PEACE DAY

                                                       Peace Day in our school 3 years ago

Since 1964, Peace Day (30th January) is celebrated all around the world to commemorate Gandhi's death. This year as 30th is on Saturday, our school will celebrate it on Friday. The whole school will gather in the sport room in order to celebrate an assembly, where we will remember Gandhi and talk about the main topic, peace. Each course from ESO and BACHILLERATO has prepared some activities.

Gandhi  was born on October 2, in 1869 (Porbandar, India) He studied law and became the leader of India´s independence movement. In January 30 (1948), the 78-year-old Gandhi was killed in Ner Delhi´s Birla House. Nathuram Godse, an hindu extremist, was his murderer. He took the life of a pacifist human who spent his life preaching non-violence. This is the reason why the Peace Day is celebrated every January 30th all around the world.

Ghandi's biography short video: https://youtu.be/_-QoW3_jOZM

The activity which 3rd and 4th of secondary are preparing consists of a Museum of Gernika's painting (Picasso). 3º of ESO will take care of making a big mural depicting the painting of Picasso. On the other hand, 4º of ESO, will seek for information about the painter, the work, its symbols... Once they have all the needed information, they will record their voices reading it.

When all that work is done, with the help of technology using the QR code, if you point at the drawing with the mobile phone, the recorded information will be reproduced.

Then, as we have said before, the whole school will go to the sports room, where we will celebrate an assembly. Students from BACHILLERATO will read some texts.

HOPE YOU LIKE IT !!!!!!!!

LEXIT

Lexit is a literal resource to encourage reading. It is an online reading platform where teachers have a personal space to share with students; each student must read a book and answer chapter to chapter to a time-controlled questionnaire.

The platform makes a scoring system which encourages students to read books. The more they read and make questionnaires correctly, the more points and options for prices they will have.

We've been using this space for 4 years from now. 19 students from 1ºESO to 4º ESO have won a price for reading. The prices this year have been:
-2 e-readers
-4 headphones sets
-13 USB-bracelets

THEATRE COMES TO OUR SCHOOL!

As every year, the 'Moving On' English theatre company, came last Friday to our centre. The show was given to students from 1st and 2nd of ESO and another one for 6th grade. We had the privilege to watch the play too, and we could see how students sang and got involved in the play, while they were learning English.

 'Moving on' company offered us a comedy and a musical show, interpreted in English by experienced British performers. This time, they performed a show called "One way ticket"; this play took us on an amazing journey in London underground, where the protagonists, Bob and Harry, try to preserve the underground station.

This company also did another theatre for primary school students . The story was about a dreamer, called Harry, who wanted to become a famous actor. The show gives the students the chance to involve in the world of television.

 

 Here you have the link to the "Moving on" web:  http://www.movingonsl.com/

BASQUE DAY CELEBRATED AT OUR SCHOOL

As we told you some days ago, on Thursday it was celebrated Basque Day. In our school we carried out a series of activities. The result was very good: BACHILLERATO made a graffitti, ESO and Primary practised some typical Basque sports... and we ate chestnuts! We also had a chat byt the Athletic Club  ex football player, Koikili.

                                                               Basque Sports

                                                       Bachillerato's graffitti

                                               In the playground eating  chestnuts

STUDENT'S POEMS

Do you remember the article we posted about BTEK, the science fair “Zientzia Azoka”? If you haven’t read it you should, it is really interesting!

After the visit, the students have been doing a series of different activities. One of them has been writing a poem in groups. The teacher has sent us all of them.

To be honest, we have to tell you that we really like all of them, “The Kit Kat” specially. What about you? Leave your opinion in the comments.

HOPE YOU LIKE THEM!!!


http://chitchatclub.edu.glogster.com/poetry/

BASQUE DAY

The language of the Basque Country, Basque, has survived to several European movements. On the one hand, the first that it survived to was the arrival of Indo-Europeans to Europe: they nearly changed all the languages that were in Europe but Basque. On the other hand, the second movement Basque survived to, was the Latin’s arrival to Europe; new languages came up eliminating the older ones, but Basque didn´t disappear. It is one of the oldest languages of Europe. It doesn´t have any relation with other languages or family; that´s why it is not considered an official language in Europe. Linguistics haven´t managed to find out where Basque comes from; they believe that it was born in France and with time it spread around the north of Spain, until it arrived to the Basque Country.

The objetive of the celebration of the ´Basque day´ is to widespread the language (Euskera), as that is the key for its survival. Basque day was oficially celebrated for the first time in 1949.
Francisco Javier, who died 3th December, was a Jesuita´s Saint together with San Ignacio de Loyola. He was a Saint who travelled to many countries and knew lots of languages. However, his maternal language was basque; his last words were told in basque. As Saint Fracisco Javier representated the language, the day of his death was chosen to celebrate ´Basque Day´.

                                                     Saint Francisco Javier

This day is also celebrated in our school. Some teachers have organized lots of activities. 

The children from pre-school will make drawings to create sheets (with the help of a machine) and they will also do some manual works.

Children from primary are also going to have two activities. On the one hand, they are going to do ''herrikirolak'', which are typical Basque country's sports, like tug or sack-races. On the other hand, a DJ will come and play music in Spanish, English and Basque. 

Finally, for secondary there are planned two activities: firstly, a gymkhana and secondly, do graffiti.

A retired footballer, from the team Athletic, will also come to give us a talk.

Here you are a song in basque, HOPE YOU LIKE IT!!!!

FOOD AID TO THE POOR IN BILBAO

Nowadays, there are millions of poor people in the world. Society usually thinks that poor people are just in Africa or Asia..., but poverty is closer than what we think. Indigents are next to our house's doors, they live with us. I'm talking about homeless people, those who don't have even for food. To deal with this situation and help to indigents of our city (Bilbao), our school carries out two activities: On the one hand, it is organised a food bank where every students and teachers can bring food to donate it. On the other hand, there are some days during the year in which there´s a voluntary work after school for those students who really want to help (just for 4º Eso and Bachillerato).

During this month, in our school, we have been doing a food bank for the Irala’s soup kitchen. The most important food we have to bring is for breakfast and basic products, like milk, eggs, rice etc… In our school, we also do every two or three months, a food bank called ‘’kilo’’, where we collect food for the same food kitchen.

Two of us went to the soup kitchen, so each of us is going to tell you our personal experience:

Marina's experience

The first thing we did when we arrived, was talk with the volunteers that were there. They were very kind and friendly; they  solved us all the doubts we had, and explained us what we were going to do. 

First, they gave us an apron and we set the table. Secondly,  the homeless arrived. They ate the first plate, and we had to ask them wether they wanted to repeat or not. If not, we had to serve them the second plate. Finally, most of them left with a smile in their face, expressing gratitude.

It  surprised me  that most of them were always smiling at us; I reckon that is very hard, considering that most of them are homeless people, that live around the streets,  they don´t have a home, maybe they don´t have  family… I don´t know how their lives are, but I'm sure that not an easy one. It was amazing to see them smiling. I would really like to know all of their stories. It also surprised me that the physical appearance of the indigents. I thought that they were going to have scruffy and untidy clothes. And that is true, but there were also many people that was wearing normal clothes. If saw those people on the street, I’d never think that they have bad economical situations. It is amazing that they have to eat in soup kitchens in order to maintain a house and a family.

In summary, the experience made me reflect and think of other people's  situations. It also made me feel better with myself.

Pilar's experience

Firstly, my friend and I arrived to the soup kitchen.  We didn’t know what to do or tell. We were nervous. Thank god, the veteran volunteers were very kind and welcomed us very kindly. They told us what to do: first, we had to put on an apron; next put the plates on the table; and finally, serve the plates with food. Followed, the indigents arrived. We waited there until they finished the first dish and we asked them if they wanted to repeat. If they didn’t want to, we just had to take the plate and serve the second dish. In general, they were polite and they usually thanked us.

Judging by the appearance, there were all kind of people. We saw from the poorest people from Bilbao to good looking people, with a similar appearance to our parent’s. Despite being poor people, most of them were really nice to us and well-mannered. The 90% of them were immigrants.

What I’ve learnt from this experience is that even people with the most normal appearance can have such economical issues to have the need to go to these soup kitchens. You never know what kind of problems a person can have. This involvement has also taught me how fortunate I am, and how near people with not a single resource are. It is very easy for us to help them. I surly recommend this kind of “activity” and I have no doubt that I’ll repeat it.

If you are interested, here you’ve got the pamphlet of the soup kitchen we went to.