Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

This year's production of the English Theatre Club Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has been an overwhelming success. All the good work of our brilliant assistant, Emilie Jefferies, and of the 20 students who participated in the show paid off with:

THIRD PRICE IN THE XXIII SCHOOL DRAMA COMPETITION OF THE COMMUNITY OF MADRID

Needless to say, we are very  proud of each and everyone of you!!

This is a video with the best moments of the show

And some pictures too:

Global Scholars

This year students from 1ºESO B have participated in the international programme Global Scholars, in collaboration with children all over the world. The aim of the programme has been to raise awareness on global issues such as sustainable developement, intelligent buildings, transportation and developement of green areas. 

It has been a lot of work but great fun too!!. It all culminated in a project to improve the green areas at our school doing different things, such as creating a vertical garden, and planting trees, with the help of the City Hall and the Major

All of our good work can be seen in this blog

http://iespalglobalscholars.blogspot.com.es/

Immersion Week March 2016. Valle de los Abedules

 

This year's immersion week took place in a fantastic place near Bustarviejo. 79 students from 1st ESO shared four sunny days just before Easter Break, doing all kinds of fun activities and improving their English.

We practiced archery

Zip-Lining

We rode horses

We learnt about falconry

Became expert chefs

And artists!!

Especially during the evening! when we had to show our talent at singing and dancing 

 

We had a lot of fun! And then: holidays!

Shakespeare at school

 

The Oxford Pocket Theatre came to school like last year to perform for students of 1st and 2nd ESO a hilarious adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth (oops!! we should have said The Scottish Play!! what was it that we had to do to conjure the bad luck?)

 

 

 In this version, while writing Macbeth William Shakespeare and his wife Ann try to make a living working at a fast food restaurant owned by Chef Duncan. However, they have no staff to work with and they recruit members of the public to work as cleaners and cooks

Before they know it, everyone will be involved in a tragedy full of ambition, treachery and murder: How will Macbeth kill Duncan? How much blood will Macbeth and Lady Macbeth have on their hands? How many bodies willl the Witches sweep up with their broomsticks? and how will Malcom get his revenge?

FALL STUFF 2015

This past fall the English department organised a couple of cultural activities related English speaking countries. The first one was the second edition of our Halloween pumpking-carving contest.

This one won the first prize!!

The second activity was a solidary baking contest for Thanksgiving. Students from all levels (together with some teachers and staff members) made the most delicious deserts ever and sold them during break time on the 24th of November in order to raise money to help the refugees.

It was a really sweet break, and we were able to raise some money which was donated to the NGO ACNUR. Thanks everyone for your collaboration and for making Thanksgiving a calebration about caring and sharing.

The World Around us Speaks English

Students from 2ºESO (bilingual English section) participated this last November in the immersion programe organised by the Ministry of Education "The World Around us Speaks English". We were really fortunate to be selected to spend a whole week, together with IES Serrallarga from Blanes (Girona), at the YMCA youth hostel in Villanúa (Huesca). It was a week full of projects, activities, sports and fun, all in English!.

We arrived on Sunday, November 8th, and were greeted by a really friendly group of monitors. Later on we introduced our schools and started making friends with the other students right away!!

 We had a really tight schedule!!. Our day started at 8:00, with lovely music, selected by the monitors to wake us up in the best possible mood, and a delicious breakfast!!.

 From 9:30 to 11:00 each day we did a variety of tasks: we worked on values such as perseverance, cooperation and respect,  and on one of the five topics in which the project was structured: recycling, sustainable developement, renewable energies, the natural and environment and cultural diversity. We did roleplays, debates and lots of interesting tasks inside and outside the classrooms.

At around 11 o'clock we had a break and after that, before lunch time, we did other kinds of activities, such as sports, games, trekking and visiting the Güixas cave:

After lunch we had a little time off to relax and then we started the afternnon sessions. First we worked in groups to develop an eco project. We had to create a political party that will contribute to the preservation of the environment. The last day we all presented our parties, together with the video, songs and dances we had prepared.

 

 We voted the best project and the winner was FISHH. This is the video they presented:

 

After this, every day we had some time to work together with our school teachers. We presented all the projects we had previously prepared at school (presentations and videos) and did other activities related to the topics we had worked on each day: 

Thanks to María Mayor for summarizing the process in this video. Check it out!.

Dinner and lunch time was a great moment to share:

Each day ended with lots of fun: dancing, acting, games and competitions:

All in all, we worked really hard and had lots of fun!! So much we didn't want to come back to Madrid

 

But above all, we learnt to trust, appreciate and rely on each other:

And to look at the WORLD AROUND US from a different perspective