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LAUDE <strong>School</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> Thursday 21st February– Volume 1, Issue 15<br />
FLAMENCO WORKSHOP<br />
As part of our Music activities, last<br />
14 th of February the 2 ESO class went<br />
to a flamenco workshop in <strong>San</strong> <strong>Pedro</strong><br />
de Alcántara. It was an enriching<br />
educational experience for our<br />
students and gave them the chance to<br />
know more about flamenco; one of<br />
the Masterpieces of the Oral and<br />
Intangible Heritage of Humanity.<br />
Mr. M. Fernandez – Arts Department<br />
PET WORLD<br />
Kindergarten have been enjoying<br />
learning about looking after and<br />
caring for their pet animals; bathing<br />
them, feeding them, playing with<br />
them, taking them for walks and<br />
taking them to the Vet. We even have<br />
a Vet Clinic in our playground!<br />
We have also been learning about all<br />
the different sounds that animals<br />
make, so if you hear a tiger in the<br />
corridor, do not be afraid, it will be<br />
Kindergarten practicing their sounds!<br />
Mrs. C. T. Clark – Kindergarten<br />
On 6 th March, we will be celebrating<br />
World Maths Day. In conjunction<br />
with Primary, students in Years 7-9<br />
will take part in a rapid-fire mental<br />
arithmetic competition organised online<br />
by World Educational Games.<br />
<strong>School</strong>s from countries all over the<br />
world will be taking part. In<br />
preparation this week, students have<br />
been given their log-ins and<br />
passwords to access the web-site and<br />
start practising. At the time of writing,<br />
Gerardo Arquero was Secondary’s<br />
highest scorer during the practice<br />
phase of the competition. More<br />
information can be found at:<br />
http://www.worldeducationgames.com<br />
Mr. P. Teale – Head of Maths<br />
On Thursday 7 March 2013, our pupils<br />
will be celebrating World Book Day<br />
2103 with a huge range of activities<br />
taking place. We will be dressing up<br />
and taking part in many events<br />
throughout the day.<br />
Key Stage 1 and Foundation Stage –<br />
Please come to school dressed as a<br />
character from a fairy tale.<br />
Key Stage 2 – Please come to school<br />
dressed as a character from a Roald<br />
Dahl book.<br />
The teachers and learning support<br />
teachers will be dressing up too!<br />
Please can all pupils bring €1 to enter<br />
our competition to guess the number<br />
of words in a poem There will be<br />
prizes for the nearest guesses and all<br />
money collected will go to our<br />
selected school charity.<br />
Please also bring some money to<br />
spend at the cake sale at playtime,<br />
organised by the pupils in 5H, to raise<br />
money for Book Aid <strong>International</strong>,<br />
which is a fantastic charity dedicated<br />
to changing lives though donating<br />
books. Every year they send half a<br />
million books to community, public,<br />
school and academic libraries in 12<br />
countries in sub-Saharan Africa, to<br />
increase access to the best quality<br />
books in some of the poorest areas of<br />
Edited by: Mr. C. Marchand - Head of Secondary
LAUDE <strong>School</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> Thursday 21st February– Volume 1, Issue 15<br />
the world. Over three hundred<br />
thousand of those books were<br />
destined for use by primary and<br />
secondary school aged children.<br />
with a small dollop of fruit jam to add<br />
extra sweetness to these moreish St<br />
Valentines favourites. Students plan<br />
to give these Valentines treats to their<br />
parents, friends and teachers over the<br />
remainder of the week.<br />
http://www.bookaid.org/worldbookday<br />
During the day pupils will design book<br />
covers, pupils will visit other classes to<br />
read together, participate in an interhouse<br />
book quiz and contribute to a<br />
Class book, which will be displayed in<br />
the Library following World Book Day.<br />
Also, please note that Bookworld will<br />
be selling books on 7 March for World<br />
Book Day. Please support us by<br />
buying your books at school as we can<br />
earn commission on sales and buy<br />
more books for our libraries!<br />
We are looking forward to a fun day<br />
celebrating our love of books and<br />
reading.<br />
Mrs. V. Hurst - Primary Literacy Coordinator<br />
As John Paul Young once sang, “Love<br />
is in the Air” at <strong>Laude</strong> <strong>San</strong> <strong>Pedro</strong><br />
<strong>International</strong> <strong>College</strong> as students<br />
studying Food Technology from Years<br />
7 – 10 prepared and cooked jam<br />
filled butter biscuits, also known as<br />
“sables” in class this St Valentine’s<br />
Week.<br />
These traditional French cookies were<br />
made using a heart shaped cutter and<br />
when baked, sandwiched together<br />
Here we see Year 9 with their final<br />
products. Congratulations everyone<br />
on a job well done!<br />
Mr. R. Ellis – Technology Department<br />
On Thursday 2 March, Year 5 went to<br />
the Picasso Museum in Malaga to<br />
study the art of Pablo Picasso as part<br />
of our “Express yourself” topic.<br />
We were given a guided tour, which<br />
gave us lots of opportunities to share<br />
our ideas about the paintings we saw.<br />
We enjoyed looking at how Picasso<br />
often paints his subjects in very<br />
unusual ways! The Year 5 children<br />
asked a lot of very thoughtful<br />
questions and Mrs Hurst and Mrs<br />
Backwell were very impressed with<br />
the mature attitude our pupils<br />
showed.<br />
We are now feeling very inspired to<br />
create our own amazing works of art!<br />
Mrs. V. Hurst and Mrs. R. Backwell -<br />
Year 5<br />
Primary´s Boys Football<br />
teams Triumph!<br />
There was nothing romantic about<br />
our Primary boys’ approach to their<br />
Valentine’s Day fixture against Swans<br />
Primary <strong>School</strong>. In the combined Year<br />
3 and 4 team, Luis <strong>San</strong>tiago scored a<br />
first half hat-trick, Ronan O’Mahoney<br />
contributed 4 brilliant goals and Year<br />
3’s Alvaro Fernandez, rose above the<br />
opposition to score with a great<br />
header.<br />
The Year 5’s followed their school<br />
mates’ example, and the fortunate<br />
spectators were again treated to<br />
some wonder-goals by Manuel<br />
Venegas, Marco Mutavdzic, Jeremy<br />
Albouhair, (2), and confidently leading<br />
up front Alexander Andrason scoring<br />
4 superb goals.<br />
Miss O. Garcia- Head of PE<br />
Edited by: Mr. C. Marchand - Head of Secondary
LAUDE <strong>School</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> Thursday 21st February– Volume 1, Issue 15<br />
Congratulations to the following<br />
students who were awarded with this<br />
week´s “Star of the Week Award”!<br />
Year 6A: Egor<br />
Year 6C: Ksenia<br />
Year 4dC: Gabriela<br />
Year 4M: Rubén<br />
Year 3dC: Marta<br />
Year 3F: Alejandra<br />
Year 2B: Vanessa<br />
Year 2M: Noor<br />
Year 1A: Jaime<br />
Year 1H: Diana<br />
Also, we are pleased to announce that<br />
FIRE is in the lead of the House Points<br />
battle with a very impressive 466<br />
Points!<br />
Mr. S. Croll – KS2 Coordinator<br />
Key Stage 3 Inter House<br />
Basketball Tournament<br />
The Key Stage 3 Inter-House<br />
Basketball Tournament got off to a<br />
great start with students from each<br />
House showing good standard of skill<br />
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and some excellent individual<br />
performances.<br />
The matches played were filled with<br />
great excitement, with all our boys<br />
and girls showing first class passes<br />
and magnificent dribbling. It was<br />
wonderful to see so many students<br />
supporting their house teams and<br />
showing great enthusiasm and<br />
enjoyment. We at <strong>Laude</strong> encourage<br />
all our pupils to participate in a wide<br />
variety of competitions where<br />
students experience team spirit and<br />
gain a sense of achievement. Well<br />
done to House Earth who put up a<br />
great fight to be crowned KS3 Inter-<br />
House Basketball champions.<br />
Miss O. Garcia – Head of PE<br />
LAUDE´S GARDENS<br />
This month in Natural Sciences in ESO<br />
2, we have studied the structure of<br />
Ecosystems. We have identified its<br />
components and understood some of<br />
the relationships that exist between<br />
its inhabitants. We´ve also learned to<br />
classify living things according to their<br />
roles. The use of graphics and<br />
statistics have helped us to realise<br />
that between the different levels of<br />
living things there exist more links<br />
than we could think of at first. To<br />
understand this a little bit better, we<br />
decided to visit our nearest<br />
ecosystem, <strong>Laude</strong>’s gardens. We<br />
planned to make observations and<br />
take notes to create atrophic<br />
pyramids and networks. These tools<br />
would show us the various species<br />
that live beyond the windows of our<br />
classrooms, and the inhabitants’<br />
proportion in each atrophic level.<br />
What we have found is that in our<br />
little ecosystem there is a great<br />
biodiversity, well maintained by our<br />
gardener Miguel, where we can find<br />
ornamental producers like the<br />
Pitosporo from China or the Tropical<br />
Lantana; or representatives of our<br />
Mediterranean forest, like the Oak,<br />
Cork Oak and Wild Olive trees; there<br />
are also consumers, like the Asian<br />
palm weevil; birds such as Gulls,<br />
Finches or Greenfinches (Embernagra<br />
platensis); reptiles like Lizards or<br />
mammals such as small moles<br />
(Arvicolinae) and Cats. The widest<br />
level of the trophic pyramid of<br />
numbers belongs to the group of<br />
producers (plants), followed by<br />
primary consumers (insects, mollusks,<br />
moles, birds…), secondary consumers<br />
(Lizards, Ladybirds, birds…) and<br />
tertiary consumers (Cats, European<br />
mantis, Gulls…), in this order.<br />
Congratulations, guys, for your<br />
successful expedition.
LAUDE <strong>School</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> Thursday 21st February– Volume 1, Issue 15<br />
Mr. A. Gomez – Spanish Department<br />
Because he finished with me<br />
He and me were a ´WE´<br />
Now I sit and cry, I have lost a big<br />
part”<br />
By Kristina Tryapkina, Year 8 Induction<br />
Inspired by The Guardian´s children´s<br />
Valentine's Day limerick competition,<br />
Year 7 and 8 students wrote<br />
Valentine´s Day<br />
Love<br />
Limericks<br />
They had good fun playing with<br />
rhyming words and creating their own<br />
limericks. Some were funny, some<br />
were sad and some ended up just<br />
plain crazy!!! Here are some examples<br />
There once was a strange-looking boy<br />
Who loved a girl called Roy!!<br />
But the day that they met<br />
She didn´t fall in love with him, not<br />
yet!<br />
Until he inspired her with joy<br />
Year 7 Induction, Gabriel Richter<br />
There once was a girl and her name<br />
was Pearl<br />
One day when she whirled, she<br />
whirled and whirled<br />
And she crashed into a boy<br />
When she looked into his eyes she got<br />
a surprise<br />
And together they twirled and twirled<br />
and twirled.<br />
By Kristina Gracheva, Year 7 Induction<br />
There once was a good looking boy<br />
She said to him ”I love you, O Roy!”<br />
He said to her “Oh really. Me too!!!”<br />
And together they walked under the<br />
moon<br />
But later she met another good<br />
looking boy and that was the end of<br />
Roy!!<br />
By Kateryna Prusova, Year 8 Induction<br />
I think you will agree they did well,<br />
especially considering some of these<br />
students just started this term! Love is<br />
clearly inspiring Happy Valentine´s<br />
Day!<br />
Ms. P. Butler – English Department<br />
Last Wednesday, 13 th February, 10<br />
<strong>Laude</strong> students in years 7 & 8 took<br />
part in the first Costa del Sol<br />
Interschool Quiz.<br />
Our students did a wonderful job and<br />
proudly represented <strong>Laude</strong>. In the<br />
individual quiz round, our students<br />
did incredibly well: a total of 140<br />
students were entered for this<br />
competition and 3 of our students<br />
made us particularly proud: Antonio<br />
Leon came 8 th , Gabriel Woods<br />
(pictured below) came 12 th and Jade<br />
There once was a girl with a broken<br />
heart<br />
Who said “I was dying inside with<br />
hurt”<br />
Edited by: Mr. C. Marchand - Head of Secondary
LAUDE <strong>School</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> Thursday 21st February– Volume 1, Issue 15<br />
Orefici came 15 th . Congratulations to<br />
all of you!<br />
Mr. C. Marchand – Head of Secondary<br />
Music, Art, ICT, Design &<br />
Technology and Food Technology,<br />
which are taught in English.<br />
JANUARY STUDENTS OF<br />
THE MONTH<br />
<strong>Laude</strong> is a single <strong>School</strong> with a very<br />
wide range of educational<br />
possibilities, which allow us to<br />
satisfy all our student´s<br />
educational needs.<br />
Congratulations to the following<br />
students who were awarded with the<br />
January Student of the Month Award<br />
last week in assembly!<br />
PAULA DE LA CRUZ<br />
MIRANDSA ESTRADAS<br />
FARIS EDREES<br />
JUSTIN VAN DAALEN<br />
SELIN SARAYLI<br />
DREW KING<br />
ANDRÉS MORILLAS<br />
JULIA PIETRAS<br />
VLADISLAV ISKAKOV<br />
VERA BILSKAYA<br />
OSCAR CHICO VAN GENT<br />
GIANCARLO GUARNIERI<br />
DAVID MARÍN<br />
RALPH JAGTENBERG<br />
Mr. C. Marchand – Head of Secondary<br />
Last Thursday 14th February, Mrs.<br />
Susana Montes (Head of Spanish<br />
Studies) and Miss Mailo de Dios<br />
(Spanish Second language<br />
Teacher), were the guests on the<br />
“De Buena Mañana” breakfast<br />
show on Manilva TV.<br />
They spoke about the Spanish<br />
provision at <strong>Laude</strong> and about the 3<br />
different lines of study available<br />
for our students.<br />
Spanish as a Second language: for<br />
students following the British<br />
Curriculum and for whom Spanish<br />
as a Second Language is a<br />
compulsory subject.<br />
Spanish First Language (lengua)<br />
and “Conocimiento del medio or<br />
Ciencias Sociales”: for students<br />
who are following the LOE<br />
programme from Year 1 to Year<br />
11, in order to obtain the<br />
convalidation of the ESO<br />
programme.<br />
Students following the ESO &<br />
Bachillerato (Spanish A-level)<br />
attend classes taught in Spanish,<br />
with the exception of the more<br />
“practical” subjects such as PE,<br />
Edited by: Mr. C. Marchand - Head of Secondary
LAUDE <strong>School</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> Thursday 21st February– Volume 1, Issue 15<br />
Edited by: Mr. C. Marchand - Head of Secondary