CULTURE IN A BOX

Last week we received a box from Salusbury Primary School in

London full of typical English objects.

The outside was elaborated by the British students and it has

some pictures of the English flag, the London Eye, the

Parliament or the English Royal Family.

In the inside it contains a telephone box, the Big Ben, a

typical black British taxi, the Union Jack flag, The Times

newspaper, the map of the London tube, some English

postcards, British pounds notes, English music and the theatre

play “Macbeth” by Shakespeare.

Together with all this, we received a brief explanation of each

item thanks to which we could understand when they are used,

why and how.

By means of the activity “Culture in a Box” we have been able

to compile Spanish culture in our twelve items and at the same

time we have learned British way of life in a better way.

EASTER PRESENTATIONS FROM ENGLAND

EASTER PRESENTATIONS FROM ENGLAND

And these are the Easter presentations that They have sent us from Wibsey Primary School in England:

Easter by lewis and jacob 2 from jvcole1

All about easter robert & tate 2 from jvcole1

Hasan and gracie 2 from jvcole1

Easter powerpoint for spain from jvcole1

CULTURE IN A BOX

This month our Primary children are developing a new activity: “Culture in a Box” together with Salusbury Primary School in London.

The idea is that children from both centers send each other a box containing twelve objects representative of their countries together with a brief explanation of each one. In this way, they will learn many aspects related to the way of life in their partner’s country.

Thus, pupils have brought to school typical Spanish objects as the ones you can see in the pictures. Then, we have chosen twelve, have added a description explaining its name, when we use it and how. Finally, we have sent it to our partner’s school in London.

We just have to wait for the box we will receive full of typically 

English objects! What things do you think it could contain?

EASTER PRESENTATIONS

EASTER PRESENTATIONS

These are the Easter presentations that we have sent to Wibsey School:

EASTER CUENCA Lucía Vicente from jvcole1

SAINT PATRICK´S DAY

Last Monday, on March 17, we celebrated Saint Patrick’s Day at school. We learned that this is Ireland’s patron because Saint Patrick spread his religion over the country using a shamrock.

The Celtic story of the Leprechaun with a hidden pot of gold at the end of a rainbow is typical of this day too. For this reason, we had a display with our Leprechaun, a rainbow and even a pot of gold! Everyday we have to look for the four leaved shamrock if we want to be lucky. Can you find it in this picture?

We also celebrated a festival on this day where Infants and Primary 1, 2 and 3 children saw a puppets show about Saint Patrick’s Day Leprechaun. Then, Primary 1 and 2 sang songs, Primary 3 and 4 danced some Irish dances and Primary 5 and 6 said some Saint Patrick’s poems.

Finally, Primary 1 and 2 ate green jelly, Primary 3 and 4 made a treasure hunt looking for clues around the school and our older children joined around a map of Ireland in order to talk about some Irish writers, landscapes, legends, films, music ...

And two days later we connected through Skype with an Irish school and our Primary 5 and 6 children were talking with the Irish pupils about the festival.

We had a very nice day!

Here you can see some photos and the puppets show:

SAINT PATRICK ´S DAY

LETTERS

LETTERS

Helena Martínez has written a new letter to the English school:

Letter to england helena m from jvcole1

LETTERS

LETTERS

This is the letter from Wibsey Primary School:

LETTERS

We wrote a letter to the Wibsey Primary School in England.

At the same time they wrote a letter to us. We are looking forward to receiving it soon.

This is our letter: