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ISSUE 2 - 2010

Produced and

edited by

Ms. M. Goodwin-

Laude Newsletter

Club and Staff

Members.

UPDATE FROM GILLIAN FLAXMAN

CALENDAR DATES

1. Book week—19th March

2. Secondary Drama Week—15th March

3. CATS Production—25th March

4. Student Reports—26th March

5. Easter Holidays—29th March to 11th April

6. Secondary Parents evening - years 7-10 20th April

Dear Families,

We are delighted to in-

form you that among

many improvements in

the school we are in-

creasing the number of

classrooms with interac-

tive whiteboards from 4

to 20. The boards will be

in use from after Easter.

This gives teachers a

fantastic new teaching

resource that is highly

motivating for all pupils

as it encourages interac-

tive participation.

Excellent January AS

exam results have just

arrived with several A’s

in Maths, History and

Spanish. We look forward

to these results continu-

ing in June too.

We are also pleased to

inform you that we have

requested permission to

run Bachillerato Español in

Yrs 12 and 13 from Sep-

tember 2010 so that pu-

pils will be able to choose

either A’levels or Spanish

Bachillerato to access Uni-

versity. We are now hop-

ing for a favourable re-

sponse from Junta de An-

dalucía.

Many trips out of school

will be taking place in the

summer term. We hope

our trip to Paris in June

will be of interest to many

pupils, just the same as

the trips to Granada and

along the coast.

“Cats” was a magnifi-

cent production and we

are sure that everyone

will enjoy it. Visitors are

coming from the German

and other local schools to

see it too! Read more on

pages 16 and 17.

With all good wishes,

Gillian Flaxman

Read more about the Day of Andalucia - page 12 & 19 & St. Patrick's day -

page 13

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ISSUE 2 - 2010

Produced and

edited by

Ms. M. GoodwinLau-

de Newsletter Club

and Staff Members.

UPDATE FROM GILLIAN FLAXMAN

Estimadas familias:

Nos es grato informarles

de una de las muchas

mejoras que está imple-

mentando el colegio.

Hemos aumentado el nú-

mero de aulas que utili-

zarán las pizarras blan-

cas interactivas de 4 a

20. Se empezarán a

usar después de las va-

caciones de Semana

Santa. De esta forma, los

profesores tendrán un

fantástico nuevo recurso

para motivar a los alum-

nos ya que las pizarras

fomentan mucho su par-

ticipación interactiva.

Hemos recibido unos re-

sultados excelentes de

los exámenes de A levels

de enero. Ha habido va-

rias ‘A’s en matemáticas,

historia y español. Espe-

ramos también ver unos

resultados igual de bue-

nos en junio.

Además, nos complace

informarles que hemos

solicitado permiso para

cursar estudios de Bachi-

llerato español en cursos

12 y 13 a partir de sep-

tiembre 2010. Los alum-

nos podrán elegir entre

‘los A levels’ y el Bachille-

rato español para acceder

a la universidad. Estamos

en espera de una contes-

tación favorable de la Jun-

ta de Andalucía.

Habrá muchas excursio-

nes durante el último tri-

mestre. Esperamos que

nuestro viaje a París en

junio sea del agrado de

muchos alumnos, igual

que los viajes a Granada y

por la costa que vamos a

realizar.

Veremos una magnífica

producción de la obra

“Cats” este mes. Esta-

mos seguros que todos la

disfrutarán. ¡Incluso ven-

drán del Colegio Alemán y

otros colegios locales para

verla!

Con nuestros mejores de-

seos,

Gillian Flaxman

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ISSUE 1 - 2009

HEAD OF PRIMARY - UPDATE FROM SUSAN STARK

Last year the children and

staff in the primary school

took part in Earth Hour. This

first started in 2007 in Syd-

ney, Australia when 2.2 mil-

lion homes and businesses

turned their lights off for one

hour to make their stand

against climate change. Now

Earth Hour has become a

global movement with more

than 50 million people across

35 countries participating.

This year we would again

like to encourage all the

families of pupils in the Pri-

mary School to participate in

Earth Hour 2010 which will

take place on Saturday 27th

March at 8.00pm. As this will

be happening during the

holidays it would be good if

pupils could be kind enough

to take a photograph of

themselves, friends and

families supporting Earth

Hour and email it in to me

(s.stark@laudesanpedro.com)

so that we can make a display

of how the Primary School

participated this year.

In assemblies in recent weeks

we have talked about how

even small, individual actions

can combine to make a sub-

stantial difference to the

worldwide movement.

During our assembly last week

John Ryan come to talk to us

about recycling broken or old

mobile phones. He explained

that the phones are sent away

to factories where the batter-

ies and metal parts are re-

moved and any remaining ma-

terials are smelted for energy

recovery. There are now four

bins in school where old

phones can be left for recy-

cling. Please can you help us

make a good contribution by

sending in your old phones for

us to collect. We have re-

minded the pupils that they

may not bring in old phones

without telling their parents

first!!

Your child should be able to

tell you all about Earth hour

but if you would like to learn

all about Earth Hour, its his-

tory, its aims and its achieve-

ments, please go to Spanish

www.wwf.es LA HORA DEL

PLANETA or in English

www.wwf.org.uk/earthhour

EARTH HOUR 2010 IN THE PRIMARY SCHOOL

The world is in our hands!

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PRIMARIA DIRECTORA - SUSAN STARK

El año pasado, los alumnos y

el personal de primaria parti-

ciparon en La Hora del Pla-

neta. Este acto comenzó en

2007 en la ciudad de Sídney,

Australia cuando 2.2 millo-

nes de hogares y empresas

apagaron sus luces durante

una hora para mostrar su

oposición a los cambios cli-

máticos. Ahora, La Hora del

Planeta se ha convertido en

un movimiento global con la

participación de más de 50

millones de personas en más

de 35 países.

Este año, queremos animar

a todas las familias de nues-

tros alumnos de primaria a

participar en La Hora del Pla-

neta 2010 que se celebrará

el sábado, 27 de marzo a las

20.30. Como este evento

ocurrirá durante las vacacio-

nes, sería interesante que

los alumnos mandaran una

fotografía de ellos, sus amigos

y familias apoyando este

acontecimiento y me lo envia-

sen por e-mail a

s.stark@laudesanpedro.com

para que podamos celebrar

una exposición de la participa-

ción de primaria de este año.

Durante las asambleas de las

últimas semanas, hemos co-

mentado sobre como incluso

los actos pequeños e indivi-

duales pueden unirse para

causar una diferencia impor-

tante en el movimiento a nivel

mundial.

En nuestra asamblea de la se-

mana pasada, John Ryan vino

para hablarnos sobre el reci-

claje de teléfonos móviles ro-

tos o viejos. Nos explicó que

estos aparatos se envían a fá-

bricas donde les quitan las pi-

las y las partes metálicas y

cualquier material restante es

fundido para ser reciclado. Ac-

tualmente en el colegio tene-

mos 4 papeleras para que de-

positen sus viejos teléfonos.

¿Podrían ayudarnos hacer una

buena contribución enviándo-

nos sus teléfonos viejos para

reciclarlos? Les hemos aclara-

do a los niños que no deberán

traer viejos teléfonos ¡¡sin an-

tes haberles preguntado a sus

padres!!

Su hijo/a deberá poder explli-

carles qué es La Hora del Pla-

neta pero si quieren leer sobre

sus comienzos, sus propósitos

y sus logros, por favor dirijan-

se a:

www.wwf.es/lahoradelplaneta

(para verlo en español) o a:

www.wwf.org.uk/earthhour

para verlo en inglés.

ACTUALIZACIÓN - LA HORA DEL PLANETA 2010 EN PRIMARIA

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The children in Foundation Stage got to-

gether for an exciting Sports afternoon to

raise money for Elliot George. We had a

range of activities from bouncing on the

mats to throwing a beanbag. The children in

Reception showed just how well they can

count by counting all the way up to 100.

Nursery was fantastic at bouncing and some

children could even bounce for longer then

five minutes! Running was Pre-nursery’s

best activity and they could run as fast as

lightning! We all had lots of fun cooperating

in this event and can’t wait to do it again.

PRIMARY-NEWS FOUNDATION STAGE - ‘WORLD MATHS DAY’

BOUNCE AND THROW EVENT - MISS WILSON, MISS NICHOLSON, MISS MCGINLAY, MISS GREENWOOD & MRS LIPPINGWELL

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On March the 18th Pre-Nursery and Nursery vis-

ited La Casita de Martin - Granja Escula in Fuen-

PRIMARY-NEWS NURSERY AND PRE-NURSERY-LA CASITA DE MARTIN

By FIONA MCGINLEY

We visited the animals, we made biscuits, we

went in a maze full of interesting objects, we

learnt about recycling, we had our faces painted

and sang songs in an Indian Teepee, we had a

ride on Santa the donkey, we played in a huge

sandpit and we had a yummy lunch. We enjoyed

our day out very much.

We were busy, busy, busy all day and were

quite sleepy on the journey back to school!

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On Monday

8th March,

2H did

their class

assembly.

In RE they had been learning

about the parables Jesus told.

For the assembly they acted

out ‘The Good Samaritan’. “I

was a narrator and I spoke

very clearly”, said Leah. The

parents enjoyed it so much,

they asked the children for an

encore! “I felt very nervous

when I was speaking in front

of the audience”, said Alex.

The children sang a song, and

Sofia sang part of it on her

own. “ I felt very nervous”,

Sofia said afterwards. “I en-

joyed it when Sofia sang”,

said Francesca. The children

really enjoyed putting on their

show. “I want to do it again!”

said Alvaro. Miss Hill and Mrs

Waller thought that the chil-

dren were fantastic and

looked wonderful in their cos-

tumes. They were very proud

of the class.

PRIMARY-NEWS YEAR 2 - ‘THE GOOD SAMARITAN’ BY MISS HILL ANS MISS WALKER

Thank you to the parents for providing the costumes, and

thank you for coming to watch.

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PRIMARY-NEWS

Year 4 are learning about taking care of our

environment, hence why we decided to pay a

visit to the Recycling Centre in Casares.

We had a pretty exciting day at the Recycling Centre. In

our visit, the children learn the importance of our ac-

tions now and the consequences for the future.

To our surprise we saw that this waste/recycling center

is the cleanest (also no smell) dump we’ve ever gone

to. There were so many bins, but very well organized.

The children saw many things that could be recycled,

learn how to recycle them and realised amongst other

things that by recycling, we can save trees that would

YEAR 3 - VICTORIAN DAY CELEBRATIONS

Friday 5th March was a

very unusual day for Year

3 as they all participated

in a Victorian Day.

All the children and teach-

ers dressed up and ex-

plored what it was like to

study at a Victorian

School. Pupils wrote in

chalk, chanted times ta-

bles and even had their

fingernails inspected to

ensure they were clean!

The children learned how

to play hopscotch and

made a Victorian tumbling

acrobat toy. It was an

educational and enjoyable

experience for all.

YEAR 4 - TRIP THE RECYCLING CENTRE CASARES

be cut down to make more paper.

Overall, we had great fun!

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PRIMARY-NEWS YEAR 3 - ERUPTING VOLCANOS BY MS. G. OWER

ZAK and Daniel informing 3H about

their research!

Hugo, Lewis and Victor

Y e a r 3 ' s Q u e s t

Group have been reading

and writing all about vol-

canoes these last two

weeks. They shared the

information they had dis-

covered and read some of

their own writing to their

class, 3H. The finale of

their presentation was

when they made their

model volcano erupt!

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PRIMARY-NEWS YEAR 3 - SCIENCE UNIT ‘HEALTHY TEETH AND

EATING’ BY MS. C. MIDDLETON’

3M’s turn for our class assembly

came around quickly! A chance

for us to share what we had

learned in Science about ‘Healthy

Teeth and Eating’. We presented

a ‘television show’ to other KS2

pupils and our parents. Expert

speakers shared their vast knowl-

edge from the Science World: Pro-

fessor Protein, Mr Mineral and Sci-

entist Sugar from the Food De-

partment, and Captain Canine and

Dr Molar from the Dentist Depart-

ment!

Among fact-sharing, we also per-

formed drama and poetry and

even created a human pyramid to

represent the food pyramid! Fi-

nally we sang a ‘rap’ about how to

brush teeth properly! We really

enjoyed it and we hope everyone

else did, too!

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PRIMARY-NEWS YEAR 5 - SAN PEDRO GEOGRAPHY TRIP

BY MRS BACKWELL, MRS WOOD AND MRS AVILEZ

On the morning of Wednes-

day 10th February, as part of

our Geography topic ‘Help

Our Local Area’, Yr. 5 visited

the centre of San Pedro to

interview people about local

facilities.

We wanted to gather infor-

mation about the importance

of things like shops, sports

installations, the beach, the

new underpass and employ-

ment in the area to the peo-

ple we interviewed.

We had designed a question-

naire with this in mind and

chose three different loca-

tions in the town centre for

our survey. We tried to ask

people of different age groups

to get a range of answers.

We will now look at all the

information we have gathered

and see how people think San

Pedro could be improved.

We found people were very

happy to answer our ques-

tions and take an interest in

what we were doing, people

commented on the smartness

and good behaviour of the

children who represented

Laude San Pedro with pride.

Some of our Mums and Dads

came along to help and then

stayed and had lunch at

school.

The following week during

our topic lessons we collated

the information gathered in

the survey. The results are as

follows;

• the majority of people

questioned were between

the ages of 40 and 60,

• most people interviewed

were residents or work in

San Pedro,

• most people thought that

the beach was the most

important feature of San

Pedro,

• on the whole the people

seemed happy with the

quality of services and fa-

cilities of San Pedro,

• there were some areas

that people would like to

change or improve, these

were; they would like the

town and beaches to be

cleaner, a theatre and a

cinema, more medical cen-

tres, more activities for

children, more schools,

less traffic, more parks and

more jobs.

• Yr. 5, the teachers and the

parents really enjoyed the

trip to San Pedro. It was

very interesting analysing

the data which we col-

lected!

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PRIMARY-NEWS CELEBRACIONES - DIA DE ANDALUCIA The Día de Andalucía

("Day of Andalusia" or

"Andalucia Day") is

celebrated February 28

and commemorates the

February 28, 1980 ref-

erendum on the Statute of Autonomy of

Andalusia, in which the Andalucian elec-

torate voted for the statute that made

Andalusia an autonomous community of

Spain.

In the morning, Primary had a fantastic

procession of all the pupils from Pre

Nursery to Year 6 in the Sports hall. All

the children looked fantastic. Following

the parade we were treated to a bril-

liant presentation on beautiful Anda-

lucia by the Primaria Espanol Depart-

ment with some brilliant acting and

dancing from many of the children.

Thank you all so much!!

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PRIMARY-NEWS CELEBRATIONS - ST. PATRICKS DAY

Laude San Pedro Primary celebrated St. Patrick’s Day. St. Patrick's

Day is celebrated on March 17, this religious feast day and the anni-

versary of his death in the fifth century. The Irish have observed this

day as a religious holiday for over a thousand years. On St. Patrick's

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 tradi-

tional meal of Irish bacon and cabbage.

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WHOLE SCHOOL -NEWS PRIMARY STAR PUPILS - FEBRUARY

Week Commencing 19th February

Salma, Enzo, Ines, Shozab, Se-len, Daniel, Jasmine, Sofia, Na-yana, Grace, Alex, Selin, Patricio Well done all of you!! We are very proud of your achieve-ments!

Week Commencing 12th February

Cecilia, David, Alvaro, Cristina, Lucía, Maya, Marco David,. Ga-briella, Ashton, Carmen, Victor, Khaoula, Francesca. Congratulations to all – we are very proud of you!

SECONDARY STUDENT OF THE MONTH FEBRUARY AND MARCH

Cesar González - for consistent good

work and high attainment in French, El-

eanor Musgrove - for excellent progress

with her work and assisting with corridor

displays in Geography, Nikkie Woods -

for her improvement in attainment in her

business studies mock exam results,

Sabrina Scuilli - for her fabulous Physics

investigation, Alejandro Villafranca -

constant hard work and fabulous pro-

gress in English since September, Ara-

bella Hornung - for her magnificent Cien-

cias Sociales results, Jessia Lippingwell -

for her hard work in her daily work and

homework and excellent Lengua results,

Anton Zagrebelny - for consistantly

working well in ICT, Andrea Olvera - for

creating a superb display on Charles I and the Eng-

lish Civil War in History, Charlie Woods - for his out-

standing level of work in class in Maths, Robert

Carey - for his outstanding progress and using his

own initiative in music, Sagrario Tapia– for always

striving for good results in Art, William Bergman -

for his effort in Hockey and Sophie Tonge - for her

sportsmanship in the inter school football tourna-

ment.

Week Commencing 5th February

Isabella, Alex, Sara, Antonio, Pablo, Aida, Marta, Felix, Elisabete, Nicole, Lara, Drew, Yasmine. Good job guys!! Keep up the good work!

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The Andalucian winter has really

arrived, and the infirmary has

been busy with lots of coughs

and colds.

The most common ailments con-

tracted during winter are coughs

and colds. For most of us a week

or two with a runny nose and

cough is an annual event. There

are over 100 different viruses

that can cause the common cold

and finding a cure is virtually

next to impossible. Due to cold

weather we spend more time

indoors with other people

and this can help coughs and

colds spread rapidly.

There really is no other treat-

ment for a winter cold than rest.

Drinking fluids might help you

avoid becoming achy and dehy-

drated. Paracetamol or a similar

painkiller, taken in the recom-

mended doses, can help to treat

the symptoms.

There is no foolproof way of

avoiding infection with a cold.

What you can do is take precau-

tions not to spread the infection

further if you do catch a cold.

• Use tissues and dispose of

the tissues in a bin after

use

• Wash your hands, espe-

cially after sneezing or

blowing your nose

• If you sleep with your head

high up on a couple of pil-

lows, you should be able to

breathe more easily at

night.

And remember summer will soon

be here!

GENERAL NEWS FIRST AID BY DOLORES SUGRUE

COUGHS AND COLDS UPDATE

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In conjunction with DanzArt (Karen

Felice Guarnieri), Laude San Pedro

presents a mesmerizing rendition of

the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical

Cats based on Old Possum's Book of

Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot. Due to

the success of this rendition, addi-

tional performances will take place at

on 22nd and 23rd June at the Black-

box in Marbella. The following pho-

tos have been provided courtesy of i-

Marbella, please visit i-marbella.com

to purchase the original photos;

WHOLE SCHOOL-NEWS CATS PRODUCTION

FABULOUS

SUCESS

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WHOLE SCHOOL-NEWS CATS PRODUCTION

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WHOLE SCHOOL-NEWS

Laude San Pedro International College hosts

Football’s Olympic Torch

Pupils at Laude San Pedro International Col-

lege enjoyed a kick-about with a very special

football on Monday morning. The Ball 2010 is

traveling to the Opening Ceremony of the

Football World Cup in South Africa from Bat-

tersea Park, London (where the first FA-rules

football match was played). In doing so it en-

riches the competition with a symbol that

matches the spirit of the Olympic Flame.

Along the way it is being played with in stadi-

ums and in the streets by whomever it

meets. Those who kick it can sign it and al-

ready it has collected hundreds of signatures

including those of students and staff at

Laude.

Laude Pupils showed The Ball a thing or two

on its last day in Europe before it headed

across The Straights and into Africa. Andrew

Aris, traveling with The Ball, spoke to secon-

dary students during assembly and one vol-

unteer, Lewis demonstrated his football skills

before adding his name to The Ball. In the

gym, Year Two fell upon the ball and an en-

thusiastic kick-about ensued. The students

then lined up to sign The Ball and wish it well

on its way.

Find out more about The Ball and its 2010

trip on its website theball.tv.

The 2010 Route

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Overall, it was a

very positive experi-

ence and the stu-

dents that took

part had a fantastic

time in La Masella, Cataluña. The sur-

roundings were idyllic and the hotel had a won-

derful entertainment schedule available every

SECONDARY SCHOOL - NEWS YEAR 7, 8 AND 9 - FANTASTIC SKI TRIP

BY MS BEATO

YEAR 7, 8, 9, 10, 11,12 AND 13 - DÍA DE ANDALUCÍA

BY MIRYAM MARTÍN Todos los alumnos

que cursan Lengua y

Ciencias Sociales han

querido celebrar este

día tan especial para

los andaluces y lo han

compartido con el re-

sto de sus compañe-

ros de secundaria.

Cada uno de ellos ha trabajado un aspecto

importante de Andalucía, como el escudo, la

bandera y sus colores, el himno, gastronomía,

provincias, lectura de poesías de poetas anda-

luces acompañadas con el sonido de la guita-

rra española, y hasta ha habido un toque mu-

sical con los diferentes palos del flamenco.

Todos estos aspectos nos los han expuesto,

con la gracia que caracteriza a los andaluces,

en una asamblea que hicimos para toda secun-

daria, con el apoyo de una presentación en Po-

werPoint, en la que todos hicieron un magnífico

trabajo.

night including the disco, which proved to be

the most popular activity after dinner. How-

ever, we cannot forget we were there to ski!

We enjoyed three sessions everyday, as the

conditions were excellent and we had plenty

of snow this year. At the same

time, students were able to meet

other kids from other Laude

Schools and made lots of friends.

I am sure they are all looking

forward to next year's ski trip!

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SECONDARY SCHOOL-NEWS YEAR 9 - WIRED ART BY MS. UTE

YEAR 11, 12 AND 13 - UNITOUR BY MR. S. ORTIZ Our Year 11, 12 and 13 students attended the

annual edition of Unitour held at the Hotel NH

in Málaga last 24th of March. Some top Spanish

and International universities had stands in

the fair where students had the opportunity to

find out directly from each university’s staff

their career choices, their facilities and other

useful information, such as admission criteria

or the professional opportunities for the future.

All students seemed to enjoy this opportunity

and all of them visited the stands and talked

to the councilors to gather information to help

them decide on their future choice. From the

students’ own words, “this was a useful ex-

perience”.

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Year 8 had a great deal of

fun on Friday the 19th

March with gallons of hot

chocolate, oodles of

whipped cream and marsh-

mallows galore. This fund

raising event was in aid of

our chosen charity, The El-

liot George Foundation. The

class managed to raise in

just 20 minutes. We organ-

ized a production line in

which each student was al-

located a task. This enabled

the class to work very effi-

ciently as a team and pro-

duce a large number of very

tempting hot drinks in a

short space of time. Andrea

SECONDARY - NEWS YEAR 8 - HOT CHOCOLATE FUND RAISING BY MS. P. BUIS

YEAR 9 - CAKE SALE BY MS. C. COHEN

On Friday 29th of January. Class 9C held a cake sale

in aid of the Haiti Earthquake victims.

The class made a great deal of effort by baking and

selling various cakes to students and staff at break.

As you can see from the photographs, the sale was a

huge success, raising over 265€.

As well as supplying information and images for the

newsletter, 9C created and showed an electronic

presentation at assembly on Monday 8th February.

The presentation showed some of the devastation

that Haiti has suffered due to the earthquake, and

some of the things that we can do to help.

was in charge of the choco-

late, Maria was responsible

for the hot milk Fernando

and Dylan oversaw serving

the whipped cream while

Ellie and Alejandro finished

off with marshmallows and

a chocolate sprinkles.

There was quite a buzz as

the class worked together

to keep up with demand.

This was a good learning

experience for 8B as well

as a successful way to raise

money for a good cause.

Students brought in mate-

rials from home so all prof-

its go to the charity. Well

done 8B.

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SECONDARY - NEWS YEAR 7, 8, 9,10 & 11 - SPONSORED FUND RAISING WALK

Laude Secondary students organised a sponsored walk along

the San Pedro beach front to raise money for the Elliot George

Foundation (one of our partner charities) on Friday 18th De-

cember 2009. The idea is for students to get sponsored for

every lap they complete (2 km per lap). However, due to bad

weather the walk was cancelled.

We are please to confirm that on the Friday 19th March 2010

students were able to completed the walk. Charity representa-

tives were presented with a cheque with 797, 50€

Well done to all students involved!!

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Why have Curriculum

Week

Curriculum Week is a

unique opportunity to enrich

pupils’ experience beyond the classroom and

empower lifelong learning. They are a really

important way of allowing students to link sub-

ject themes together.

The key points of Curriculum Weeks are:

• To enrich learning; giving pupils an oppor-

tunity to learn outside of the traditional

classroom whilst reinforcing, especially visu-

ally and kinesthetically, that which they

have learned in the classroom

• To broaden pupils’ horizons through cross

curricular activities

• To improve pupils’ social interaction and

skills enabling them to represent the school

• To raise pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and

cultural awareness, (appreciating and valu-

ing their culture and that of others by ob-

serving the interaction of cultures in the

wider society)

• To enhance teamwork and build self-esteem

• To inspire, motivate and generate interest

What is Curriculum week and how does it

work?

The normal timetable is collapsed during the

week and a program of activities is delivered

SECONDARY - NEWS CURRICULUM WEEK - ’THE GREAT ESCAPE’

BY MRS. A. VALENTINE

which compliments the pupils’ studies and

broadens their curricular experience. Curricu-

lum week is a time where students look at a

cross curricular theme and it is incorporated

into their lessons to give students a chance to

see how learning in one lesson has and impact

on the learning in other lessons. Themes we

have looked at include ‘The Great Escape’ and

‘What are we doing to our planet? At the end

of the week the students participate in an as-

sembly to share what they have learnt that

week. Here are photos of this terms curricu-

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In ICT, using the topic “The Great

Escape”, we used pivot stick to show

any form of escaping. We made our

own movements and backgrounds.

We made the backgrounds using

paint and made the movements us-

ing pivot stick animator. Sophie

Tonge - YR7

We used pivot stick animator soft-

ware to make different forms of

things like words, objects etc. We

then had to create each frame by

moving the figure one step at a

time. Elena Peel-YR7

SECONDARY - NEWS YEAR 7 - ICT ’THE GREAT ESCAPE’ BY MS. G. COHEN

Durante la semana del currícu-

lum los alumnos de Y8 realiza-

ron una Gran escapada a la

creación literaria y para ello,

tuvieron que modernizar un

cuento clásico europeo. La ac-

tividad propuesta la llevamos a

cabo en durante dos sesiones.

En primer lugar, realizamos

una actividad grupal leyendo

una selección de cuentos de

los hermanos Grimm,-pie de

foto- lo que entusiasmó a los

alumnos, ya que lo hicimos a

través de una página web in-

YEAR 8 - “LA CREACIÓN LITERARIA” DE STA. IRISARRI teractiva, posteriormente, ex-

plicamos el cuento y cada

alumno iba aportando posi-

bles variaciones del cuento

original, posteriormente, ca-

da alumno escogió uno distin-

to y, por último, cada alumno

produjo un cuento propio, es-

to entusiasmó a los chicos.

Algunos ejemplos son la ver-

sión de “El enano saltarín” de

Beatriz Mirón o “Caperucita

Roja” de Fausto Diantina.

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SECONDARY - NEWS ENGLISH - ’GUIDED IMAGERY’ BY MRS. H. PALMER

During Curriculum Week Key Stage 3

discovered 'Guided Imagery' through

meditation. Mrs. Palmer's classroom

was filled with scented candles and re-

laxing music; cushions and rugs were

scattered on floor whilst pupils prepared

to go on a special journey, places vis-

ited included: Australia, London, Dubai,

Disneyland and The Maldives. After

their adventures pupils discussed their

experiences and then produced a piece

of creative writing based on their

trip. Great fun was had by all and the

exercise proved to be an exciting and

experiential way of dealing with 'The

Great Escape'.

YEAR 7-MEDITATION

BY MEGAN ROBINSON

On Tuesday 9th of February, Year 7 had a meditation

lesson. This involved bringing in cushions and then ly-

ing back on them whilst Mrs. H. Palmer read a script.

In this PowerPoint would see just how your imagina-

tion flows.

These are just some of the photos that were taken of

Year 7 as they settled down to begin their adventure.

Imagination is a powerful thing, let loose and anything

is possible.

From your own special place to, maybe, a tropical

rainforest. It’s up to you, all you have to do to go on a

journey is relax and imagine. You could go anywhere!!

Meditation is great fun but it also has some positive

answers afterwards, for example Year 7 not only had a

FANTASTIC time, but it helped us to become more

confident in ourselves. It also helps with story writing.

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SECONDARY - NEWS ENGLISH - ’WORLD BOOK DAY´BY MS. HOAD

On Thursday 4th March 2010 all Key

Stage 3 students dressed up as charac-

ters from books, plays and poems. Some

students dressed in exotic far-eastern

costumes, while others put on fluffy wigs,

long beards, capes and boots! During

their English lessons, they visited some of

the Primary classes to read books to the

younger students, to look at the illustra-

tions and to generally enjoy a cosy chat

about their favourite books.

Here are just a few of the photographs of the fun we had on World Book Day. If you would like

to see more pictures, please come and see our display along the corridors of Laude San Pedro.

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NOTICIAS - SECUNDARIA INGLÉS - CELEBRANDO EL DÍA MUNDIAL DEL LIBRO

DE SAM GULLIVER (PREFECT)

Laude San Pedro

ha estado muy

ocupada celebran-

do el día mundial

del libro. Para el

colegio, leer es

uno de los aspec-

tos más importan-

tes de la educa-

ción y por ello los estudiantes se vistie-

ron de personajes de libros conocidos.

Vimos de todo: desde

princesas, hasta bru-

jas; por un día, el cole-

gio pareció la escena

de un libro. Los estu-

diantes de secundaria

salieron de sus aulas

para poder leerles a

algunos estudiantes de

primaria, para los estu-

diantes de secundaria

fue una oportunidad

para hacer algo dife-

rente y poder ser una

buena influencia en la

vida de sus compañe-

ros pequeños. Los es-

tudiantes de primaria

aprendieron a leer libros

más complejos y fue una

experiencia divertida para

todos. Hubo momentos de

felicidad, en el cual los

niños de primaria se les

notaban muy felices al lo-

grar realizar una actividad

que nunca antes habían

realizado, aunque ahora si

gracias a la gran colabora-

ción y ayuda de algunos

alumnos de secundaria

que siempre mostraron un

gran interés.

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An Inter school hockey

tournament was held at So-

togrande on Wednesday

10th March 2010. Girls and

boys in year 7 to year 10

participated with great en-

thusiasm and effort, win-

ning a few matches and

loosing a few too. Our

‘Under 15 boys’ played very

well indeed. Well done to all

the girls and boys.

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EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Year 7, “Pablo’s tries hard to

reach Ryan”

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On the 10th March 2010, a bus left Laude San Pedro with

students from y7 to y10, boys and girls. There were, in

total, 4 teams: y7 and y8 girls team, y7 and y8 boys

team, y9 and y10 girls team, and y9 and y10 boys team.

The y9 and y10 boys team won their tournament against

Sotogrande A and Sotogrande B. The team consisted of

6 students: Karim (y9), Christopher (y10), Jorge (y10),

Julio (y9), Alvaro (y9) and Nicolas (y10). The first match

they played was against Sotogrande A, and although

Laude San Pedro were considered to be worse, they

managed to defeat the local team with a close result of

0-1. The goal came after a great pass from Jorge to

Nicolas, who managed to score.

The second game was against Sotogrande B. After hav-

ing beaten the A team, Laude San Pedro were the fa-

vourites, and managed to win, this time, with a much

clearer result of 1-3. Goals from Nicolas (2) and Alvaro.

After the great tournament they played, and the quality

in their game, Laude San Pedro y9 and y10 boys team

deservedly won the tournament.

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EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES INTER-SCHOOL HOCKEY TOURNAMENT -

BY NICOLAS SPANO

Year 9 and 10, “Nicolas defends the ball

well!”