British Festivals

Who is the patron saint of England? Why is Pancake Day so important in Britain? Why do many small towns and cities all over England have a May Queen? We wanted to find an answer to all these questions so we organised a British Festival Day. Students from 1º ESO A-B-C had to learn about these festivals in order to explain to their classmates how British people celebrate them. What's more, we invited 3º Primaria pupils from the other bilingual school in Montoro, Nuestra Señora del Rosario Primary School, to attend and take part in the initiative. 

May Festivals

Antonio and Fran told us about why the coming of spring symbolizes the birth of a new cycle of life. To represent that, in many towns a queen is elected, the Queen of May, who starts the celebrations. In order to choose the Queen, we had 3 candidates from the primary group, and Celia and Sofía asked them questions (in English, of course!) about their subjects at school. They had to ask many questions because they knew all the answers! Finally, once the Queen had been chosen, two handsome knights (Juan and Juanma) wanted to be her King, so they had to win a dance competition to become King. It was really funny! 

 

The May Queen and her King

the May Queen

Contest to choose the May Queen

Questions the candidates had to answer to become Queen

Pancake Day

Mª Antonia and Raúl explained when Pancake Day is and why it is celebrated in Britain. Miguel sang a rap song to introduce all the ingredients we need to cook a delicious pancake. After that, we played two traditional games, Flipping the Pancake and a Pancake Race.

Singing the song "Pancake Day"

Explaining the ingredients to use

St. George's Day

St. George's Day is celebrated on 23rd April. Why did St. George become the Patron Saint of England? and What is the legend of St. George? Sergio and Leo told us about that. In order to clarify everything we had a terrible dragon, a beautiful princess and a brave St. George on stage. Laryssa explained what happened in the story: the dragon (Fernando) wanted to eat a princess (a girl from the primary students), but St. George (Rodrigo) wanted to rescue her and kill the dragon. Laryssa then asked the kids some questions. If they answered correctly, St George would save the princess, but if they diddn't .... Fortunately, they knew all the answers!

The protagonists of the legend

The dragon comes into the room to eat the princess

Black History Month

February is special in America because it is Black History Month. Black History Month is celebrated to help people remember African Americans who have made an impact or a difference in American life and culture.

Normally, children in America write a short biography about an African American who has made a difference. Our 4º eso students have surfed the Net and chosen a black celebrity to write about. Here are some examples:

Ralph Johnson Bunche from rafa

Obama from rafa

Oprah Winfrey from rafa

EU Flags

Among the activities organised for each grade in our high school, today we want to highlight the one carried out with the 1st ESO students. They had to learn about the countries that form the European Union and their flags. The English teacher devoted one lesson to teach them about the countries and the Art teacher devoted another one so that the pupils could draw the flags. After that, we proceeded with the game. In the first round, the three pupils in each class with the best scores were selected. In the second round, the nine best students played the online game. What a hard-fighting competition! The finalists got their objective by one-hundredth of a second. In the exciting final, the two contenders were given a set of ten cards with the names of ten countries, which they had to put next to their flags. They were both neck and neck, but in the end, Miguel Leiva (1º B) was the winner. He received the applause of his classmates as well as a lot of prizes, including a pen and pencil set, comics in English and Spanish, a tourist guide of Scotland, a bilingual dictionary and a huge bag of candy. Congratulations!

Montoro Fashion Week IV

Fashion is part of our lives, whether we like it or not. After Milan, Paris or New York, Montoro Fashion Week is the next big thing. Everybody is looking forward to a new edition. The clothes, the styles, the accessories may not become the new trend all around the world, but the models deserve to be on the best catwalks. See how professional they look!

Recycled Invertebrates

They are usually disgusting, it's true. Nobody mentions any of them when asked about their favourite animals. However, they don't look so nasty if you make them yourself. And that's what Rocío Ibarra, the Science teacher, had in mind when she asked her 1ºESO students to make Invertebrates using recycled materials. In fact, they look cute now! Some of them are amazing! I think the students will find them easier to memorize now and perhaps you won't crush them when you see them in the country!

Euroscola 2014

A group of students are taking part in a national competition called "Euroscola 2014". They must widen their knowledge of the European Union as well as make the Union's values be known by their schoolmates. In order to achieve that, they are reading and studying about the history of the European Union, the different organisms that govern the Union, the duties of the MEPs (Members of the European Parliament) and other related topics. Once they have got immersed in the Union's ideals and principles, the students have to devise a wide range of activities, which will be available to everyone on a blog, so that their knowledge reaches a wider audience and gets a bigger impact. Among the activities already carried out, we want to highlight a survey to find out how much their classmates know about the EU, interviews to European citizens living in Montoro and also interviews to people from Montoro who have experienced living in a European country for some time. They have contacted the press in the area to spread their activities and they will be explaining their project in Radio Montoro next Friday 14th March. There are plenty of other activities in store, both fun and educational, including a debate with political representatives and an amazing acrosport show! We will follow them very closely. We wish them good luck in the competition! The prize is really appealing: a trip to Strasbourg, seat of the European Parliament. 

How to save water

After studying "Water" from different perspectives (geography - maths - science - toponyms) the 1º ESO students want to give us some pieces of advice about a really important issue: saving water. Coordinated by their Science teacher (Rocío Ibarra) they have designed some drops of water with a clear message to everyone: every drop of water is essential. We must save water because it is a non-renewable resource.