Spelling Bee Contest 2017

One more year, our school celebrate the 8th Spelling Bee Competition. All students are getting ready for this events and some of them already got a place to this exciting and didactic contest. 

Saint Patrick's Day

St. Patrick’s Festival was established by the Government of Ireland in November 1995.

The principal aim of St. Patrick’s Festival, since its inauguration, is to develop a major annual international festival around the national holiday over which the ‘owners’ of the festival, the Irish people, would stand proud. It sets out to reflect the talents and achievements of Irish people on many national and world stages, and it acts as an exciting showcase for the manifold skills of the people of Ireland, of every age and social background.

As the one national holiday that is celebrated in more countries around the world than any other, St. Patrick’s Day is the day when everyone wants to be Irish.

We set out to seize that opportunity, and completely transform the national and international perception of St. Patrick’s Day in Dublin. This country is bursting with the kind of creative energy, ideas and enthusiasm required to do the job. Our job has been to harness them, and make our national holiday an unforgettable experience for all.

GOVERNANCE

St. Patrick’s Festival is governed by a voluntary board of Directors, see a list of Directors on the Team page.

St. Patrick’s Festival is committed to good governance and the organisation complies with all regulatory requirements and operates in accordance with its governing document, available here. Memoandarts2.pdf

St. Patrick’s Festival keeps detailed books and records of accounts and maintains strict financial controls. The organisation is transparent in its audited financial statements, with most recent statements (2015) available here Audited_accounts_2015_CRA_Upload.pdf.

http://www.stpatricksfestival.ie/info

Why was it started?

• To offer a national festival that ranks amongst all of the greatest celebration in the world.
• To create energy and excitement throughout Ireland via innovation, creativity, grassroots involvement, and marketing activity.
• To provide the opportunity and motivation for people of Irish descent (and those who sometimes wish they were Irish) to attend and join in the imaginative and expressive celebrations.
• To project, internationally, an accurate image of Ireland as a creative, professional and sophisticated country with wide appeal.

The first St. Patrick’s Festival was held over one day, and night, on March 17th 1996, it has since grown to a 4-5 day celebration.

Other interesting link:

St. Patrick's Day (Saint Patrick's Day, irl. Lá 'le Pádraig or Lá Fhéile Pádraig) - Irish national and religious holiday celebrated on March 17. It is named after Saint Patrick, the saint patron of Ireland.

St. Patrick's Day is a day off from work in Ireland, Northern Ireland Newfoundland and Labrador. The most important tradition of celebrations of St. Patrick's Day is wearing clothes in green. Green is the national color of Ireland, referring to the grassy landscape of the island and shamrock traditionally attributed to St. Patrick. Irish in many cities organize festivals and street parades, in which dominates just green.

Saint Patrick's Day is widely recognized and also celebrated in the United States. It is observed as a celebration of Irish and Irish-American culture. Celebrations include religious observances, numerous parades, eating and drinking. The holiday is celebrated on the North American continent since the late eighteenth century.

https://www.calendar-12.com/holidays/saint_patricks_day/2017

St. Patrick's Day in the United States

St Patrick's Day, on March 17, remembers one of Ireland’s patron saints, St Patrick. It largely celebrates Irish-American culture in the United States.

Celebrate St Patrick's Day

Celebrations concentrate on Irish themed parties, drinks and food. Many people get into the spirit by dressing in green clothing and eating green colored food. Irish clubs and pubs often hold parties or have special deals. Large street parades mark St Patrick's Day in places like:

• Savannah
• Chicago
• Boston
• Houston
• Philadelphia
• Pittsburgh
• Denver
• Detroit
• Toronto
• New York
• New Orleans
• Seattle

Blacklight Symphonies Performance in CASARICHE

'Blacklight Symphonies' is a story with too much fun. Two frogs are the main characters, their names are Norman and Billy. They tell us the adventures of Drake, the magician, who show us a very wonderful and magic show since 1881.

We can also be with Rory, a farmer, who will introduce the great Genius 'El Botijo', who gives him a wish. 

At the end, the story of the most famous 'Invisible Ballerina'.

All of this and more in Blacklight Symphonies, 50 minutes of fun, adventures, love, laugh, dancing, talking frogs and magic objects which we get involved in and they make us lose the sense of time. 

Blacklight Symphonies es una divertida historia de... ¡un momento!, son ¡tres divertidas historias! narradas a través de los ojos de dos ranas de la especie imago proiectis*, llamados Norman y Billy.

Con ellos, descubriremos las aventuras de Drake, el mago, donde seremos testigos de su único show mágico celebrado en 1881.

También, podremos acompañar a Rory, el granjero, que encontrará al mismisimo Genio del Botijo, al que le pedirá su mayor deseo.

Y, finalmente, la historia de la más famosa bailarina del mundo mundial, la increible ‘Bailarina Invisible’.

Esto y mucho más es Blacklight Symphonies, 50 minutos de diversión, aventuras, amor, risas, danza, ranas parlantes y objetos mágicos que envolverán de magia todo el escenario.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLUVMzSYX7s

If you want to know more about this wonderful company, you can visit its page in Facebook: 

https://www.facebook.com/teatroluminaria/

Our creations. English is fun in CEIP Lope de Vega.

It has been since October that some groups of students at school have been creating their own projects and works in English. They have had models for their creations and they were having fun all the time they were using for those goals. They created songs, chants and they made drawings about some of the information they got from different topics in English.

Too many differents versions of a song about CLOTHES:

Too many different versions of a song about Weather and feelings:

Too many different versions of a rap about Means of Transport:

Too many examples of drawings about Yellowstone National Park:

Other drawings describing the means of transport you can see in places like cities, parks, rivers, ...

How Being Bilingual Rewires Your Brain

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/02/how-being-bilingual-rewires-your-brain/?utm_content=bufferf1bc7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

It’s well known that being bilingual has cognitive benefits: switching between two languages has been compared to mental gymnastics. But now, research suggests that mastering two languages can fundamentally alter the structure of your brain, rewiring it to work differently than the brains of those who only speak one language.

“Bilinguals are a really a model of cognitive control,” Pennsylvania State University cognitive scientist Judith F. Kroll told Quartz, citing bilinguals’ ability to both hold two languages in their head and expertly switch between them at the right times. Kroll presented her work at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting held in Washington, DC last weekend (Feb. 13). If you speak two languages and have ever found this task to be difficult—choosing the “right” tongue based on the context you’re in—it’s because both languages are always “on” in the brains of bilinguals, as Kroll and other cognitive scientists have seen. In other words, the brain is continually processing information in both languages.

The mental struggle of selecting and switching between two languagesactually helps reshape the brain’s networks, according to Kroll. One study looked at four-month old, eight-month old, and one-year old infants—60 of whom were bilingual and 60 monolingual—and found that, as they grew older, infants who were exposed to both Spanish and Catalan started looking at speakers’ mouths instead of their eyes when listening to someone talk. The monolingual infants, however, only looked at mouths more than eyes when they were listening to someone speak their native tongue.

Kroll told Quartz this study is a great example of how being bilingual can improve speakers’ cognitive abilities. “Babies who are listening to two languages [growing up] become attuned to those two languages right away,” said Kroll. “It’s not confusing them or messing them up developmentally—the opposite is true.”

This rewiring doesn’t happen the same way in every bilingual brain—it’s different for each person, just as each person has their own language experience. But Kroll’s research demonstrates that no matter how effortlessly other bilinguals may seem to switch between their two tongues, there’s a lot going on under the hood. That should come as a small relief for anyone attempting to pick up a new language.

https://www.facebook.com/worldeconomicforum/videos/vb.7746841478/10153629419691479/?type=2&theater

Santa Claus Came to our Town for Christmas

The last day of School Father Christmas decided to come and pass by. It was very very exciting for the children. 

Someone told us that Father Christmas was coming this year so the children got ready and very excited as well for the fact.

They were writing their letter during a week to make sure that every single sentence made sense and also to let Him know how good they were during this year and what they wished for the next year coming. 

And then at the end, Father Christmas came on the last day at school. Kids were sending their letters to the letterbox that Father Christmas brought with.