Mª Jesús Pérez Díaz

 SIMPLY THE BEST, CALATALIFA HELPS!

This year, many of the projects our Section students are doing in all the subjects we teach in English revolve around a common topic we called: "Simply the Best, Calatalifa Helps!" 

The aim of this common theme is to make our students feel proud of themselves and our school when they help other students or people 💗.

We created the following Projects Landscape Poster to show everybody all the projects we will be doing from January to May in different years and subjects 👇:

2022-23 FIRST TERM PROJECTS, EVENTS AND CELEBRATIONS

HALLOWEEN

 This year's first term was full of events. We decorated the hall for Halloween😊👻👽👾:

Some students did something special in Arts too:

CAMBRIDGE EXAMS FOR FIRST OF ESO AND BACHILLERATO

On November 17th our 1st of ESO and 1st of Bachillerato students started taking their external Cambridge exams. 

All of our 1st of ESO students in Section groups and some from Programme groups sat for the A2 and B1 levels. 

All the students in 1st of Bachillerato who had studied in our school or in a bilingual school last year took exams too. Most of the students coming from Section took and got the B2 level, and a few of them even got the C1 level. 

We would like to congratulate them, their teachers and families for their big effort😊

OTHER PROJECTS AND CHRISTMAS🎅🎄 ACTIVITIES

The term was full of projects and activities, like oral presentations of a wide variety of subjects such as debates, lives or books, research projects such as Water is Our Treasure, or Christmas activities, like the screening of Home Alone 2 in English at the cinema. We hope the new year is full of even more fun challenges and events!

GLOBAL CONNECTIONS PROJECT: 1º ESO C,D,E

The students have already drawn several posters and books about 

Global Connections.

They have created books with writings and ilustrations related with  global migrations, since  Prehistoric Period till nowadays.

 

How Science Connects Us - the podcast

Do you know what is the Metaverse or Genetics? 

Have you ever heard about the metaverse? how much do you know about genetics? Undoubtely the cutting edge discoveries in science could connect us in unexpected ways we have not experienced before.

Our students explain this fact to you in these podcasts, hold their hands and go with them in this wonderful journey through science.

photo from Pexels by Artem Podrez

How Science connects us - Genetics! (Mediateca de EducaMadrid)

by Claudia and Juncal

photo from pexels by Jessica Lewis

The metaverse! (Mediateca de EducaMadrid)

by Bábara Arjona

How the Circulatory System Connects Us

Our heart, a wonderful machine

The circulatory system is a pathway used by our bodies to interconnect every single part of them with the others. 

Follow the path of a single drop of blood through this wonderful journey explained by Elisa Rivera:

Watch the following video made by Noa y Sofía in which you can see a more detailed explanation about this

 `mess´:

Now that we have learned this let´s discover the anatomy of our heart. For this purpose we have recorded these videotutorials in the biology lab, so you can follow the explanation step by step.

by Álvaro and Mario

by Bárbara, Nayara and Estela

by Emma, Alba, Erika and María

by Marta, Ada and Juncal

by Beatriz, Sofía and Clara

How the Immune System Connects Us.

 

THE IMMUNE SYSTEM CONNECTS US

Covid19 pandemics has taught us that we are connected through our immune system, in the way we face the pathogen via our immune cells and immune molecules, such as the lymphocytes-B, lymphocytes-T, Natural-KillerCells, antibodies, etc.

The virus has demonstrated, one way or another, that there are differences between the group of individuals that comprise the Homo sapiens species.

In order to explain how this process happens we have elaborated this set of comic strips and infographics by which the process of humoral response works and the importance of it to get rid of viruses, bacteria and other pathogens that threaten our health.

Here you can have a look at our artists work 

but first look ath the creative process of one of our students 👇

by Elisa Rivera

by Alejandro Molina

by Emma Barroso

By Ada Manzaneque

By Aitor Vicente

by Aroa Serrano

By Bárbara Arjona

by Claudia Martínez

by Daniela Mora

by Érika Pinilla

by Estela Dias

by Lola Perdices

by Lucía Arbe

by María Gámez

by Mónica Pérez

by Noa de Luis

by Paula Aznal

by Sofía Royo

As you can see, we have an entire army inside our bodies ready to fight infections, now it is time to realize that we are so similar among us, no matter the country, the gender or the colour of our skin.

GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: The inspiring power of shape and colour in Van Gogh´s paintings.

These are some of our 2ESO students´ pieces of art. As a tribute to Vincent Van Gogh, the students have created their own versions of Starry Night. 

Carmen María Osuna Aguilera

English Department