After an intense school year...

We'd like to share some of the hard work we did during our 2016 school year.

SHAKESPEARE LIVES
As part of this project, Years 7A and 7B read Hamlet and Macbeth. Then they worked on a book trailer: they wrote, acted and even sang for this production. Here's the result (Well done!):

(Click on the link below)                                                                  

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByddNuEi6zfWa1JhTm0wX3k4a0U/view

MUSIC PROJECT
Year 7 worked with Ms Mary Craig, our language assistant on this timeline (click on dates to read the contributions):

http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/1352141

YEAR 5: OLYMPIC GAMES AND MORE...

In Year 5 we researched and talked about a swimmer in the Olympics Refugee Team: Yusra Mardini. She swam to save many people on a boat in the Aegean sea while escaping from the Syrian war. Kids wrote descriptions of her and Malala Yousafzai. Here's part of what Sol and Iara wrote. Congrats!

She´s Yusra Mardini .

She´s 17 years old .

She´s a swimmer.

She´s from Syria.

She has got black hair.

She has got black eyes.

Her name is Malala Yousafzai.

She's 19 years old 
She's Pakistani.

She's activist for female education
She has got a small mouth
She has got black hair
She has got a small nose
She has got black eyes

Have a brilliant 2016!

We're back in the classrooms with many exciting projects for this year!

 Our Lending Library is growing step by step. We're all invited to borrow, lend, read and recommend books in English (book trailers coming soon!). Also, we are going to read Macbeth and Hamlet by William Shakespeare in Year 7 and make some research about The Bard in the 400th anniversary of his death.

Music will be very present in our classes and we will study songs, bands and their historical background in our "History of Modern Music" project.

Year 5 is going to read Jules Verne's "Around the World in Eighty Days" and work on a Geography Project together  with children in other countries.

And everybody at our school will be solving Maths puzzles as part of this year's institutional school project. 

Best wishes  for a wonderful year!!

Happy holidays!

The school year is over... 2015 has been an intense year, with lots of shared work and new experiences. Before the well-deserved holidays, let's share some end-of-year news...

Year 7 says goodbye and "We'll miss you, Misio!". Click on this link to see all of Year 7B messages: http://es.padlet.com/lauragiancarlo/feixqtap55mc

Our last school week: Y7 visits Anna Frank's house and Y5 plays MysterySkype

On the last Monday of the school year we had many exciting activities. Year 5B played MysterySkype with a school in Przemysl, Poland. A difficult town to guess... but they finally got there! Also Year 5A had a big challenge in MysterySkype.. their partners' town was...Llandudno, in Wales (UK).. and they also got there! Congrats to both Year 5's!!!! 

Below you can read part of the transcripts of the game (we couldn't actually use Skype so we played through a chat room). A big thank you to the teachers and students in both partner schools: http://zszoi.edu.pl/ and http://www.sansior.co.uk/

Year 5A celebrating they found their partners' town: Llandudno, in Wales (UK) 

Year 7 visited Anne Frank's house in Buenos Aires. They had read part of The Diary on Anne Frank in Portuguese (7A&B) and in English (7B). We were shown pictures and objects and we were told about Anna's life and family and especially about the historical background of the holocaust. We all learned a lot in the visit.. A strong, moving experience...

 Germany and Holland in Hitler's times 

The bookcase: entrance to the Secret Annex  

Inside the Secret Annex

Amsterdam through the window.

 Anna's room Anna's desk

A bit of poetry

Year 6B read two poems by British Jamaican writer Benjamin Zephaniah: "A Day in the Life of Danny the Cat" and "Danny lives on". Students talked about their pets' habits and some of them created a poster about them. We talked about the the harm fireworks cause to animals (and to people, especially children) every end of year. Click here to see the poster: http://es.padlet.com/lauragiancarlo/2i4xv4lf0sl0

Benjamin Zephaniah, A Day in the Life of Danny the Cat 

Danny wakes up 
Eats 
Finds a private place in the garden, 
He returns 
Plays with the plants 
And sleeps. 

Danny wakes up 
Eats 
Inspects the garden 
Finds a cosy place 
And sleeps. 

Danny wakes up 
Comes indoors 
Inspects the carpet 
Scratches himself 
And sleeps. 

Danny wakes up 
Goes in the garden 
Over the fence 
Has a fight with Ginger 
Makes a date with Sandy 
Climbs on to next door's shed 
And sleeps. 

Danny wakes up 
Comes indoors 
Rubs up the chair leg 
Rubs up a human leg 
Sharpens his claws 
On a human leg 
Eats 
And sleeps. 

Danny wakes up 
Eats 
Watches a nature programme 
Finds a private place in the garden, 
Finds Sandy in next door's garden 
Next door's dog finds Danny 
Sandy runs north 
Danny runs home 
Eats an sleeps. 

December is here...

Year 5 A & B worked on comic strips together with their Spanish teacher. They showed their work in an open-class with their parents.In English, they chose a character and wrote a short profile about them. Here's the link: http://es.padlet.com/lauragiancarlo/dg8v5kc4bkmp They also read a comic strip about The Super Six. They analysed the dangers each Super Hero fought against to protect children. 

Year 6B analyzed values in Robin Hood characters, both in Portuguese and English. Some values they  found are: being brave, solidary, humble, hard-working, wise, ethical... Then, they created a poster about "Role Models of Argentinian values" and shared it with their partners in India who in turn sent a similar poster about India. Have a look: http://es.padlet.com/lauragiancarlo/jh9atu8iktyq

They also made posters about routines. One about daily routines and one about weekend routines. For  both they discussed the influence of immigration in our lives, following the wonderful project they had worked on with their Social Studies teacher. Click on: http://padlet.com/lauragiancarlo/exprao6zlhgk 

Fresh news

Anti-bullying campaign

Year 7B worked on a story about bullying on their English course book. They had an interesting discussion about the topic. A group of them also prepared activities for an "Anti-bullying Campaign" with children at Year 1. They showed them the story "Howard Wigglebottom learns about bullies", led a reflection on it and gave them a written activity in English, Portuguese and Spanish. Here's a link to the story and some photographs of the activities...

https://youtu.be/QfYdShEdUTA

 Click here for more excellent stories for children: https://wedolisten.org/media/

CLE exams

Students at our school have been sitting for the Portuguese CLE exams for many years with excellent results. This year, for the first time, seventeen students from Years 6 and 7 also sat for the English CLE CIPI exam with excellent results too!! Congratulations!!!

Book Club

Year 6 and Year 7 are working on literary texts both in Portuguese and English. Year 6 is working on Robin Hood. Year 7 is working on The Diary of Anna Frank.

Mystery Skype
In this game, two classes have a conference call and have to guess each other's location through yes/no questions. Year 7B and 6B have already played and learned a lot with this experience. Here's  a video -starred, recorded and edited by Year 7B students- and some photographs:

Year 7B playing with students from Johnson High School in San Antonio, Texas, US (School website: http://www.neisd.net/johnson/ )

Click here for the video:
https://www.wevideo.com/hub#media/ci/502840476












Year 6B playing with students from International School, Gdansk, Poland (School website: http://www.isg.gfo.pl )

 

Our School videos

Years 6A and 6B made a video tour of our school to send to their partners abroad. Click to see Year 6B's:

Year 6B shows half the school with Julián M (Year 7B) at the camera

Video-call with our partners in India

Following our projects with Bharti Public School in Delhi (India),

Year 6B had their first video-call with their partners there last Wednesday August 5th.

Click here to read some post-call comments by our students: http://es.padlet.com/lauragiancarlo/5sporxsr91oq

 
This is what Rishika (one of our Indian partners) wrote about their experience speaking with us on skype:











 More to come as we are working on a project about our everyday life in Argentina and in India.


ANIMAL LIFE
Year 5 has been doing some research on interesting animals. Here is Martina and Juan's work. Good job!! :-) 

Name: 

The Red Panda

Type of animal: 

It is a mammal and carnivore animal.

Habitat: 

The red panda is form Eastern Himalayas and South-western China.

Likes: 

It likes eating bamboo and it likes grubs from trees.

Characteristics: 

It's got red hair and short feet. It is a nocturnal animal.

Name:The Komodo Dragon

Type of animal: it´s a wild animal. It is an alligator. It´s big (three metres and 70 kilos). It´s green and brown

Habitat:tropical forest

Likes: eating carrion and animals.

A theatre company in our school!

On July 13th, H&H theatre company came to our school to perform the play "Invasiones live".  In our English lessons we had been preparing the event with some research about the history of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata in 1806 and 1807. Students in Year 6 and 7 solved a quiz afterwards and -apart from practicing the Simple Past tense and some new vocabulary- they analyzed and discussed some issues such as colonialism and slavery (in the past and now), free commerce, different points of view on historical events, the strategy of ridiculing your opponent, etc... 

 We had a lot of fun during the play. The actors were fantastic!

Quiz: Who are they? (by Year 7)

Students at Year 7 have been working of descriptions of people. Some of them created this quiz where you have to match the descriptions with a picture. Can you solve it? (Click on the link below)

http://es.padlet.com/lauragiancarlo/48yci4yqsrrt

More guests from the UK!

Ms Jane Massy came to visit us on May 27th. She is from the UK. The kids in Year 6 "A" and "B" talked with her about our intercultural projects in “Connecting Classrooms”. They had a nice time answering her questions and showing her some of their work. 

A fantastic start for this school year!

2015 school year has started with lots of exciting news!

In February we welcomed Ms Analía Figliola, our new English teacher! And we have already shared so many magical moments in only a couple of months! Thanks a lot and we look forward to a fantastic time together!

As part of the Connecting Classrooms Programme, we had mutual teacher-visits with our partner school in Norwich (St Augustine's Catholic Primary School) in February and March. Ms Laura Giancarlo visited Norwich in February and Mr Philip Dodson came to Buenos Aires in March. Huge thanks to the British Council for granting us this wonderful learning opportunity! It has been an amazing experience for our schools communities and we are eager to share all we have learned!

Special congratulations to Escuela 9's students and teachers who participated enthusiastically in our intercultural projects and made Mr Dodson feel so welcome! During his week visiting our school, he took part in our classes, talked to the children about Norwich and the UK and answered their questions. He was amazed at how confident they are when speaking English. Kids had done some previous research on the UK and had prepared some posters and 3D displays of famous English sites, Premier League football clubs, English music bands... and even a puppet of Mr Dodson himself! They had also been working on a song by Paul Mc Cartney "The Pipes of Peace" which they sang live and also recorded for their partners in Norwich. (They in turn sent their own recording of the song to us). Profe Sandra worked with Year 6 on some beautiful posters in Portuguese to show Mr Dodson some information about us and places in Latin America, especially our neighbouring country Brazil. La Señorita Laura worked on welcoming posters with Year 5 and participated in class talks about Norwich and the UK. La Señorita Nerina organized a "mateada" for Mr Dodson in Year 4 with all kinds of mates and a special one with the name of our school and a map of Misiones for him to take home.

Mr Dodson was able to spend a day at the Argentinian countryside and try our famous asado together with the teachers of our school, their families and our English Supervisor.. Also, we had a folk dance show by our librarían Graciela and her family. Special thanks to Ms Analìa and her family for a fantastic day!

April was an intense month too with new projects around Mafalda, celebrating her 50th anniversary, and the preparation of two new activities for this year: a theatre company visiting us and some of our older students sitting for the CLE English exams too.


Year 5 listening to Mr Dodson

More good news coming soon...

Our sweet librarian Graciela ad her husband dancing zamba.

Teachers in the countryside.

Aldana's incredible puppet!

At the airport

Students prepared models about famous places in the UK.

Mateada at Year 4

Portuguese and English with Profe Sandra and Mr Dodson

Reading letters from our friends

Letters from Norwich!!

Ms Analia F and Mr Dodson