It's Halloween, Trick or Treat?

On October the 31st, the English speaking world celebrates Halloween. It was once called All Hallow's Eve, but it changed to Halloween.

Jack o'lanterns made of pumpkins, ghosts, witches, bats and all kinds of black decorations to make the bad spirits go away. And, of course, groups of children going "trick or treating" to their neighbours' houses.

Here at school, we also celebrate it by doing some activities related to this traditional british-american festivity.

Happy Halloween !!!

Luis Fdez.

New Teaching Resources: Techno 12-18

Our Technology Department has subscribed to an online programme whose contents deal with all kinds of technological matters: tools, structures, computers, electricity, etc.
It can be used both in English and in Spanish and it has lots of texts, pictures and activities.
An easy and funny way to teach and learn using TICs.
Technology department.

Welcome, Mark !!

Mark Leephaibul is our new Auxiliar de Conversación this year. He comes from Chicago (USA), he has just graduated in Political Science and Economics and he is here to help teachers and students to improve their English.
Denia Delgado, a student in 2º ESO A, has interviewed him:

Denia: Hello Mark, is this your first time in Spain?

Mark: No, I was here on vacation when I was 12.

Denia: How old are you now?

Mark: I'm 22.

Denia: Have you visited any other European countries?

Mark: Yes, I went to The Netherlands, Germany, France, Greece, The Czetch Republic and Italy before coming to Spain.

Denia: What is your favourite kind of music?

Mark: Reggae, Hip-Hop and Rock.

Denia: And your favourite sport?

Mark: Soccer.

Denia: Do you like Spain?

Mark: Oh yes, I love it.

Denia: And our school?

Mark: Yes, the students are great and everyone is friendly.

Denia: Do you have a girlfriend?

Mark: At the moment, no. But I've only been in Spain for 2 weeks so I will keep looking for one.

Denia: Do you speak Spanish?

Mark: Sí, hablo Español pero quiero mejorar.

Denia: Thank you very much Mark and welcome to Spain and to our school !

Mark: Thanks to you !

2009 /10: A NEW ACADEMIC YEAR, NEW CHALLENGES

A new academic year has just started. Our students in the European Section reached 3^rd ESO,

It seems like only yesterday!!!

There are around 110 pupils studying in our Section this year, distributed in two 1^st ESO groups, A and B, one 2^nd and one 3^rd ESO groups, A and B respectively.

Apart from the increasing number of students, two new Departments join the Section: Physics & Chemistry and Art, and some new teachers from these and other Departments.

We want to wish all the students, teachers and people working at “Cañada Real School”, a nice year from this blog.

At this time we close with a quotation from Zig Ziglar, an American writer: You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Last Tuesday 23rd, we took all our students in the European Section to the Cultural Centre to see this film in its original language.
It is an adventure film full of fantasy in which four kids travel through a wardrobe to the land of Narnia and learn of their destiny to free it with the guidance of a mystical lion.
It was directed by Andrew Adamson and it was released in Spain in december 2005. It won and Oscar, another 12 wins and 36 nominations.
These are the most important characters: Georgie Henley (Lucy), Skandar Keynes (Edmund), William Moseley (Peter), Anna Popplewell (Susan), Tilda Swinton (White Witch) and James McAvoy (Mr. Tumnus).
The students behaved and we all had a good time.

Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.

Luis Fernández

NUEVOS LIBROS DE TEXTO EN 3º DE ESO

El próximo curso, la Sección Europea llega a 3º de ESO. Entre las novedades que podemos ir adelantando están la incorporación del Departamento de Física y Química y la utilización de nuevos libros de texto en Inglés. Estos son los que utilizaremos el próximo curso en las áreas de Tecnología, Inglés, Biología y Física y Química.

El de Tecnología se titula Design and Technology, su autor es James Garrat y lo publica la editorial Cambridge University Press.

En Inglés continuamos con la linea Challenge para llegar al nivel 3 de la serie publicada por la editorial Burlington y por los mismos autores, Charlotte Addison y Pamela Field, que en los nieles 1 y 2.

Para las asignaturas de Biología y Física y Química, utilizaremos un único libro. Se titula Science Matters, de la editorial irlandesa Folens y sus autores son Hilary Dorgan, Declan Kennedy y Siobhan Scott. Se trata del mismo libro de texto que utilizan algunos institutos británicos para obtener el graduado en secundaria, para ellos Junior Certificate. Este libro lo descubrieron nuestras compañeras Mª José Bartolomé y Mª Isabel Gómez durante su estancia en Irlanda el pasado año. Allí lo utilizaban y después de comprobar que abarca gran parte de nuestro programa en estas dos asignaturas y que se trata por tanto de un material interesante, hemos decidido que sea el libro de texto para estas dos áreas en 3º de ESO a partir del próximo curso.

BYE BYE RAQUELLE AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP !

Durante estos días, nuestra auxiliar de conversación Raquelle Richardson, se despide de los alumnos y alumnas del instituto; especialmente de los de la Sección Europea, que son con los que más contacto y más horas de clase ha compartido.

En estas imágenes la podemos ver con algunos grupos de 1º y 2º de ESO.

Alumnos y profesores queremos desde este blog, darle las gracias por su inestimable ayuda, desearle lo mejor a su vuelta a EEUU y despedirla con un sincero
¡ HASTA SIEMPRE !