. We all learned a lot, had a wonderful time and some of them even got a penny for their correct answers (1 penny was what poor people had to pay to stand in front of the stage to see the play). Here are some photos.

Elizabeth I and W. Shakespeare

Juliet Capulet and William Shakespeare

Hamlet, talking to Yorick

Some of the games in the activity

All the students were ready to do the activites

And they all wanted to answer the questions

Women couldn't act in Shakespeare's times so it was boys who played their parts. Juliet is getting ready here.

The students followed the presentation very attentively

Final photo with the whole group

Shakespeare from rafa

Montoro Fashion Week

Stylish clothes, fashionable accesories, attractive models on the catwalk...every year the 2ESO students show us the new trends in fashion. Our school becomes a paradise for clothes lovers and fashion victims for one day. And our show competes with the most famous catwalks around the world, París, Milan and New York. And don't worry about language: fashion is an international language and in case you need more detailed explanations, the show is broadcast in English, French and Spanish!