Digital Poster

Some students in 1 ESO have done a digital poster this first term. It is a poster about personal information.
This one has been selected from all of them. The author is Rita Piñol from 1 ESO B.

Quim Costa in the USA

How Could I start? Well, my name is Quim Costa Farré, I’m coursing 1st of Batx at Ins Manuel de Pedrolo, and I went on an Exchange program to America and took there my sophomore year of high school (4t ESO).

First of all, let me say that it was one of the best experiences of my life (if not the best one) and that I would recommend to the students reading this to take the opportunity to go study there if they get the chance to.

Living in the U.S was like dreaming awake, it was like being inside of a movie. I mean of course it wasn’t exactly like in the movies and either easy the whole time, but it was still so worth it.

The thing is that there are so many things I could talk about, but what I decided to focus on, is how much they loved their high school teams and the great hooligans they were since it’s something that completely amazed me. Every single high school in the U.S.A has his own sport teams (which of football, soccer, baseball, basketball, volleyball…) composed by its high school students, and what those teams do is “represent” their school and town in the competitions they’re in. Maybe what’s already been said sounds already pretty cool, but the sweet thing is that when the team plays, what happens (at least at the state I lived) is that pretty much everybody  goes to watch the game.

A lot of students go watch the game and they occasionally get dressed up too for the occasion, for example: it’s black out day, so every body goes to the game going all dressed with black clothes, or it’s nerd day, so everybody goes dressed to school and to the game as a nerd. My personal experience with this, it’s not only the fact that I got dressed up too during football season, it’s also that I played basketball and ran track for my high school, and something that hit me hard was that I was used to play basketball here in Tàrrega with 40 people watching my team and I play as the most, and when I got there in U.S.A I ended up playing basketball games in front of about 300 people sometimes. And same with football, even though I didn’t play I went to my high school football games, and in those games there were more that 500 people watching.

Well, I think I’ve wrote enough, but with this actual month being November I’ve decided to do a kind of trend they did in Ohio called No-shave November which consists in not shaving during the whole month.

Quim Costa Farré

EATING OUT

The students from 3ESO performed a role play on  'Eating out'.

ORAL PRESENTATION ON HALLOWEEN / CASTANYADA

The students from 3 ESO gave an oral presentation to celebrate Halloween.

Halloween at Pedrolo

On the 28th, 29th, 30th and 31st of October, INS Manuel de Pedrolo 3ESOA and 3ESOB students presented the project Castanyada Food and Halloween Food orally in front of the class. They could use posters or Power Point Presentations to illustrate their projects. We used some of their posters  and the 1ESO and 3ESOC decorations to produce the exhibition below.

Final Project: Castanyada Food and Halloween Food.

1ESOD making decorations, decorating their classroom
 and helping with the project.

3ESOC making decorations, decorating their classroom
 and helping with the project.

1ESOD making decorations, decorating their classroom, making 
spooky spider coockies and helping with the project.

Putting up and toghether the students' works.

The European Day of Languages / La Journée européene des langues

ENGLISH

The European Day of Languages is 26 September, as proclaimed by the Council of Europe on 6 December 2001, at the end of the European Year of Languages (2001), which had been jointly organised by the Council of Europe and the European Union. Its aim is to encourage language learning across Europe.

The general objectives of the European Day of Languages are to:

• alert the public to the importance of language learning and diversify the range of languages learned in order to increase plurilingualism and intercultural understanding;
• promote the rich linguistic and cultural diversity of Europe;
• encourage lifelong language learning in and out of school.

At our high school we have also celebrated this day by means of an exhibition in the school hall. Students have also done several activities in the classroom.

 FRANÇAIS

La Journée européenne des langues est célébrée le 26 septembre. C'est une initiative du Conseil de l'Europe. Elle vise

• à célébrer la diversité culturelle et linguistique,
• à favoriser la plurilinguisme,
• à permettre l'apprentissage des langues tout au long de la vie.

Dans notre lycée nous avons aussi célébré ce jour à travers d’une exposition dans le hall d’entrée. Les élèves ont fait aussi des activités dans la classe.

Differences between the Education System in the USA and Catalonia by David Rodríguez

David Rodríguez, a student from Pensilvania, has studied 2nd Batx at our Highschool. In the second term, he gave a speech to all students in Batxillerat about  the education differences between the USA and Catalonia. Below, you can see a video of his speech.