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To celebrate Europe Day once again we teamed up with Geography and French to create a special exhibition about the European Union:  its countries, cultures, heritage,   languages ..... and food. This year we decided to learn more about the traditional dishes of english speaking EU countries. We had starters, appetizers, soups, meat and fish dishes, vegetables and salads, desserts  and drinks. A full meal!

Speaking a second language is a terrifying experience. Comedian and sociologist, Áine Gallagher, shares stories about the fear and absolute humiliation she experienced in her journey to become an Irish speaker.  But then she finally understood.... you don't gave to be perfect!

Visiting London with our school was a wonderful experience that we will always keep in our memories. We just had to share it with everybody. What better way than creating a giant scrap board with photos, messages, pins, maps, flags and all sorts of memorabilia..... 

Between the 1st and 6th March, 79 students and 9 teachers (divided into two groups) visited London, Cambridge and Windsor. They got the chance to visit the London Eye, Madame Tussaud's, the British Museum, Windsor Castle,  Westminster,  Tower Bridge,  the Tower of London, Camden, Covent Garden, Trafalgar Square, Downing Street,   Buckingham Palace, Regent´s Park,  the Harry Potter Platform, Chinatown,  Hard Rock Café and many other well known locations. They also watched musical plays at the  West End and went punting on river Cam. The field trip was amazing and the students  got the chance to practice their English.

Some of our students from the 7th, 8th and 9th grade  are participating in  the "Creative Writing Competition" organized by the International House.  The prizes are really nice and we are rulling for them.

Once again it's time for our reading competitions.  The truth is that most students read like  little robots, trying to get through it as quickly as possible.  But there are exceptions... Some students love to express a text and it's for them that we organize the "Reading for pleasure" contest. The students practiced really hard to read each text with their best accent and... quite expressively.  The winners are....

Love is in the air....once more. We celebrated St Valentine's Day with a Love photobooth, lots of love messages and.... hot dogs.  Yes, it doesn't have to be only about sweets and flowers.

Christmas is always very festive in our school:  delicious food, singing, dancing, hanging out with our classmates, decorations and solidarity campaigns. This year we added a little Christmas twist. We decided to make Crackers Christmas crackers are a traditional Christmas favorite in the  UK. They were first made in about 1845-1850 by a London sweet maker called Tom Smith. He had seen the French 'bon bon' sweets (almonds wrapped in pretty paper) on a visit to Paris in 1840. He came back to London and tried selling sweets like that in England and also included a small motto or riddle in with the sweet. But they didn't sell very well. Legend says that, one night, while he was sitting in front of his log fire, he became very interested by the sparks and cracks coming from the fire. Suddenly, he thought what a fun idea it would be, if his sweets and toys could be opened with a crack when their fancy wrappers were pulled in half. The Christmas Crackers that are use...

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