Cursos y Becas para Aprender Inglés

Orden de 30/12/2008, de la Consejería de Educación y Ciencia, por la que se establecen actividades de formación dirigidas a mejorar la competencia del alumnado en el uso de lenguas extranjeras y las ayudas económicas para realizarlas.

Hay actividades de formación en la propia Comunidad y actividades en la Unión Europea y Canadá. Las actividades a realizar en el extranjero son para alumnos matriculados en 4º de la ESO o en Bachillerato.

Sí, parece caro pero es más barato que por otras vías. Sí reunís los requisitos, podéis solicitar una beca (ayuda).

Más información en la Delegación de la Consejería de Educación en la calle Alarcos de Ciudad Real. Es la calle que va de la Plaza del Pilar al Parque Gasset. Al entrar, a la derecha, está "Información." Os dirán con quién hablar.

Plazo: Hasta el 2 de febrero del 2009.

Pruebas PAU - Selectividad

Students of Bachillerato: You can find all the PAU tests of past years at this site:
http://www.uclm.es/acceso/asp/menu.asp?m=SEL-COO-MOD&p=c

Happy New Year! / ¡Feliz Año Nuevo!

We´re back. One of our resolutions is to use English in and out of the classroom as much as we can! Let´s do all we can to have a happy new year!

Merry Christmas / Féliz Navidad

We wish you a very Happy Christmas. We´ll be here until the morning of the 23rd and then we can all go home and not return until the 8th of January.

The Christmas cards our department has chosen to greet you with are by Maria Izquierdo García of class 3F and Myriam González Céspedes of class 3E. We picked them from among the runner-ups of the Art Department´s Christmas Card contest. You can see all the cards including the contest winners in the entrance hall of our school.

Holidays, kids!

As of June 18 you kids are on holiday! We teachers have to wait till the end of June. Enjoy yourselves, rest if you´ve done well, study a bit if you haven´t and all will go well during the September tests.

Contests / Concursos

Blarney Contest Winners:

Local Stories
- Jennifer Izquierdo and Aurelio Cano for "The Littlewell Whale." (already published in Michael
Toora´s Blog)
- Verónica Alcaide, Mónica Caro, Amanda Segura and Miriam Segura, for "The Legend of the
Jealous Man." (this will come in handy when we discuss Henry the VIIIth and others like him) - Pedro Gónzalez and Carlos Manuel Jara for "Truth or Falsehood" (perfect for religious
tolerance and fraternal wars)

Local Festivals
- Germán Martín and Francisco Campos for "The Celebration of the Judas in Miguelturra."
(serves to prove that you can´t kill what you hate. It´s there again next year.)

Best Collection of Local Photos:
- MariAngeles González.

Honorary Mentions:
- Ignacio Sánchez, Diego Arasa and Andrés López for "The Mystery of the Hanged Man"
(already edited and published in the school magazine)
- Manuel Reina for "A Widow"
- Alvaro García Punzón for "Suspicious Images"


Nuño Paéz Award:

We are beginning to think ghosts don´t exist. There was no way we could find Nuño. Even the school magazine got him wrong. The section called "El Cruzado de los Dos Maravedíes" is really "El Calatravo de los Dos Maravedíes". Somehow we got it wrong. And nobody noticed when the first issue came out. We only noticed when we saw the second issue published.

We are not the kind to be discouraged. We will keep looking. Some things are difficult to see at first.

However, since there have been sightings of ghostly knights that could have been Nuño, we´ve decided to split the prize among the people who went ghost hunting and sent us pictures of possible Nuños. They are: Ricardo Céspedes, Sofía Barba, Lorenzo López and Raúl López.

Javier García, David Fernández and Daniel Huertas have also provided us with a picture of someone who could have been Nuño, as well as with a burnt down haunted house, "The House of Cats."

We have a lot more useful material from other kids, all of which we do mean to use. Slowly, but surely. What we have done this year will be in the blog next year for us to use in class and to serve as an example to others. Thank you all for your work.

Haigas:

This was to be an exhibit for Earth Day and not a contest, but there were so many and all interesting in their own way that we decided to give three awards, though it was very difficult to choose:
To Sandra Garcia for her bird and lizard haigas.
To Lorena Carrasco for her haiga on children on sleds and her really mature way of understanding a classmate´s sense of humour.
To Elvira Infante for her speaking hands haiga.

April 21 and 22 are field days to be dedicated to cultural activities. It was suggested by some of our pupils that we raise funds to help animals. The English department has invited the local SPCA to visit our school and give a lecture on their activities. We hope everyone will contribute generously. We also hope you will all participate in the art exhibit we are organizing by contributing haiga in English and in Spanish.

On Thursday, April 24 there will be a test for students with English as a back subject. Only those who haven´t passed the second assessement of the course they are actually in must take it. It will be at fifth hour. We will meet at the door to the English department and then occupy the English classrooms. Be on time.