The Haunted Castle - Reader's Theatre

This year, our 6th graders are working with a methodology called Reader's Theatre which is a great way to learn and have fun at the same time. By using the same script repeatedly, students improve their reading and oral skills, practising intonation and pronunciation. 

Our first contact with the methodology was a short play called The Haunted Castle (taken from the website http://missgbrown.weebly.com) which we adapted to our own needs. The boys and girls had great fun acting out their different parts and, although we were not going to present the play in front of other students, we decided that a Halloween reading for 5th grade would be interesting. 

In reader's theatre, children don't have to memorise their lines so they have the security of the script. It's important for them to add gestures and voice intonation. 

As a first try, the experience was positive, so much so that the boys and girls want to prepare a Christmas play to present to the youngest kids in our school. Watch this space!

Halloween 2018

This year, the English teachers, Xesca, Joana and Angie, along with the help of our conversation assistant, Claire, decided to decorate the hallways of the school for Halloween.

From the youngest kids, right up to the eldest, different forms of arts and crafts were created to give a "Halloweeny" feeling to the school. The kids were delighted with the outcome. Times are changing and Halloween is becoming more important in Majorca, so we like to go where our kids take us!!

Lapbooks in English and Art

To start off the new course year, we need to revise vocabulary and structures done before. What better way to do this than to make a lapbook "All about me!"
Students have been collecting information about themselves and creating their very own soource of information.
We'll let you see the finished results soon!

ENGLISH THEATRE TO CELEBRATE SAINT GEORGE'S DAY - LABYRINTH

Did you know that Saint George is the patron saint of England? So, it is a big day for us to celebrate in our English class. This year, once again, we decided to bring in the Face2Face theatre company as we thoroughly enjoyed their plays last year. 

The first play was LABYRINTH for the boys and girls from fourth to sixth grade: Elsa is an explorer. Armed only with her map and a compass, she travels the world in search of adventure. Her latest mission is in China, searching for the lost treasure of the last Chinese Emperor. But when Elsa arrives at the Emperor's tomb, danger awaits...

Playing vocabulary games out of the everyday classroom

Learning vocabulary and playing fun games at the same time!!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Tonight is halloween and in our classrooms we have been doing some diferent activities!

A halloween bingo




Halloween bookmarks



What's in the witch's kitchen?

LOGO DESIGN COMPETITION

During the last two weeks we made a logo design competition to get the logo of our blog. All the designs are nice, just because children created it but we have only one that is the winner.

Teachers chose four



Then Children from 4th to 6th grade voted the best one for them. THIS ONE IS THE WINNER. CONGRATULATIONS

WHAT A PERFORMANCE!!!!

THIS IS A GOOD WAY TO LEARN NEW VOCABULARY HAVING FUN!

Face to face theatre Company

This morning, as part of the celebrations for Sant Jordi, we were delighted to participate in two different shows at our theatre in Mancor. 

The first show was Cinderella for our boys and girls from second to sixth year and the second show was Jungle Fever for the younger children from age 3 to first year of primary. 

The kids had a fantastic time participating: dancing, singing, laughing and having lots of fun! 

Our thanks to Beth Cohen from the Face to Face Theatre Company who did a great job!

See all the photos pressing on this link!!

Playground games

Our playground has recently undergone a fabulous transformation thanks to our wonderful families who have spent several days making it into a more attractive, fun place.

To celebrate this event, students from year five have developed dialogues and acted them out in the playground to show off some of the new areas.

We hope you enjoy the video!!

English with Rafel!!

We have had the pleasure of Rafel's company for the past three months while Angie was recovering from a car accident. Now, Angie's back and ready for action! We would like to thank Rafel for all his hard work during this time. We've had great fun in class with him learning English and doing art. We had special fun with the English games we played together - a different and fun way to learn how to speak another language!

Thank you very much Rafel for being our English and art teacher during this time, we'll miss you!!!