Etwinning video: Welcome to my school

This school year, our second year students from the bilingual section are taking part in an eTwinning project called "Welcome to my School".The aim of this video project is to present schools across various European countries. The students will speak in English and present their school and their school life. As part of the first stage of the project students have to make a video to present their school to the other countries participating in it (France, Italy, Turkey, Greece, Poland, Estonia and Spain). Here you can see the video our students made. I hope you'll like it!

Welcometomyschool from Jose Alberto Fernández on Vimeo.

If you want to watch the plays you can do it by clicking on the videos. 4º ESO
china doll por jos-fer 2º A
magic potion bacfires por jos-fer
Esmeralda por jos-fer

Halloween at IES Virgen de Covadonga

Hello, everybody! As you know,Halloween is over! As it was explained in the previous post we organized some activities during this week, in this video we have a summary of all of them. We hope you'll like it.
Halloween at IES Virgen de Covadonga por jos-fer

HALLOWEEN 2015

It's almost Halloween time, and we are getting ready for the spookiest day at the school!

This year we are hosting a Halloween Door Decorating Contest.
Classroom doors should be decorated by Friday 23rd October and will be judged by teachers and staff through a voting that will decide on the best ideas.

 On Friday 30th,  we will have workshops with Halloween crafts, games and stories and a Halloween performance with dance and theatre by the students in the 2nd and 4th year.

But first, what do you know about the origin of this celebration? Watch this interesting video  and find out...

Happy Halloween to everyone, enjoy and learn English!!

WELCOME TO OUR BILINGUAL PROGRAMME.

Last school year there were just seven first-year students in our bilingual section, this year we have thirteen new second-year students, some of them coming from a different school. Therefore, our old students were curious about the new ones, that is why they decided to ask them some questions about their lives and the reasons why they enrolled in the program.
Here you have a video showing their skills as journalists, I hope you'll enjoy it.

 
Welcoming new classmates from Jose Alberto Fernández on Vimeo.

DANCING THE WORLD, THE MOVIE!

Here it is at last!

We are very glad to present the film Dancing the world, which is the result of the project we have carried out throughout the year together with our mates in the Bilingual team from Mieres. 

As you may know, in the film a group of friends travel through time in a journey whose goal is to explore part of the history of dance around the world. The students from Mieres are the travellers, while our students act out the people at the different countries and perform all the dance shows in the film.

Leaving aside some technical difficulties related to the fact that all the work was recorded with a mobile phone, we are proud of our students' work, of their enthusiasm and lack of prejudice. We worked as a team, with our minds and bodies, we grew up and learnt a lot together, and we had good fun.

With our thanks to the Compañía Nacional de Danza, and to the pupils' families for their support in this experience. We hope you enjoy it.

FIRST ANGLO AMERICAN DAY at our school

On 20th May we celebrated Anglo-American Day in our High School.

Our American language assistant Verónica, and British Sonia Taylor, assistant at IES Sánchez Lastra, were the protagonists and true souls of this special day, full of activities that gave the students the opportunity to compare British and American language and culture.  

After a Welcome Talk, we shared a hilarious masterclass in which the assistants brushed up on our knowledge of geography, history, food, sports, festivals and much more ... with a small competition at the end :-)

Then, we moved on to the different workshops where students could explore British/American maps, deconstruct stereotypes, learn vocabulary differences in meaning and spelling, compare accents and  enjoy a small exhibition of realia from the USA and the UK. 

After that, it was the time for music: Sonia and Vero taught the students from different groups how to dance a choreography for an American and a British song. They which later performed in front of their mates, making everybody laugh and have a good time.

And last but not least... we had a potluck party where we could taste the delicious American and British dishes that our students and their families had cooked, following the recipes given by their English teachers. Thank you all for your collaboration, everything was so tasty!

 All in all, a great day to remember. 

Have a look at the photographs, what's your favorite moment?





Anglo American Day 1 on PhotoPeach
Anglo American Day - Workshop 2 on PhotoPeach Anglo American Day 3 on PhotoPeach