MARCH 2012 THE SECONDARY NEWSLETTER Secondary News from the Pupils and Teachers of The British School of Alicante Head of Secondary Message Sports Day 2012 No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted It is a constant source of surprise and joy at how busy a school we are. Once again, the month has been filled with numerous events, trips, visits and vis- itors, which only serve to enrich our days. Sports day was, once again, a terrific occasion with numerous feats of sporting endeavour as well as rap- turous applause and cheering for the competitors. Our first ever Literary Festival was a huge success and the articles and the pictures contained within are testament to the fun, happi- ness and academic rigour that these days brought. It also reminds me that regardless of how busy our lives our, we should al- ways remember the little things that help make somebody else’s life hap- pier. We can all do small random acts of kindness during our busy days which make a difference. We can be unfailingly polite to every single person that we meet. We can listen to someone’s problem without im- mediately comparing it to one of our own. In the canteen, we can offer to take someone else’s tray back with our own. We can pick up some litter – even if it’s not ours. Importantly, we can also smile at everyone we see. I love seeing these random acts of kindness here at school and no mat- ter how small, they are never wasted. Stephen Green Head of Secondary
Transcript
MARCH 2012
THE SECONDARY N E W S L E T T E RSecondary News from the Pupils and Teachers of The British School of Alicante
Head of Secondary Message
Sports Day 2012
No act of kindness however small is ever wasted
It is a constant source of surprise and joy at how busy a school we are Once again the month has been filled with numerous events trips visits and vis-itors which only serve to enrich our days Sports day was once again a terrific occasion with numerous feats of sporting endeavour as well as rap-turous applause and cheering for the competitors Our first ever Literary Festival was a huge success and the articles and the pictures contained within are testament to the fun happi-ness and academic rigour that these days brought It also reminds me that regardless of how busy our lives our we should al-ways remember the little things that
help make somebody elsersquos life hap-pier We can all do small random acts of kindness during our busy days which make a difference We can be unfailingly polite to every single person that we meet We can listen to someonersquos problem without im-mediately comparing it to one of our own In the canteen we can offer to take someone elsersquos tray back with our own We can pick up some litter ndash even if itrsquos not ours Importantly we can also smile at everyone we see
I love seeing these random acts of kindness here at school and no mat-ter how small they are never wasted
Stephen GreenHead of Secondary
CHILDRENARE HEARED
SPORTS
DAY2012
Page 3
Year group Distance Student Old record New Record11‐13 800m Craig Laidlaw 23053 22600 New year group record11‐13 800m Elena Iborra 41485 32800 New year group record9‐10 200m Alejandra Lledo 3109 2962 New school record9‐10 400m Gracia Carratala 12481 12300 New year group record9‐10 400m Takuma Yawood 10500 10100 New school record
Year group Event Student Old record New Record11‐13 Javelin Ellis Nastry 2649 284 New school record9‐10 Long Jump Mario Valero 500 550 New year group record7‐8 Shot putt Rory Clear 790 988 New year group record
Field
Track
RECORDS ACHIEVED 2012
SCHOOL SPORT RECORSGIRLS
EVENT TIME YEAR75 m 1100 2011
100 m 1350 2011200 m 3022 2011800 m 32094 20111500 m 72015 2010
BOYS EVENT TIME YEAR
75 m 1094 2010100 m 1397 2011200 m 2212 2008800 m 21913 20081500 m 52813 2008
On Tuesday 13th and Wednesday 14th March The British School of Alicante hosted our first Literary Festival This presented a wonderful
opportunity for students in Year 6 KS3 and KS4 to experience a range of literature in creative inspiring and fun activities
The theme for the festival was acuteBringing Books Aliveacute and students explored particular aspects of stories poetry and art In Year 7 the students explored comic book heroes the Year 8 had a scary look at frightening stories and in Year Nine the students read wrote and performed poetry and songs Year 10 and 11 analysed and composed their own songs
ldquoBringing Books Aliverdquo
Page 9
We were delighted to welcome three visitors to the school dur-ing the festival Ash Dickinson a performance poet from the UK worked with Year 7 8 and 9 For more information about him visit his website at
httpwwwashdickinsoncom
A local storyteller Raquel Lopez also worked with the Year 9 stu-dents
Maeve Friel an Irish author based in Alicante also visited She writes books for younger readers and she worked with Year 6 and Year 7 Her website is httpwwwmaevefrielcom and you can also find out more about Maeve and her books on the website
h t t p w w w a m a z o n e s
The students also participated in specially devised English and Art lessons providing them with the opportunity to develop their creative skills confidence and interpretation of each theme It was an exciting two days and the students enjoyed the opportunity to acuteBring Books Aliveacute
Sian DaviesLiterary Festival OrganiserThanks to John Rattigan for the monkey art work httpwwwjohnrattigancouk
Y8 Literary FestivalOn Wednesday 14th of March 2012 year 8 had a literary festival In the morning Mr Pemberton read us a horror story about an old witch and then we filled out a sheet telling you the characters the main events and what happens in the story After we went up to the gym and we met a poet called Ash Dickinson He was a very funny poet and he told us lots of different ways to rhyme and make po-ems He told us some of his poems and when he was reciting them he did some of his dance moves Also when we had written some poems some peo-ple read them out and if they were in a group they acted it out It was hilarious After that we went up to art with Mrs Castro and Mrs Parry and we drew pictures with Ink and pictures done on black card with chalk On the pictures we had to put a scary sentence or write something scary It was fun
After that we went down stairs to the library to write a horror story We got 45 minutes to do that and then we had to either listen to everybody elsersquos or pre-sent ours to the rest of year 8 There were all kinds of horror stories Funny ones scary oneshellip but at the end of the day we all had loads of fun writing and listening to everybody At the end we had to give Ms Davies our stories and our pictures so she could put some up on the wall
by Charlotte
Page 11
What a fantastic day for year 9 All of my friends and I had a really great time Poetry and literature at first sight donacutet seem very interesting but that Wednesday was awesome We learned a lot about the interpretation of poems and how to represent our feelings in our own work
We began the one day project by choosing a poem from a selection shown to us by our teachers Then in scrap we wrote what we thought about them and planned how we would rep-resent these thoughts the next day in our posters It was fun to work with people in other classes and be in groups for this creative activity On Wednesday morning we started to create our posters in groups Some groups worked with small paper others with huge A2 posters and we all used different kinds of tools and media to create them such as tissue paper cray-ons pencils and paint
That kept us busy all morning and then we worked in different groups towards creating our own poems and songs based on the theme of Perseverance We practised the way we were going to act and perform them using the skills we learned with Ash Dickinson earlier that day At the end of the day we played some drama games and then performed our songs and poems in front of each other in the school playground We voted for the ones we liked best and the final winners were Ivan Maria Jose Luis Jorge and Mario All of the groups did a fantastic job and we had so much fun with this activity We had an extremely enjoyable day all together thanks to Ms Davies Ms McGuinness and Ms Taylor
We hope that we can repeat this experience next year
Y9 Literary Festivalby luisa
Y7 Literary Festival
I enjoyed making our own super- hero a lot In my group our hero was called ldquoDiamond Girlrdquo This activity was a lot of fun as we had to use our imagination and our art skills
I also enjoyed learning to draw in the Manga style
Then we had visits from a writer and a poet it was good to meet them and do fun activities with them It was a really fun week
I enjoyed what we did in the literary week very much
Tuesday was great fun it was all about comics First we created a super- hero we drew it and wrote about its super powers its character and friendships Then we drew a girl in Manga style which is a Japanese comic style
On the Wednesday a poet came to see us and we did all sorts of fun activities First we created a poem and an alliteration beginning with the letter M Mine was Magic Monkey made magic marvellouslyIt was one of the best weeks ever
Ineacutes Year 7G
Silvia Year 7F
Manga is the Japanese word for comics
Y7 Literary Festival
Page 13
TRIP TOVALENCIAIn Year 12 13 part of the Spanish for Foreigners course at A Level consists of a regional study about the Valen-cian community itrsquos geography contemporary history demography culture traditions religion language and issues that the citizens of this community face Taking advantage of the opportunity to visit the communityrsquos capital Valencia in March as the whole city is complete with tradition festival and FALLAS Here some pho-tos of the day we spent on the 16th of March in this city of flowers light and lovehellip
Many thanks to Mariacutea Vicente the Director and all at ALOS Language Academy Valencia for having given us such a warm welcome when we visited on the morn-ing of the 16th to do a language exchange We spoke in Castilian Spanish to these Valencian students of English (Cambridge FCE students) about Fallas Our BSA pupils had the task of preparing and giving a talk about a cultural tradition of their own country The most popular proved to be that of Shrove Tuesday as Moresche explained a tradition whereby we make toss in the air and eat pancakes (with nearly every-thing and anything you can put on one)
St Patricks Day is celebrated on March 17 the saints religious feast day and the anniversary of his death in the fifth century The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over 1000 years On St Patricks Day which falls during the Christian season of Lent Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon Lenten prohibitions against the consumption of meat were waived and people would dance drink and feast--on the traditional meal of Irish bacon and cabbage
DAYST PATRICKrsquoS
Pupils in KS3 and Yr6 enjoyed presentations on the subject of Cyberbullying given by the local Police Service We had also a session for parents at the end of the day
Cyberbullying is when one person or a group of people try to threaten or embarrass someone else using a mobile phone or the internet Cyberbullying is just as harmful as bullying in the real world If you see it happening report it Donrsquot ignore it
Page 15
MRS FISHERrsquoSBANDCOMPETITION
Emma played in the Benjamin Category (9-10 years old) from Monday to Tuesday In individuals she progressed to round 16 (Octavos de Final) where she lost and finished ninth in the classification She also played in doubles where she won to be sub-champion of Spain She has won a cup for this sec-ond position
From Wednesday to Friday she played as part of the Alicante Tenis de Mesa team in the Juvenil Cat-egory (15-17) They won the previous games and finished thirteenth which is very impressive as Emma is only nine years old
On 13th of March Emma and the rest of her team mates were received by Mariano Postigo Alderman of Sports and Events of the City Council of Alicante (Concejal de Deportes y Fiestas del Excelentiacutesimo Ayuntamiento de Alicante) in his office at the Mu-nicipal Sports The councilor wanted to personally congratulate them on their achievements in the Championship of Spain
EMMATABLE TENNIS
Important Dates
Glorieta del Reino Unido 5Alicante 03008 Spainwwwbsalicantecominfokingsgrouporg
3rd April Last Day of Term
4th - 15th April Easter Holidays
School will be open 4th 10th-13th April from 900am- 200pm
4th April School Shop Open from 900 - 1200 pm
16th April 1st Day of Term Summer Uniform
19th April Santa Faz - School Closed
20th April Art Exhibition
23rd -26th April ISI Inspection
30th April School Closed
1st May School Closed
3rd May Inter School Sports
CHILDRENARE HEARED
SPORTS
DAY2012
Page 3
Year group Distance Student Old record New Record11‐13 800m Craig Laidlaw 23053 22600 New year group record11‐13 800m Elena Iborra 41485 32800 New year group record9‐10 200m Alejandra Lledo 3109 2962 New school record9‐10 400m Gracia Carratala 12481 12300 New year group record9‐10 400m Takuma Yawood 10500 10100 New school record
Year group Event Student Old record New Record11‐13 Javelin Ellis Nastry 2649 284 New school record9‐10 Long Jump Mario Valero 500 550 New year group record7‐8 Shot putt Rory Clear 790 988 New year group record
Field
Track
RECORDS ACHIEVED 2012
SCHOOL SPORT RECORSGIRLS
EVENT TIME YEAR75 m 1100 2011
100 m 1350 2011200 m 3022 2011800 m 32094 20111500 m 72015 2010
BOYS EVENT TIME YEAR
75 m 1094 2010100 m 1397 2011200 m 2212 2008800 m 21913 20081500 m 52813 2008
On Tuesday 13th and Wednesday 14th March The British School of Alicante hosted our first Literary Festival This presented a wonderful
opportunity for students in Year 6 KS3 and KS4 to experience a range of literature in creative inspiring and fun activities
The theme for the festival was acuteBringing Books Aliveacute and students explored particular aspects of stories poetry and art In Year 7 the students explored comic book heroes the Year 8 had a scary look at frightening stories and in Year Nine the students read wrote and performed poetry and songs Year 10 and 11 analysed and composed their own songs
ldquoBringing Books Aliverdquo
Page 9
We were delighted to welcome three visitors to the school dur-ing the festival Ash Dickinson a performance poet from the UK worked with Year 7 8 and 9 For more information about him visit his website at
httpwwwashdickinsoncom
A local storyteller Raquel Lopez also worked with the Year 9 stu-dents
Maeve Friel an Irish author based in Alicante also visited She writes books for younger readers and she worked with Year 6 and Year 7 Her website is httpwwwmaevefrielcom and you can also find out more about Maeve and her books on the website
h t t p w w w a m a z o n e s
The students also participated in specially devised English and Art lessons providing them with the opportunity to develop their creative skills confidence and interpretation of each theme It was an exciting two days and the students enjoyed the opportunity to acuteBring Books Aliveacute
Sian DaviesLiterary Festival OrganiserThanks to John Rattigan for the monkey art work httpwwwjohnrattigancouk
Y8 Literary FestivalOn Wednesday 14th of March 2012 year 8 had a literary festival In the morning Mr Pemberton read us a horror story about an old witch and then we filled out a sheet telling you the characters the main events and what happens in the story After we went up to the gym and we met a poet called Ash Dickinson He was a very funny poet and he told us lots of different ways to rhyme and make po-ems He told us some of his poems and when he was reciting them he did some of his dance moves Also when we had written some poems some peo-ple read them out and if they were in a group they acted it out It was hilarious After that we went up to art with Mrs Castro and Mrs Parry and we drew pictures with Ink and pictures done on black card with chalk On the pictures we had to put a scary sentence or write something scary It was fun
After that we went down stairs to the library to write a horror story We got 45 minutes to do that and then we had to either listen to everybody elsersquos or pre-sent ours to the rest of year 8 There were all kinds of horror stories Funny ones scary oneshellip but at the end of the day we all had loads of fun writing and listening to everybody At the end we had to give Ms Davies our stories and our pictures so she could put some up on the wall
by Charlotte
Page 11
What a fantastic day for year 9 All of my friends and I had a really great time Poetry and literature at first sight donacutet seem very interesting but that Wednesday was awesome We learned a lot about the interpretation of poems and how to represent our feelings in our own work
We began the one day project by choosing a poem from a selection shown to us by our teachers Then in scrap we wrote what we thought about them and planned how we would rep-resent these thoughts the next day in our posters It was fun to work with people in other classes and be in groups for this creative activity On Wednesday morning we started to create our posters in groups Some groups worked with small paper others with huge A2 posters and we all used different kinds of tools and media to create them such as tissue paper cray-ons pencils and paint
That kept us busy all morning and then we worked in different groups towards creating our own poems and songs based on the theme of Perseverance We practised the way we were going to act and perform them using the skills we learned with Ash Dickinson earlier that day At the end of the day we played some drama games and then performed our songs and poems in front of each other in the school playground We voted for the ones we liked best and the final winners were Ivan Maria Jose Luis Jorge and Mario All of the groups did a fantastic job and we had so much fun with this activity We had an extremely enjoyable day all together thanks to Ms Davies Ms McGuinness and Ms Taylor
We hope that we can repeat this experience next year
Y9 Literary Festivalby luisa
Y7 Literary Festival
I enjoyed making our own super- hero a lot In my group our hero was called ldquoDiamond Girlrdquo This activity was a lot of fun as we had to use our imagination and our art skills
I also enjoyed learning to draw in the Manga style
Then we had visits from a writer and a poet it was good to meet them and do fun activities with them It was a really fun week
I enjoyed what we did in the literary week very much
Tuesday was great fun it was all about comics First we created a super- hero we drew it and wrote about its super powers its character and friendships Then we drew a girl in Manga style which is a Japanese comic style
On the Wednesday a poet came to see us and we did all sorts of fun activities First we created a poem and an alliteration beginning with the letter M Mine was Magic Monkey made magic marvellouslyIt was one of the best weeks ever
Ineacutes Year 7G
Silvia Year 7F
Manga is the Japanese word for comics
Y7 Literary Festival
Page 13
TRIP TOVALENCIAIn Year 12 13 part of the Spanish for Foreigners course at A Level consists of a regional study about the Valen-cian community itrsquos geography contemporary history demography culture traditions religion language and issues that the citizens of this community face Taking advantage of the opportunity to visit the communityrsquos capital Valencia in March as the whole city is complete with tradition festival and FALLAS Here some pho-tos of the day we spent on the 16th of March in this city of flowers light and lovehellip
Many thanks to Mariacutea Vicente the Director and all at ALOS Language Academy Valencia for having given us such a warm welcome when we visited on the morn-ing of the 16th to do a language exchange We spoke in Castilian Spanish to these Valencian students of English (Cambridge FCE students) about Fallas Our BSA pupils had the task of preparing and giving a talk about a cultural tradition of their own country The most popular proved to be that of Shrove Tuesday as Moresche explained a tradition whereby we make toss in the air and eat pancakes (with nearly every-thing and anything you can put on one)
St Patricks Day is celebrated on March 17 the saints religious feast day and the anniversary of his death in the fifth century The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over 1000 years On St Patricks Day which falls during the Christian season of Lent Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon Lenten prohibitions against the consumption of meat were waived and people would dance drink and feast--on the traditional meal of Irish bacon and cabbage
DAYST PATRICKrsquoS
Pupils in KS3 and Yr6 enjoyed presentations on the subject of Cyberbullying given by the local Police Service We had also a session for parents at the end of the day
Cyberbullying is when one person or a group of people try to threaten or embarrass someone else using a mobile phone or the internet Cyberbullying is just as harmful as bullying in the real world If you see it happening report it Donrsquot ignore it
Page 15
MRS FISHERrsquoSBANDCOMPETITION
Emma played in the Benjamin Category (9-10 years old) from Monday to Tuesday In individuals she progressed to round 16 (Octavos de Final) where she lost and finished ninth in the classification She also played in doubles where she won to be sub-champion of Spain She has won a cup for this sec-ond position
From Wednesday to Friday she played as part of the Alicante Tenis de Mesa team in the Juvenil Cat-egory (15-17) They won the previous games and finished thirteenth which is very impressive as Emma is only nine years old
On 13th of March Emma and the rest of her team mates were received by Mariano Postigo Alderman of Sports and Events of the City Council of Alicante (Concejal de Deportes y Fiestas del Excelentiacutesimo Ayuntamiento de Alicante) in his office at the Mu-nicipal Sports The councilor wanted to personally congratulate them on their achievements in the Championship of Spain
EMMATABLE TENNIS
Important Dates
Glorieta del Reino Unido 5Alicante 03008 Spainwwwbsalicantecominfokingsgrouporg
3rd April Last Day of Term
4th - 15th April Easter Holidays
School will be open 4th 10th-13th April from 900am- 200pm
4th April School Shop Open from 900 - 1200 pm
16th April 1st Day of Term Summer Uniform
19th April Santa Faz - School Closed
20th April Art Exhibition
23rd -26th April ISI Inspection
30th April School Closed
1st May School Closed
3rd May Inter School Sports
Page 3
Year group Distance Student Old record New Record11‐13 800m Craig Laidlaw 23053 22600 New year group record11‐13 800m Elena Iborra 41485 32800 New year group record9‐10 200m Alejandra Lledo 3109 2962 New school record9‐10 400m Gracia Carratala 12481 12300 New year group record9‐10 400m Takuma Yawood 10500 10100 New school record
Year group Event Student Old record New Record11‐13 Javelin Ellis Nastry 2649 284 New school record9‐10 Long Jump Mario Valero 500 550 New year group record7‐8 Shot putt Rory Clear 790 988 New year group record
Field
Track
RECORDS ACHIEVED 2012
SCHOOL SPORT RECORSGIRLS
EVENT TIME YEAR75 m 1100 2011
100 m 1350 2011200 m 3022 2011800 m 32094 20111500 m 72015 2010
BOYS EVENT TIME YEAR
75 m 1094 2010100 m 1397 2011200 m 2212 2008800 m 21913 20081500 m 52813 2008
On Tuesday 13th and Wednesday 14th March The British School of Alicante hosted our first Literary Festival This presented a wonderful
opportunity for students in Year 6 KS3 and KS4 to experience a range of literature in creative inspiring and fun activities
The theme for the festival was acuteBringing Books Aliveacute and students explored particular aspects of stories poetry and art In Year 7 the students explored comic book heroes the Year 8 had a scary look at frightening stories and in Year Nine the students read wrote and performed poetry and songs Year 10 and 11 analysed and composed their own songs
ldquoBringing Books Aliverdquo
Page 9
We were delighted to welcome three visitors to the school dur-ing the festival Ash Dickinson a performance poet from the UK worked with Year 7 8 and 9 For more information about him visit his website at
httpwwwashdickinsoncom
A local storyteller Raquel Lopez also worked with the Year 9 stu-dents
Maeve Friel an Irish author based in Alicante also visited She writes books for younger readers and she worked with Year 6 and Year 7 Her website is httpwwwmaevefrielcom and you can also find out more about Maeve and her books on the website
h t t p w w w a m a z o n e s
The students also participated in specially devised English and Art lessons providing them with the opportunity to develop their creative skills confidence and interpretation of each theme It was an exciting two days and the students enjoyed the opportunity to acuteBring Books Aliveacute
Sian DaviesLiterary Festival OrganiserThanks to John Rattigan for the monkey art work httpwwwjohnrattigancouk
Y8 Literary FestivalOn Wednesday 14th of March 2012 year 8 had a literary festival In the morning Mr Pemberton read us a horror story about an old witch and then we filled out a sheet telling you the characters the main events and what happens in the story After we went up to the gym and we met a poet called Ash Dickinson He was a very funny poet and he told us lots of different ways to rhyme and make po-ems He told us some of his poems and when he was reciting them he did some of his dance moves Also when we had written some poems some peo-ple read them out and if they were in a group they acted it out It was hilarious After that we went up to art with Mrs Castro and Mrs Parry and we drew pictures with Ink and pictures done on black card with chalk On the pictures we had to put a scary sentence or write something scary It was fun
After that we went down stairs to the library to write a horror story We got 45 minutes to do that and then we had to either listen to everybody elsersquos or pre-sent ours to the rest of year 8 There were all kinds of horror stories Funny ones scary oneshellip but at the end of the day we all had loads of fun writing and listening to everybody At the end we had to give Ms Davies our stories and our pictures so she could put some up on the wall
by Charlotte
Page 11
What a fantastic day for year 9 All of my friends and I had a really great time Poetry and literature at first sight donacutet seem very interesting but that Wednesday was awesome We learned a lot about the interpretation of poems and how to represent our feelings in our own work
We began the one day project by choosing a poem from a selection shown to us by our teachers Then in scrap we wrote what we thought about them and planned how we would rep-resent these thoughts the next day in our posters It was fun to work with people in other classes and be in groups for this creative activity On Wednesday morning we started to create our posters in groups Some groups worked with small paper others with huge A2 posters and we all used different kinds of tools and media to create them such as tissue paper cray-ons pencils and paint
That kept us busy all morning and then we worked in different groups towards creating our own poems and songs based on the theme of Perseverance We practised the way we were going to act and perform them using the skills we learned with Ash Dickinson earlier that day At the end of the day we played some drama games and then performed our songs and poems in front of each other in the school playground We voted for the ones we liked best and the final winners were Ivan Maria Jose Luis Jorge and Mario All of the groups did a fantastic job and we had so much fun with this activity We had an extremely enjoyable day all together thanks to Ms Davies Ms McGuinness and Ms Taylor
We hope that we can repeat this experience next year
Y9 Literary Festivalby luisa
Y7 Literary Festival
I enjoyed making our own super- hero a lot In my group our hero was called ldquoDiamond Girlrdquo This activity was a lot of fun as we had to use our imagination and our art skills
I also enjoyed learning to draw in the Manga style
Then we had visits from a writer and a poet it was good to meet them and do fun activities with them It was a really fun week
I enjoyed what we did in the literary week very much
Tuesday was great fun it was all about comics First we created a super- hero we drew it and wrote about its super powers its character and friendships Then we drew a girl in Manga style which is a Japanese comic style
On the Wednesday a poet came to see us and we did all sorts of fun activities First we created a poem and an alliteration beginning with the letter M Mine was Magic Monkey made magic marvellouslyIt was one of the best weeks ever
Ineacutes Year 7G
Silvia Year 7F
Manga is the Japanese word for comics
Y7 Literary Festival
Page 13
TRIP TOVALENCIAIn Year 12 13 part of the Spanish for Foreigners course at A Level consists of a regional study about the Valen-cian community itrsquos geography contemporary history demography culture traditions religion language and issues that the citizens of this community face Taking advantage of the opportunity to visit the communityrsquos capital Valencia in March as the whole city is complete with tradition festival and FALLAS Here some pho-tos of the day we spent on the 16th of March in this city of flowers light and lovehellip
Many thanks to Mariacutea Vicente the Director and all at ALOS Language Academy Valencia for having given us such a warm welcome when we visited on the morn-ing of the 16th to do a language exchange We spoke in Castilian Spanish to these Valencian students of English (Cambridge FCE students) about Fallas Our BSA pupils had the task of preparing and giving a talk about a cultural tradition of their own country The most popular proved to be that of Shrove Tuesday as Moresche explained a tradition whereby we make toss in the air and eat pancakes (with nearly every-thing and anything you can put on one)
St Patricks Day is celebrated on March 17 the saints religious feast day and the anniversary of his death in the fifth century The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over 1000 years On St Patricks Day which falls during the Christian season of Lent Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon Lenten prohibitions against the consumption of meat were waived and people would dance drink and feast--on the traditional meal of Irish bacon and cabbage
DAYST PATRICKrsquoS
Pupils in KS3 and Yr6 enjoyed presentations on the subject of Cyberbullying given by the local Police Service We had also a session for parents at the end of the day
Cyberbullying is when one person or a group of people try to threaten or embarrass someone else using a mobile phone or the internet Cyberbullying is just as harmful as bullying in the real world If you see it happening report it Donrsquot ignore it
Page 15
MRS FISHERrsquoSBANDCOMPETITION
Emma played in the Benjamin Category (9-10 years old) from Monday to Tuesday In individuals she progressed to round 16 (Octavos de Final) where she lost and finished ninth in the classification She also played in doubles where she won to be sub-champion of Spain She has won a cup for this sec-ond position
From Wednesday to Friday she played as part of the Alicante Tenis de Mesa team in the Juvenil Cat-egory (15-17) They won the previous games and finished thirteenth which is very impressive as Emma is only nine years old
On 13th of March Emma and the rest of her team mates were received by Mariano Postigo Alderman of Sports and Events of the City Council of Alicante (Concejal de Deportes y Fiestas del Excelentiacutesimo Ayuntamiento de Alicante) in his office at the Mu-nicipal Sports The councilor wanted to personally congratulate them on their achievements in the Championship of Spain
EMMATABLE TENNIS
Important Dates
Glorieta del Reino Unido 5Alicante 03008 Spainwwwbsalicantecominfokingsgrouporg
3rd April Last Day of Term
4th - 15th April Easter Holidays
School will be open 4th 10th-13th April from 900am- 200pm
4th April School Shop Open from 900 - 1200 pm
16th April 1st Day of Term Summer Uniform
19th April Santa Faz - School Closed
20th April Art Exhibition
23rd -26th April ISI Inspection
30th April School Closed
1st May School Closed
3rd May Inter School Sports
SCHOOL SPORT RECORSGIRLS
EVENT TIME YEAR75 m 1100 2011
100 m 1350 2011200 m 3022 2011800 m 32094 20111500 m 72015 2010
BOYS EVENT TIME YEAR
75 m 1094 2010100 m 1397 2011200 m 2212 2008800 m 21913 20081500 m 52813 2008
On Tuesday 13th and Wednesday 14th March The British School of Alicante hosted our first Literary Festival This presented a wonderful
opportunity for students in Year 6 KS3 and KS4 to experience a range of literature in creative inspiring and fun activities
The theme for the festival was acuteBringing Books Aliveacute and students explored particular aspects of stories poetry and art In Year 7 the students explored comic book heroes the Year 8 had a scary look at frightening stories and in Year Nine the students read wrote and performed poetry and songs Year 10 and 11 analysed and composed their own songs
ldquoBringing Books Aliverdquo
Page 9
We were delighted to welcome three visitors to the school dur-ing the festival Ash Dickinson a performance poet from the UK worked with Year 7 8 and 9 For more information about him visit his website at
httpwwwashdickinsoncom
A local storyteller Raquel Lopez also worked with the Year 9 stu-dents
Maeve Friel an Irish author based in Alicante also visited She writes books for younger readers and she worked with Year 6 and Year 7 Her website is httpwwwmaevefrielcom and you can also find out more about Maeve and her books on the website
h t t p w w w a m a z o n e s
The students also participated in specially devised English and Art lessons providing them with the opportunity to develop their creative skills confidence and interpretation of each theme It was an exciting two days and the students enjoyed the opportunity to acuteBring Books Aliveacute
Sian DaviesLiterary Festival OrganiserThanks to John Rattigan for the monkey art work httpwwwjohnrattigancouk
Y8 Literary FestivalOn Wednesday 14th of March 2012 year 8 had a literary festival In the morning Mr Pemberton read us a horror story about an old witch and then we filled out a sheet telling you the characters the main events and what happens in the story After we went up to the gym and we met a poet called Ash Dickinson He was a very funny poet and he told us lots of different ways to rhyme and make po-ems He told us some of his poems and when he was reciting them he did some of his dance moves Also when we had written some poems some peo-ple read them out and if they were in a group they acted it out It was hilarious After that we went up to art with Mrs Castro and Mrs Parry and we drew pictures with Ink and pictures done on black card with chalk On the pictures we had to put a scary sentence or write something scary It was fun
After that we went down stairs to the library to write a horror story We got 45 minutes to do that and then we had to either listen to everybody elsersquos or pre-sent ours to the rest of year 8 There were all kinds of horror stories Funny ones scary oneshellip but at the end of the day we all had loads of fun writing and listening to everybody At the end we had to give Ms Davies our stories and our pictures so she could put some up on the wall
by Charlotte
Page 11
What a fantastic day for year 9 All of my friends and I had a really great time Poetry and literature at first sight donacutet seem very interesting but that Wednesday was awesome We learned a lot about the interpretation of poems and how to represent our feelings in our own work
We began the one day project by choosing a poem from a selection shown to us by our teachers Then in scrap we wrote what we thought about them and planned how we would rep-resent these thoughts the next day in our posters It was fun to work with people in other classes and be in groups for this creative activity On Wednesday morning we started to create our posters in groups Some groups worked with small paper others with huge A2 posters and we all used different kinds of tools and media to create them such as tissue paper cray-ons pencils and paint
That kept us busy all morning and then we worked in different groups towards creating our own poems and songs based on the theme of Perseverance We practised the way we were going to act and perform them using the skills we learned with Ash Dickinson earlier that day At the end of the day we played some drama games and then performed our songs and poems in front of each other in the school playground We voted for the ones we liked best and the final winners were Ivan Maria Jose Luis Jorge and Mario All of the groups did a fantastic job and we had so much fun with this activity We had an extremely enjoyable day all together thanks to Ms Davies Ms McGuinness and Ms Taylor
We hope that we can repeat this experience next year
Y9 Literary Festivalby luisa
Y7 Literary Festival
I enjoyed making our own super- hero a lot In my group our hero was called ldquoDiamond Girlrdquo This activity was a lot of fun as we had to use our imagination and our art skills
I also enjoyed learning to draw in the Manga style
Then we had visits from a writer and a poet it was good to meet them and do fun activities with them It was a really fun week
I enjoyed what we did in the literary week very much
Tuesday was great fun it was all about comics First we created a super- hero we drew it and wrote about its super powers its character and friendships Then we drew a girl in Manga style which is a Japanese comic style
On the Wednesday a poet came to see us and we did all sorts of fun activities First we created a poem and an alliteration beginning with the letter M Mine was Magic Monkey made magic marvellouslyIt was one of the best weeks ever
Ineacutes Year 7G
Silvia Year 7F
Manga is the Japanese word for comics
Y7 Literary Festival
Page 13
TRIP TOVALENCIAIn Year 12 13 part of the Spanish for Foreigners course at A Level consists of a regional study about the Valen-cian community itrsquos geography contemporary history demography culture traditions religion language and issues that the citizens of this community face Taking advantage of the opportunity to visit the communityrsquos capital Valencia in March as the whole city is complete with tradition festival and FALLAS Here some pho-tos of the day we spent on the 16th of March in this city of flowers light and lovehellip
Many thanks to Mariacutea Vicente the Director and all at ALOS Language Academy Valencia for having given us such a warm welcome when we visited on the morn-ing of the 16th to do a language exchange We spoke in Castilian Spanish to these Valencian students of English (Cambridge FCE students) about Fallas Our BSA pupils had the task of preparing and giving a talk about a cultural tradition of their own country The most popular proved to be that of Shrove Tuesday as Moresche explained a tradition whereby we make toss in the air and eat pancakes (with nearly every-thing and anything you can put on one)
St Patricks Day is celebrated on March 17 the saints religious feast day and the anniversary of his death in the fifth century The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over 1000 years On St Patricks Day which falls during the Christian season of Lent Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon Lenten prohibitions against the consumption of meat were waived and people would dance drink and feast--on the traditional meal of Irish bacon and cabbage
DAYST PATRICKrsquoS
Pupils in KS3 and Yr6 enjoyed presentations on the subject of Cyberbullying given by the local Police Service We had also a session for parents at the end of the day
Cyberbullying is when one person or a group of people try to threaten or embarrass someone else using a mobile phone or the internet Cyberbullying is just as harmful as bullying in the real world If you see it happening report it Donrsquot ignore it
Page 15
MRS FISHERrsquoSBANDCOMPETITION
Emma played in the Benjamin Category (9-10 years old) from Monday to Tuesday In individuals she progressed to round 16 (Octavos de Final) where she lost and finished ninth in the classification She also played in doubles where she won to be sub-champion of Spain She has won a cup for this sec-ond position
From Wednesday to Friday she played as part of the Alicante Tenis de Mesa team in the Juvenil Cat-egory (15-17) They won the previous games and finished thirteenth which is very impressive as Emma is only nine years old
On 13th of March Emma and the rest of her team mates were received by Mariano Postigo Alderman of Sports and Events of the City Council of Alicante (Concejal de Deportes y Fiestas del Excelentiacutesimo Ayuntamiento de Alicante) in his office at the Mu-nicipal Sports The councilor wanted to personally congratulate them on their achievements in the Championship of Spain
EMMATABLE TENNIS
Important Dates
Glorieta del Reino Unido 5Alicante 03008 Spainwwwbsalicantecominfokingsgrouporg
3rd April Last Day of Term
4th - 15th April Easter Holidays
School will be open 4th 10th-13th April from 900am- 200pm
4th April School Shop Open from 900 - 1200 pm
16th April 1st Day of Term Summer Uniform
19th April Santa Faz - School Closed
20th April Art Exhibition
23rd -26th April ISI Inspection
30th April School Closed
1st May School Closed
3rd May Inter School Sports
GIRLS
EVENT TIME YEAR100 m 1447 2008200 m 2962 2012400 m 12300 2012(nr)800 m 31372 20081500 m 61597 2009
BOYSEVENT TIME YEAR100 m 124 2011200 m 2562 2009400 m 10100 2012(nr)800 m 22744 20091500 m 51656 2009
On Tuesday 13th and Wednesday 14th March The British School of Alicante hosted our first Literary Festival This presented a wonderful
opportunity for students in Year 6 KS3 and KS4 to experience a range of literature in creative inspiring and fun activities
The theme for the festival was acuteBringing Books Aliveacute and students explored particular aspects of stories poetry and art In Year 7 the students explored comic book heroes the Year 8 had a scary look at frightening stories and in Year Nine the students read wrote and performed poetry and songs Year 10 and 11 analysed and composed their own songs
ldquoBringing Books Aliverdquo
Page 9
We were delighted to welcome three visitors to the school dur-ing the festival Ash Dickinson a performance poet from the UK worked with Year 7 8 and 9 For more information about him visit his website at
httpwwwashdickinsoncom
A local storyteller Raquel Lopez also worked with the Year 9 stu-dents
Maeve Friel an Irish author based in Alicante also visited She writes books for younger readers and she worked with Year 6 and Year 7 Her website is httpwwwmaevefrielcom and you can also find out more about Maeve and her books on the website
h t t p w w w a m a z o n e s
The students also participated in specially devised English and Art lessons providing them with the opportunity to develop their creative skills confidence and interpretation of each theme It was an exciting two days and the students enjoyed the opportunity to acuteBring Books Aliveacute
Sian DaviesLiterary Festival OrganiserThanks to John Rattigan for the monkey art work httpwwwjohnrattigancouk
Y8 Literary FestivalOn Wednesday 14th of March 2012 year 8 had a literary festival In the morning Mr Pemberton read us a horror story about an old witch and then we filled out a sheet telling you the characters the main events and what happens in the story After we went up to the gym and we met a poet called Ash Dickinson He was a very funny poet and he told us lots of different ways to rhyme and make po-ems He told us some of his poems and when he was reciting them he did some of his dance moves Also when we had written some poems some peo-ple read them out and if they were in a group they acted it out It was hilarious After that we went up to art with Mrs Castro and Mrs Parry and we drew pictures with Ink and pictures done on black card with chalk On the pictures we had to put a scary sentence or write something scary It was fun
After that we went down stairs to the library to write a horror story We got 45 minutes to do that and then we had to either listen to everybody elsersquos or pre-sent ours to the rest of year 8 There were all kinds of horror stories Funny ones scary oneshellip but at the end of the day we all had loads of fun writing and listening to everybody At the end we had to give Ms Davies our stories and our pictures so she could put some up on the wall
by Charlotte
Page 11
What a fantastic day for year 9 All of my friends and I had a really great time Poetry and literature at first sight donacutet seem very interesting but that Wednesday was awesome We learned a lot about the interpretation of poems and how to represent our feelings in our own work
We began the one day project by choosing a poem from a selection shown to us by our teachers Then in scrap we wrote what we thought about them and planned how we would rep-resent these thoughts the next day in our posters It was fun to work with people in other classes and be in groups for this creative activity On Wednesday morning we started to create our posters in groups Some groups worked with small paper others with huge A2 posters and we all used different kinds of tools and media to create them such as tissue paper cray-ons pencils and paint
That kept us busy all morning and then we worked in different groups towards creating our own poems and songs based on the theme of Perseverance We practised the way we were going to act and perform them using the skills we learned with Ash Dickinson earlier that day At the end of the day we played some drama games and then performed our songs and poems in front of each other in the school playground We voted for the ones we liked best and the final winners were Ivan Maria Jose Luis Jorge and Mario All of the groups did a fantastic job and we had so much fun with this activity We had an extremely enjoyable day all together thanks to Ms Davies Ms McGuinness and Ms Taylor
We hope that we can repeat this experience next year
Y9 Literary Festivalby luisa
Y7 Literary Festival
I enjoyed making our own super- hero a lot In my group our hero was called ldquoDiamond Girlrdquo This activity was a lot of fun as we had to use our imagination and our art skills
I also enjoyed learning to draw in the Manga style
Then we had visits from a writer and a poet it was good to meet them and do fun activities with them It was a really fun week
I enjoyed what we did in the literary week very much
Tuesday was great fun it was all about comics First we created a super- hero we drew it and wrote about its super powers its character and friendships Then we drew a girl in Manga style which is a Japanese comic style
On the Wednesday a poet came to see us and we did all sorts of fun activities First we created a poem and an alliteration beginning with the letter M Mine was Magic Monkey made magic marvellouslyIt was one of the best weeks ever
Ineacutes Year 7G
Silvia Year 7F
Manga is the Japanese word for comics
Y7 Literary Festival
Page 13
TRIP TOVALENCIAIn Year 12 13 part of the Spanish for Foreigners course at A Level consists of a regional study about the Valen-cian community itrsquos geography contemporary history demography culture traditions religion language and issues that the citizens of this community face Taking advantage of the opportunity to visit the communityrsquos capital Valencia in March as the whole city is complete with tradition festival and FALLAS Here some pho-tos of the day we spent on the 16th of March in this city of flowers light and lovehellip
Many thanks to Mariacutea Vicente the Director and all at ALOS Language Academy Valencia for having given us such a warm welcome when we visited on the morn-ing of the 16th to do a language exchange We spoke in Castilian Spanish to these Valencian students of English (Cambridge FCE students) about Fallas Our BSA pupils had the task of preparing and giving a talk about a cultural tradition of their own country The most popular proved to be that of Shrove Tuesday as Moresche explained a tradition whereby we make toss in the air and eat pancakes (with nearly every-thing and anything you can put on one)
St Patricks Day is celebrated on March 17 the saints religious feast day and the anniversary of his death in the fifth century The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over 1000 years On St Patricks Day which falls during the Christian season of Lent Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon Lenten prohibitions against the consumption of meat were waived and people would dance drink and feast--on the traditional meal of Irish bacon and cabbage
DAYST PATRICKrsquoS
Pupils in KS3 and Yr6 enjoyed presentations on the subject of Cyberbullying given by the local Police Service We had also a session for parents at the end of the day
Cyberbullying is when one person or a group of people try to threaten or embarrass someone else using a mobile phone or the internet Cyberbullying is just as harmful as bullying in the real world If you see it happening report it Donrsquot ignore it
Page 15
MRS FISHERrsquoSBANDCOMPETITION
Emma played in the Benjamin Category (9-10 years old) from Monday to Tuesday In individuals she progressed to round 16 (Octavos de Final) where she lost and finished ninth in the classification She also played in doubles where she won to be sub-champion of Spain She has won a cup for this sec-ond position
From Wednesday to Friday she played as part of the Alicante Tenis de Mesa team in the Juvenil Cat-egory (15-17) They won the previous games and finished thirteenth which is very impressive as Emma is only nine years old
On 13th of March Emma and the rest of her team mates were received by Mariano Postigo Alderman of Sports and Events of the City Council of Alicante (Concejal de Deportes y Fiestas del Excelentiacutesimo Ayuntamiento de Alicante) in his office at the Mu-nicipal Sports The councilor wanted to personally congratulate them on their achievements in the Championship of Spain
EMMATABLE TENNIS
Important Dates
Glorieta del Reino Unido 5Alicante 03008 Spainwwwbsalicantecominfokingsgrouporg
3rd April Last Day of Term
4th - 15th April Easter Holidays
School will be open 4th 10th-13th April from 900am- 200pm
4th April School Shop Open from 900 - 1200 pm
16th April 1st Day of Term Summer Uniform
19th April Santa Faz - School Closed
20th April Art Exhibition
23rd -26th April ISI Inspection
30th April School Closed
1st May School Closed
3rd May Inter School Sports
GIRLS
EVENT TIME YEAR100 m 1488 2010200 m 3265 2009400 m 12056 2011800 m 32800 2012(nr)1500 m 70846 2011
BOYSEVENT TIME YEAR100 m 1110 2011200 m 2396 2011400 m 10390 2010800 m 22600 2012(nr)1500 m 50709 2010
On Tuesday 13th and Wednesday 14th March The British School of Alicante hosted our first Literary Festival This presented a wonderful
opportunity for students in Year 6 KS3 and KS4 to experience a range of literature in creative inspiring and fun activities
The theme for the festival was acuteBringing Books Aliveacute and students explored particular aspects of stories poetry and art In Year 7 the students explored comic book heroes the Year 8 had a scary look at frightening stories and in Year Nine the students read wrote and performed poetry and songs Year 10 and 11 analysed and composed their own songs
ldquoBringing Books Aliverdquo
Page 9
We were delighted to welcome three visitors to the school dur-ing the festival Ash Dickinson a performance poet from the UK worked with Year 7 8 and 9 For more information about him visit his website at
httpwwwashdickinsoncom
A local storyteller Raquel Lopez also worked with the Year 9 stu-dents
Maeve Friel an Irish author based in Alicante also visited She writes books for younger readers and she worked with Year 6 and Year 7 Her website is httpwwwmaevefrielcom and you can also find out more about Maeve and her books on the website
h t t p w w w a m a z o n e s
The students also participated in specially devised English and Art lessons providing them with the opportunity to develop their creative skills confidence and interpretation of each theme It was an exciting two days and the students enjoyed the opportunity to acuteBring Books Aliveacute
Sian DaviesLiterary Festival OrganiserThanks to John Rattigan for the monkey art work httpwwwjohnrattigancouk
Y8 Literary FestivalOn Wednesday 14th of March 2012 year 8 had a literary festival In the morning Mr Pemberton read us a horror story about an old witch and then we filled out a sheet telling you the characters the main events and what happens in the story After we went up to the gym and we met a poet called Ash Dickinson He was a very funny poet and he told us lots of different ways to rhyme and make po-ems He told us some of his poems and when he was reciting them he did some of his dance moves Also when we had written some poems some peo-ple read them out and if they were in a group they acted it out It was hilarious After that we went up to art with Mrs Castro and Mrs Parry and we drew pictures with Ink and pictures done on black card with chalk On the pictures we had to put a scary sentence or write something scary It was fun
After that we went down stairs to the library to write a horror story We got 45 minutes to do that and then we had to either listen to everybody elsersquos or pre-sent ours to the rest of year 8 There were all kinds of horror stories Funny ones scary oneshellip but at the end of the day we all had loads of fun writing and listening to everybody At the end we had to give Ms Davies our stories and our pictures so she could put some up on the wall
by Charlotte
Page 11
What a fantastic day for year 9 All of my friends and I had a really great time Poetry and literature at first sight donacutet seem very interesting but that Wednesday was awesome We learned a lot about the interpretation of poems and how to represent our feelings in our own work
We began the one day project by choosing a poem from a selection shown to us by our teachers Then in scrap we wrote what we thought about them and planned how we would rep-resent these thoughts the next day in our posters It was fun to work with people in other classes and be in groups for this creative activity On Wednesday morning we started to create our posters in groups Some groups worked with small paper others with huge A2 posters and we all used different kinds of tools and media to create them such as tissue paper cray-ons pencils and paint
That kept us busy all morning and then we worked in different groups towards creating our own poems and songs based on the theme of Perseverance We practised the way we were going to act and perform them using the skills we learned with Ash Dickinson earlier that day At the end of the day we played some drama games and then performed our songs and poems in front of each other in the school playground We voted for the ones we liked best and the final winners were Ivan Maria Jose Luis Jorge and Mario All of the groups did a fantastic job and we had so much fun with this activity We had an extremely enjoyable day all together thanks to Ms Davies Ms McGuinness and Ms Taylor
We hope that we can repeat this experience next year
Y9 Literary Festivalby luisa
Y7 Literary Festival
I enjoyed making our own super- hero a lot In my group our hero was called ldquoDiamond Girlrdquo This activity was a lot of fun as we had to use our imagination and our art skills
I also enjoyed learning to draw in the Manga style
Then we had visits from a writer and a poet it was good to meet them and do fun activities with them It was a really fun week
I enjoyed what we did in the literary week very much
Tuesday was great fun it was all about comics First we created a super- hero we drew it and wrote about its super powers its character and friendships Then we drew a girl in Manga style which is a Japanese comic style
On the Wednesday a poet came to see us and we did all sorts of fun activities First we created a poem and an alliteration beginning with the letter M Mine was Magic Monkey made magic marvellouslyIt was one of the best weeks ever
Ineacutes Year 7G
Silvia Year 7F
Manga is the Japanese word for comics
Y7 Literary Festival
Page 13
TRIP TOVALENCIAIn Year 12 13 part of the Spanish for Foreigners course at A Level consists of a regional study about the Valen-cian community itrsquos geography contemporary history demography culture traditions religion language and issues that the citizens of this community face Taking advantage of the opportunity to visit the communityrsquos capital Valencia in March as the whole city is complete with tradition festival and FALLAS Here some pho-tos of the day we spent on the 16th of March in this city of flowers light and lovehellip
Many thanks to Mariacutea Vicente the Director and all at ALOS Language Academy Valencia for having given us such a warm welcome when we visited on the morn-ing of the 16th to do a language exchange We spoke in Castilian Spanish to these Valencian students of English (Cambridge FCE students) about Fallas Our BSA pupils had the task of preparing and giving a talk about a cultural tradition of their own country The most popular proved to be that of Shrove Tuesday as Moresche explained a tradition whereby we make toss in the air and eat pancakes (with nearly every-thing and anything you can put on one)
St Patricks Day is celebrated on March 17 the saints religious feast day and the anniversary of his death in the fifth century The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over 1000 years On St Patricks Day which falls during the Christian season of Lent Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon Lenten prohibitions against the consumption of meat were waived and people would dance drink and feast--on the traditional meal of Irish bacon and cabbage
DAYST PATRICKrsquoS
Pupils in KS3 and Yr6 enjoyed presentations on the subject of Cyberbullying given by the local Police Service We had also a session for parents at the end of the day
Cyberbullying is when one person or a group of people try to threaten or embarrass someone else using a mobile phone or the internet Cyberbullying is just as harmful as bullying in the real world If you see it happening report it Donrsquot ignore it
Page 15
MRS FISHERrsquoSBANDCOMPETITION
Emma played in the Benjamin Category (9-10 years old) from Monday to Tuesday In individuals she progressed to round 16 (Octavos de Final) where she lost and finished ninth in the classification She also played in doubles where she won to be sub-champion of Spain She has won a cup for this sec-ond position
From Wednesday to Friday she played as part of the Alicante Tenis de Mesa team in the Juvenil Cat-egory (15-17) They won the previous games and finished thirteenth which is very impressive as Emma is only nine years old
On 13th of March Emma and the rest of her team mates were received by Mariano Postigo Alderman of Sports and Events of the City Council of Alicante (Concejal de Deportes y Fiestas del Excelentiacutesimo Ayuntamiento de Alicante) in his office at the Mu-nicipal Sports The councilor wanted to personally congratulate them on their achievements in the Championship of Spain
EMMATABLE TENNIS
Important Dates
Glorieta del Reino Unido 5Alicante 03008 Spainwwwbsalicantecominfokingsgrouporg
3rd April Last Day of Term
4th - 15th April Easter Holidays
School will be open 4th 10th-13th April from 900am- 200pm
4th April School Shop Open from 900 - 1200 pm
16th April 1st Day of Term Summer Uniform
19th April Santa Faz - School Closed
20th April Art Exhibition
23rd -26th April ISI Inspection
30th April School Closed
1st May School Closed
3rd May Inter School Sports
GIRLS
EVENT TIME YEAR75 m 1100 2011100 m 1350 2011200 m 2962 2012(nr)400 m 12056 2011800 m 31372 20081500 m 61597 2009
BOYSEVENT TIME YEAR75 m 1094 2010100 m 1110 2011200 m 2212 2008400 m 10100 2012(nr)800 m 21913 20081500 m 50709 2010
On Tuesday 13th and Wednesday 14th March The British School of Alicante hosted our first Literary Festival This presented a wonderful
opportunity for students in Year 6 KS3 and KS4 to experience a range of literature in creative inspiring and fun activities
The theme for the festival was acuteBringing Books Aliveacute and students explored particular aspects of stories poetry and art In Year 7 the students explored comic book heroes the Year 8 had a scary look at frightening stories and in Year Nine the students read wrote and performed poetry and songs Year 10 and 11 analysed and composed their own songs
ldquoBringing Books Aliverdquo
Page 9
We were delighted to welcome three visitors to the school dur-ing the festival Ash Dickinson a performance poet from the UK worked with Year 7 8 and 9 For more information about him visit his website at
httpwwwashdickinsoncom
A local storyteller Raquel Lopez also worked with the Year 9 stu-dents
Maeve Friel an Irish author based in Alicante also visited She writes books for younger readers and she worked with Year 6 and Year 7 Her website is httpwwwmaevefrielcom and you can also find out more about Maeve and her books on the website
h t t p w w w a m a z o n e s
The students also participated in specially devised English and Art lessons providing them with the opportunity to develop their creative skills confidence and interpretation of each theme It was an exciting two days and the students enjoyed the opportunity to acuteBring Books Aliveacute
Sian DaviesLiterary Festival OrganiserThanks to John Rattigan for the monkey art work httpwwwjohnrattigancouk
Y8 Literary FestivalOn Wednesday 14th of March 2012 year 8 had a literary festival In the morning Mr Pemberton read us a horror story about an old witch and then we filled out a sheet telling you the characters the main events and what happens in the story After we went up to the gym and we met a poet called Ash Dickinson He was a very funny poet and he told us lots of different ways to rhyme and make po-ems He told us some of his poems and when he was reciting them he did some of his dance moves Also when we had written some poems some peo-ple read them out and if they were in a group they acted it out It was hilarious After that we went up to art with Mrs Castro and Mrs Parry and we drew pictures with Ink and pictures done on black card with chalk On the pictures we had to put a scary sentence or write something scary It was fun
After that we went down stairs to the library to write a horror story We got 45 minutes to do that and then we had to either listen to everybody elsersquos or pre-sent ours to the rest of year 8 There were all kinds of horror stories Funny ones scary oneshellip but at the end of the day we all had loads of fun writing and listening to everybody At the end we had to give Ms Davies our stories and our pictures so she could put some up on the wall
by Charlotte
Page 11
What a fantastic day for year 9 All of my friends and I had a really great time Poetry and literature at first sight donacutet seem very interesting but that Wednesday was awesome We learned a lot about the interpretation of poems and how to represent our feelings in our own work
We began the one day project by choosing a poem from a selection shown to us by our teachers Then in scrap we wrote what we thought about them and planned how we would rep-resent these thoughts the next day in our posters It was fun to work with people in other classes and be in groups for this creative activity On Wednesday morning we started to create our posters in groups Some groups worked with small paper others with huge A2 posters and we all used different kinds of tools and media to create them such as tissue paper cray-ons pencils and paint
That kept us busy all morning and then we worked in different groups towards creating our own poems and songs based on the theme of Perseverance We practised the way we were going to act and perform them using the skills we learned with Ash Dickinson earlier that day At the end of the day we played some drama games and then performed our songs and poems in front of each other in the school playground We voted for the ones we liked best and the final winners were Ivan Maria Jose Luis Jorge and Mario All of the groups did a fantastic job and we had so much fun with this activity We had an extremely enjoyable day all together thanks to Ms Davies Ms McGuinness and Ms Taylor
We hope that we can repeat this experience next year
Y9 Literary Festivalby luisa
Y7 Literary Festival
I enjoyed making our own super- hero a lot In my group our hero was called ldquoDiamond Girlrdquo This activity was a lot of fun as we had to use our imagination and our art skills
I also enjoyed learning to draw in the Manga style
Then we had visits from a writer and a poet it was good to meet them and do fun activities with them It was a really fun week
I enjoyed what we did in the literary week very much
Tuesday was great fun it was all about comics First we created a super- hero we drew it and wrote about its super powers its character and friendships Then we drew a girl in Manga style which is a Japanese comic style
On the Wednesday a poet came to see us and we did all sorts of fun activities First we created a poem and an alliteration beginning with the letter M Mine was Magic Monkey made magic marvellouslyIt was one of the best weeks ever
Ineacutes Year 7G
Silvia Year 7F
Manga is the Japanese word for comics
Y7 Literary Festival
Page 13
TRIP TOVALENCIAIn Year 12 13 part of the Spanish for Foreigners course at A Level consists of a regional study about the Valen-cian community itrsquos geography contemporary history demography culture traditions religion language and issues that the citizens of this community face Taking advantage of the opportunity to visit the communityrsquos capital Valencia in March as the whole city is complete with tradition festival and FALLAS Here some pho-tos of the day we spent on the 16th of March in this city of flowers light and lovehellip
Many thanks to Mariacutea Vicente the Director and all at ALOS Language Academy Valencia for having given us such a warm welcome when we visited on the morn-ing of the 16th to do a language exchange We spoke in Castilian Spanish to these Valencian students of English (Cambridge FCE students) about Fallas Our BSA pupils had the task of preparing and giving a talk about a cultural tradition of their own country The most popular proved to be that of Shrove Tuesday as Moresche explained a tradition whereby we make toss in the air and eat pancakes (with nearly every-thing and anything you can put on one)
St Patricks Day is celebrated on March 17 the saints religious feast day and the anniversary of his death in the fifth century The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over 1000 years On St Patricks Day which falls during the Christian season of Lent Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon Lenten prohibitions against the consumption of meat were waived and people would dance drink and feast--on the traditional meal of Irish bacon and cabbage
DAYST PATRICKrsquoS
Pupils in KS3 and Yr6 enjoyed presentations on the subject of Cyberbullying given by the local Police Service We had also a session for parents at the end of the day
Cyberbullying is when one person or a group of people try to threaten or embarrass someone else using a mobile phone or the internet Cyberbullying is just as harmful as bullying in the real world If you see it happening report it Donrsquot ignore it
Page 15
MRS FISHERrsquoSBANDCOMPETITION
Emma played in the Benjamin Category (9-10 years old) from Monday to Tuesday In individuals she progressed to round 16 (Octavos de Final) where she lost and finished ninth in the classification She also played in doubles where she won to be sub-champion of Spain She has won a cup for this sec-ond position
From Wednesday to Friday she played as part of the Alicante Tenis de Mesa team in the Juvenil Cat-egory (15-17) They won the previous games and finished thirteenth which is very impressive as Emma is only nine years old
On 13th of March Emma and the rest of her team mates were received by Mariano Postigo Alderman of Sports and Events of the City Council of Alicante (Concejal de Deportes y Fiestas del Excelentiacutesimo Ayuntamiento de Alicante) in his office at the Mu-nicipal Sports The councilor wanted to personally congratulate them on their achievements in the Championship of Spain
EMMATABLE TENNIS
Important Dates
Glorieta del Reino Unido 5Alicante 03008 Spainwwwbsalicantecominfokingsgrouporg
3rd April Last Day of Term
4th - 15th April Easter Holidays
School will be open 4th 10th-13th April from 900am- 200pm
4th April School Shop Open from 900 - 1200 pm
16th April 1st Day of Term Summer Uniform
19th April Santa Faz - School Closed
20th April Art Exhibition
23rd -26th April ISI Inspection
30th April School Closed
1st May School Closed
3rd May Inter School Sports
LITERARY FESTIVALldquoBringing Books Aliverdquo
On Tuesday 13th and Wednesday 14th March The British School of Alicante hosted our first Literary Festival This presented a wonderful
opportunity for students in Year 6 KS3 and KS4 to experience a range of literature in creative inspiring and fun activities
The theme for the festival was acuteBringing Books Aliveacute and students explored particular aspects of stories poetry and art In Year 7 the students explored comic book heroes the Year 8 had a scary look at frightening stories and in Year Nine the students read wrote and performed poetry and songs Year 10 and 11 analysed and composed their own songs
ldquoBringing Books Aliverdquo
Page 9
We were delighted to welcome three visitors to the school dur-ing the festival Ash Dickinson a performance poet from the UK worked with Year 7 8 and 9 For more information about him visit his website at
httpwwwashdickinsoncom
A local storyteller Raquel Lopez also worked with the Year 9 stu-dents
Maeve Friel an Irish author based in Alicante also visited She writes books for younger readers and she worked with Year 6 and Year 7 Her website is httpwwwmaevefrielcom and you can also find out more about Maeve and her books on the website
h t t p w w w a m a z o n e s
The students also participated in specially devised English and Art lessons providing them with the opportunity to develop their creative skills confidence and interpretation of each theme It was an exciting two days and the students enjoyed the opportunity to acuteBring Books Aliveacute
Sian DaviesLiterary Festival OrganiserThanks to John Rattigan for the monkey art work httpwwwjohnrattigancouk
Y8 Literary FestivalOn Wednesday 14th of March 2012 year 8 had a literary festival In the morning Mr Pemberton read us a horror story about an old witch and then we filled out a sheet telling you the characters the main events and what happens in the story After we went up to the gym and we met a poet called Ash Dickinson He was a very funny poet and he told us lots of different ways to rhyme and make po-ems He told us some of his poems and when he was reciting them he did some of his dance moves Also when we had written some poems some peo-ple read them out and if they were in a group they acted it out It was hilarious After that we went up to art with Mrs Castro and Mrs Parry and we drew pictures with Ink and pictures done on black card with chalk On the pictures we had to put a scary sentence or write something scary It was fun
After that we went down stairs to the library to write a horror story We got 45 minutes to do that and then we had to either listen to everybody elsersquos or pre-sent ours to the rest of year 8 There were all kinds of horror stories Funny ones scary oneshellip but at the end of the day we all had loads of fun writing and listening to everybody At the end we had to give Ms Davies our stories and our pictures so she could put some up on the wall
by Charlotte
Page 11
What a fantastic day for year 9 All of my friends and I had a really great time Poetry and literature at first sight donacutet seem very interesting but that Wednesday was awesome We learned a lot about the interpretation of poems and how to represent our feelings in our own work
We began the one day project by choosing a poem from a selection shown to us by our teachers Then in scrap we wrote what we thought about them and planned how we would rep-resent these thoughts the next day in our posters It was fun to work with people in other classes and be in groups for this creative activity On Wednesday morning we started to create our posters in groups Some groups worked with small paper others with huge A2 posters and we all used different kinds of tools and media to create them such as tissue paper cray-ons pencils and paint
That kept us busy all morning and then we worked in different groups towards creating our own poems and songs based on the theme of Perseverance We practised the way we were going to act and perform them using the skills we learned with Ash Dickinson earlier that day At the end of the day we played some drama games and then performed our songs and poems in front of each other in the school playground We voted for the ones we liked best and the final winners were Ivan Maria Jose Luis Jorge and Mario All of the groups did a fantastic job and we had so much fun with this activity We had an extremely enjoyable day all together thanks to Ms Davies Ms McGuinness and Ms Taylor
We hope that we can repeat this experience next year
Y9 Literary Festivalby luisa
Y7 Literary Festival
I enjoyed making our own super- hero a lot In my group our hero was called ldquoDiamond Girlrdquo This activity was a lot of fun as we had to use our imagination and our art skills
I also enjoyed learning to draw in the Manga style
Then we had visits from a writer and a poet it was good to meet them and do fun activities with them It was a really fun week
I enjoyed what we did in the literary week very much
Tuesday was great fun it was all about comics First we created a super- hero we drew it and wrote about its super powers its character and friendships Then we drew a girl in Manga style which is a Japanese comic style
On the Wednesday a poet came to see us and we did all sorts of fun activities First we created a poem and an alliteration beginning with the letter M Mine was Magic Monkey made magic marvellouslyIt was one of the best weeks ever
Ineacutes Year 7G
Silvia Year 7F
Manga is the Japanese word for comics
Y7 Literary Festival
Page 13
TRIP TOVALENCIAIn Year 12 13 part of the Spanish for Foreigners course at A Level consists of a regional study about the Valen-cian community itrsquos geography contemporary history demography culture traditions religion language and issues that the citizens of this community face Taking advantage of the opportunity to visit the communityrsquos capital Valencia in March as the whole city is complete with tradition festival and FALLAS Here some pho-tos of the day we spent on the 16th of March in this city of flowers light and lovehellip
Many thanks to Mariacutea Vicente the Director and all at ALOS Language Academy Valencia for having given us such a warm welcome when we visited on the morn-ing of the 16th to do a language exchange We spoke in Castilian Spanish to these Valencian students of English (Cambridge FCE students) about Fallas Our BSA pupils had the task of preparing and giving a talk about a cultural tradition of their own country The most popular proved to be that of Shrove Tuesday as Moresche explained a tradition whereby we make toss in the air and eat pancakes (with nearly every-thing and anything you can put on one)
St Patricks Day is celebrated on March 17 the saints religious feast day and the anniversary of his death in the fifth century The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over 1000 years On St Patricks Day which falls during the Christian season of Lent Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon Lenten prohibitions against the consumption of meat were waived and people would dance drink and feast--on the traditional meal of Irish bacon and cabbage
DAYST PATRICKrsquoS
Pupils in KS3 and Yr6 enjoyed presentations on the subject of Cyberbullying given by the local Police Service We had also a session for parents at the end of the day
Cyberbullying is when one person or a group of people try to threaten or embarrass someone else using a mobile phone or the internet Cyberbullying is just as harmful as bullying in the real world If you see it happening report it Donrsquot ignore it
Page 15
MRS FISHERrsquoSBANDCOMPETITION
Emma played in the Benjamin Category (9-10 years old) from Monday to Tuesday In individuals she progressed to round 16 (Octavos de Final) where she lost and finished ninth in the classification She also played in doubles where she won to be sub-champion of Spain She has won a cup for this sec-ond position
From Wednesday to Friday she played as part of the Alicante Tenis de Mesa team in the Juvenil Cat-egory (15-17) They won the previous games and finished thirteenth which is very impressive as Emma is only nine years old
On 13th of March Emma and the rest of her team mates were received by Mariano Postigo Alderman of Sports and Events of the City Council of Alicante (Concejal de Deportes y Fiestas del Excelentiacutesimo Ayuntamiento de Alicante) in his office at the Mu-nicipal Sports The councilor wanted to personally congratulate them on their achievements in the Championship of Spain
EMMATABLE TENNIS
Important Dates
Glorieta del Reino Unido 5Alicante 03008 Spainwwwbsalicantecominfokingsgrouporg
3rd April Last Day of Term
4th - 15th April Easter Holidays
School will be open 4th 10th-13th April from 900am- 200pm
4th April School Shop Open from 900 - 1200 pm
16th April 1st Day of Term Summer Uniform
19th April Santa Faz - School Closed
20th April Art Exhibition
23rd -26th April ISI Inspection
30th April School Closed
1st May School Closed
3rd May Inter School Sports
ldquoBringing Books Aliverdquo
Page 9
We were delighted to welcome three visitors to the school dur-ing the festival Ash Dickinson a performance poet from the UK worked with Year 7 8 and 9 For more information about him visit his website at
httpwwwashdickinsoncom
A local storyteller Raquel Lopez also worked with the Year 9 stu-dents
Maeve Friel an Irish author based in Alicante also visited She writes books for younger readers and she worked with Year 6 and Year 7 Her website is httpwwwmaevefrielcom and you can also find out more about Maeve and her books on the website
h t t p w w w a m a z o n e s
The students also participated in specially devised English and Art lessons providing them with the opportunity to develop their creative skills confidence and interpretation of each theme It was an exciting two days and the students enjoyed the opportunity to acuteBring Books Aliveacute
Sian DaviesLiterary Festival OrganiserThanks to John Rattigan for the monkey art work httpwwwjohnrattigancouk
Y8 Literary FestivalOn Wednesday 14th of March 2012 year 8 had a literary festival In the morning Mr Pemberton read us a horror story about an old witch and then we filled out a sheet telling you the characters the main events and what happens in the story After we went up to the gym and we met a poet called Ash Dickinson He was a very funny poet and he told us lots of different ways to rhyme and make po-ems He told us some of his poems and when he was reciting them he did some of his dance moves Also when we had written some poems some peo-ple read them out and if they were in a group they acted it out It was hilarious After that we went up to art with Mrs Castro and Mrs Parry and we drew pictures with Ink and pictures done on black card with chalk On the pictures we had to put a scary sentence or write something scary It was fun
After that we went down stairs to the library to write a horror story We got 45 minutes to do that and then we had to either listen to everybody elsersquos or pre-sent ours to the rest of year 8 There were all kinds of horror stories Funny ones scary oneshellip but at the end of the day we all had loads of fun writing and listening to everybody At the end we had to give Ms Davies our stories and our pictures so she could put some up on the wall
by Charlotte
Page 11
What a fantastic day for year 9 All of my friends and I had a really great time Poetry and literature at first sight donacutet seem very interesting but that Wednesday was awesome We learned a lot about the interpretation of poems and how to represent our feelings in our own work
We began the one day project by choosing a poem from a selection shown to us by our teachers Then in scrap we wrote what we thought about them and planned how we would rep-resent these thoughts the next day in our posters It was fun to work with people in other classes and be in groups for this creative activity On Wednesday morning we started to create our posters in groups Some groups worked with small paper others with huge A2 posters and we all used different kinds of tools and media to create them such as tissue paper cray-ons pencils and paint
That kept us busy all morning and then we worked in different groups towards creating our own poems and songs based on the theme of Perseverance We practised the way we were going to act and perform them using the skills we learned with Ash Dickinson earlier that day At the end of the day we played some drama games and then performed our songs and poems in front of each other in the school playground We voted for the ones we liked best and the final winners were Ivan Maria Jose Luis Jorge and Mario All of the groups did a fantastic job and we had so much fun with this activity We had an extremely enjoyable day all together thanks to Ms Davies Ms McGuinness and Ms Taylor
We hope that we can repeat this experience next year
Y9 Literary Festivalby luisa
Y7 Literary Festival
I enjoyed making our own super- hero a lot In my group our hero was called ldquoDiamond Girlrdquo This activity was a lot of fun as we had to use our imagination and our art skills
I also enjoyed learning to draw in the Manga style
Then we had visits from a writer and a poet it was good to meet them and do fun activities with them It was a really fun week
I enjoyed what we did in the literary week very much
Tuesday was great fun it was all about comics First we created a super- hero we drew it and wrote about its super powers its character and friendships Then we drew a girl in Manga style which is a Japanese comic style
On the Wednesday a poet came to see us and we did all sorts of fun activities First we created a poem and an alliteration beginning with the letter M Mine was Magic Monkey made magic marvellouslyIt was one of the best weeks ever
Ineacutes Year 7G
Silvia Year 7F
Manga is the Japanese word for comics
Y7 Literary Festival
Page 13
TRIP TOVALENCIAIn Year 12 13 part of the Spanish for Foreigners course at A Level consists of a regional study about the Valen-cian community itrsquos geography contemporary history demography culture traditions religion language and issues that the citizens of this community face Taking advantage of the opportunity to visit the communityrsquos capital Valencia in March as the whole city is complete with tradition festival and FALLAS Here some pho-tos of the day we spent on the 16th of March in this city of flowers light and lovehellip
Many thanks to Mariacutea Vicente the Director and all at ALOS Language Academy Valencia for having given us such a warm welcome when we visited on the morn-ing of the 16th to do a language exchange We spoke in Castilian Spanish to these Valencian students of English (Cambridge FCE students) about Fallas Our BSA pupils had the task of preparing and giving a talk about a cultural tradition of their own country The most popular proved to be that of Shrove Tuesday as Moresche explained a tradition whereby we make toss in the air and eat pancakes (with nearly every-thing and anything you can put on one)
St Patricks Day is celebrated on March 17 the saints religious feast day and the anniversary of his death in the fifth century The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over 1000 years On St Patricks Day which falls during the Christian season of Lent Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon Lenten prohibitions against the consumption of meat were waived and people would dance drink and feast--on the traditional meal of Irish bacon and cabbage
DAYST PATRICKrsquoS
Pupils in KS3 and Yr6 enjoyed presentations on the subject of Cyberbullying given by the local Police Service We had also a session for parents at the end of the day
Cyberbullying is when one person or a group of people try to threaten or embarrass someone else using a mobile phone or the internet Cyberbullying is just as harmful as bullying in the real world If you see it happening report it Donrsquot ignore it
Page 15
MRS FISHERrsquoSBANDCOMPETITION
Emma played in the Benjamin Category (9-10 years old) from Monday to Tuesday In individuals she progressed to round 16 (Octavos de Final) where she lost and finished ninth in the classification She also played in doubles where she won to be sub-champion of Spain She has won a cup for this sec-ond position
From Wednesday to Friday she played as part of the Alicante Tenis de Mesa team in the Juvenil Cat-egory (15-17) They won the previous games and finished thirteenth which is very impressive as Emma is only nine years old
On 13th of March Emma and the rest of her team mates were received by Mariano Postigo Alderman of Sports and Events of the City Council of Alicante (Concejal de Deportes y Fiestas del Excelentiacutesimo Ayuntamiento de Alicante) in his office at the Mu-nicipal Sports The councilor wanted to personally congratulate them on their achievements in the Championship of Spain
EMMATABLE TENNIS
Important Dates
Glorieta del Reino Unido 5Alicante 03008 Spainwwwbsalicantecominfokingsgrouporg
3rd April Last Day of Term
4th - 15th April Easter Holidays
School will be open 4th 10th-13th April from 900am- 200pm
4th April School Shop Open from 900 - 1200 pm
16th April 1st Day of Term Summer Uniform
19th April Santa Faz - School Closed
20th April Art Exhibition
23rd -26th April ISI Inspection
30th April School Closed
1st May School Closed
3rd May Inter School Sports
Y8 Literary FestivalOn Wednesday 14th of March 2012 year 8 had a literary festival In the morning Mr Pemberton read us a horror story about an old witch and then we filled out a sheet telling you the characters the main events and what happens in the story After we went up to the gym and we met a poet called Ash Dickinson He was a very funny poet and he told us lots of different ways to rhyme and make po-ems He told us some of his poems and when he was reciting them he did some of his dance moves Also when we had written some poems some peo-ple read them out and if they were in a group they acted it out It was hilarious After that we went up to art with Mrs Castro and Mrs Parry and we drew pictures with Ink and pictures done on black card with chalk On the pictures we had to put a scary sentence or write something scary It was fun
After that we went down stairs to the library to write a horror story We got 45 minutes to do that and then we had to either listen to everybody elsersquos or pre-sent ours to the rest of year 8 There were all kinds of horror stories Funny ones scary oneshellip but at the end of the day we all had loads of fun writing and listening to everybody At the end we had to give Ms Davies our stories and our pictures so she could put some up on the wall
by Charlotte
Page 11
What a fantastic day for year 9 All of my friends and I had a really great time Poetry and literature at first sight donacutet seem very interesting but that Wednesday was awesome We learned a lot about the interpretation of poems and how to represent our feelings in our own work
We began the one day project by choosing a poem from a selection shown to us by our teachers Then in scrap we wrote what we thought about them and planned how we would rep-resent these thoughts the next day in our posters It was fun to work with people in other classes and be in groups for this creative activity On Wednesday morning we started to create our posters in groups Some groups worked with small paper others with huge A2 posters and we all used different kinds of tools and media to create them such as tissue paper cray-ons pencils and paint
That kept us busy all morning and then we worked in different groups towards creating our own poems and songs based on the theme of Perseverance We practised the way we were going to act and perform them using the skills we learned with Ash Dickinson earlier that day At the end of the day we played some drama games and then performed our songs and poems in front of each other in the school playground We voted for the ones we liked best and the final winners were Ivan Maria Jose Luis Jorge and Mario All of the groups did a fantastic job and we had so much fun with this activity We had an extremely enjoyable day all together thanks to Ms Davies Ms McGuinness and Ms Taylor
We hope that we can repeat this experience next year
Y9 Literary Festivalby luisa
Y7 Literary Festival
I enjoyed making our own super- hero a lot In my group our hero was called ldquoDiamond Girlrdquo This activity was a lot of fun as we had to use our imagination and our art skills
I also enjoyed learning to draw in the Manga style
Then we had visits from a writer and a poet it was good to meet them and do fun activities with them It was a really fun week
I enjoyed what we did in the literary week very much
Tuesday was great fun it was all about comics First we created a super- hero we drew it and wrote about its super powers its character and friendships Then we drew a girl in Manga style which is a Japanese comic style
On the Wednesday a poet came to see us and we did all sorts of fun activities First we created a poem and an alliteration beginning with the letter M Mine was Magic Monkey made magic marvellouslyIt was one of the best weeks ever
Ineacutes Year 7G
Silvia Year 7F
Manga is the Japanese word for comics
Y7 Literary Festival
Page 13
TRIP TOVALENCIAIn Year 12 13 part of the Spanish for Foreigners course at A Level consists of a regional study about the Valen-cian community itrsquos geography contemporary history demography culture traditions religion language and issues that the citizens of this community face Taking advantage of the opportunity to visit the communityrsquos capital Valencia in March as the whole city is complete with tradition festival and FALLAS Here some pho-tos of the day we spent on the 16th of March in this city of flowers light and lovehellip
Many thanks to Mariacutea Vicente the Director and all at ALOS Language Academy Valencia for having given us such a warm welcome when we visited on the morn-ing of the 16th to do a language exchange We spoke in Castilian Spanish to these Valencian students of English (Cambridge FCE students) about Fallas Our BSA pupils had the task of preparing and giving a talk about a cultural tradition of their own country The most popular proved to be that of Shrove Tuesday as Moresche explained a tradition whereby we make toss in the air and eat pancakes (with nearly every-thing and anything you can put on one)
St Patricks Day is celebrated on March 17 the saints religious feast day and the anniversary of his death in the fifth century The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over 1000 years On St Patricks Day which falls during the Christian season of Lent Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon Lenten prohibitions against the consumption of meat were waived and people would dance drink and feast--on the traditional meal of Irish bacon and cabbage
DAYST PATRICKrsquoS
Pupils in KS3 and Yr6 enjoyed presentations on the subject of Cyberbullying given by the local Police Service We had also a session for parents at the end of the day
Cyberbullying is when one person or a group of people try to threaten or embarrass someone else using a mobile phone or the internet Cyberbullying is just as harmful as bullying in the real world If you see it happening report it Donrsquot ignore it
Page 15
MRS FISHERrsquoSBANDCOMPETITION
Emma played in the Benjamin Category (9-10 years old) from Monday to Tuesday In individuals she progressed to round 16 (Octavos de Final) where she lost and finished ninth in the classification She also played in doubles where she won to be sub-champion of Spain She has won a cup for this sec-ond position
From Wednesday to Friday she played as part of the Alicante Tenis de Mesa team in the Juvenil Cat-egory (15-17) They won the previous games and finished thirteenth which is very impressive as Emma is only nine years old
On 13th of March Emma and the rest of her team mates were received by Mariano Postigo Alderman of Sports and Events of the City Council of Alicante (Concejal de Deportes y Fiestas del Excelentiacutesimo Ayuntamiento de Alicante) in his office at the Mu-nicipal Sports The councilor wanted to personally congratulate them on their achievements in the Championship of Spain
EMMATABLE TENNIS
Important Dates
Glorieta del Reino Unido 5Alicante 03008 Spainwwwbsalicantecominfokingsgrouporg
3rd April Last Day of Term
4th - 15th April Easter Holidays
School will be open 4th 10th-13th April from 900am- 200pm
4th April School Shop Open from 900 - 1200 pm
16th April 1st Day of Term Summer Uniform
19th April Santa Faz - School Closed
20th April Art Exhibition
23rd -26th April ISI Inspection
30th April School Closed
1st May School Closed
3rd May Inter School Sports
Page 11
What a fantastic day for year 9 All of my friends and I had a really great time Poetry and literature at first sight donacutet seem very interesting but that Wednesday was awesome We learned a lot about the interpretation of poems and how to represent our feelings in our own work
We began the one day project by choosing a poem from a selection shown to us by our teachers Then in scrap we wrote what we thought about them and planned how we would rep-resent these thoughts the next day in our posters It was fun to work with people in other classes and be in groups for this creative activity On Wednesday morning we started to create our posters in groups Some groups worked with small paper others with huge A2 posters and we all used different kinds of tools and media to create them such as tissue paper cray-ons pencils and paint
That kept us busy all morning and then we worked in different groups towards creating our own poems and songs based on the theme of Perseverance We practised the way we were going to act and perform them using the skills we learned with Ash Dickinson earlier that day At the end of the day we played some drama games and then performed our songs and poems in front of each other in the school playground We voted for the ones we liked best and the final winners were Ivan Maria Jose Luis Jorge and Mario All of the groups did a fantastic job and we had so much fun with this activity We had an extremely enjoyable day all together thanks to Ms Davies Ms McGuinness and Ms Taylor
We hope that we can repeat this experience next year
Y9 Literary Festivalby luisa
Y7 Literary Festival
I enjoyed making our own super- hero a lot In my group our hero was called ldquoDiamond Girlrdquo This activity was a lot of fun as we had to use our imagination and our art skills
I also enjoyed learning to draw in the Manga style
Then we had visits from a writer and a poet it was good to meet them and do fun activities with them It was a really fun week
I enjoyed what we did in the literary week very much
Tuesday was great fun it was all about comics First we created a super- hero we drew it and wrote about its super powers its character and friendships Then we drew a girl in Manga style which is a Japanese comic style
On the Wednesday a poet came to see us and we did all sorts of fun activities First we created a poem and an alliteration beginning with the letter M Mine was Magic Monkey made magic marvellouslyIt was one of the best weeks ever
Ineacutes Year 7G
Silvia Year 7F
Manga is the Japanese word for comics
Y7 Literary Festival
Page 13
TRIP TOVALENCIAIn Year 12 13 part of the Spanish for Foreigners course at A Level consists of a regional study about the Valen-cian community itrsquos geography contemporary history demography culture traditions religion language and issues that the citizens of this community face Taking advantage of the opportunity to visit the communityrsquos capital Valencia in March as the whole city is complete with tradition festival and FALLAS Here some pho-tos of the day we spent on the 16th of March in this city of flowers light and lovehellip
Many thanks to Mariacutea Vicente the Director and all at ALOS Language Academy Valencia for having given us such a warm welcome when we visited on the morn-ing of the 16th to do a language exchange We spoke in Castilian Spanish to these Valencian students of English (Cambridge FCE students) about Fallas Our BSA pupils had the task of preparing and giving a talk about a cultural tradition of their own country The most popular proved to be that of Shrove Tuesday as Moresche explained a tradition whereby we make toss in the air and eat pancakes (with nearly every-thing and anything you can put on one)
St Patricks Day is celebrated on March 17 the saints religious feast day and the anniversary of his death in the fifth century The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over 1000 years On St Patricks Day which falls during the Christian season of Lent Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon Lenten prohibitions against the consumption of meat were waived and people would dance drink and feast--on the traditional meal of Irish bacon and cabbage
DAYST PATRICKrsquoS
Pupils in KS3 and Yr6 enjoyed presentations on the subject of Cyberbullying given by the local Police Service We had also a session for parents at the end of the day
Cyberbullying is when one person or a group of people try to threaten or embarrass someone else using a mobile phone or the internet Cyberbullying is just as harmful as bullying in the real world If you see it happening report it Donrsquot ignore it
Page 15
MRS FISHERrsquoSBANDCOMPETITION
Emma played in the Benjamin Category (9-10 years old) from Monday to Tuesday In individuals she progressed to round 16 (Octavos de Final) where she lost and finished ninth in the classification She also played in doubles where she won to be sub-champion of Spain She has won a cup for this sec-ond position
From Wednesday to Friday she played as part of the Alicante Tenis de Mesa team in the Juvenil Cat-egory (15-17) They won the previous games and finished thirteenth which is very impressive as Emma is only nine years old
On 13th of March Emma and the rest of her team mates were received by Mariano Postigo Alderman of Sports and Events of the City Council of Alicante (Concejal de Deportes y Fiestas del Excelentiacutesimo Ayuntamiento de Alicante) in his office at the Mu-nicipal Sports The councilor wanted to personally congratulate them on their achievements in the Championship of Spain
EMMATABLE TENNIS
Important Dates
Glorieta del Reino Unido 5Alicante 03008 Spainwwwbsalicantecominfokingsgrouporg
3rd April Last Day of Term
4th - 15th April Easter Holidays
School will be open 4th 10th-13th April from 900am- 200pm
4th April School Shop Open from 900 - 1200 pm
16th April 1st Day of Term Summer Uniform
19th April Santa Faz - School Closed
20th April Art Exhibition
23rd -26th April ISI Inspection
30th April School Closed
1st May School Closed
3rd May Inter School Sports
Y7 Literary Festival
I enjoyed making our own super- hero a lot In my group our hero was called ldquoDiamond Girlrdquo This activity was a lot of fun as we had to use our imagination and our art skills
I also enjoyed learning to draw in the Manga style
Then we had visits from a writer and a poet it was good to meet them and do fun activities with them It was a really fun week
I enjoyed what we did in the literary week very much
Tuesday was great fun it was all about comics First we created a super- hero we drew it and wrote about its super powers its character and friendships Then we drew a girl in Manga style which is a Japanese comic style
On the Wednesday a poet came to see us and we did all sorts of fun activities First we created a poem and an alliteration beginning with the letter M Mine was Magic Monkey made magic marvellouslyIt was one of the best weeks ever
Ineacutes Year 7G
Silvia Year 7F
Manga is the Japanese word for comics
Y7 Literary Festival
Page 13
TRIP TOVALENCIAIn Year 12 13 part of the Spanish for Foreigners course at A Level consists of a regional study about the Valen-cian community itrsquos geography contemporary history demography culture traditions religion language and issues that the citizens of this community face Taking advantage of the opportunity to visit the communityrsquos capital Valencia in March as the whole city is complete with tradition festival and FALLAS Here some pho-tos of the day we spent on the 16th of March in this city of flowers light and lovehellip
Many thanks to Mariacutea Vicente the Director and all at ALOS Language Academy Valencia for having given us such a warm welcome when we visited on the morn-ing of the 16th to do a language exchange We spoke in Castilian Spanish to these Valencian students of English (Cambridge FCE students) about Fallas Our BSA pupils had the task of preparing and giving a talk about a cultural tradition of their own country The most popular proved to be that of Shrove Tuesday as Moresche explained a tradition whereby we make toss in the air and eat pancakes (with nearly every-thing and anything you can put on one)
St Patricks Day is celebrated on March 17 the saints religious feast day and the anniversary of his death in the fifth century The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over 1000 years On St Patricks Day which falls during the Christian season of Lent Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon Lenten prohibitions against the consumption of meat were waived and people would dance drink and feast--on the traditional meal of Irish bacon and cabbage
DAYST PATRICKrsquoS
Pupils in KS3 and Yr6 enjoyed presentations on the subject of Cyberbullying given by the local Police Service We had also a session for parents at the end of the day
Cyberbullying is when one person or a group of people try to threaten or embarrass someone else using a mobile phone or the internet Cyberbullying is just as harmful as bullying in the real world If you see it happening report it Donrsquot ignore it
Page 15
MRS FISHERrsquoSBANDCOMPETITION
Emma played in the Benjamin Category (9-10 years old) from Monday to Tuesday In individuals she progressed to round 16 (Octavos de Final) where she lost and finished ninth in the classification She also played in doubles where she won to be sub-champion of Spain She has won a cup for this sec-ond position
From Wednesday to Friday she played as part of the Alicante Tenis de Mesa team in the Juvenil Cat-egory (15-17) They won the previous games and finished thirteenth which is very impressive as Emma is only nine years old
On 13th of March Emma and the rest of her team mates were received by Mariano Postigo Alderman of Sports and Events of the City Council of Alicante (Concejal de Deportes y Fiestas del Excelentiacutesimo Ayuntamiento de Alicante) in his office at the Mu-nicipal Sports The councilor wanted to personally congratulate them on their achievements in the Championship of Spain
EMMATABLE TENNIS
Important Dates
Glorieta del Reino Unido 5Alicante 03008 Spainwwwbsalicantecominfokingsgrouporg
3rd April Last Day of Term
4th - 15th April Easter Holidays
School will be open 4th 10th-13th April from 900am- 200pm
4th April School Shop Open from 900 - 1200 pm
16th April 1st Day of Term Summer Uniform
19th April Santa Faz - School Closed
20th April Art Exhibition
23rd -26th April ISI Inspection
30th April School Closed
1st May School Closed
3rd May Inter School Sports
Y7 Literary Festival
Page 13
TRIP TOVALENCIAIn Year 12 13 part of the Spanish for Foreigners course at A Level consists of a regional study about the Valen-cian community itrsquos geography contemporary history demography culture traditions religion language and issues that the citizens of this community face Taking advantage of the opportunity to visit the communityrsquos capital Valencia in March as the whole city is complete with tradition festival and FALLAS Here some pho-tos of the day we spent on the 16th of March in this city of flowers light and lovehellip
Many thanks to Mariacutea Vicente the Director and all at ALOS Language Academy Valencia for having given us such a warm welcome when we visited on the morn-ing of the 16th to do a language exchange We spoke in Castilian Spanish to these Valencian students of English (Cambridge FCE students) about Fallas Our BSA pupils had the task of preparing and giving a talk about a cultural tradition of their own country The most popular proved to be that of Shrove Tuesday as Moresche explained a tradition whereby we make toss in the air and eat pancakes (with nearly every-thing and anything you can put on one)
St Patricks Day is celebrated on March 17 the saints religious feast day and the anniversary of his death in the fifth century The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over 1000 years On St Patricks Day which falls during the Christian season of Lent Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon Lenten prohibitions against the consumption of meat were waived and people would dance drink and feast--on the traditional meal of Irish bacon and cabbage
DAYST PATRICKrsquoS
Pupils in KS3 and Yr6 enjoyed presentations on the subject of Cyberbullying given by the local Police Service We had also a session for parents at the end of the day
Cyberbullying is when one person or a group of people try to threaten or embarrass someone else using a mobile phone or the internet Cyberbullying is just as harmful as bullying in the real world If you see it happening report it Donrsquot ignore it
Page 15
MRS FISHERrsquoSBANDCOMPETITION
Emma played in the Benjamin Category (9-10 years old) from Monday to Tuesday In individuals she progressed to round 16 (Octavos de Final) where she lost and finished ninth in the classification She also played in doubles where she won to be sub-champion of Spain She has won a cup for this sec-ond position
From Wednesday to Friday she played as part of the Alicante Tenis de Mesa team in the Juvenil Cat-egory (15-17) They won the previous games and finished thirteenth which is very impressive as Emma is only nine years old
On 13th of March Emma and the rest of her team mates were received by Mariano Postigo Alderman of Sports and Events of the City Council of Alicante (Concejal de Deportes y Fiestas del Excelentiacutesimo Ayuntamiento de Alicante) in his office at the Mu-nicipal Sports The councilor wanted to personally congratulate them on their achievements in the Championship of Spain
EMMATABLE TENNIS
Important Dates
Glorieta del Reino Unido 5Alicante 03008 Spainwwwbsalicantecominfokingsgrouporg
3rd April Last Day of Term
4th - 15th April Easter Holidays
School will be open 4th 10th-13th April from 900am- 200pm
4th April School Shop Open from 900 - 1200 pm
16th April 1st Day of Term Summer Uniform
19th April Santa Faz - School Closed
20th April Art Exhibition
23rd -26th April ISI Inspection
30th April School Closed
1st May School Closed
3rd May Inter School Sports
St Patricks Day is celebrated on March 17 the saints religious feast day and the anniversary of his death in the fifth century The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over 1000 years On St Patricks Day which falls during the Christian season of Lent Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon Lenten prohibitions against the consumption of meat were waived and people would dance drink and feast--on the traditional meal of Irish bacon and cabbage
DAYST PATRICKrsquoS
Pupils in KS3 and Yr6 enjoyed presentations on the subject of Cyberbullying given by the local Police Service We had also a session for parents at the end of the day
Cyberbullying is when one person or a group of people try to threaten or embarrass someone else using a mobile phone or the internet Cyberbullying is just as harmful as bullying in the real world If you see it happening report it Donrsquot ignore it
Page 15
MRS FISHERrsquoSBANDCOMPETITION
Emma played in the Benjamin Category (9-10 years old) from Monday to Tuesday In individuals she progressed to round 16 (Octavos de Final) where she lost and finished ninth in the classification She also played in doubles where she won to be sub-champion of Spain She has won a cup for this sec-ond position
From Wednesday to Friday she played as part of the Alicante Tenis de Mesa team in the Juvenil Cat-egory (15-17) They won the previous games and finished thirteenth which is very impressive as Emma is only nine years old
On 13th of March Emma and the rest of her team mates were received by Mariano Postigo Alderman of Sports and Events of the City Council of Alicante (Concejal de Deportes y Fiestas del Excelentiacutesimo Ayuntamiento de Alicante) in his office at the Mu-nicipal Sports The councilor wanted to personally congratulate them on their achievements in the Championship of Spain
EMMATABLE TENNIS
Important Dates
Glorieta del Reino Unido 5Alicante 03008 Spainwwwbsalicantecominfokingsgrouporg
3rd April Last Day of Term
4th - 15th April Easter Holidays
School will be open 4th 10th-13th April from 900am- 200pm
4th April School Shop Open from 900 - 1200 pm
16th April 1st Day of Term Summer Uniform
19th April Santa Faz - School Closed
20th April Art Exhibition
23rd -26th April ISI Inspection
30th April School Closed
1st May School Closed
3rd May Inter School Sports
Page 15
MRS FISHERrsquoSBANDCOMPETITION
Emma played in the Benjamin Category (9-10 years old) from Monday to Tuesday In individuals she progressed to round 16 (Octavos de Final) where she lost and finished ninth in the classification She also played in doubles where she won to be sub-champion of Spain She has won a cup for this sec-ond position
From Wednesday to Friday she played as part of the Alicante Tenis de Mesa team in the Juvenil Cat-egory (15-17) They won the previous games and finished thirteenth which is very impressive as Emma is only nine years old
On 13th of March Emma and the rest of her team mates were received by Mariano Postigo Alderman of Sports and Events of the City Council of Alicante (Concejal de Deportes y Fiestas del Excelentiacutesimo Ayuntamiento de Alicante) in his office at the Mu-nicipal Sports The councilor wanted to personally congratulate them on their achievements in the Championship of Spain
EMMATABLE TENNIS
Important Dates
Glorieta del Reino Unido 5Alicante 03008 Spainwwwbsalicantecominfokingsgrouporg
3rd April Last Day of Term
4th - 15th April Easter Holidays
School will be open 4th 10th-13th April from 900am- 200pm
4th April School Shop Open from 900 - 1200 pm
16th April 1st Day of Term Summer Uniform
19th April Santa Faz - School Closed
20th April Art Exhibition
23rd -26th April ISI Inspection
30th April School Closed
1st May School Closed
3rd May Inter School Sports
Important Dates
Glorieta del Reino Unido 5Alicante 03008 Spainwwwbsalicantecominfokingsgrouporg
3rd April Last Day of Term
4th - 15th April Easter Holidays
School will be open 4th 10th-13th April from 900am- 200pm
