On April 20, 2022 the 3ESO Students took a field trip to see a Beat Boxing performance at the Tres Cantos Cultural Center. The students really enjoyed the alternative experience and were asked to write about their impressions on the performances. Three of the articles were chosen for their creativity and well-written thoughts. To the left you have Angela Chase's article, from 3 ESO A. And below you can read Lucía Vicente's and Nuria Tejero's, also from 3 ESO A.

“Dear Ukraine” project has been carried out by 4th ESO students. After talking about the Ukraine invasion and going through lexicon related to this topic, the students wrote a letter dedicated to Ukraine, either to a specific person, group of people, organization or even an abstract term like “peace”. In these letters they had to use some of the words previously taught. The result has been quite emotional and very supportive of the struggles of Ukraine.

On Monday, the 3rd ESO Advanced students celebrated some well accomplished women in science. During the second term, they worked on a research project in English and Biology classes where they chose a female scientist to research. Then the students voted on the most well-researched scientists and had to record an interview in pairs. Four scientists won an award for the best in their category: Ecology and Geography, Medicine, Biology, and Chemistry. To see their research, you can look at their research journals for each scientific category. See the journals below.

The 3ESO sección inglesa students at PAL competed in the 2022 Global Classrooms Madrid-wide conference on Thursday, February 10th. All delegations performed very well and some even recieved an award for their exceptional performance.

The topic discussed during the 2022 Global Classrooms Conference was Protecting the Rights of Elderly Persons. There were over 130 schools participating in the 2 week long conference. At the conclusion of the conference on Friday, February 11th, 50 delegations were chosen to move on the the second round. Congratulations to Alan and Inés, delegation of Ireland, who will be moving on to the second round.

Thank you to Ana, our Global Classrooms participant and official journalist for keeping a report of the days' happenings and for taking photographs and videos of the students.

A student from 2nd Bachillerato, Julia Vallés Ruescas, shared her project on renewable energy for the school with some of the ESO classes. The main focus of her project is to reduce PAL's carbon emissions by replacing the diesel broiler which heats up the school, with solar panels. Due to Spain's sunny location, it has the greatest potential for solar powered energy, which you can see in her map of Europe. Compared to Germany, which is completely green on the map, and has 10x the amount of solar panels!

Continuing with our focus on the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals, for the months of January and February, we learned about goal #7 - Affordable and Clean Energy. In January, we learned about our carbon footprints and calculated them by adding up our water usage, transportation use, the diet we eat, electronic usage, and the things we buy and who we buy them from. This is something we should all be conscious of!