'Sing Along' Pictures!

Click on the link below and you will see some picks from the 'Sing Along' concert:

'Sing Along' Pics!

Differences between Quebec and Catalonia

There are many differences between a country and another one. Of course have positives things and negatives, when we are travelling we, most of time, see only the negatives. But I am not this kind of person and it is why I did this trip.

The first thing that surprised me here is the schedule of a day. It is very different! The school starts at 8:45 am and finish at a hour different depending of the day of the week. The classes are of one hour and there isn't breaks enter. We have a lunch at 2 or 3 o'clock and we have a supper at 9 or 10 o'clock! It is a big difference because in my home we have a dinner at 12 and we have supper at 5 or 6 pm. At 10 o'clock we are in the bed.

The second thing that impresses me is that the people are warmer here. In Quebec, a kiss girl to girl or men to men to tell hello it is impossible. The person will check you like if you are absolutely crazy. But, it is amazing to see how the teachers and students are close. How they talk together, how they laugh together, etc... In my school, the teachers are the teachers and you don't talk with them about what you did last weekend, you ask your question and that is all.

Another thing that is very different from my house, is that here the people do a lot of activities next the school. In Quebec most of the residents do one class in all the week or two. It is many differences between the Spanish day and the Canadian day. The first one is longer than the other one and the people do all the things faster.

During this journey have done many things and have seen a lot of places. Three months it is a lot at the beginning, but finally it isn't. I am happy to do this exchange and I am enjoying continuing it with three other months in Quebec with Irene.

                                                                                                                                     Élizabeth Asselin

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.