Merry Christmas

From La Grande Obra de Atocha in A Coruña, teachers and pupils wish you a Merry Christmas

Thanks a lot!

We would like to thank our Polish friends for welcoming us on our trip to Warsaw. It was an exciting experience for students and teachers. Our suitcases were brought full of friendship. We are looking forward to your visit in March!

THANK YOU VERY MUCH! 

What a visit!!!

 

 

Last week we hosted our friends from Spain - 22 students and 3 teachers from La Grande Obra de Atocha. It was quite an experience and great fun!
Here are some of the photos:

 

 

Happy holidays!

We have just started our holidays and we are very happy about it.
Let's now rest and relax and see you in September!

We wish you all the best.

Julia, Ania, Marta, Marta, Sandra, Krystyna, Weronika, Katarzyna, Julia, Olga, Katarzyna. Natalia, Zuzanna, Kamila, Kacper, Maciej, Adam, Filip, Mateusz, Mateusz, Filip

This is a picture of almost everybody in our group taken at the last day of school. 



CONGRATULATIONS

Congratulations on winning the 2012 Euro Cup!!!

That was an amazing match and we all kept our fingers crossed.

Dear friends

Cheer up there is little time left for you to finish school and start your holidays! Our teachers also start theirs tomorrow but most of us have been on holidays already for about two weeks. 

We are very excited for the holidays as well as for our National Football Team going to the final this weekend! We hope you will support us this coming Sunday, and if we win we'll celebrate it with you in October!

Well, we would like to wish you the best holidays ever!!!!!!!

All the best!

Lucía, Olalla, Alo, Noelia, Paula G, Soraya, Marta, Paula P, Natalia, Lois, Samantha, Wilmer, Tony, Cristina, Álvaro, Nerea, Andrea, Diego, Sandra, Dani, Erica & Jacobo.

Euro 2012

Thank you very much!!!

We are sure we will do our best and we keep our fingers crossed not only for our team

but also for yours.

Here are some T-shirts that we prepared to take part in a contest Let's win last week.

You can vote on them  until 17th of June on the webpage http://tydzienjezykow.pl/letswin.php/prace/426

Our projects (and there are more than those four) have gim44 in their name.

EUROCUP 2012

All the students and teachers taking part in the exchange would like to wish you all the best for the EUROCUP taking place in Poland and Ukraine right now. We hope both Spanish and Polish National Teams get the best of the results!

Spanish lessons

This week we had our first lesson of Spanish. All students taking part in the project were learning how to count, prononce words and say simple sentences in Spanish. A whole new experience!

Congratulations!!

We had a very good fun watching your photo presentation. This day was a very big event with lots of students taking part in it. It's fantastic!

Some of had some free time on a school trip to a small Polish town Janów Lubelski. Here are some photos.

Spanish European Day

¡Hola!, Hi!, Cześć!

We would like to share with you a very special event that took place at our school.
On the 9th of May we celebrated the European day, this year specially dedicated to Poland.
The first ones who celebrated it were the little ones, who enjoyed it very much with white and red balloons, the colours of the Polish flag.
Then, the next ones were the upper Primary and the Secondary students. The pupils involved in the exchange prepared a power-point presentation to talk about Poland to the rest of the school (geography, gastronomy...)
It was a great day for everybody, and we all enjoyed it very much!.

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HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!

Here are wishes from our students who will be part of the exchange.

Easter and spring are very joyful and happy time.
I wish you much happiness, tasty easter egg and wet Easter Monday.
Julia B.

Hi! I wish you to have a wonderful time with family at Easter, so much
delicious chockolate eggs and bunnies ;)

Olga M.

Happy easter and tasty eggs
A lot of dances and parades
Best wishes from Warsaw

Filip

Hi everybody!

We are sure the Spanish day in your school must have been great! We couldn't listen to the music you played but we could see the tapas, and they look very tasty!
Congratulations to the people involved in our day!
We are already working on the European Day in our school, this year specially dedicated to Poland. We hope our celebration will be as successful as yours!
By the way, our Easter holidays start next Monday, so we'll be in contact afterwards...

Bye for now

SPANISH DAY IN OUR SCHOOL

On Wednesday, 21st of March there was a Spanish day in our school during which students could attend many interesting presentations and participate in a contest of knowledge about Spain.

First two boys gave us some basic information about this country. Then there was a fashion show in English and Spanish in which many celebrities from both countries were played by pupils from our school.

We could also listen to two of our friends playing Spanish music and students from one class prepared some traditional Spanish snacks (tapas) and biscuits that everyone could taste.

For the contest of knowledge, which had three stages, each class had to choose two representatives who were to take part in it. In each part, the contestants got two questions and if they answered them correctly they passed to the next round. We could also watch presentations about Spanish autonomic regions and holidays prepared by students from the year one and two classes.

There was also a competition for the best presentation of a Spanish holiday and the winner was the class that presented La Tomatina.

The whole day was fantastic, interesting and very funny. We also learned a few words in
Spanish and some main information about this country. I think all the students enjoyed it very much. Congratulations and thanks to all the teachers and students who worked to prepare such an amazing day. :)

English theatre contest „My favourite fairy-tale”

March is a busy month in our school this year.

Last week, 14th March, we had a 9th edition of English theatre contest in which classes from the year one performed fairy tales in English. Some of the plays were really interesting and surprising but this year there was something special. Two groups of students prepared plays about Spanish stories.

The first one was an adaptation of a Spanish folk story “Three lazy sons” and the second one was an interesting version of adventures of the famous knight errant “Don Quixote in trouble”

Hello!

Sorry to keep you waiting but we tried to post the comments under your questions. We like your answers but here are two propositions:

The answers are very good. I think that the only wrong answer is that the
colours of the Polish flag are red and white. You wrote wrong order. Our flag is
white and red.
Weronika

Hi, my name is Olga.
Thank you for your work.
I think that the most of your answers are good but I don't agree that Isaak Basheris Singer is Polish. He was born in Poland but he is Jewish. Other answers are correct.
I think that's all, We are waiting to meet you.
Bye

 

Hi guys!

We have been reading your answers about Spain in the blog, thanks a lot for your work. To be honest, we don’t know whether our answers about Poland are correct, so we would like to know if they are. Could you let us know please?

About your answers, we would like to comment on some of them, specially the ones about sports:

Hi, my name is Soraya
Thank you so much for answering the quiz. It's nice to know how many things you found out about our country.

But about the sportsmen/women we don't agree with the most of them. It's weird that you haven't noticed about other cyclists (like Alberto Contador), basketball players (like Pau and Marc Gasol or Ricky Rubio) or football players (like Xavi Hernández, Iker Casillas or Cesc Fàbregas).

And also, thank you for putting Santiago de Compostela in the largest cities of Spain; it is an honour for us.

That's all for now; we can't wait to see you.

Bye.

Hi, my name is Marta

I like your work very much. Congratulations! But where did you find those names? I mean the players’ names because they are very strange, I have never heard of some of them before. If you don´t mind, could you find easier names? If not, we will send you some information. And I would like you to send us information about the players because I’m sure we also put some names which you have never heard before!

Hope to hear from you soon.

Quiz about Spain

Polish school also worked on the quiz about Spain prepared by the partner school. Students showed pretty good general knowledge of Spain, but some questions needed more work and were given in a form of a poster contest. Here are sample answers.

QUESTIONS ABOUT SPAIN

Can you locate Spain on the map?
It borders with Portugal and France.

What is the capital of Spain?
Madrid

Do you know the colours of its flag?

Three horizontal stripes: red, yellow and red


What famous Spanish writer died on the same day as W. Shakespeare? What is his most famous novel?

It was MIGUEL DE CERVANTES and his novel is "El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha"

How many autonomous communities are there in Spain? Locate Galicia among them.

There are 17 autonomous communities with Galicia in the north west tip of Spain.

The capital of Galicia is an important pilgrimage place for Catholics. What city is it? What is
the reason why pilgrims go there?

Santiago de Compostela with a cathedral which is probably a burial-place of one of the apostles - Saint James the Greater.

Can you mention the five largest cities in Spain?

Valladolid, Seville, Toledo, Zaragoza, Barcelona, Santiago do Compostela

There is a World Heritage monument in our city, La Coruña. Can you name it?
When was it built? And what is its function?

It’s the Hercules Tower. It’s a lighthouse built by the Romans in the II century.

What year did the Spanish National Football Team win the World Cup? Name some players involved in that championship?

It was 2010.
Football players: Victor Valdes, Raul Albiol, David Villa, Pedro Rodriguez, Andres Iniesta


Do you know any other Spanish sportsmen/women, apart from footballers, (tennis, motor sports, basketball, cycling...)?

Jose Antonio Hermida, Igor
Astarloa, Sergio De Lis – cycling
Carlos Jiménez, Fran Vazquez - basketball
Rafael Lozano, Enrique Rodriguez - box
Bernat Sola – ski jumps
Marcelo Fernandez, Guillermo Hernán – volleyball
Pol Espargaro - motorcycling
Juanín García Lorenzana – football
Alan Cabello, Gemma Mengual – swimming
Rafael Nadal, Manuel
Alonso – tennis
Daniel Sola, Xavier Pons – motor racing

AND THE WINNER IS...

...Number 1:

Thank you for your vote and congratulations to the winner

Working on the questionaire (Spain)

As part of the activities for the project, the students from both schools have been looking for information  in order to improve their knowledge about the partner country.

The Spanish students have enjoyed the activity very much and here are some of their answers:

1. Can you locate Poland in a map?

The states which share borders with Poland are: Germany in the west, the Czech Republic in the south-west, Slovakia in the south, Ukraine in the south-east, Belarus in the east and Lithuania and Russia in the north-east. To the north of Poland is the Baltic Sea.

2. What is the capital of Poland?

It´s Warsaw

3. What are the colours of the Polish flag and the animal in the national emblem?

The colours are red and white and the animal is a white eagle

4. Can you name the 4 biggest cities in Poland?

Warsaw, Cracow, Lodz and Wroclaw

5. What are the symbols of Warsaw and Cracow

The symbol of Warsaw is a mermaid and the symbol of Cracow is a dragon

6. What world famous music composer was born in Poland in the Mazovian region?

Frederic Chopin

7. Name Poles who received Nobel prize for:

Literature: Czelaw Milosz, Władysław Reymont, Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz de Oszyk, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Wisława Szymborska.

 

Science: Marie Curie

Nobel Peace Prize: Lech Walesa.

8. What is the main religion in Poland?

It´s the Christian religion

9. What Polish city is famous for a sacred picture of  Mother of God to which pilgrims travel from all over the world?

It is Czestochowa

10. Where and when were the first shots in the Second World War fired?

They were on the 1^st of September in 1939 and the place was Westerplatte

11. What important sports event will take place in Poland in June 2012?

The Eurocup will take place in Poland

12. Do you know any Polish sportsmen/women (tennis, skiing, motor sports, basketball, ...)?

Ireneusz Jeleń , Łukasz Fabiański, Robert Kubica, Anna Rogowska

13. Do you know any typical food from Poland?

Bigos, kotlet schabowy, Polish kielbasa.

Logo Contest

Here they are! These are the designs for the logo of the project. Please Choose a number and vote for your favorite.