DAY TRIP TO MADRID

On November 28^th, 4^th year ESO students (Class 4A, 4B and 4C) went on a day trip to Madrid to visit ‘El Prado’ Museum. This excursion was planned both by the CLIL Social Sciences teacher David and the Spanish language teacher Clara. The visit was successfully completed and the students learned a great deal from it!

The 4^th year CLIL student Alba González was responsible for taking notes and pictures of everything they did. She subsequently submitted a description of the event to the teacher and details of the trip can be found below.

We started the trip on Friday 28^th at 6 a.m. Before arriving in Madrid we stopped in our way so that we could have breakfast.  

We finally arrived in Madrid and went to ‘El Prado’ museum. First, we saw the surrounding area of the museum and after having a look at the magnificent building we went in. We stayed in for about two and a half hours. We were glad to see different paintings made by EL Greco, Velázquez, Rubens and Goya. Then, the teachers took us to visit ‘El Madrid de los Austrias’. Unluckily, we had to see it by bus because it was raining heavily. We also went to a mall where we had free time to have lunch and go into the stores.

To sum up the trip, we all enjoyed it very much although the rain kept us from seeing some areas, monuments and buildings.

We hope to come back soon!

(Alba González, 4B)

PERFORMING SONGS IN MUSIC CLASS

Last 26^th November, Nicky, our Native English speaking teacher, visited us at the music classroom.  We performed some pieces of our repertoire with him. We sang the British hymn " Swing Low". Nicky told us that the song was normally sung by the audience at football matches, although it is a very religious and spiritual piece.

We also performed the beautiful hit "I Believe I Can Fly" by R. Kelly. Nicky explained the meaning of the difficult words and helped us with the pronunciation.

You can listen to us on this link:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEqUwAdjBHw&feature=youtu.be

We want to thank Nicky for coming and helping us.

SCHOOL TRIP TO GRANADA AND CÓRDOBA

On 17^th and 18^th November, 2^nd year ESO students went on a school trip to Granada and Córdoba. They visited two amazing monuments: ‘La Alhambra’ and ‘La Mezquita de Córdoba’. Nevertheless, 2^nd year CLIL students were asked to prepare a project in English explaining the trip as part of the volunteer work. They really enjoyed it!

As this was not an activity organised by the CLIL Department and it was not only aimed at CLIL students, what follows is a review of the trip written in Spanish by the Social Sciences teacher Martín García Gómez.

Los días 17 y 18 de noviembre los alumnos de 2º de ESO del Centro de Enseñanza Samaniego, realizaron una visita a las ciudades de Granada y Córdoba, donde pudieron contemplar dos de las maravillas históricas y monumentales que tenemos en nuestro país, La Alhambra  y La Mezquita, también en el primer día de viaje tuvieron la oportunidad, tras la visita a los Palacios Nazaríes, el Palacio de Carlos V y el Generalife, de contemplar la Capilla Real donde se encuentran enterrados los restos de los Reyes Católicos, completamos la visita a Granada con un paseo por el famoso y mágico barrio del Albaycín desde donde pudimos  observar las maravillosas vistas que se contemplan desde el romántico Mirador de San Nicolás, y desde  donde los alumnos hicieron buena gala de sus cámaras fotográficas, a continuación y tras este completo y entretenido día, nos retiramos al hotel con la intención de descansar, cosa que finalmente se consiguió, aunque eso sí, unos más que otros.

Al día siguiente, y con alguna que otra cara de cansancio (inexplicable tras irnos a la cama a las 11)  después de reponer fuerzas con un buen desayuno, nos dispusimos a emprender la marcha hacia la ciudad de Córdoba, con la intención de visitar la Mezquita-Catedral, tras dos horas de tranquilo viaje y tras cruzar el Guadalquivir por su puente romano, realizamos la visita al imponente monumento que dejó fascinados a los alumnos y alumnas por las enormes  dimensiones y por la preciosidad de esta maravilla arquitectónica de la que podemos disfrutar en nuestro país, junto con las explicaciones de su profesor de Historia, los alumnos pudieron contemplar el Patio de los Naranjos, el impresionante bosque de columnas que forman la Mezquita o el imponente mihrab, así como la catedral construida por los cristianos en el centro de la misma. Tras la visita, tuvieron la oportunidad  de pasear por la calles del barrio de la judería y poder entrar en algunos de los famosos patios cordobeses que encontramos en nuestro camino. Después de este intenso y completo recorrido, y no sin antes dejar nuestro sello y “asaltar” una hamburguesería cercana al monumento, nos dispusimos a emprender nuestro camino de vuelta hacia nuestro lugar de origen, tras cinco horas de viaje donde el cansancio no pudo con nuestros enérgicos viajeros, conseguimos llegar a Alcantarilla. Siendo conscientes de que en este viaje habíamos tenido la oportunidad de visitar, dos ciudades, dos maravillas, que son patrimonio de la humanidad y que no podemos dejar de admirar. (Martín García Gómez)

 

CELEBRATING THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PHILOSOPHY IN THE CLASS OF ETHICS

The 20th of November was the Day of Philosophy, according to the UNESCO calendar. We wanted to celebrate it properly in our school, and did so having a special activity with 4th year of ESO in its Bilingual modality (CLIL). The pupils were split into two groups that started working by themselves in turns of half an hour. One of them reflected about what makes something or somebody deserve being an ethical subject (that is, is there anything apart from human beings to be taken into account if we want to be good people?). Meanwhile, the other group was debating the moral issue of whether animals should be treated (almost) like people through a prickly case: eating meat. We love our cats, dogs, even our parakeets. Then, do we have a moral justification to eat rabbits, pigs or chickens, even if they are really similar to our pets?  If so, why?

We all have so much to thank to Nicky, the English teacher and assistant, who played the role of Devil’s Advocate willingly, helping Paco, the Ethics teacher, make the pupils understand how deep any kind of daily situation can take us from an ethical point of view.