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