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Hello everyone,
Some Students are very musical and everybody knows the positive effects of music and how it contributes to develop different skills.
It also introduces students to other cultures and cultivates social skills.

This is a funny song called "I am a little snowman". Let's sing along





This is also a wonderful song.

Hello everyone,
I wish you all Merry Christmas filled with love, peace, prosperity and joy.
Was Santa good to you? I hope so.
Have a great day and enjoy it with your love ones.
Let's sing "White Christmas" by Bing Crosby. This version is the world's best-selling single according to the Guinness Book.




Let's revise the lyrics.



And you can also complete this gap fill writing activity.

Hello everyone, Our school held the annual Christmas singing festival yesterday and we had a Doors Open Day for the families to enjoy these ingenious and funny Christmas carols.

Year 3 O Christmas Tree



Year 4 Santa Claus is coming to town



Year 4 The Santa Claus rock

Hello everyone,
Year 3  sing O Christmas tree with this beautiful choreography.
We are still rehearsing it but we will learn it soon.
Song: Oxford University Press
Book: Cool Kids 3
Listen to the song here.




Practise this choreography.

Hello everyone,
Year 4 have been rehearsing the song "Santa Claus is coming to town". Here is a glimpse of the choreography we have been practising these days.

Year 4 A

Hello everyone,
We have sent our Christmas cards to our English pen pals and they have done the same.
Most of them have been designed using different digital tools except Daniela's one.
The European Digital Competence Framework For Citizens includes five areas:
The third one is "DIGITAL CONTENT CREATION".

We have also dealt with Copyright and Creative Common licenses.
We must congratulate them for their good job.
Here is a glimpse of them. We wish all of you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Year 5 A by Mariela M.

Year 5 B by Jonás G.

















Year 6 A by Daniela B. 



















Year 6 A Sonia G. This is a chalk drawing on paper.




















Year 6 B by Adrián A. 

















As everybody knows the digital competence is one of the seven competences which must be developed (education law LOMCE) and it is also one of the 21st century competencies.

Hello everyone,
Do you know this song? It's an old Christmas song. It's very popular.
It's called "Santa Claus is coming to town".



Let's write this message for our pen pals on our Christmas cards:
" Os deseamos feliz Navidad y próspero Año Nuevo".

Hello everyone,
Do you know this nice man?

Let's dance this funny song for Santa




Let's practise the choreography

Hello everyone,
Let's practise the digraph SH. Are you ready? Let's watch this video.





Now let's practise letter S.

Hi everyone,
We are working letters G and J and what they sound like.
Let's watch these videos for practising.

Letter G. Phonics rules for letter G.



And now are you able to say this correctly?
Grass the groundhog gathered goodies from Gay's garden.

Letter J. Phonics rules for letter J.



Let's practise the tongue twister.
Jane and Jenny in their blue jackets are watching the jaguar in the cage.
Jack and Jill jump down the jagged hill.

Material for working phonics (pay for becoming a member).

Hello everybody,
Today is 25th November. International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
We have made this Word Art for saying "STOP VIOLENCE against women".
Click here to see the animated picture.

"“Not until the half of our population represented by women and girls can live free from fear, violence and everyday insecurity, can we truly say we live in a fair and equal world." — UN Secretary-General António Guterres

This video shows us the importance of foster care programmes.
 

Hello everyone,
Do you know Word Art? It's an important tool which helps students improve and develop their vocabulary. It's important to help students take responsibility for their learning and encourage them to write as many words as they can.

We have used this online visual tool called "Word Art" to create fantastic word clouds after talking about violence against women and listening the amazing song by @RozalenMusic "La puerta violeta". She was near our village, Petrer, last week & she visited a school where a woman was assassinated.

This is Rozalen's clip although we have listened to a different one.

Hi everyone,
These are our routines.

Hello everyone,
People usually say that "travel broadens the mind". Do you like travelling?
Think about the places you have been. What is your favourite one? Why?

This report published by the province newspaper Diario Información covers our school trip.
Year 5 students visited MARQ museum and Santa Bárbara castle in Alicante last week.




Let's sing along "The wheels on the bus".

Hello everyone,
Let's dance the Hokey Pokey

Hello everybody,
We are going to celebrate the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women next week.
The goal of the day is to raise awareness of violence against women.
Students love this song called "La puerta violeta" by Rozalen also signed by  CFGS Integración Social del IES Ben Gabirol. We hope you like it.

Hello everyone,
We love painting these pieces of macro-schematich art at  MARQ Museum in Alicante (@marqalicante)  because they represent "El orante". This wonderful drawing is in Plà de Petrarcos (in the North of Alicante province) and it is one of the most important sanctuaries of rupestre art in Europe.

This is MARQ museum in Alicante, Spain.

Art Rupestre Exhibition


Rupestre macro-schematich art.





















Year 5 A&B students painting "El orante" at MARQ museum workshop.

Hello everyone,
Students love these versions of the song "All you need is love".



This version was recorded in 156 countires in 2009.

Hello everyone,
Some students are wearing beautiful T-shirts which send us wonderful LOVE messages.
Luna's T-shirt has got this fantastic message. Can you read it out?

Angela's T-shirt also has got a beautiful love message.



























Can you think about other creative ways of  tell people "I Love you"? I am sure you find different ways. Music is a beautiful way because it usually touches our soul and it can depict emotions which no words can, and become engraved in our memory. Close your eyes and think about a song which brings you good memories.

Enjoy these love songs.



Complete the gaps for the song All you need is love.


This is another love song by The Beatles.



Complete the gaps for the song All my loving

Hello everyone,
Daniela, year 6 student, has recommended us to watch this fantastic video called "The present".
It is a tear-jerking film that tells the story of a boy who hates his dog.



Why do you think they boy ignores the puppy?


Daniela also loves this short film called "Feast".


Do you usually eat junk food? How often? Do you think it's good for your health?

These animated short films are heartwarming. Thanks Daniela for sharing them with us.

Hello everyone,
What do you want to be for Halloween?

Hello everyone,
Do you usually talk to strangers on social networks?

Let's watch this video and think.

Hello everyone;
Are you ready for Halloween?
This is a big pumpkin. It's round and fat.

This is a scary Jack-o-lantern















Let's learn the song Pumpkin, pumpkin. this evil witch.





Now can you imitate a wicked witch voice?




Or a weird monster?






















Let's play this kahoot game: Halloween.

Hello everyone,
These film is about a group of birds which have got poor social skills.

For the birds.




The Olive branch.


Bridge

Hello everyone,
Some students are wearing these T.shirts. They show us how to say goodbye in English.

Picture: Flickr

Hello everyone,
On the October 11th International Day of Girl Child is celebrated with theme: "With her: a skilled girl force".

Picture: https://www.tweet247.net/united%20states/girlforce



Students have watched this video and discuss about the future of education.


Watch this powerful video to mark International Day of Girl Child.

Learn more facts about  International Day of Girl Child.

Hello everyone,
This performance is for celebrating the 9 October, Day of Valencian Community, in Sant Joan d'Alacant, Alicante.
The band od "Dolçaines i tabalets" joined the band of metal instruments of Sociedad Musical La Paz.

They played some wonderful songs.

Hello everyone,
October 9 is also the Day of Saint Dionysius.
Did you know that  Dionysius is the patron saint of lovers in Valencian Community?
There is a custom called "mocaorà" of giving sweets wrapped in a silken scarf on this day.
Valencian men give marzipan sweets to their sweethearts.

Picture: www.lovevalencia.com


This local festival is celebrated in Pal street in El Campello, Alicante, every year.
The cultural  assocciation Salpassa decorated this ancient street with these beautiful clouds and drops.


























There are also popular dances in which people wear traditional costumes. They are old and beautiful.


They finally danced this Italian dance called "La tarantel·la".

Hello everyone,
Today is 9th October, Day of Valencian Community and it's a public holiday.
What type of celebrations have we got? What do people do?
There are different celebrations this day: fireworks, concerts, poetry reading, parades, communal meals, traditional dances, ...

The "dolçaina" and "tabalet" are present in all the traditional celebrations.
This band (colla) are called Sargantana and they belong to the Musical Association La Paz, in Sant Joan d'Alacant, Alicante, Spain.
They are in Sant Joan Town Hall playing for Valencian Community celebrations.




Fiesta and local authorities representative participate in this parade (cercavila) around the village.
Some people wear traditional costumes.

Hello everyone,
Valencian Community Day is celebrated annually and it is a public holiday in Valencian Community, Spain.

Picture: Wikimedia.


This celebration commemorates the capture of Valencia from Moorish forces in 1238 by King James I of Aragon. He took possession of the City on October 9. He was called "the conqueror".

Jaume I "the conqueror".


























Picture: Wikipedia

Did you know that this celebration started in 1331 and it was banned by Felipe V in 1707 after the abolition of the regional code of law known as "Furs valencians"



























Picture: Portrait of Felipe V hung upside down in Xàtiva, Valencia.
This painting is a symbol of the Xàtiva because this king ordered the city to be burnt and razed to the ground three times during the War of Spanish Succession (1701-1714).

Hello everyone,
We want to wish Happy Teacher's Day to all the fantastic teachers I know who do a fantastic job every day. They encourage young boys and girls every single day.

Read this message:

Picture: Flickr

Do you know Malala Yousafzai? This is her message. What do you think?

















Picture: Flickr

Do you want to thank a teacher? Let's take part.



This beautiful girl sings this "Thank you" wonderful song for Teacher's Day.

Hello everyone,
Our work has been published by the province newspaper Diario Información in its school suppliment LA TIZA. Can you see Year 4 A and Year 4 B classes? Have you got brothers, sisters, cousins or friends here?
How many languages do you speak? How many languages can your family speak?
What is your favourite country? And your favourite monuments?

Hello everyone,
This activity is in order to commemorate the European Day of Languages.
Click here if you want to vote for our activity. Thanks for doing it.

This is our school.
We also want to promote the rich linguistic and cultural diversity, to encourage lifelong language learning in and out of the school and to increase plurilingualism and intercultural understanding















European Day of Languages takes place across Europe  on the 26th of September every year.




















































Add music to our spotify  and our youtube playlist for commemorating this day.
Spotify
Youtube.

Hello everyone,
Today we have been counting until ten with P5 nursery students.
We celebrate European Day of Languages in our school September 26th every year.
Let's learn how to count until ten in these languages: English, Spanish, French and Japanese.





Now let's learn how to say "Hello":

Hello everyone,
Here you can see some of the great cards Year 4 students have done for their pen pals.
We have learnt a lot of things we did not know about different countries.

Erika has investigated about her mum's country, Bolivia.
Did you know that they speak Spanish, Aymara, Quechua, Chiquitano, Tupi Guaraní...
All of them are important for people who speak them.




Rosabel has done "The Netherlands". Did you know that they speak Dutch, Papiamento, English, Frisian.