SPANISH CONSTITUTION: OUR MOST ESSENTIAL RULES

The Constitution is the basic law that the Government of a country is governed. It contains a number of rules, norms and principles that make up the basic law, which is what we call the Constitution. It is a law because their approval corresponds to the representatives of the people gathered in an Assembly. But it is also a fundamental law, that is to say, a law that refers to a set of topics that are of critical importance to the liberty and security of persons. In 1791, created the first Constitution which approved the Declaration of rights of man and of the citizen of 1789. According to Article 16 of that famous Declaration, any place where the separation of powers was not guaranteed and the rights of the people were not preserved, did not really have a Constitution.

By: María Lama, 4ºB

They serve to give stability to the rules that determine the way in which public power is exercised by legislative, executive and judicial bodies.

It has been the first in our history that a part of the country not imposed on the other party.

12th SCHOOL'S BOOK FAIR AND CULTURAL WEEK

As every year it is celebrated in our institute I.E.S. Mencía López de Haro the book fair and the cultural week on the occasion of both teachers and students enjoy and learn from literature and general culture.. This year marks the twelfth book fair, where you can enjoy all kinds of books throughout the week. The first day part of the students could enjoy trips to "the Torcal de Antequera", first aid courses, and isotonic drinks workshops, to end the day in the afternoon the institute offered exhibitions of Cantalenguas and acrobatic sport. On Tuesday the first and second courses learned thanks to urban orientation workshops and domestic workshops, to finish, in the afternoon the students of the institute made the cultural gymnkana throughout the town. On Wednesday, apart from the domestic workshops, a visit to the archaeological museum of Doña Mencía was organized, later they received an educational talk by art of the Civil Guard about alcohol, drugs and the danger of the Internet. To finish the day with rhythm they had a Zumba workshop where they danced for hours in the afternoon there was a talk by the Civil Guard for the parents of the students with the purpose of informing them about the safety of their children. Thursday was full of varied activities, including; a trip to Córdoba, visit to the archaeological museum, domestic workshops and a didactic concert offered by students of our institute and primary education. And to end on Friday had talks with the local police, trips to the archaeological museum, a coexistence of sixth grade students with primary students of our institute and to end our cultural week well the entire school including teachers, went to the theater of "Lope que te parió" in the house of the culture of our town. There was no better way to end our cultural week !!

Redacted by Marta campos 4ºB

A PLEASANT DAY IN THE MOUNTAINS

Last Thursday students of the second level of secondary school went to excursion. We went to the countryside. The art teacher, Manuel Cubero, and the physical education teacher, Javier, came with us.

The bus took us to the place where the road started. We left the secondary school at half past eight and we arrived at nine o’clock in the morning. Then we started to walk. We were walking for several hours. Later we climbed a mountain and we saw “Las chorreras”. It is a waterfall. It’s very beautiful scenery. There we ate a sandwich and we took some photos of the scenery. After that we started to walk again, but now the road was worse than before, so we walked more slowly. There was a lot of mud and some people fell. Their clothes were full of mud.

After two hours we arrived to Bailon River. We had to cross the river six times. This stretch was the funniest. Some people were afraid to cross the river because they thought that they were going to fall because some rocks were moving. Some of them got their shoes wet. A boy slipped and he almost fell into the river but another student hold him.

At the end when remained five minutes to get to the bus a girl fell and she hurt her knee. Finally everyone got to the bus. We were very tired.

In my opinion that trip was very adventurous because we crossed the river and climbed the mountain and very funny because some people fell. I would go there again with my friends.

By: Patricia Barba Bonilla, 2ºB.

Our School celebrates St. Valentine's Day

 

On 3^rd February , the students of Year 4 distributed St. Valentine's Day signs, to start selling them for their end-of-year trip.

We have sold:

• “I love you” small lollipops: £1,50
• “I love you” big lollipops: £2,00
• Rose-shaped lollipops: £1

On February 13 the students delivered all the lollipops.

We hope this year we will collect quite a lot of money so the money we have raised will be one more aid for the end-of-course trip.

Thanks for your cooperation.

By Andrea Ayllón,  4ºB

Our school celebrates Andalusia's Day

February 28, the Andalusia's day, is the day celebrated by all Andalusians and as a custom everyone recreates typical and popular things of andalucia.

In our center we celebrate the Andalusia,s day with varied activities and some of them we share with other centers of our town.For example, the primary and infant education center "Los Alcalá Galiano" accompanied us during various performances during the day. One of the main customs of our day is the miller's breakfast, it is basically a muffin with olive oil and chocolate. Students from all our center made presentations about information about our day and their past, there was also a poster contest on the day of Andalusia. They were all great !!!. Later we all went to the gym to enjoy the rest of the actuations . We were very nervous because we knew that behind these performances there were hours and days of rehearsals by everyone and we all wanted everyone to enjoy our performances and receive our deserved applause.

The first three performances were from acrosport. The first performance was by third-year students, they were divided into three groups and each of them carried a specific theme. the first group comprised only of boys and was the "boss". in my opinion they was the most fun because their dance was very strange and really with their performance they made it known that they were the boss.

The second performance was only girls, her theme was "the warriors". I think it was the most prepared performance because they had a very complicated dance since was a large number of girls.

Third performance was mixed and its theme was sport. In my opinion they were the ones that I liked least since their dance was simple and the figures also, but anyway we enjoyed all those fantastic performances. Later the Cantalenguas students performed, they sang three songs, one of them in French, another in Italian and another in English. We all could enjoy their voices and some even accompany them. At the end of this performance the elementary and sixth elementary school students came to visit us to see our performances and to play the Andalusian hymn with instruments. They also made the effort to rehearse so that we could enjoy the song like them from our performances.

Finally, third-class students danced sevillanas, taking our rhythm and our desire to accompany them applauding.In addition, they later joined to dance with them, two of our teachers. It was a great day and very fun.

There was no better way to celebrate it than all together!

By Marta Campos, 4ºB

YEAR 3 STUDENTS VISITED CÓRDOBA IN FEBRUARY

Last month, the students of 3rd level went to Córdoba.

First of all, the students visited the patio of the orange trees where they had breakfast and later, they went to Mezquita. There, they explained to the students the story about this cathedral. In addition, they was taken a group photo.

To get to Mezquita, they visited the old town while the teacher was explaining the history of this, and also they went to faculty of letters.

Then,they went to see a play in English that dealt with the mysteries of a hotel.
Upon arriving at the theater, the students could participate as actors although none of the students of the center participated. The theater was easy to understand and very fun.
To end the day, teachers and students went to the shopping center "El Arcángel", where many had lunch and enjoyed free time shopping.
The excursion lasted until the afternoon and at the end of their time, the students went to the meeting place where they would make the last group photo to remember this incredible excursion.






I enjoyed this trip a lot last year, in my opinion, it is a trip that should be planned every year.
María Poyato Blanco, 4ºB

Top 5 Historical Videogames

Today, I´m going to talk about my Top 5 Historical Videogames.

These days it´s really easy to find lots of Historical Videogames but just some of them are worth being in my Top 5.

I´m not going to make you wait more time.

Let´s start the Top:

Top 5: 

Civilization VI-> is a Turn-Based strategy game in which you have to build cities and you have to make your civilization prosper, like Spain, Germany, USA, Russia…  

    You have to discover others civilizations, set alliances with them or destroy them.       

You have to harvest lots of resources (for example: iron to military units, corn to population, jade and gold to economy).

You start in the Prehistory and finished at Mars.

I´m going to give it a 3.5/5 star rating.

Top 4: 

Hearts of Iron IV-> is a Real-Time strategy game. It´s based on World War II, in which you have to control a country and destroy the others countries.

You can make factions with others.

There is a national focus tree in which you can choose the things that you can do.

Too there is a investigation tree in which you can investigate; tanks, planes, artillery, nukes, militaries tactics…

You can start at 1936 and 1939.

I´m going to give it a 4/5 star rating.

Top 3: 

Age of Empires II-> is a Real-Time strategy game. It´s based on in the Middle-Age after the fall of The Roman Empire. Fundamentally, you have to make your civilization prosper and destroy the others.

You have to harvest resources(gold, stone and wood)

You have to build buildings like trader markets, headquartes to train troopers and castles to the defense.

You can be 13 civilizations like England and France.

I´m going to give it a 4/5 star rating.

Top 2: 

Europa Universalis IV-> is a Real-Time strategy game. It´s between 1444 after the Battle of Varna and 1821. The only thing that you have to do is SURVIVE.

You can set alliances and you can agree royales marriages.

Every times that you play are differents for example if you are England and you don´t want to be friend of Portugal, they could be annex by Castilla.

The part when you have to gain some money it´s very difficult because you depend on the commerce and the taxation.

You have to keep calm the clergy, the nobility and the peasants, because they can discourage your country and some kingdoms can exploit it.

 I´m going to give it a 4.5/5 star rating.

Top 1: 

Total War Saga -> is a group of Real-Time strategy games in which you control one side of two, and you have to move your troops depend on the weather or place, to win the battle.

There are lots of types of Total War Games like “Shogun” in Japan and Medieval Total War in Europe at the Middle Age

I´m going to give it a 4.5/5 star rating.