Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

                                   

          The boys and girls in 1st year want to wish everybody

                                      MERRY CHRISTMAS
                                                   AND
                                      A HAPPY NEW YEAR

     

                                 


                              SEE YOU IN 2013 !

                                

In the news

Laude Palacio de Granda is in the news !

AMCO publishes a monthly newsletter and they asked us to get involved.

Below you can read all about our experience as a bilingual school.

6th year B (6ºB) Science

We are developing an environmental campaign. We divided ourselves into groups of 5 or 6.

                                                                                                                                 



Each group chose a topic to research.  




The topics we researched were :

             GLOBAL WARMING 
             ANIMAL EXTINCTION
             POLLUTION  
             DEFORESTATION.

We looked for information related to the causes, consequences and possible solutions for our environmental problem.

 















The main objective of the campaign must be to raise                          awareness of the problem.

                                                             

 We used the photographs, slogans and information that we found to enrich our campaign and to hopefully convince our classmates of the need to SAVE OUR PLANET

                                   

Have a look at this video and see if you agree that we need to SAVE THE WORLD FROM OURSELVES !!

Homeschooling (1st- 4th year)

Have you lost your Homeschooling Sheet ?

Don´t worry, you can still do it . Print it out from here and write in the words you have to pronounce.

Show your mum and dad just how good you are !

6th Year A (6ºA)

This year we are working on different appealing projects. Students use their originality and motivation to create astonishing posters about topics such as their favourite films, the islands they have visited or some attention-grabbing environmental issues.   
                                          
 
  Now they are preparing a poster in pairs about endangered species and they are really enjoying the project!

                                                                                                  

                             

We are amazed by the creativity and motivation the students are showing.

We are also working on a science corner where students work in groups to produce their imaginative posters and mind maps.

                                            

      

         

Here is a video that the students loved. Have a look and see what you think                                                       

                                      

4 Year Olds (4 años B)

 

                                                 

                                                               

Autumn is here so we (4 year olds - 4B) went on a trail around our school looking out for signs of Autumn. We collected lots of acorns, oak leaves, beech leaves, sycamore leaves, and a couple of blackberries! We also got to see a couple of donkeys. After our trail we went back to class and made some autumn trees out of cheese spread boxes, lots of fun finger paint and colourful bits of papers as leaves. As you can see we’ve got a great autumn collage in our classroom now to remember our fun day!!

Do you like it ?

 

1 ESO A

                          TIME FOR A SONG  


                              

In each project we listen to a song. We have the lyrics with some missing words and we have to complete them.
First,someone reads the song aloud to mark the blank spaces.Then, we listen to the song twice to try to fill in the missing words.After that, if we have time we listen to it again and sing it.Finally, in the next lesson we correct the exercise.
In the last project we listened to Sweet Dreams"by Beyonce. The song had 36 gaps but some of them were repeated.
In project one we listened to "On the floor"by Jennifer López, with just eight missing nouns.

In our opinion,songs are the best part of every project together with the orals because they are fun and because the lesson in which we listen to them we don´t have to be as concentrated as in other lessons. It is a "free studying"lesson.

                                                 

 

Welcome

                  

Welcome to the English Corner of Laude Palacio de Granda. In this space the children in the Bilingual Programme (infants - second year of secondary school) are going to show us what they know and more importantly what they can do.

As you know , in our school English is not used only in the actual English class . Science, Art and P.E are also being taught in this language as well as being a language that is heard throughout the school and at any time of the day.

To start with today and to get this show on the road, this space is going to be occupied by AMCO. AMCO is the method that we started at the beginning of the last school year in the first two years of Primary and which is having such tremendous results.

AMCO IBERIA es la filial española de Amco Internacional Education Services, Inc., compañía ubicada en San Diego (California), que desde el año 2008 está presente en España ofreciendo servicios para la mejora en la enseñanza del inglés en colegios del sector privado, privado-concertado y público, repartidos por todas las Comunidades Autónomas.

¿Cuál es la característica diferenciadora del método AMCO? Poner en valor el enfoque comunicativo, frente al esquema usado tradicionalmente en la enseñanza de idiomas en España, sin olvidar los aspectos gramaticales que ayudan a conocer la lengua inglesa.

Los fundamentos principales en los que se basa nuestro método son:

      - En lo referente al aprendizaje del idioma seguimos la Teoría de la Voz Generadora, que explica como un niño, sin estar en un contexto angloparlante, puede aprender inglés como si fuera un “segundo primer idioma”.

      - Desarrollamos la Inteligencia Emocional promoviendo el aprendizaje y mejora del desempeño escolar, proporcionando a los alumnos una vida saludable y feliz.

      - La herramienta con la que aplicamos esta teoría emocional a la realidad de un aula, con      alumnos que poseen diferentes habilidades, es la Teoría de las Inteligencias Múltiples, que parte de la base de que todos los seres humanos poseemos ocho inteligencias diferentes, algunas más desarrolladas que otras.

Existe una modalidad del método adaptada a cada centro, en función de las horas de las que se dispone con una optimización plena del tiempo de alumnos y profesores. Desde el punto de vista de los colegios, AMCO no pone simplemente material didáctico o formación a los profesores, sino que ofrece servicios de consulta todo el curso, asignando un asesor académico que acudirá al centro con carácter periódico.

Por todas estas razones AMCO se presenta como una opción de aprendizaje de inglés realmente eficaz y en la que los alumnos ven los resultados a corto plazo.

Well, that´s all for the moment. Watch this space ! you don´t want to miss anything !