OP ART CUBES

In 2nd of ESO we have studied principles of perception and Op Art.

We based our  next project on Victor Vasarely and Bridget Riley , two of the most important artist of Op Art.

Students have created a three dimensional cube using geometric op Art Designs. They used the elements and principles of design to manipulate lines and shapes to create optical illusions of movement on flat space.

2 ESO E THE LION KING

Last June 7th we performed an adaptation of a play called The Lion King in front of 2 ESO D and 2 ESO C students and teachers, and it was so fun!

We loved to rehearse every week, create the sets, arrange the music and put make up on the actors in class with our English teachers Montse and Madi.

Some students had some difficulties trying not to laugh or memorizing their lines but in the end they did it and the performance was amazing.

 

Here you can see some pictures from this great day :)

By: Ruth, Diego, Pedro and Blanca (2 ESO E)

CREATING YOUR GAME BY ANDREA MARTÍN-NUÑO

Creating a game was my favourite proyect this year in biology .

It was very fun to start imaging and making a sckech of it,in this proyect you can select your fauvorite game and change the laws of the game,so that ithave some biology things.

At the begining i was thinking about a lot of games so couldn´t decide what games was better,but finally i decide to make a version of the game parchis.

In this proyect you could start your game changin the original game or star making it by the start.

In my game i start by the begining,so i started with the board,I beging makin a normal parchis board in a box so that it was more confortable to transport it then i started decorating the chips of the game,later i started making the questions and then i writed the games laws.

In my game you have to play as ifwere the normal parchis,but when you are goin to put a chip in the centre you have to answer a biology question.

So in resume this proyect was very funny and entertaining.

Building a Dragon

In biology class, we do a lot of activities, including projects like building our own flower, make up games.... 

One of these projects was building and designing our own unique dragon. Our teachers gave us different characteristics: aquatic or terrestrial dividing the class in two halfs: one half with one of these characteristics and the other half with another characteristic. Then the halfs were divided into other halfs: carnivores an herbivores and from there they started developing their own unique dragon. 

We coloured each dragon the way we wanted, positioned the wings on the back (“toothless” from “how to train your dragon”) or in the frontal legs (“the Hungarian Horntail” from “Harry Potter and the goblet of fire”), the tail with spikes or with a shape at the end, the head with one or two heads......

And this is how we built or own dragon.

By Daniel Barnett Aranda

LAB

We don't usually go to the lab because of the lack of personal but with the assistance of Maria and Blas, we had the possibility to go to this place where it was the first time to many of us observing a cell.

(LAB PHOTO)

The cells we had observed were both animal and vegetal. The first one we saw was the vegetal one and for these we had to extract a little piece of onion that after we put in the microscope to observe it.

(VEGETAL CELL PHOTO)

The process involved to see the animal cell was simple; we had to rub a stick against the mouth and later put the cells in a glass through which we saw the cells with a microscope.

(ANIMAL CELL PHOTO)

This was one of the best experience we had during the Biology classes along the year.

Sira Barrios & Sophia Torrado 1º E

WATER ROCKET

In the 3º term, 1ºD began designing a water rocket in groups of 3. There were 10 groups. The rocket was made with recycled materials: four plastic bottles and some newspapers. It had to have four ailerons. 

They cut foam board with the form that the teacher gave them, then they cut the bottles and joined them and they painted them. 

After the paint was dry, they sticked the ailerons. Finally, when the rockets were finished, they launched them to the sky. Some of them flew but others not. 

Here are some fotos and videos of how they worked:

BY Paula Díaz

ROCKS AND MINERALS: VISU

In this class Amaya brougth some minerals and rocks for us,we can touch them and also smell it,we also taste one mineral and surprise...salt!Yes the mineral have a flavour,SALT!This was really amazing and this class was so good,I love when Amaya brougth this types of things,becouse we saw and is so cool.

We spend all the week with this amazing minerals and rocks,each one had different size,color,touch and there smells are so incredible,so I would like to do this again and again becouse we learnt a lot this days with the minerals and rocks and in all the classes.

DRAGON ART PROJECT

Today I´m going to tell you how we did the Dragon art project with our two teachers Blas and Amaya.

First our teachers told us to take a piece  of paper, then, they told us to put in the paper depending on our seats: Carnivorous, herbivorous or omnivorous. Then they told us to put aquatic or terrestial and for last, they told us to put three characteristics: sight, hearing and smelling. In my case I put 7p of hearing, 2p of sight and 1p of smelling.

I made a dragon with two big ears, two eyes a bit white because its sight was less developed and practicaly it doesn't have smelling. I drew a long tail and two big wings, it was like a bat but, it was a dragon.

Alejandro.

Making stories BY HUGO YUNTA AND DIEGO TIREZ 1ºD

This year we have done lots of projects like : mocks up or didactic games, but today we are going to focus on another project we have done: stories.

Our teacher told us to make up some stories about different units we have learned this course. For example one was making a story about the life of a plant, of an animal or of different theories about the position of the Earth at the Universe.

Also we have done some comics about the universe, for instance I did it (Hugo) about the Big bang Theory and Diego did it about the position of the Earth at the Universe.

Our opinion: IN OUR OPINION THIS PROJECTS ARE VERY HELP FULL BECAUSE YOU CAN LEARNED WITH OUT STUDYING A LOT AND ENJOYING DOING NEW THINGS LIKE THESE PROJECTS.

MODEL OF THE ORIGIN OF THE EARTH OR ITS POSITION

In the first term, the students of 1ºD, in the class of Biology & Geology, designed an amazing model about theories of the origin of the Earth or its position, in order to know more than the heliocentric or geocentric theories. Then, we presented them to the class and explained which materials we had used and how we had done them. We designed various theories like hindus, greeks... 

Here are some photos of some of the projects that we have done:

BY SILVIA NÚÑEZ & CAROLINA SANCHO

DIDACTIC GAMES

Hello!

We did a fantastic didactic game of invertebrates which showed us that we can learn a lot playing games and having fun, there were some ones that were amazing!!

Some of them were very original like a bulb game, a token game or some board games.

We hope that next year they will do it again like us

It was done it in 1º D and these are some photos of them:

 

BY: LUCÍA HERRANZ AND ELSA MORÁN

REMAKE PROJECT

REMAKE PROJECT

 

Today we want to showcase the last  project that we did in Art class with the students of 2nd of eso, it is called Remake, In this project our artists had to  to recreate in photographs the iconic paintings that made the history of art. Some of the students that made the remakes revisited the original pieces in a modern way, some of them gave the reproductions an ironic spirit, and some of them simply tried to recreate the original atmosphere. 

Thank you to everyone who contributed to this project, I am convinced that we have the most talented and creative students. Have a look at the works below.

3RD GRADERS IN OUR ETWINNING PROJECT

ETWINNING -  Project for our 3rd Graders... 

...a challenge to multiculturalism!  

SPAIN - FRANCE

   

We enjoy life, learning and communicating!!!

INTRODUCTIONS...

So, this is what we are like....

Ainhoa Calatalifa

Hi! My name is Ainhoa, I am 14 years old and I live in a village near Madrid called Villaviciosa de Odón. I love the place where I live because is a calm place with lots of good people. Physically I have blond hair, green eyes and I am thin and tall. I love practicing sports and traveling abroad. I practice tennis and paddle and I also like soccer very much. If could meet any famous person, I would meet Rafa Nadal, one of the greatest sportive person in the world. As I said before, I love sports, I also enjoy hanging out with my friends. I am looking forward to finish school, and going on vacation. I have a dog called Nala and the subjects i hate are geography and language. In the future I wish I could travel a lot and going to see the Olympic games.

Marta Calatalifa

Hello my name is Marta, I´m writing this because I want to introduce myself. I am 14 years old and I life in Villaviciosa de Odon, Madrid. About physical aspect i could say I am not a told girl, I have brown eyes, but if I could chose, I would have them green. I have long dark blonde hair and my face is kind of oval. Related to my personality I can say I´m a very extroverted and friendly person, also about me I could say I´m not a self-confident girl, but I’m a very good friend.  If I had to choose only one adjective to describe me I would say that I am a very loving person. What I like most in life is spending time with friends and family, and what I hate the most is fake people, I also love going shopping and leading on my bed just watching Netflix.

Vero Calatalifa

I have very long brown straight hair, dark brown eyes and a fair skin colour.I would consider myself tall and skinny. I have no earrings and no piercings. I have an oval face shape and very long eyelashes. I would consider myself a lonely person. I am a friendly and charming person, that usually takes care of her friends, and cheers them up, but sometimes I can be very acid and lose my temper as well. I am a sporty person and very mature for my age. I love sports and my favorite sport is rhythmic gymnastics. I practice it at a high level, hoping to go to international competitions soon. I love animals as well, in general cats. I have two cats, whose names are Sian and Barsik. I am half Russian, because of my parent and know four languages: French, English, Spanish and Russian.If I were an animal, I would be a cat or a wolf, because they are both independent and lonely, and usually take care of family and friends.                                                                                                      If only I could meet someone, I would love to meet Alexandra Soldatova, who is a Russian rhythmic gymnast. I love her for everything she does, and I usually compare myself to her.

Sandra Calatalifa

Hello my name is Sandra, I am an average height girl with long chestnut colored hair. My eyes are the same color as my hair, but they are a darker tone. Psychologically, I am kind, hardworking, Iike to have fun, and you can trust me with a secret. If I could be an animal I don’t know which one i would like to be, because I am happy being a human, although, if I could have a superpower it would be to be able to turn into an animal at my will and also be able to turn back to my original self. During the weekends I like to hang out with my friends or watch TV, when I have holidays I usually go to the beach with my family and I have a tradition with my cousins in which we go every summer, for a couple of weeks to a rural house. I wish I had a lot of money to travel around the world and buy lots of houses in every country. I don’t like visiting the monuments and history of a city. I ´d rather go to the beach or to famous landmarks and tourist attractions, but not museums.

Daniela Calatalifa
Hello my name is Daniela, I am 15 years old and I live in a town called Villaviciosa de Odón, outside Madrid. I was born in February, so I am a Pisces. I am a tall girl with light brown hair and I have green eyes. I am also skinny, although I like to eat a lot, but I practice a lot of sports, so it compensates. As I said before I have light brown hair and it is not too long or too sort. I like to wear my hair untied and usually straight, although sometimes I curl it. And also I have braces. Regarding my personality, I am a really open-minded person, I think its because I've travelled a lot, thing that I really love. I also like doing different things and going to cool places. I am also friendly and reliable. Furthermore, I am really organized, and that is something I really like about myself, also that I am really self-sufficient. And I think I’m very mature for my age. And finally something about me is that if I could travel to any place, that would be Thailand. Also I love watching series in my free time, and cooking healthy food. I practice athletics and go to the gym. I love singing, it relaxes me. And I would like to start practicing the piano.

Isma Calatalifa

Hey I am QueenIsma and I am 15 years old, I am from Madrid and my family is from Morocco. Physically I am a tall girl with brown eyes and dark hair, long lashes, slim body, big ass, perfect nose and big chorizo lips remarked by my notable compact cheek bones. Personally I consider myself as a big personality, I am a very sociable person and at the same time very different, too. I am very extroverted, charming, funny, crazy girl; I am freaking passionate by FASHION, MUSIC and ART! If I could compare myself to a painter, I would definitely be PICASSO and his art, because I am very abstract in a way that not much people understand me, because I am shiny as glitter and crazy as abstract art. In less than a decade I would like to became a big shiny superstar, I would like to change the world with my music, performance and art.

Alex Calatalifa

Hello, I’m Alejandro Gonzalez, but all the people call me Alex or Galindo, I have 15 years and I live in a town called Villaviciosa De Odon. My parents are called Gemma and Marco and I have a sister called Daniela and a dog called Daisy. We live in a house with a pool and a garden and situated in a good place of the town. I’m 1'70m tall and I'm 57kg weight, I have brown hair, and I have brown eyes. I have a normal body with a normal face. I consider me handsome but only when I shower, because when i woke up I look horrible. I don't wear glasses or brackets and I like to wear clothes that are clean. I like to wear jeans but I also wear sports clothes.I am a funny guy that likes to make jokes, I'm kind but when I'm angry I'm very rude. I'm very sporty and I like to practice sports like football or driving karts. I'm a follower of the best team in the world Atletico De Madrid and I like a lot the player Antoin Griezmann. I'm not very good student but i wish I don't fail any subject. In the future I want to work in a business where I'm with my computer doing nothing and winning money without doing nothing. I will live in a hose with three floors and with my girlfriend and a dog. And this is my description.

Dani Calatalifa

Hello, I am Daniel Bellido Field and I go to IES Calatalifa.I am half American and half Spanish because my mom is from the USA and my dad is from Spain.I have Two siblings, an older brother and a younger sister. I live in a town called "Villaviciosa de Odón."I am a 15 year old boy with average height but a bit chubby. I have curly short brown hair and hazel eyes, I am physically strong but I am a bit fat but I am working out. I am an introverted, open minded and intelligent. According to the Myers Briggs test I am a mediator which means I am a introverted, intuitive, feeling, prospecting and  turbulent. I believe there is good in everyone and that everyone can improve if they put their mind to it My spirit animal is an owl because I am silent and intelligent but when it’s time to act I act at the right time. If I were a mythical animal I would be a phoenix because they can heal themselves and heal other. I like watching cartoons and TV shows because they take me to another world but I Love books because I can create a world within the parameters the author gives me.

Claudia Calatalifa

Hello my name is Claudia, I have curly brown hair, I have brown olive eyes. Im tall and my skin is ver white. I love my smile, my lips and I have some freckles and piercings. In my free time I like practicing synchronized swimming, drawing, staying on my phone and watching Netflix. I have one little brother called Nicolas and I travel abroad a lot. What I hate the most in life is, things don’t going like I want, and people telling me what to do. I consider myself a very optimistic person, I can be very annoying, I’m very carefree and sometimes a bit careless. I am very cheerful, hardworking sometimes and very lazy. I’m super self-confident, self-sufficient and obviously talkative, I love shouting. If I were a color I would be blue, like the sea and the sky. If I had a superpower i would like to have mental control on others. If I had to be an animal, I´d be an eagle.

Jose Calatalifa
Hello I am Jose Ramon, I am 15 years old, i live in Villavicosa de Odon and i study in IES Calatalifa. i grew up as an only child but I have an older brother, however he is 43 years old and he lives on his own, I live with my mom and dad. I am really intered in video games and in sports and in the future i want to be rich be married and have two (Bruno and Ines)I consider myself a self-sufficient , sporty anf funny person, because I love to practice sports. I am tall, thin and I have brown eyes, hair and skin. On my free time I like to play Fortnight with my friends, work out, practice sport and triathlon but now I cannot because I am injured of my back, I can't wait to start again working out and training, riding with my back....I also enjoy watching series and films. I am really talented on MTB so I am thinking of joining an MTB club.

Diego Calatalifa
Hi, my name is Diego and I am going to do a psychological and physical description of myself. I am 15 years old I live on Villaviciosa de Odón that is a big village near Madrid. I live with my father and mother. I have a dog and I live very near from my father parents. I live on a huge house that is only of one floor. I am a medium-tall boy, I have green eyes, big lips, big back a normal head and wavy hair, I am good looking. My most special treat, that most people say to my are my eyes. Now I am going to talk about my psychological characteristics, I am a arrogant person, but very funny, I am a very understanding person and I am temperamental too.

Martina Calatalifa
HI! my name is Martina and I´m going to introduce myself. I´m 16 years old and I live in Villaviciosa de Odon, Madrid. About my physical aspect, I could say that I´m a quite tall person, I have brown eyes and fleshy lips, my face is round and I have a beauty spot on my upper lips. Talking about my personality I could say I´m a friendly person, I always try to make people laugh because I don’t like to see people sad. I also could say that I’m a kind person. I am also a little shy, fun, funny . One of the things that I love of me is that I´m a very very caring person. What I hate most in life is fake people because those people shows one type of personality and then is all they way round. On my weekends I love to meet my friends and go to the village to have a good time together, I also love shopping and dance.

Luca Calatalifa
Hi my name is Luka and now I'm going to introduce myself. I’m 16 years old and I'm from Macedonia. I have lived in Spain for 4 months and i came here because of basketball. I grew up in small country where basketball is the most popular sport. I play basketball since I was 7 and that's what I love to do. I play in Spanish Basketball Academy (SBA) and I'm a captain of the national team of Macedonia. Here I study in Ies Calatalifa and I'm in adaptation class because of my Spanish. At first studying here was a little bit tough but now I'm doing pretty good. I love playing basketball and I'm working hard every day. My dream is to be a professional basketball player and I will do everything so the dream comes true.I wish we could have great time and good friendship in the next years.


Alicia Calatalifa
I am Alicia and I am from Villaviciosa De Odón, Madrid. I am a very tall girl with brown bright eyes and long straight hair. I am very athletic and I like doing things I like. My face is oval and I also have a big forehead. Something i like about myself is my eyebrows and leaving my hair untied. I am personally a very open-minded person and that is why I love meeting new people. I am also a fun person and i love doing entretaining things like going to the ammusement park or to the movies as a way to spend time with friends. I have one young sister and five cousins.I have two nationalities: Spanish and French that is why I have family in France and Spain and can talk both languages perfectly.Finally, I practice track and field but one of my favourite sports is ski too. I play piano and like listening to music on my free time. I also love eating and my favourite food is hamburgers and my favourite drink, lemonade. In the future I want to study in college and travel around the world a lot. This are some things about me so I hope we will get to know each other better and maybe meet one day.

Esther Calatalifa

Hello I am Esther, I am from Madrid, I am 15 years old and here it goes my description.
I have an average high, I am very skinny and dark-skinned. I have a short, dark brown hair. I have a diamond face shape and brown eyes with long eyelashes, and I wear in my right ear one earring, and 3 earring in my left one.
I am very friendly, but at a first when you meet me I am very shy. My laught can be noisy and for some people annoying. I usually worry a lot about everything and everyone. My friends say I am vey funnt and charming and always full of energy.If I were a colour I would be green. If i were and animale I would be a poisonous frog. If I had a superpower it would be metamorphosis, it would be awesome to transform in anything I want.I  love savannah animals, but specially elephants and zebras. I like to play videogames and watch TV, and in the future I would like to be something related with medicine.

Ceci Calatalifa

Hi, my name is Cecilia and I am 14 years old. I live in Villaviciosa de Odon, a small village in Madrid.I have long dark-brown hair, almond-shaped brown eyes, small head, a tiny nose, small mouth and and I have fair-skin. I usually wear large earings and I used to do my make up. My height is 1.60 metres.I lived with my mum and my brother in a big flat. But sometimes I visit my dad, who lives in Pinto, to his big house. My dad has a dog, he is called Lucky and he is 4 years old.On my weekend I used to hang out with my friends or my family. I also like to watch netflix on my computer, sleep and eat.In my school my favourite subjects is math since I decided to be a math teacher when I grow up. I wish I could be a good math teacher in the future.My hobbies are painting, dancing, listening to music, hanging out with my friends and learning new things about make up.And that´s me.

César Calatalifa

Hello! My name is Cesar, Im 15 years and I live in Villaviciosa de Odon, a town in Madrid ( Spain), I study in the Calatalifa secondary school an Iam going to describe my self.I have a very dark and dense hair, brown eyes, I am 1,70m tall and I am skinny but I eat a lot. Iconsider myself a handsome boy. My favourite part of my body are my lips and the part of my body that I hate the most is my nose. Personally, I am a sociable person, I like meeting new people and I an very self-confident. In the future I wish I could have a big amount os money to have a relaxed life with my family and friends. The thing I like the most os someone when I met him or her is the sense of humour and a different personalityand theb thing I hate the most in life is the false people. Sometimes I have a very strong personality and when I get andry I become crazy.

Itahisa Calatalifa

Hi I´m Itahisa! I am 14 years old, I live in Villaviciosa de odon (Madrid), I love sports and my favorite color is purple.

ORIGINAL TORRIJAS RECIPE, BY RAÚL RABADÁN & FERNANDO RUIZ (5ºD)

According to their creators Raúl and Fernando, this original recipe of Torrijas, the typical Spanish dessert, is "the best thing you will see this summer". Pretentious? Watch the video and reach your own conclusion.

TRIP TO ALMERÍA. BY ALEJANDRO GARCÍA MUÑOZ (5ºD)

Trip to Almeria

First of all, this trip to Murcia (Almería) is set in education, in which technological science students learn about the industry and the processes that are taken to develop a series of products due to the abusive number of industries that are here.

First Day

We were all together on April 3 in the IES Calatalifa classroom at 08:00 am to catch the bus. The trip was about 4 hours, until we arrived in Cartagena, where we visited the Museum of Underwater Archeology where we could see a model of a Spanish gallery which had the purpose of transporting some gold and silver coins, but these were intercepted by Englishmen boats who stole these coins. For this reason we can observe in the museum the history of the coins and how Spain recovered them. When we finished with the museum we went to eat next to the harbor and ate hamburgers at McDonald's. After lunch and having a walk around Cartagena, we visited the Museum  the Roman Theater of Cartagena where we saw the history of Cartagena and, of course, Roman history and the Theater, which we visited afterwards.

To end our experience in Cartagena we had an ice cream and got on the bus to head over to the Hotel Marina Rey in Vera, where we had dinner, and watched the Champions League game played by Real Madrid against Youth, in which we all shouted the “chilena” of  CR7.

And to celebrate the overwhelming victory of Madrid, we went for a night swim to the beach.

After the beach we went to our rooms …

Second Day

The second day we got up at half past eight and we were freezing because we had forgotten to put the heat on so we had to take a shower to warm up. After breakfast we took the bus to go to the Carboneras Desalination Plant where we were taught throughout the morning the process that was done to clean the enormous amount of water that was obtained from the ocean.

When we finished the desalination visit, we received the terrible news that the best activity of the trip, diving, had been cancelled due to the water current that had moved all the sand from the ground and we could not dive. Instead, they let us stay on the beach for 4 hours where we were playing soccer, bathing, and tanning a little bit. Then we ate at a restaurant on the beach and went to the Caves of Sorbas which is a series of caves, canyons, sinkholes, geodes and other karst phenomena excavated by the water in a plaster deposit. We went inside and were able to observe these geological phenomena.

After the visit we returned to the hotel where we were resting in the pool and took a walk on the beach. We had dinner at 10 and went to the rooms…

 Third Day

We got up a little late and almost missed breakfast because we had not slept at all since the roof was falling down due to BoriMono, but we managed to get to breakfast and get onto the bus on time.

This day we visited the experimental farm Universidad de Almería - ANECOOP in which they experiment with plant genes, specifically with tropical fruits such as papaya and bananas or vegetables such as tomatoes and onions. After this visit we had a long afternoon in which we were on the beach of Cabo de Gata, after eating and having a good time, we visited the Salinas of Cabo de Gata in which they explained how they extracted salt from the sea water and we could see the heaps of salt that accumulated in the water and the mountains of salt outside of it. 

Then we went to the Volcanic Complex in Cabo de Gata where we took a walk and observed the types of rocks that were in the surroundings. We also saw how it was formed and had a competition to see who could collect the most minerals in the least amount of time. 

After the visit we went to the hotel, where we had dinner into the rooms...

Fourth Day

This day was basically spent on the bus as we woke up at half past eight like every day and collected our clothes in our bags and got onto the bus. We stopped in the Calar Alto astronomical observatory where we listened to a very boring man giving us lots of information which no one caught on as we were very tired. But after the talk, we visited the observatory which was a bit more interesting. After the visit to the observatory we finished the trip, went on the bus to have a meal, and went home. As we were so tired, everyone fell asleep…

The Almería trip has been one of the best trips I have taken with the high school, mainly, as you would have noticed, because of the good time we spent in our rooms, and the visits and the beaches were also incredibly amazing. I have to give my appreciation to our teacher who organized this incredible trip.