School Magazine - Laude San Pedro International College

LAUDE School Magazine Thursday 21st February– Volume 1, Issue 15
FLAMENCO WORKSHOP
As part of our Music activities, last
14 th of February the 2 ESO class went
to a flamenco workshop in San Pedro
de Alcántara. It was an enriching
educational experience for our
students and gave them the chance to
know more about flamenco; one of
the Masterpieces of the Oral and
Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
Mr. M. Fernandez – Arts Department
PET WORLD
Kindergarten have been enjoying
learning about looking after and
caring for their pet animals; bathing
them, feeding them, playing with
them, taking them for walks and
taking them to the Vet. We even have
a Vet Clinic in our playground!
We have also been learning about all
the different sounds that animals
make, so if you hear a tiger in the
corridor, do not be afraid, it will be
Kindergarten practicing their sounds!
Mrs. C. T. Clark – Kindergarten
On 6 th March, we will be celebrating
World Maths Day. In conjunction
with Primary, students in Years 7-9
will take part in a rapid-fire mental
arithmetic competition organised online
by World Educational Games.
Schools from countries all over the
world will be taking part. In
preparation this week, students have
been given their log-ins and
passwords to access the web-site and
start practising. At the time of writing,
Gerardo Arquero was Secondary’s
highest scorer during the practice
phase of the competition. More
information can be found at:
http://www.worldeducationgames.com
Mr. P. Teale – Head of Maths
On Thursday 7 March 2013, our pupils
will be celebrating World Book Day
2103 with a huge range of activities
taking place. We will be dressing up
and taking part in many events
throughout the day.
Key Stage 1 and Foundation Stage –
Please come to school dressed as a
character from a fairy tale.
Key Stage 2 – Please come to school
dressed as a character from a Roald
Dahl book.
The teachers and learning support
teachers will be dressing up too!
Please can all pupils bring €1 to enter
our competition to guess the number
of words in a poem There will be
prizes for the nearest guesses and all
money collected will go to our
selected school charity.
Please also bring some money to
spend at the cake sale at playtime,
organised by the pupils in 5H, to raise
money for Book Aid International,
which is a fantastic charity dedicated
to changing lives though donating
books. Every year they send half a
million books to community, public,
school and academic libraries in 12
countries in sub-Saharan Africa, to
increase access to the best quality
books in some of the poorest areas of
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LAUDE School Magazine Thursday 21st February– Volume 1, Issue 15
the world. Over three hundred
thousand of those books were
destined for use by primary and
secondary school aged children.
with a small dollop of fruit jam to add
extra sweetness to these moreish St
Valentines favourites. Students plan
to give these Valentines treats to their
parents, friends and teachers over the
remainder of the week.
http://www.bookaid.org/worldbookday
During the day pupils will design book
covers, pupils will visit other classes to
read together, participate in an interhouse
book quiz and contribute to a
Class book, which will be displayed in
the Library following World Book Day.
Also, please note that Bookworld will
be selling books on 7 March for World
Book Day. Please support us by
buying your books at school as we can
earn commission on sales and buy
more books for our libraries!
We are looking forward to a fun day
celebrating our love of books and
reading.
Mrs. V. Hurst - Primary Literacy Coordinator
As John Paul Young once sang, “Love
is in the Air” at Laude San Pedro
International College as students
studying Food Technology from Years
7 – 10 prepared and cooked jam
filled butter biscuits, also known as
“sables” in class this St Valentine’s
Week.
These traditional French cookies were
made using a heart shaped cutter and
when baked, sandwiched together
Here we see Year 9 with their final
products. Congratulations everyone
on a job well done!
Mr. R. Ellis – Technology Department
On Thursday 2 March, Year 5 went to
the Picasso Museum in Malaga to
study the art of Pablo Picasso as part
of our “Express yourself” topic.
We were given a guided tour, which
gave us lots of opportunities to share
our ideas about the paintings we saw.
We enjoyed looking at how Picasso
often paints his subjects in very
unusual ways! The Year 5 children
asked a lot of very thoughtful
questions and Mrs Hurst and Mrs
Backwell were very impressed with
the mature attitude our pupils
showed.
We are now feeling very inspired to
create our own amazing works of art!
Mrs. V. Hurst and Mrs. R. Backwell -
Year 5
Primary´s Boys Football
teams Triumph!
There was nothing romantic about
our Primary boys’ approach to their
Valentine’s Day fixture against Swans
Primary School. In the combined Year
3 and 4 team, Luis Santiago scored a
first half hat-trick, Ronan O’Mahoney
contributed 4 brilliant goals and Year
3’s Alvaro Fernandez, rose above the
opposition to score with a great
header.
The Year 5’s followed their school
mates’ example, and the fortunate
spectators were again treated to
some wonder-goals by Manuel
Venegas, Marco Mutavdzic, Jeremy
Albouhair, (2), and confidently leading
up front Alexander Andrason scoring
4 superb goals.
Miss O. Garcia- Head of PE
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Congratulations to the following
students who were awarded with this
week´s “Star of the Week Award”!
Year 6A: Egor
Year 6C: Ksenia
Year 4dC: Gabriela
Year 4M: Rubén
Year 3dC: Marta
Year 3F: Alejandra
Year 2B: Vanessa
Year 2M: Noor
Year 1A: Jaime
Year 1H: Diana
Also, we are pleased to announce that
FIRE is in the lead of the House Points
battle with a very impressive 466
Points!
Mr. S. Croll – KS2 Coordinator
Key Stage 3 Inter House
Basketball Tournament
The Key Stage 3 Inter-House
Basketball Tournament got off to a
great start with students from each
House showing good standard of skill
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and some excellent individual
performances.
The matches played were filled with
great excitement, with all our boys
and girls showing first class passes
and magnificent dribbling. It was
wonderful to see so many students
supporting their house teams and
showing great enthusiasm and
enjoyment. We at Laude encourage
all our pupils to participate in a wide
variety of competitions where
students experience team spirit and
gain a sense of achievement. Well
done to House Earth who put up a
great fight to be crowned KS3 Inter-
House Basketball champions.
Miss O. Garcia – Head of PE
LAUDE´S GARDENS
This month in Natural Sciences in ESO
2, we have studied the structure of
Ecosystems. We have identified its
components and understood some of
the relationships that exist between
its inhabitants. We´ve also learned to
classify living things according to their
roles. The use of graphics and
statistics have helped us to realise
that between the different levels of
living things there exist more links
than we could think of at first. To
understand this a little bit better, we
decided to visit our nearest
ecosystem, Laude’s gardens. We
planned to make observations and
take notes to create atrophic
pyramids and networks. These tools
would show us the various species
that live beyond the windows of our
classrooms, and the inhabitants’
proportion in each atrophic level.
What we have found is that in our
little ecosystem there is a great
biodiversity, well maintained by our
gardener Miguel, where we can find
ornamental producers like the
Pitosporo from China or the Tropical
Lantana; or representatives of our
Mediterranean forest, like the Oak,
Cork Oak and Wild Olive trees; there
are also consumers, like the Asian
palm weevil; birds such as Gulls,
Finches or Greenfinches (Embernagra
platensis); reptiles like Lizards or
mammals such as small moles
(Arvicolinae) and Cats. The widest
level of the trophic pyramid of
numbers belongs to the group of
producers (plants), followed by
primary consumers (insects, mollusks,
moles, birds…), secondary consumers
(Lizards, Ladybirds, birds…) and
tertiary consumers (Cats, European
mantis, Gulls…), in this order.
Congratulations, guys, for your
successful expedition.

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Mr. A. Gomez – Spanish Department
Because he finished with me
He and me were a ´WE´
Now I sit and cry, I have lost a big
part”
By Kristina Tryapkina, Year 8 Induction
Inspired by The Guardian´s children´s
Valentine's Day limerick competition,
Year 7 and 8 students wrote
Valentine´s Day
Love
Limericks
They had good fun playing with
rhyming words and creating their own
limericks. Some were funny, some
were sad and some ended up just
plain crazy!!! Here are some examples
There once was a strange-looking boy
Who loved a girl called Roy!!
But the day that they met
She didn´t fall in love with him, not
yet!
Until he inspired her with joy
Year 7 Induction, Gabriel Richter
There once was a girl and her name
was Pearl
One day when she whirled, she
whirled and whirled
And she crashed into a boy
When she looked into his eyes she got
a surprise
And together they twirled and twirled
and twirled.
By Kristina Gracheva, Year 7 Induction
There once was a good looking boy
She said to him ”I love you, O Roy!”
He said to her “Oh really. Me too!!!”
And together they walked under the
moon
But later she met another good
looking boy and that was the end of
Roy!!
By Kateryna Prusova, Year 8 Induction
I think you will agree they did well,
especially considering some of these
students just started this term! Love is
clearly inspiring Happy Valentine´s
Day!
Ms. P. Butler – English Department
Last Wednesday, 13 th February, 10
Laude students in years 7 & 8 took
part in the first Costa del Sol
Interschool Quiz.
Our students did a wonderful job and
proudly represented Laude. In the
individual quiz round, our students
did incredibly well: a total of 140
students were entered for this
competition and 3 of our students
made us particularly proud: Antonio
Leon came 8 th , Gabriel Woods
(pictured below) came 12 th and Jade
There once was a girl with a broken
heart
Who said “I was dying inside with
hurt”
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LAUDE School Magazine Thursday 21st February– Volume 1, Issue 15
Orefici came 15 th . Congratulations to
all of you!
Mr. C. Marchand – Head of Secondary
Music, Art, ICT, Design &
Technology and Food Technology,
which are taught in English.
JANUARY STUDENTS OF
THE MONTH
Laude is a single School with a very
wide range of educational
possibilities, which allow us to
satisfy all our student´s
educational needs.
Congratulations to the following
students who were awarded with the
January Student of the Month Award
last week in assembly!
PAULA DE LA CRUZ
MIRANDSA ESTRADAS
FARIS EDREES
JUSTIN VAN DAALEN
SELIN SARAYLI
DREW KING
ANDRÉS MORILLAS
JULIA PIETRAS
VLADISLAV ISKAKOV
VERA BILSKAYA
OSCAR CHICO VAN GENT
GIANCARLO GUARNIERI
DAVID MARÍN
RALPH JAGTENBERG
Mr. C. Marchand – Head of Secondary
Last Thursday 14th February, Mrs.
Susana Montes (Head of Spanish
Studies) and Miss Mailo de Dios
(Spanish Second language
Teacher), were the guests on the
“De Buena Mañana” breakfast
show on Manilva TV.
They spoke about the Spanish
provision at Laude and about the 3
different lines of study available
for our students.
Spanish as a Second language: for
students following the British
Curriculum and for whom Spanish
as a Second Language is a
compulsory subject.
Spanish First Language (lengua)
and “Conocimiento del medio or
Ciencias Sociales”: for students
who are following the LOE
programme from Year 1 to Year
11, in order to obtain the
convalidation of the ESO
programme.
Students following the ESO &
Bachillerato (Spanish A-level)
attend classes taught in Spanish,
with the exception of the more
“practical” subjects such as PE,
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LAUDE School Magazine Thursday 21st February– Volume 1, Issue 15
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