So we started decorating our school to get us all in the mood

Our FPB students also contributed by decorating the doors of the school with scary scenes

Our students also practised their scary lettering to create the perfect atmosphere

we had some scary and funny surprises that spooked us all

Many students accepted our challenges and made some scary creations: Face masks and scary tik toks. Here are some examples.

And here are the winners collecting their Halloween prizes. Congratulations!!! We had a very spooky week

It's interesting to see how some of the Christmas wishes this year are slightly different and share a common motto.

February 11th, International Day of Women and Girls in Science

To celebrate this major event, our students have worked on the biographies of different women who devoted their lives to science.

According to United Nations, "Science and gender equality are both vital for the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Over the past 15 years, the global community has made a lot of effort in inspiring and engaging women and girls in science. Yet women and girls continue to be excluded from participating fully in science.

At present, less than 30 per cent of researchers worldwide are women. According to UNESCO data (2014 - 2016), only around 30 per cent of all female students select STEM-related fields in higher education. Globally, female students’ enrolment is particularly low in ICT (3 per cent), natural science, mathematics and statistics (5 per cent) and in engineering, manufacturing and construction (8 per cent).

Long-standing biases and gender stereotypes are steering girls and women away from science related fields. As in the real world, the world on screen reflects similar biases—the 2015 Gender Bias Without Borders study by the Geena Davis Institute showed that of the onscreen characters with an identifiable STEM job, only 12 per cent were women.

In order to achieve full and equal access to and participation in science for women and girls, and further achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution A/RES/70/212 declaring 11 February as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science".

References: https://www.un.org/en/observances/women-and-girls-in-science-day

February 14th, Saint Valentine's Day

It's been a busy month. Altough we must keep our social distance, no one is going to keep us away from spreading some love and brighten our days. This is why we have also celebrated Saint Valentine's Day with love songs and cards. Our students have designed them, written their wishes and send them to special friends to thank them and express their love.

inventions that changed the world

Our students in 2º ESO and Mercedes, our technology super teacher, have been working on the project "inventions that changed the world". They have designed different mind maps describing why they are important and how these inventions work. here are some examples

March 8th, international women's Day

making british culture happen

We are also proud to present our project "Making British culture happen". In cooperation with technology, our PMAR students have designed this beautiful photocall representing some of the most relevant elements of the British culture like the flag, the buses, the telephone cabins, etc... Thanks to our teacher Rubén, who made it possible.

FLOWERS

April is the month of flowers. This is why we have devoted this month to work on an Intgrated project which will combine English, Technology and RECAPACICLA.

We want to want to reinforce the idea of recycling as a key element to preserve our planet so all of the materials we have used for this project are recycled.

Technology: students have created some beautiful and modern stools where to place our recycled pots.

RECAPACICLA: students have created some stunning pot designs by using recycled materials such as old water bottles. They have also planted different flowers they have been growing in our school garden.

English: they have created the signs describing each of the plants and their characteristics.

Have a look at the results. Great job!

the 3 r's of environment

In May we still continue raising awareness on the importance of recycling as a key aspect to preserve our planet. This is why, in cooperation with the Arts Department and Recapacicla, our students have created this amazing wall painting.

June 5th, Environment Day

To end this academic year, our school has celebrated the International Day of Environment. Apart from the different talks they have received, our students have created different posters to give us tips on how to preserve it and care for the world we live in.

And our last project of the year

Our science and culture week starts today!

The English Department is preparing an exhibition about Frankenstein, published 200 years ago. Come and have a look at the hall!

International Women's Day is coming. Let's get ready. March 8, 2018

Movie, Comic, TV Series and book heroines show us that women can lead the story instead of being supporting characters. With this campaign we want to show that we are no damsels in distress!

Origin Of Valentine’s Day:

• One of the popular origins of Valentine’s Day was Saint Valentine, who defied Emperor Claudius II. Valentinus was imprisoned for illegally officiating marriage among soldiers.

• Emperor Claudius banned such marriage because he believed that it distracted soldiers. Valentinus was soon executed. It was believed that before his execution, he wrote a letter to Julia, the daughter of his jailer. The letter was inscripted with “From your Valentine.”

• Allegedly, Valentinus was buried on February 14th. Julia planted almond and pink blossom beside his grave symbolizing lasting friendship and love.

November the 25th is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. It was started by the United Nations General Assembly in 1999. The UN asked governments, international organizations and NGOs to raise global awareness of this terrible and widespread problem. This is particularly important in the many countries where the issue of violence against women is hidden. Women all over the world are the victims of domestic violence, rape, psychological torment and other forms of abuse. There is no country in which women are free from violence. The UN said violence against women is a barrier to achieving equality, human rights, development and peace.

International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women is observed on November 25 because of a horrific historical event. On this day in 1960, three sisters were brutally killed in the Dominican Republic. The Mirabal sisters were political activists. They campaigned against the corrupt government of that time. Throughout their political activity, the women and their husbands were put in prison and beaten many times. This did not dampen their desire for political change. President and dictator Rafael Trujillo ordered their execution. The sisters became known as the "Unforgettable Butterflies". They symbolized the victimization of women and were commemorated in novels, poems, songs and books.

Halloween is round the corner. It is the season for little ghosts and goblins to take to the streets, asking for candy and scaring one another silly. Spooky stories are told around fires, scary movies appear in theaters and pumpkins are expertly (and not-so-expertly) carved into jack-o'-lanterns.

The origin of our Western holiday known as Halloween is found in the ancient Celtic festival, Samhain (pronounced SOW-in). From present-day Ireland to the United Kingdom to Bretagne (Brittany), France, the ancient Celts marked this as one of their four most important festival quarter days of the year. Samhain commenced on the eve of October 31st, and ushered in the Celtic New Year on November 1st. The Celts experienced this as a liminal (threshold) period when the normally strict boundaries between the worlds of the living and the dead became mutable. On the eve of Samhain, they believed the veil between the two realms was the most transparent, allowing the spirits of those who have died to return to visit earth.

The timing of this festival coincides with an important period in the natural calendar, one to which all cultures adhered until fairly recently. It is the time of the final harvests of the year, when animals stockpile stores of food for the winter months ahead, the sun sets earlier and rises later, and the trees shed their leaves. With the end of harvesting season, the entire natural world moves into its annual dormant state of hibernation, essentially “dying” until its annual rebirth the following spring.

After the Roman conquest of much of the Celts’ lands in France and England, Samhain was affected by the advent and subsequent spread of Christianity. The Church attempted to subsume the festival under the celebration of martyrs and saints, which was established on the ancient Celtic new year — November 1st — and recast it as All Saints Day (with the following day, November 2nd as All Soul’s Day). This festival was called All-Hallows, while the evening before was called All-hallows-eve — later becoming, by contraction, our present-day “Halloween.”

The many traditions associated with the contemporary American holiday, including dressing up in costume, holding parades, playing scary pranks and tricks on one another, bobbing for apples, and lighting bonfires are holdovers from the Celtic Samhain festival. Our most popular custom of dressing up on Halloween emanates from the Celtic belief that the ghosts of the departed along with the fairy folk would be abroad roaming the fields and roads near their homes on this night. Fearful of encountering these otherworldly beings on their way to and from the celebrations, they began to wear masks and other ghostly gear in order to fool the spirits into believing they, too, were of the spirit world.

Poverty has many faces, starving children in Africa or India or a struggling single mother crying in the supermarket as her children look on confused. The examples of poverty range from extreme to almost imperceptible and the UN has declared Fighting Poverty one of its goals.

There is no denying that poverty is a social struggle and affects communities far and wide with impacts on single people and whole cities.

The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty is observed to promote and acknowledge the effort and struggle of those living in poverty. It also gives people living in poverty a specific opportunity to make their concerns and thoughts heard, recognizing that they are the first to fight against poverty.

Origins of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

The very first observance of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty can be pinpointed as the 17^th of October in 1987. On that Saturday in fall more than a hundred thousand people congregated at the Trocadéro in Paris, France. It was there that the Declaration of Human Rights was signed by the United Nations in 1948, in order to honor the victims of extreme poverty, violence and hunger. The central principles expressed in the declaration were carved in a commemorative stone, which was unveiled at the signing of the Declaration of Human Rights in 1987.

Multiple replicas of the stone were made and have been placed around the world to serve as locations for gathering each year to observe the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. One replica of the stone is placed in the garden of the United Nations Headquarters, where every year there is an annual commemoration held by the United Nations Secretariat. Hundreds of people gather each year to renew their resolve to combat poverty and to demonstrate their solidarity with those living and struggling in poverty.

In 1992 a resolution was adopted and the General Assembly declared the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty as an official day on which to promote events “with regard to the eradication of poverty and destitution.”

What is the European Day of Languages?

At the initiative of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, the European Day of Languages has been celebrated every year since 2001 on 26 September.

The European Year of Languages celebrates linguistic diversity in Europe and promotes language learning.

Why a European Day of Languages?

There have never been more opportunities to work or study in a different European country - but lack of language competence prevents many people from taking advantage of them.

Globalisation and patterns of business ownership mean that citizens increasingly need foreign language skills to work effectively within their own countries. English alone is no longer enough.

Europe is rich in languages - there are over 200 European languages and many more spoken by citizens whose family origin is from other continents. This is an important resource to be recognised, used and cherished.

Language learning brings benefits to young and old - you are never too old to learn a language and to enjoy the opportunities it opens up. Even if you only know a few words of the language of the country that you visit (for example on holiday), this enables you to make new friends and contacts.

Learning other peoples' languages is a way of helping us to understand each other better and overcome our cultural differences.

Which are the goals of the European Day of Languages?

The overall objectives are to raise awareness of:

• Europe’s rich linguistic diversity, which must be preserved and enhanced;

• the need to diversify the range of languages people learn (to include less widely used languages), which results in plurilingualism;

• the need for people to develop some degree of proficiency in two languages or more to be able to play their full part in democratic citizenship in Europe.

If you want to know more about the European Day of Languages visit its official website:

http://edl.ecml.at/Home/tabid/1455/language/en-GB/Default.aspx