Very short film

We have been awarded the prize "XVII Muestra de Cerámica Escolar" for our ceramic art projects. We have talked about sports, games… Do practice any sport? What are your favourite games?... You can see it at : http://www.educa.madrid.org/web/cp.picasso.madrid/varios/ceramicpic.wmv

Our Neighbourhood. Madrid

We tell you where the school is situated. Our neighbourhood is in a big city. Madrid
http://www.educa.madrid.org/web/cp.picasso.madrid/varios/barriopicasso.pps

Merry Christmas 2007

How we celebrate Christmas in Spain and at our school.
This is a nativity scene from our school. Here you can see Joseph (San José), Mary (Santa María), Baby Jesus (el niño Jesús), a mule (la mula), an ox (un buey), an angel (un angel), and a star (la estrella).
Every year the Three Wise Men come to our school to bring presents and sweets to the children.
Melchior is the oldest one. He has got white hair. He brings gold (oro) to Baby Jesus.
Gaspar has got brown hair. His gift to Jesús is frankincense (incienso).
Balthazar has got black hair. He brings myhrr (mirra) as his present.
Another tradition in our school is to have a parade (cabalgata) on the playground.
We put the Christmas Tree (un árbol de Navidad) and our arts and crafts projects on floats.
The children dance (bailar) and sing (cantar) as they march along.
http://www.educa.madrid.org/web/cp.picasso.madrid/varios/xmas07.swf

Parents-teacher meeting

On 14^th November (Wednesday) in our class there was a parents-teacher meeting. At this meeting matters relevant to our class were discussed. The teacher described bad behaviour of some students during lessons and breaks. Some parents were astonished by their children’s behaviour because some pupils didn't tell them about that. But there were also better things discussed like Christmas celebrations as well as a charity concert our class is preparing. During the meeting parents also talked about where to let us go for a school trip. Do you also have parents-teacher meetings?

A guest

Our school head teacher Jerzy Brzoza  is a very good observer. He often
comes to different groups of students and watches pupils at their work. On 21st of November
during our English lesson we hosted our head teacher. We were a
little afraid if he likes our progress at English, but it wasn't so bad. We just learnt some new words
as always, we read a story and did a lot of various exercises. It was fun as usual.
At the end of the lesson when everything was clear, Mr Brzoza
praised us and he went out. We want our head teacher to visit us often.

Halloween/All Saints’ Day

Hello Everyone!
We have celebrated Halloween at school as you can see at the School Web: http://www.educa.madrid.org/web/cp.picasso.madrid/hallow07e/hallow07.html
On 1st of November in Spain we celebrate All Saints’ Day, too. The tradition is the same as Poland.

11th November

Independence Day in Poland is on 11th of November. Most people remember about this and they show it through participation in parades, hanging out flags of our state. This of year this day was on Sunday, so our school celebrated this holiday on Monday. Our colleagues showed us and told about events connected with the date of 11th November. To this performance we also invited guests, war combatants. The ceremony was organized by students from class V and their teacher Mrs Gembalczyk and it showed us that we should be proud of our country and we should represent it appropriately.

Olimpus

On 9^th of November in our school we had an English language competition. It was called Olimpus. Students willing to take part in the competition wrote the test under the teacher’s supervision. The test was very difficult. A lot of students wrote that test. Now we are waiting for the results and we hope we are the winners.

All Saints' Day

On 1^st of November in Poland we celebrate All Saints’ Day. It is a tradition that we walk to the graveyards to say prayers and light candles on the graves of our relatives. In our school there was an academy to remember this day. The 1st of November was a very sad day.

Halloween

Halloween is on 31^st of October. Halloween is very popular in the USA. On this day everywhere there are a lot of pumpkins. On Halloween children dress up as monsters and they knock at the door and ask for sweets. In the streets there are a lot of monsters, witches and skeletons. Halloween is very funny.

Disco at school

On 16th of October in our school there was a disco. It was the first disco in the new school year 2007/2008. At the disco we danced, listened to music and later we also won prizes in prize-drawing. We had great fun. Everybody was delighted. The disco was very nice.

A trip to Rybnik

On Tuesday 9th October all students from sixth classes went for a school trip. Classes VIa, VIb and VId went for free because last school year they won the competition for the best class and received some money.

At eight o'clock in the morning we went to "Plaza Center" in Rybnik. We watched a film titled "On the wave". The film was funny and amusing. Later we had some time for ourselves. We came to school at two o'clock in the afternoon.

We like school trips very much.

Teacher's day

In Poland on 14th October we celebrate Teacher’s Day. Our school’s self – government, together with students from class IVc with Mrs. Dziewior and a school choir prepared a show for the 15th October. During that show we sang a song with wishes and gave apples and roses to our teachers. Each class also gave their tutor bunches of flowers and hot greetings.

You can find some templates to create this story about Halloween. And you can listen to it. We hope it is helpful! http://boj.pntic.mec.es/~mbed0005/monster.html

School's Day

Our school’s day is on 6th of October but this year we celebrated this day on 5th of October because 6th October was weekend. On this occasion pupils of our school organised a festival, read wishes for our school’s seventy – eighth birthday and sang Happy Birthday for our school. Then we also learnt some history of our school. That day was very nice.

It is Autumn

On the 21st of September, autumn is here! So we have written lovely “Acrostic Poems” that we hope you enjoy. It is a PowerPoint Presentation, which you can see at:
http://www.educa.madrid.org/web/cp.picasso.madrid/etwinning/leaves.pps

We introduce ourselves singing in Spanish

We hope you enjoy listening to us singing a song in Spanish with the music that you have chosen in your party. We teach you the numbers: One, two three when we clap and we ask all of you: What is your name?
It is at: http://www.educa.madrid.org/web/cp.picasso.madrid/frere.wav (2,4MB)

Boy's Day

On 30th September we celebrated ‘boy's day’. It was Sunday so we celebrated that day on Monday 1^st October. Girls wished boys a very happy day. We sang boys a song and we prepared small gifts for them.

Boy's day is not as popular as Women's Day but we think that boys were pleased we remembered about them.

The European Day of Languages

The European Day of Languages is on the twenty sixth of September. It’s our tradition that teachers of English and their students prepare something to celebrate this day. This year every class sang a song in a foreign language (It was ‘Are you sleeping brother John’). All students from our school met in the gym and we had a little concert. Our class sang a song in German, but we also heard songs in German Latin, Dutch, Italian or Russian. It was great fun for all of us!

Self-government

Before holidays students in our school selected a group of students for our school’s self-government. From our class we selected Karolina Ćmok and Zuzanna Homel. At the beginning of September 2007 we carried out elections for the tutor of the self-government. Classes IV, V and VI voted to select two teachers. We still do not know who will fulfill this function; we are waiting for the results.

CEIP Pablo Picasso. Madrid

Hello everyone from Spain!

You can know how our school is at: http://www.educa.madrid.org/web/cp.picasso.madrid/varios/picasso.pps
I hope you like it!

Clean up the World

Every year in our school we organize, ‘Clean up the world’ action. This year we tidied Pszów on 14th September. Every class with a teacher had to clean a part of our town. This year our class tidied Tytki Street. Before we went out to clean the streets teachers gave us gloves and bags for the rubbish. We gathered lots of rubbish. Our town was very dirty. When we finished the whole town was very clean again. Such actions help to make the town clean.

Beginning of the school year

It's the third of September. After sunny holidays we are very fresh and relaxed. We are walking to the school. Another year of work is coming, but we are happy because we see our friends. We hope that another year of learning will be lucky for us.
We met our teachers at eight in the morning. Students from every class stood by their teacher. Fourth classes got to know their new tutors. Then teachers passed us lesson plan and then we went home.

This school year will probably pass so quickly as the previous one.