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15th September 2020
teaser 2.mp4This month we have two great women: Mary Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft. Did you know they were family?
Our students are in Bristol learning English and having fun!
Our great woman in history this month is Rita Levi-Montalcini. Have you heard of her?
March 8th International Women's day
Run like a girl!
The historical version of First Dates is coming soon...What would happen if Frida Khalo had a date with Einstein? You will find out soon!
Our great woman in history in February is Virginia Woolf, an English author and novelist who wrote modernist classics. She pioneered feminist texts and is known for works like ‘To the Lighthouse’, ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ and ‘Orlando’ and the essay ‘A Room of One's Own.’
Virginia was an important figure of the Victorian Literary Society, an influential figure of the Bloomsbury group of intellectuals and an innovator of English literature with her experimental language.
Throughout her life, she suffered from mental illnesses, probably including bipolar disorder, and she took her own life in 1941. She was 59.
Woolf’s novels can be described as highly experimental: a narrative, frequently uneventful, and commonplace, is seen to be refracted, or dissolved, in the receptive consciousness of the character.
Our great woman in history this month is Eleanore Roosevelt.
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884 − November 7, 1962) was the longest-serving First Lady of the USA, holding the post from 1933 to 1945 during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office.
She was also a political leader in her own right. She supported the American Civil Rights movement. After the death of her husband in 1945, she started her career, as an author, speaker and spokesperson for human rights. She became a new role model for First Lady. President Harry S. Truman called her the First Lady of the World, in honor of her many travels to help promote human rights..
Roosevelt received 35 honorary degrees during her life.
Find out about Eleanore Roosevelt's life and achievements.
Our Students in 4 ESO went to the English Cemetery in Málaga with their English and history teachers to learn about our history. They took part in The Great Game of The English Cemetery and found out information about the historical figures buried there. Then, they went on a tour in Málaga to see historical places they had previously studied at school.
Our great woman in history this month is Malala Yousafzai.
Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani education advocate who, at the age of 17, became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize after surviving an assassination attempt by the Taliban. Born on July 12, 1997, Yousafzai became an advocate for girls' education when she herself was still a child, which resulted in the Taliban issuing a death threat against her. On October 9, 2012, a gunman shot Malala when she was traveling home from school. She survived and has continued to speak out on the importance of education. In 2013, she gave a speech to the United Nations and published her first book, I Am Malala. In 2014, she won the Nobel Peace Prize.
A charity market will be held on December 4th , 5th and 7th. All the money raised will be donated to Virgen de Valvanuz charity foundation. Next Thursday and Friday FPB2 students will be picking up second hand items for our market so those students and teachers who would like to donate something must bring it to school then.
The business and marketing department has prepared a charity market.
You can find all sorts of items.
FPB students will be the sales assistants.
And the rest of us will be the customers so come by and have a look!
In November we are celebrating the life and achievements of Gloria Fuertes.
Gloria Fuertes was born in 1918 in Madrid, Spain, where she lived most of her life. She worked at various office jobs and as a librarian to support her writing. Fuertes was part of the first generation of Spanish poets to come into prominence after the Civil War. She published 15 books of poetry and 34 children's books before her death in 1998.
Fuertes reclaimed the right of women, starting with the right to read, write, work or being a poet in a historical moment when they were confined to the domestic sphere. She also called into question traditional female roles and presented a new model of woman.
Apart from fighting for gender equality, Fuertes was also an activist for environmental causes and a pacifist that publicly opposed the wars in Vietnam and Cambodia, as she opposed the Spanish Civil War in 1936.
The winners of our Halloween contests are:
Azahar Monster Contest: Sergio Leiva (1º ESO E)
Jack-o-Lantern Contest: Ainoa Carabantes and Miriam Escobar (1º ESO A), Lucía Díaz (1º ESO D) and Andrea Muñoz (1º ESO D).
Horror Recipe Contest: Victoria Torres and Sara Santiago (2º ESO C), Joaquin Gámez (2º ESO B) and María Natoli and Lucía Rebollo (2º ESO D)
Horror Tweet: Carmen González (3º ESO C)
Horror Story: Álvaro Abad (2º Bach A)
We hope you all enjoy your prize!
HALLOWEEN CONTESTS!
The winners will get a prize. They will be announced on 31st October!
1º ESO students will take part in a Jack-o-Lantern Contest. They must decorate their Jack-o-Lanterns at home and bring them to school on 30th October.
2º ESO students will take part in a recipe contest. They must prepare a presentation explaining the ingredients and the instructions for their recipe and bring the dish to school on 31st October.
3º ESO students will take part in a horror tweet contest. They have to write a horror story in 140 characters and publish it on our bilingual twitter or write it and give the story to their English teacher.
4º ESO and Bachillerato students will take part in a horror story contest. The story must be original and have an introduction, a body and an end.
To celebrate the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, which we will remember tomorrow, two of the student groups of the professional family of Commerce and Marketing, have carried out a series of interesting activities.
In a first hour, "CFGS Management of Purchases and Commercial Spaces" first-year students, coordinated by Julia López, made a mural on human necessities according to Maslow. The aim was to analyze the importance for marketing professionals to differentiate human needs and wants. The students analyzed the different needs that those who are in poverty may have.
In the second hour of activity, "CFGM Commercial Activities" second -year students joined us to generate a debate on the situation of poverty in the world
After searching online some information on different actions that are being carried out by diverse entities, the debate focused on the search for solutions to the situation of poverty. The debate was moderated by Silvia Parra.
Cases of successful entrepreneurs, such as Amancio Ortega, athletes or singers, who are carrying out an intense social work in the eradication of hunger, were analyzed, and they concluded with different points of view.
It has been a very enriching debate for all of them, and from which some interesting ideas were extracted, such as "we have to start by helping those closest to us, and those who are just here" or " the importance of shopping at nearby stores, "or even, a deeper reflection:
“Why are there so many people starving when we have plenty of food for everyone ?”
J.López
Every month we will be celebrating the achievements of an important woman in history.
This month we are starting with Ada Lovelace. Have you heard of her?
Today is The European Day of Languages (26th September) and students with different mother tongues prepared a workshop for first-year students and taught them words and expressions in different languages! We gave out stickers and bracelets and the most important thing, we learnt to communicate in another language!!!!
Dani, one of our former students, sent us a video where he explains why it is necessary to speak foreign languages nowadays. He also tells us what he is doing now. We wish him good luck and we are happy he is practising his English in his job.
Here you are an article about translating written by our colleague, Sebastián Gámez Millán, philosophy teacher .
La traducción, la lengua de Europa.
Sebastián Gámez Millán
En el continente de Europa se hablan más de doscientas lenguas. Puede que por los sentidos los seres humanos percibamos la realidad si no igual, de forma semejante. Pero cada lengua es una modulación diferente sobre cómo percibimos la realidad. Por lo tanto, cada lengua es una singular forma de comunicarse y aproximase cognitivamente a al mundo. Esta cantidad de lenguas diferentes, cada vez más amenazadas de extinguirse, es signo de diversidad y riqueza lingüística y cultural. La lengua es a la cultura lo que el ADN a la genética: el principal vehículo de transmisión y herencia.
Sin embargo, comparado con otros continentes, Europa es uno de los menos diversos lingüísticamente del mundo, no solo por su extensión, sino porque además ha estado ocupado desde hace milenios por la familia indoeuropea. Y antes de la Edad Moderna, el estudio de la gramática había girado sobre todo en torno al griego clásico y al latín, esta última lengua científica hasta el siglo XVIII.
Por consiguiente, Europa es también plural desde una perspectiva lingüística y, como tal, no tiene una lengua, sino que es plurilingüe. Uno de los fines esenciales de las lenguas es la comunicación. En palabras de un poeta: “El lenguaje es un leve puente de sonidos que el ser humano echa por el aire para pasar de su orilla de individuo irreductible a la otra orilla del semejante, para transitar de su soledad a la compañía”.
Mas para que haya comunicación –y unión y comunión– tiene que haber un idioma en común. Reconociendo que Europa es plurilingüe, ¿cuál es su lengua? Algunos pensarán que el inglés, otros dirán el alemán, habrá quienes se acuerden del francés, mientras otros defiendan el euro… Pero la verdadera lengua de Europa es la traducción, ese puente entre culturas que salva las distancias y nos lleva a dialogar. Traducir es como comprender, ese fenómeno cognitivo sin el cual no actuaríamos como lo hacemos, sustituir unos signos por otros –como si fueran idénticos cuando en realidad son siempre distintos– que nos permiten en medio de la corriente andar por las piedras del río y reconocernos al mismo tiempo como diferentes e iguales.
Our Department of Commerce celebrating the European day of Languages
On the occasion of the European day of Languages, the Commerce Department have organised a set of activities to deal with the importance of having a good translations when it comes to brands for a company. The students have been investigating for two weeks to prepare some materials that were shown last Friday the 29th. The activities presented included a video from youtube about brand sounds in different languages, posters and an interactive powerpoint presentation showing facts on mistakes when translating a brand. It also included an Ikea quiz inviting students to participate.
It has been a fantastic and well organized work!
Julia López
