SPAIN: Christmas in our school

HELLO GUYS!

Hello guys!
We are students from Santa Maria del Pilar school, Zaragoza.
We are also working in the Comenius project and we would like to tell you some things about us and our city.
In our class we are thirty students, nine girls and twenty-one boys. In Comenius project we are working with the English´s teachers, Eva Flores and Rebeca Romero, the Geography´s teacher, Carlos Guallart.
We think that you will like our city, because it´s a fantastic place to live. Here you can go to a lot of parks, visit many museums, churchs and many other interesting places.
Our school is very big, one of the biggest in Aragon because we are more than 1.500 pupils. There are four big buildings with a lot of classrooms, a grass soccer field, two swimming pools, ping-pong tables, a church, a sports center, a few computer rooms,and a lot of outdoor spaces. Here you can do a lot of extracurricular activities.
If you want, you can tell us things about your class, your school and your city.
You can see our photos on the blog of Comenius project.
Geetings, 3B and 3C Classes.

domingo, 17 de enero de 2010

Christmas in our school

Dear companions,

We want to tell you the tradition of the Christmas in our school. Christmas are congratulations of Winter than we make in our school. To choose the best Christmas, a contest takes place in which all the pupils of the school can participate.

A group of teachers choose the best of each cycle in the school.

There are seven cycles, one in infants, three in primary, two in secondary and other one in baccalaureate. Of this seven Christmas, there goes out the best, which turns into the winner of the school. The prize for the one who makes the best Christmas, is that they are given him(her) fifty copies of his(her) Christmas and that the Christmas is sent to all the families of the school as a Christmas letter of congratulation. In the letter of congratulation which is sent, one of our teachers called Luis Antonio Puente writes a poem.

The Christmas that they present to the contest has to show the

Christmas spirit and it is possible to make any work from the

water-color, oil... To be accepted by the jury it has to have size of average Din-4. Normally the winner is from secondary or from baccalaureate because they are older than the other pupils and they know how to draw or handle better the computer, because it´s possible to make by hand or using the computer. The design has to be unpublished, that´s to say, It can't be copied.

In primary, teachers use the Christmas contest to get a mark in Arts, and in first and second of secondary they also do it like that.

Here we leave you some of the best Christmas´s congratulations in the history of our school , from 1981 to 2009 with Luis Antonio Puente´s collaboration.