FAIRY TALES (4th ESO)

This week, our 4th ESO students have invented/adapted fairy tales for younger students at school.

First they have used a templated to prepare and settle their ideas and then they have recorded the video using many different programs. Here you have their excellent result! 

Enjoy it

THE PARCHMENT: Quim, Joan, Arnau and Nil

FAIRIES IN THE FOREST by Alba, Joana and Helena

THE BATTLE OF THE WOODS

by Paula, Alba A, Laia and Alba C

A BIG DREAM. By Xavier, Albert, Marc and Jan 

BE YOURSELF by Laura, Maria, Arnau and Pol

St. GEORGE LEGEND by Arlet, Sofia, Aina and Júlia

TOYS by Laia, Mar and Mahé

HOUSEHOLD CHORES (3rd ESO)

Who says that our boys and girls don't help at home?

This week we have been revising vocabulary about HOUSEHOLD CHORES and they have made these wonderful collages to practise it. 

They are leaning a lot at home these days! #STAYATHOME 

WEEK OF THE ENIGMA. (2nd ESO)

This week our 2nd ESO students have created some riddles 

for everyone at school to play, through our social media.

Can you guess the answers?

Enjoy it!

by Berta, Júlia and Alexia

By Kira, Martí, Núria and Ona

by Óscar, Abel and Gerard

By Iria, Jana, Amalia and Judith

And do also play in these Instagram accounts:

WHO IS THE THIEF?  

By Esteban, Anna and Helena

WHO KILLED THE ENGLISH TEACHER?

By Elsa, Irene, Maia and Marina

CONFINEMENT Mario G. (2nd BATX A)

CONFINEMENT

Today everyone is concerned about the same thing, a pandemic, coronavirus or COVID-19, but what can we do while the alarm state is still active? What can we do in our free time?

To start with, you should always take precautions, both when going outside, and indoors. But really this confinement can help many of us, not only to catch up with the classes, but also to spend more time with the family, since many of the students of advanced courses there are times that they only left the room to eat and little else, then during this period of time it can be very entertaining to spend some time playing with the family, for example playing a Monopoly in the afternoon or basically hooking up together to a series or to watch movies.

Another of the many things that can be done is basically sports, although you may not have the necessary material to carry out certain exercises, you can look to adapt by changing, for example, some weights for a bottle with soil or with water itself, or easier than all that. , do sports without material, only your body and the ground.

You can also take advantage of this time to try new things, or read that book that you have had on the shelf for years and years and you have never had the desire or the time to read it.

In short, this quarantine can be very fun and entertaining, as long as you look at everything with a positive side, and seek to entertain yourself with whatever. And remember #stayathome.

MARIO GREGORIO
2nd BATX A

CONFINEMENT. Keren C. (3rd ESO)

Confinement

These times are difficult for everyone, as we already know we are in confinement, that means we can't leave the house (only important things like going to buy or take the dog out). We can take advantage of the time that we are at home for different things that we don’t do in a normal day.

In my confinement I’m doing productive things like sport, I help my parents to clean the house or cook, I have time to watch movies that I always want to see, finish these series I never end... 

But I always have many hours when I have nothing to do and this situation is very difficult for me, my family and all the people. But it is what we have to do for our security and to help all the doctors, nurses, police officers, volunteers and all  the persons helping to fight this virus.As we can’t thank them for everything they are doing for us at eight o'clock night, all of Spain joins in applause addressed to them.It is curious that thanks to this I have been able to meet the neighbor of the other street, after the applause we start a conversation and we play games like “watch watch” (veo veo) with other neighbors, it is very funny we also add on Instagram each other. I greet other neighbors on the street opposite and I don't know them of nothing but the part I like more is that they are very cute old people.

We have to take this situation the best we can. For us and the family at house. We are going to have time to join with friends, go restaurants or go for a walk.

#Westayhome

KEREN CORONAS

3rd ESO

CONFINEMENT David E. (2nd batx A)

CONFINEMENT!

This word has been repeated all these unusual weeks because of this virus called COVID-19. You don’t know when confinement will finish. You don’t know if you will stop working. You don’t know if you will pass it easily or not. That’s a problem. Confinement is bringing the best of us at home, but the worst is happening outside. So, what are your plans then? I’m going to explain my personal thoughts and objectives.

What are you doing now at home? How are you distracting or developing your brain or body? I have to say that those who must have all organized have a problem. As I said at the beginning, Covid-19 doesn’t let us know any date or any calculation about its duration, its contagion, etc. 

Nevertheless, you can organize your time in the day. If I had to choose one idea for you would be: Organize every single day of your confinement as you will not go out anymore. 

Another idea would be: move and let your brain move, don’t be lazy because you have to take advantage of your time. That should help you to create personal objectives that you haven’t had time to do yet. Personally, I have some objectives that I want to reach these days as I have more time for myself: the first one would be learning something new every day,getting new information, more ideas that help you in your life, and every day comes to my mind something I don’t know and I work for it. 

The second one is having fun with your family, take some hours to do activities with your family, if you’re lucky to be with them, play board games, mimics, puzzles or whatever you like. 

My third objective is doing exercise, take your time to think what you want to accomplish. For example, I want to focus on my legs because having strong legs will help me to accomplish my objective to jump more. 

The fourth objective, try new things like playing the piano, playing the guitar, learn how to sew or start dancing, will be funnier and interesting. 

Finally, being informed and communicating with your friends is a good way to keep distracting and having fun.

In conclusion, you can’t be lazy. Organizing your day is very important to reach your objectives and learn because you want, not just for school marks, exams, etc. You must have your time to try and experience new things. 

DAVID ESCORRIOLA

2nd BATX A

CONFINEMENT. Arlet A. (4th ESO)

CONFINEMENT

As everyone should do, I’m spending these days at home because of the coronavirus. It’s hard for me and for almost everyone to stay home and not be able to see our friends and family in a long time, but these days we have to follow the rules. It’s not only for ourselves. We have to protect the ones we have around and the ones we love.

I sometimes get bored and stressed because I don’t know what else to do. Then I normally do exercise or draw. I love drawing. It’s one of my passions and it relaxes me a lot.

During these days of quarantine I’m trying to distract with anything. I’m doing a lot of exercise by watching videos in youtube and copying them. I’m also watching series on Netflix and drawing my favourite characters on paper. Then I will hang them on the wall of the room. In the morning I do the homework so I have the afternoon to do whatever I want. There are some days that I help with the home tasks or I organize my room. I’m also baking a lot. I bake cookies, pancakes, crepes or cakes. At night I normally watch a lot of Netflix and I also eat some popcorn. I go to sleep really late and I wake up every morning around 12 a.m. except the days that I have to do a lot of homework. Every Monday we have tutoring with the teacher. It’s cool because we can talk with our classmates and see if something is wrong.
And the coolest part… I do a lot of facetimes with my friends! I miss them so much.

In my opinion this period of time is helping us to value all the moments we live and to appreciate every second of our lives with the ones we love. Because we don’t know when these great moments are going to end. We also have to appreciate the great work that many workers are doing to save our lives.

This virus is helping the nature someway, to live again, and that makes me so happy. I’m sure this is going to finish really soon. We just have to keep on and stay safe.



Arlet Arànega 
4th ESO

TED TALKS - 2BATX

Our 2BATX students have been asked to record a 

TED TALK 

about something they find interesting... 

Here you have some of them. 

Sure you will love them as much as we have.

CONFINATION IS NOT THAT BAD. Sandra Salvatella

TIME. Simon Shafrazyan

ORGANIZATION. Abril Hernández

ART. Clàudia Guirao

OUR NEIGHBOURS,OUR NEW BEST FRIENDS.

Hugo Fernández

SKATING. Marta Escribà

MOST STRANGE ANIMALS IN NATURE. (2nd ESO)

WHICH ARE THE MOST STRANGE ANIMALS IN NATURE?

THIS IS WHAT OUR 2nd ESO STUDENTS HAVE DISCOVERED THESE DAYS

Here you have some of their research!

MINDMAPPING - CLOTHES - 1st ESO

We revise vocabulary about clothes using mindmaps and organizers.

They use different styles and tools to do them.

TED TALK: The best kindergarten you have ever seen Núria C. (2n batx B)

“The best kindergarten you have ever seen”

On this original Ted Talk, the architect Takaharu Tezuka explains to us an innovative kindergarten in a school in the city of Tokyo. The explanation of that man was very curious and comic, with many images and videos of the construction and the children playing on it. From the Ted Talk, I would like to remark on many aspects.

First of all, Takaharu mentions that the main objective of the kindergarten is that the students experience the advantages and disadvantages of life, in a real society and in contact with nature, one of the most important things we have. From my point of view, this school is amazing, boys and girls can fully develop their imagination, as well as different kinds of intelligence: artistic, scientific… The characteristic that I most like from the project is the rope around the trees, the structure of the rook with a round shape, so the children can run all they want. Another aspect that impacts me is the classrooms, where there is no boundary between outside and outside and there is no acoustic barrier. This is very important so children can develop interest, decisions to difficulties and also concentration.

To conclude, this Ted Talk and the idea of the kindergarten was amazing. I hope one day we could make a similar project in our city!

Núria Cabellos

2n batx B

TED TALK: Grit: The power of passion and perseverance Ramon V. (2n batx A)

Grit: The power of passion and perseverance

Succeeding in life requires two things, passion and grit. As explained in this video, grit is the value that, as proved in many different studies, leads people to success.

According to the speaker, psychologist Angela Lee Duckworth, talent doesn’t make you gritty, instead, commitment does. The main reason why perseverant kids do finally succeed in their tasks is because they don’t believe failure is a permanent condition. The act of trying again and again is what makes someone achieve their objectives.

From my point of view, I strongly agree with this mindset. Talent isn’t useful if there is no

commitment and perseverance on improving it. Grit is something you must develop by yourself, it’s something inside us which makes the difference between people who achieve their dreams, people who follow them but will never achieve them, or people who don’t even try following them because they just think they are out of their reach.

In conclusion, neither IQ, physical health nor social intelligence are the way of accomplishing life’s objectives, only grit can help us on approaching success. 

Ramon Ventura

2n batx A

TED TALK: How to speak so that people want to listen. Sandra S. (2n batx A)

Ted Talk: How to speak so that people want to listen – JulianTreasure

We always try to get people’s attention while we’re speaking, but it isn’t always that easy. From my point of view, it’s such a difficult task making people listen to you, because your voice, your body language and the surrounding are elements which make people get distracted.

Firstly, I really enjoyed the way Julian Treasure made the Ted Talk. He has been clear composing a list with everything you need to avoid in order to make people listen to you. For instance gossip, judge, negativity, complaining, excuses, lying and dogmatism are items you should keep away from your speech if you want to get people’s attention. 

Moreover, honesty, authenticity, integrity and love are the most important values and I completely agree with the speaker. At the end of the talk, he shows an exercise that he does everytime he speaks in public, highlighting how important are body and voice movements if you want to achieve the goal of getting attention. I think I’m going to start doing this exercise before speaking in public, let’s see if it works.

Sandra Salvatella

2n batx A

TED TALK. The power of introverts Clàudia G.P. (2n batx B)

Ted Talk  – The Power of Introverts

Why can't I be an extrovert? Or do I need to be more sociable? these are thoughts that introverted people make throughout their lives at many times.

As Susan Cain said in her ted talk “The power of introverts”, our world has three types of people: introverts, extroverts and ambiverts. But nowadays although we have been fighting  not to exclude diversity, few people have remembered this issue. As a consequence, many people and entities have the perpetual stigma that extroverts are better than introverts and this isn't true!

In my opinion, I totally agree with Mrs. Susan, each person is different and that is why you don’t have to follow the same method, neither to work nor to live. Introversion is finding comfort in one’s self, they don't require social stimulation like an extrovert. They "recharge" by having alone time, doing things by themselves, and that's fine.

I am an introvert, and I function on my own. I go to school, I have extracurricular  and I live happy. And yes, I express myself perfectly fine, just not nearly as forwardly outspoken unless I think it’s necessary but that doesn’t at all mean I am incapable.

In conclusion, we shouldn’t deny to people to have their own character, because the only thing we achieve is that the person feels oppressed and it would be less creative.

Clàudia Gómez-Pastrana

2n batx B

TED TALK. Looks aren't everything. Hugo F. (2n batx B)

TED TALK: LOOKS AREN’T EVERYTHING

We tend to spend a great deal of time in front of the mirror, brushing our hair, choosing our best clothes and perfume thinking that if we have a good looking we will be better than others who don’t have it.

Personally, I believe that what's much more important is who we are inside, having a good sense of humour, compatible personality, being a  responsible and polite person and for sure having good hygiene because nowadays people who spend a huge quantity of money in hypebeast clothes are people who are not confident and pretend to show that they are wearing the most modern clothes.

Furthermore, if you are attractive, people will automatically assume good things about you, give you more leeway with your personality. If you are unattractive it's basically the opposite, you have to try so hard to prove that your ugly appearance isn't representative of your personality but the truth is that the ugly person can be funnier, more intelligent and a better person that the one that has a good appearance so we don’t have to judge the person by the way they look.

On the whole, I think the way we look doesn’t say everything about the person and we have to be judged for whom we are and not for how we look.

                                                                                 

HUGO FERNÁNDEZ

2n BTX B

TED TALK: Looks aren’t everything. Believe me, I’m a model Júlia L. (2n batx A)

Ted Talk: Looks aren’t everything. Believe me, I’m a model

Cameron Russell is a professional model and activist who did a ten minute Ted talk in 2012. In which  she talks about the reality of being a model in this society and the path to do it.

She says looks aren’t everything because they don’t define who you are. Russell explained that her appearance is a consequence of her genetics and legacy. She’s white, thin, tall and pretty, like the majority of models in the big industry. That is starting to change, but we go through baby steps. Although there’s a major factor, stylists. The pictures we see in magazines, commercials, instagram, etc aren’t natural. The models do poses, and yes they’re pretty and thin and all of that. But they don’t always have perfect hair and makeup, flattering clothes and the perfect lighting to embrace their best qualities. And the most important thing Cameron Russell said, they don’t show who are the persons in those pictures.

Actually she explains the pressure in the modeling career, because everyone expects the best of them always. And I think they may be a little overwhelmed by the fact they work with persons as thin, pretty and sexy as them. She confessed she’s insecure and she don’t really identify in her good photos made by professionals.

In my opinion, we tend to see the qualities others have but then we see our weaknesses. Also there’s a part of our life we always want what we don’t have, and we’ll never have. In my case was blue eyes and straight hair. I could damage my hair and change it, but I decided not to. I learn to appreciate it as natural as it is. And with the Ted Talk I felt sort of identified because in my life I’ve seen and heard so many people wishing to have or be different things, but in the end it doesn’t matter. The truth is that there’s always something to improve. Most people think that I’m lucky with my genetics (which I know I am), but the confidence that we have in ourselves and the acceptance of our bodies doesn’t come of the compliments we receive, comes from our self love. It doesn’t matter how many people sees you pretty or sexy, because if you don’t feel it it doesn’t really matter. And on the contrary, It’s okay if you’re criticized, if you’re confident and believe in yourself you’ll take the constructive criticism and become a better person.

In conclusion, I completely agree with Cameron Russell and I think we shouldn’t worry as much as we do for our looks but for our personalities and ourselves.

JÚLIA LATORRE

2n batx A

A COOKING CLASS ( 1st ESO )

During these days at home, our 1st ESO students have become COOKS FOR A DAY!

Here you have some of the videos with the recipes they have prepared for us! Enjoy!

ABRIL G.   DUMPLINGS

ALEXANDRA A.     CHICKEN RICE 

ALEXANDRA P.    CHOCOLATE CAKE

ARTURO M.   OMELETTE 

MARC E.   VEGETABLES CREAM 

PAUL S.   MEATBALLS 

VICTOR P.    FIDEUÀ

#yummyyummy 

BIOGRAPHIES: Inspirational people (4th ESO)

Yes, we are confined at home #WeStayAtHome but we continue working!

Our 4th ESO students have worked with a text about Rosa Parks. 

Then, they were asked to look for information about people who had influenced them or who has been and is a reference for them. 

They had to draw a MindMap with the information #VisualThinking and a writing about him/her. They could choose to do an Infographic instead.

Here we leave you some of their good work!