Theater 2017

Hacer click para ampliar

Un año más recibimos la visita de la compañía de teatro MOVING ON en nuestro pueblo. Este jueves 18 de mayo tuvimos la suerte de ver la obra "Change the Channel", representada íntegramente en inglés, y adaptada para los alumnos de 3º ESO en adelante. 

La obra ha sido dinámica, divertida e interactiva, pues son varios los alumnos que han subido al escenario a colaborar con los actores expresándose en la lengua inglesa. Así mismo, debemos hacer constar que hemos trabajado de una manera interdisciplinar la coeducación, ya que la obra abarcaba, entre otros temas, las desigualdad entre sexos en el ámbito laboral.

Podemos decir que la representación ha sido un éxito, pues así lo han manifestado nuestros alumnos, y esperamos que podamos contar con esta compañía también el próximo curso.

Company: Moving On

Audience: 12 y 18 years

Language: English

Duration: 50 minutes

Date: 18 May 2017

Carnival

Thanksgiving 2015

Treat or trick!!

Berlín 2015

SISMUN 2015

Schulfarm Insel Scharfenberg Model United Nations

Berlin, Scharfenberg

Organization Committee

The Schulfarm Insel Scharfenberg School is pleased to host the XV edition of the SISMUN Model United Nations that will take place on 7,8,9 October 2015 in Berlín (Germany) and our high school, IES Don Bosco,  has been invited to participate in this new edition. 

The topics which are going to be debated this year are:

Human Rights Council:                       How to guarantee the freedom of religion?

                                                                             

ECOSOC:                                               How to combat highly infectious diseases such as Ebola and Avian Flu?

                                                              

Security Council:                                 The situation in Yemen and its implications for international peace and security.

                                                               How to deal with the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq?

PS: Welcome to the United Nations. It's your world

English Culture Week

Let's go to the theater!!

When? Next Thursday, 19th March

Where? Puerta del Andévalo Theater, Valverde

Library Day

 School Library Day 2014 

Don't forget that October is International School Library Month, an event in which Schools and school libraries are encouraged to plan events for their students and teachers to celebrate and promote school libraries. What are you planning to do for International School Library Month?

Our Bilingual and Library coordinators met last week for their regular meeting.  As part of the meeting, we brainstormed ideas for our school and library to celebrate School Library Day on 24 October. Our preliminary ideas are below.  What can you add?  Let's keep this list of ideas going so that we have a list to use for years to come!

• Celebrate ‘new’ library
• Invite students to a guided tour around the library
• Teachers dress up as favourite book character and visit classes
• Ask older students to dress up as their favourite book characters and go to younger student classes
• Books in a gift bag
• Persuasive writing activity
• Participate in a book mark contest where you can exchange bookmarks
• Make podcasts/videos to introduce your favourite books(s) to students
• Read a book/Watch the Movie
• Host a debate from the viewpoint of a book character.
• Video podcast of an author reading or organize a skype call with an author after an all school read
• Make READ TODAY T-shirts
• Why I love my library student campaign AND parent campaign
• Coffee/Tea Club in the library for students with sessions on information literacy, web safety, new resources,  etc.
• Invite locals to read or visit the library

Now here's a GREAT IDEA for School Library DAY....in a big way...

Diary of an English Immersion Programme

Let's go to a campsite for an English Immersion Programme

 Click the picture to know about our diary 

Click the picture to know about our diary 
October 21

October 23

October 24

Language Immersion Programme in Valladolid

Language Immersion

Next Sunday, twenty-five students of 2nd year of Secondary School and two teachers are travelling by bus to "El Trasto" in  Hornillos de Eresma (Valladolid) because they are going to spend a whole  week on a language Immersion Programme. 

If you want to know more about this programme, click here. Our students and teachers are going to stay in a beautiful place and they will enjoy nature and animals. Visit this blog if you want to see some pictures.

We hope they have a lot of fun and learn English, too. 

Languages at Don Bosco

Fermi Mun 2014

"Aquarius"

We are going to the theater!!!

 Friday, 4th April

"Aquarius"

This the dawning of the Age of Aquarius”

That’s what the song says, but just what is behind this idea of a “New Age” and the approach of the fateful year 2012? With the help of some of the best songs from the 60’s and 70’s performed live, Rupert Marshall, musician, anthropologist and director of Firewalk Theatre, describes the revolutionary counter-culture philosophy of that time, offering us an alternative analysis of “la crisis”; a kind of musical lecture about what’s wrong today and why it is.

Aimed at students of English of an intermediate level and above this one-man show can be can be put on in any venue since it does not require any specialized theatrical infrastructure. 

The show lasts one hour and twenty minutes.

"Aquarius/

Let the Sunshine In" 

Today's preparatory work in the classroom.  You can download the songs used in the talk, as well as the lyrics. We are doing some exercises and activities based on them.

Today's preparatory work

"(I Can't Get no) Satisfaction" The Rolling Stones

Run for Charity

SAVE  THE  CHILDREN

This year, our high school has organised a Charity Run to celebrate the International Peace Day in Valverde. Some people (teachers, parents, relatives, students, etc) sponsored the Run which was organized by several departments to support  the NGO  Save the Children. During the last weeks, we decided to organize this big run to get donations. So everybody helped to make this event successful. 

In advance, the participants had looked for sponsors which agreed to donate money for each kilometre. 

Thank you! To all those who ran in this Charity Run.  

25th November

November 25 International Day
for the Elimination of Violence against Women

The United Nations’ (UN) International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women is an occasion for governments, international organizations and non-governmental organizations to raise public awareness of violence against women.

November 25 International Day 

for the Elimination of Violence against Women

Let's  listen to this Song and do the following activities:

1. Have you seen the video for “If I Were a Boy”? “What is Beyonce’s job in the video? What is her boyfriend’s job in the video? Where do they see each other? What do they argue about in the middle of the video?”  Beyonce is just imagining being in her boyfriend’s position.

2. Let's read and translate the lyrics into Spanish.

3. Writing: Complete the sentences “If I Were a Boy” and “If I Were a Girl”...  Obviously, boys will write “If I Were a Girl” and girls, vice versa.

4. Brainstorming: differences about boys and girls.

Visit to Minas de Riotinto

Last Thursday, 7th November, the English Department and some students went to Minas de Riotinto to visit Bellavista District. They spent a great time and learnt many things about Riotinto Mining Museum and a Victorian House.

The town of Las Minas de Riotinto has always been based around, and dependent on, the mines themselves which give it its name. Las Minas reached its peak of prosperity and importance in the late 19th/early 20th century, when the British were running the mines.

Riotinto is also famous for the local poet and writer Juan Cobos Wilkins. His bestselling novel El Corazón de la Tierra (The Heart of the Earth),  based on the story of a popular uprising at the mines in 1888, was recently made into an Anglo-Spanish film.

An English Letterbox 

Victorian House 21 

 

The House was inaugurated in 2005 and it gives you the opportunity to do a flash-back journey to the Victorian times and taste a flavour similar to the one that you can see in legendary films like Out of Africa and a Passage to India.

This semidetached house of 540 m2 presents the following disposition:

• GROUND FLOOR: Daily live area (dinning room, living room, hall, front and  back garden). Service area (kitchen, pantry, woodshed and servants bathroom).
• FIRST FLOOR: (bedrooms, office and bathroom).
• SECOND FLOOR: (servants’ room, lumber room and play room).

Apart from the main rooms, two display spaces have been installed. The first one has been set up in the office and was designed to show why and how the district was built, how many construction stages were needed to complete it and how many buildings compose the neighbourhood: dwellings, Presbyterian Chapel and the English Club). The second display room is situated in the old play room and shows through pictures the daily life of the British inhabitants during eighty one years of presence in the town (reference link.)

Nuestra Señora de la Peña Crags

A picture is worth a thousand words.....

Fermi Model United Nations

The Liceo Scientifico "Enrico Fermi" is pleased to host the XII edition of the Fermi Model United Nations that will take place on 17,18,19 April 2013 in Nuoro (Italy) and our high school, IES Don Bosco,  has been invited to participate in this new edition again. 

The topics which are going to be debated this year are:

1. ECOSOC:

Human actions are dismantling Earth's natural ecosystems, resulting in species extinctions at a much faster rate than previously predicted. Over the last two decades, strong scientific evidence has emerged showing that the loss of the world's biological diversity reduces the productivity and sustainability of natural ecosystems and decreases their ability to provide society with goods and services like food, wood, and fertile soils.

Without a full understanding od the fundamental ecological processes that link biodiversity, ecosystem and human economic sustainable growth an irreversible decline and perhaps destruction of human an animal habitat will be almost inevitable. How can the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and other international enviironmental agencies slow down or even stop this process?

The United Nations Environment Programme

2. HRC:

"Millions of women and girls around the world are assaulted, beaten, raped, mutilated or even murdered in wht constitutes appalling violations of their human rights... We must fundamentally challenge the culture of discrimination that allows violence to continue." (Secretary- General Ban Kimoon for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 25 November 2012).

What measures can the UN and the State Members adopt in order to raise public awareness and increase political commitment for preventing and ending all forms of violence against women and girls in all parts of the world?


International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 25 November

PS: Welcome to the United Nations. It's your world