Healthy Snacks for Halloween

We prepared some healthy snacks for Halloween in 2nd C and D. Children brought some fruits and we grouped them according to their colours. They decorated plastic cups and put the fruits inside them, creating funny monsters´faces. 

Reuse! Reduce! Recycle!

The students from Junior 4B reused cans to create lovely pencil holders! They decorated them with different materials such as cloth, coloured papers, ribbons and glitter among others.

Halloween Science Workshop

During the last weeks of October, our students participated in a very interesting Science Workshop.
As Halloween was getting near, they had fun while they learned the Science behind the experiments.
Students left a bloody handprint after wetting their hands in a transparent solution and placing it on paper which was previously treated with a pH indicator. 
They also created vampire veins using a liquid polymer which changes its properties and becomes solid when poured into a special solution.
They prepared a magic potion using liquids of different densities and effervescent tabs; and last but not least, our Norbridge Primary students made flourescent slime!
Watch them!

Immersion Trip: Day 3

Immersion Trip: Day 2

Our students have been divided into 4 clans: McLaren, Gordon, Anderson & Campbell and tomorrow they will be throwing the Stone, the Shot, the Heavy Ball and the Hammer. They’re warming up and getting ready for the famous tug o’ war.

Check in tomorrow to discover who the winner is!

A bit of History about the Clan system…

Clans dominated the highlands of Scotland as well as other areas which at the time were remote from the centres of Scottish life and government. They were forged out of different tribes based on family ties. The word clan comes from the gaelic "clann", which means children or descendants. There would always be a clan chief, who took on the responsibility of looking after the people in his area. 

The chief and his children would be the most important figures, but many other clansmen were not blood relations. They would simply be people who lived locally and looked to him for protection. Nevertheless, the clan ties and loyalty were extremely strong - in the case of the Lordship of the isles for instance, the Clan Donald effectively established its own kingdom, with only tenuous ties to the rest of Scotland. 

Most Highlanders would have felt allegiance to their clan first and their country second. They believed in it so much that they were prepared to die for it - which is just as well, because that's often exactly what happened. 

The whole history of the clan system is characterized by feuds, and the chief had to be able to call on his people to serve in his army when he needed them. Clans weren't particularly sophisticated societies, but they worked well enough. The chief was the undisputed ruler, and all his people would have genuine affection for him and trust him implicitly. 

Immersion Trip: Day 1

Our Junior 6 students departured yesterday!

This year's theme is: The Glorious Highland Games and they are ready for them!

The students joined a clan and helped design a crest for their group.

Then each group built a witch and burnt her in order to bring good luck to the games.

They will learn the Scottish dances and sports associated with the highland games and also bake and taste some Scottish food.

Throughout the camp they will learn songs and slang that are typical of Scotland. 

The camp will end with the final tournament as the warriors paint their faces before playing the sports and deciding who is victorious. 

Have a look! This was just Day 1.. Come back for more tomorrow!

Acting out a story!

The students from 2nd form acted out the story "The Enormous Turnip" to the students in 1st Form. They really enjoyed being actors for a while and had great fun working as a team to carry out such a wonderful performance. A big round of applause for the actors!

Spring is Here!

We celebrated Spring Day with Junior 1 making colourful drawings to decorate our school.

We had a lot of fun!

My restaurant

Last week the students from second form participated in a project called "My restaurant".

The objective of this activity was to reinforce vocabulary and grammatical structures connected with food. 

The  children were told to write and design the menu for their own restaurants and they enjoyed it very much. 

Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

Last Monday, August 15th, pupils from Junior 3 and 4 participated in a workshop organized by Fundación Pepsico about Ecology. Through games and quizzes they learned the importance of taking care of our environment by changing their daily habits or doing little things at home.

Training on Augmented Reality

Last Tuesday, August 9th, teachers were trained on Augmented Reality for educational purposes. They learned to use apps such as Quiver, Layar and Buildar.

Book Fair

During the second week of August, from the 8th to the 12th, the Brainy Learning team from Scholastic is visiting our school. Children are invited to participate and write their "wish lists" with the titles of the books they want to read.
This book fair is specially dedicated to kinder 5, Junior 1, 2 and 3. Under the slogan "Open a world of possible", it promotes the use of English through different contexts, motivating children and helping them to enlarge their understanding of the world.

The Immersion trip is getting closer!

The Junior 6 students had a visit from one of the immersion camp counsellors, Josh, who told them everything they needed to know and shared all the juicy details of the experience. They all played a game together afterwards.

An English class in the Computer Lab

Students from 6th form went to the Computer Lab and sent a real e-mail as if they were the main character of the novel "There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom" to their Headmaster. Afterwards, "the Headmaster" answered back, in reply to the first e-mail. A different and meaningful approach that engaged the students a lot! 

Shrek - The musical

Last Thursday, June 16th the students from third, fourth and fifth grade enjoyed a special outing to the theatre.

The Stage Company presented a wonderful adaptation of Dreamworks most famous Broadway show. Winner of 14 nominations for its phenomenally succesful run at Maipo Theatre in Calle Corrientes during 2015. Awarded with 6 Hugo Awards including BEST MUSICAL, BEST PRODUCTION, BEST ACTOR, BEST NEW ACTOR, BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR, the unique Hugo de Oro Award for Lord Farquaad.

Field trips to live theater enhance literary knowledge, tolerance, and empathy among students. Students who attend live performances of a play are known to score higher and are better able to recognize and appreciate what other people think and feel.

Cooking is fun

As part of a project about recipes in English, the students of 4C prepared groupal oral presentations.

Through pictures and videos, they showed the rest of the class, how they had prepared different meals. They also brought their delicious dishes to make everybody taste their food.

We all had fun and enjoyed it very much!!