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COURAGE, STRENGTH AND DETERMINATION

2013/2014

SCHOOL NEWS

JANUARY 2014

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School News – January 2014

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The yearly event is an opportunity for many stall orders to take part and sell their wares, while students get involved by organising children’s games and competitions as well as assisting Santa Claus.

Parents and teachers also helped with selling raffle tickets, cakes, food and mulled wine. Staff and students from our Espiche site took part in the event.

All proceeds from the Bazaar go to ‘Casa de Nossa Senhora da Conceição’. It was wonderful to observe a group of girls from the home visit the Bazaar. They had a great time at Santa’s Grotto and joining in all the fun and games.

The funds raised will ensure that the children’s home in Portimão has its meat bill paid for a year. Fantastic achievement in such austere times.

The Social Solidarity Association of the International School of the Algarve (ASSDEIA) has been supporting the ‘Casa de Nossa Senhora da Conceição’ for the last 4 years. The International School of the Algarve would like to take the opportunity to thank everyone for all their help and continued support.

Christmas Bazaar Fundraising Success

On Saturday 30th November, the International School of the Algarve held its annual Christmas Bazaar. It raised !2.449.99 EUR for a girls’ home in Portimão (‘Casa de Nossa Senhora da Conceição’).

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The Christmas Concert of the International School of the Algarve was performed by choral groups of students from Years 2 to 6 of the International Section and students from Years 3 to 6 of the National Section. For the first time students from the International School of the Algarve site in Espiche, Lagos, Years 5 and 6 took part in the concert.

The concert was conducted by our Music Director, Gita Nasta, and Music teacher Bruno Rodrigues with flute solos by Grace Borgan, the Music teacher at our Espiche site.

Our students performed twenty Christmas carols in various languages, including ‘Silent Night’ with a Bible Scripture reading. The Service was concluded with the ever popular ‘medley’ ‘Dia de Natal’ which everyone joined in.

Carol Service Christmas Spirit The Christmas Carol Service by the International School of the Algarve Choir completely filled the ‘Igreja Matriz de Lagoa’ on 6th December for a celebration that traditionally signals the beginning of the Christmas season at our school through the magic in the children’s voices.

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The show began with two poems and a dance presented by students from Years 1; 2 and 3 of the ‘1º Ciclo’. It was followed by Christmas carols sung by our youngest children from Pre Reception, Reception and Year 1.

The highlight of the event was the Christmas play ‘The Theft of Father Christmas’s Toys. This was a fantastic, colourful, energetic spectacle.

Pre School and ‘1º Ciclo’ Christmas Play Fills Municipal Auditorium in Lagoa The Christmas Play performed by students from Pre School and ‘1º Ciclo’ of the International School of the Algarve completely filled the Municipal Auditorium in Lagoa with parents and family members of our youngest students for a wonderful Christmas celebration, on 14th December.

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Pas de la Casa, Andorra Snow Trip with the School’s Sports Club

One week of fun and sport activity in one of the largest ski areas in Europe is the annual proposal of the Sports Club of the International School of the Algarve (CDEIA), which in December took a group of 67 people, mostly school students, for a fantastic holiday in the snow. The destination of the snow trip was Pas de la Casa, one of the six ski resorts in Grandvalira, Andorra. The trip was held between 7th and 14th December, a strategically chosen week because it is prior to the Christmas holidays rush to the snow. During the week there was not one single cloud in the sky. Our students benefited from extraordinary conditions for skiing: prime quality snow and few skiers on the slopes. The mornings were devoted to ski lessons (at various levels) and the afternoons to skiing the wonderful slopes of Grandvalira. The program included good meals, daily swimming, a surprise dinner on the mountain top and a stop in the Caldeia thermal pools in Andorra-a-Velha before the return trip to Portugal.

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Carolina Receives Gold Award

Carolina Ferreira was honoured by the ‘Câmara Municipal de Portimão’ with a Gold Award for her good international results in 2013. Carolina lives in Portimão and received the award during the Sports Gala Portimão 2013 on December 11th accompanied by professor Paulo Bitoque.

The Municipal Council gave 11 Gold Awards in 2013. Carolina was awarded one for her 7th place in the age group ‘Girls Cadets’ while representing the Portuguese National Speed Skating Team at the European Championship held in Germany, in July. During the 2013 season, Carolina also won 11 individual national titles and 3 team national titles.

The tournament with all the 50 CDEIA’s skaters will consist of an obstacle course intended to evaluate the technical level of each athlete. The date may be altered pending the weather conditions. At the event the club board will present awards related to the 2013 season results for the Best Athlete and the Best New Athlete in each age group. CDEIA also will present the calendar of events and objectives for the 2014 season and the club rules by which athletes will be called to official events.

The CDEIA will compete in the National Meetings for the age groups ‘Benjamins’, ‘Escolares’ and ‘Infantis’ and in the National Championships – indoor, track and road – for the age groups ‘Iniciados’, ‘Cadetes’, ‘Juniores’ and ‘Seniores’. The club will also be competing in the international tournaments ‘Terras do Infante’ (Lagos, April), ‘Madeira Island’ (October) and Arganda Del Rey (Madrid, September) and in three rounds of the European Cup, two in Germany and one in Austria in April and June.

At the international competitions the finest CDEIA athletes will gain more experience and competitive pace and will try to obtain the results needed to be called for the National Team for the European Championhip (July), the World Championship (Argentina, November) and the Olympic Youth Games (China, August).

Speed Skating CDEIA Invites The Sports Club of the International School of the Algarve (CDEIA) will inaugurate the new speed skating season on the 25th January bringing together athletes and their families for a tournament and lunch at the school.

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The conference addressed the ‘Grieving Process in Children and Adolescents’ by Professor Dra. Paula Isabel Santos, psychologist and academic teacher in Porto. A psychologist with a PhD in Biomedical Sciences (Mental Health), Paula Isabel Santos is a Psychotherapist and has been Professor since 2001, scientific coordinator of a course about the grieving process for postgraduation students in Porto. Paula Isabel Santos advised families in Portimão on how to intervene effectively in the grieving processes of their children and adolescents.

The Pedagogical Lectures of the International School of the Algarve will continue until May. Admission is always free. On January 24th we will hold a conference at the Municipal Library in Silves with Susana Ferreira, an educator with a Masters in Education Sciences, to address the topic ‘Learn Through Play’. On February 13th we will have Francisco Ferreira, a well known television figure, in the ‘Convento de São José’, in Lagoa, talking about the challenge of environmental education.

Pedagogical Lectures Grieving Process

The Second Pedagogical Lecture organised by the International School of the Algarve for the School Year 2013-2014 was held in the Municipal Theatre of Portimão, on the 29th November, at 9 pm, with the full support of the ‘Câmara Municipal de Portimão’.

During the three weeks leading up to the Christmas Holidays, the School Library held a Book Fair by Usborne Publishing and the yearly traditional Mineral Fair.

Fairs in the School Library

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‘Newton’s Disc’ is a circle with seven colours. Rotating the disc on an axis the colours start to merge and create the illusion of white. With the help of the Secondary School visitors students from Year 1 built several devices and enjoyed themselves, amazed by the illusions caused. At the end of the demonstration, the students from Year 1 received ‘EIA Science Kits’ with the necessary materials to repeat the two experiments at home.

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‘Matchstick Cinema’ and ‘Newton’s Disc’ were the two experiments prepared by the Secondary students for their young friends. The first experiment recreated a thaumatrope: two paper discs glued on a matchstick with different pictures on each side, which when rotated create the impression of a single image, a phenomenon called retinal persistence.

Demonstration of Science Secondary Visits Year 1

Students from Year 11 Physics and Chemistry and Year 12 Physics of the National Section visited the Year 1 classroom on the last day of classes before the Christmas holidays, December 16h, to present two scientific experiments about color and image and to awaken the interest for science amongst their youngest colleagues.

Dancing Farewell Students and teachers joined together on the last day of classes before the Christmas holidays for a Zumba class given by former EIA student Martina Reis. Zumba is a fitness program inspired by Latin dance. Pupils and teachers had great fun.

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Summer School Online

The 'Summer School' project of the International School of the Algarve has its own website: www.summerschool-eia-isa.com. On the website you can find all the information about the English courses, boarding and the fun activities that will also be incorporated. The ‘Summer School’ will start in July.

Mathematics Olympiads

The International School of the Algarve hosted the Second Round (Regional Final) of the Portuguese Mathematics Olympiads on 15th January. Three students from our school - Marcos Pessegueiro (11ºA), Mário Capitão (9ºA) and Rita Tavares (6ºA) - and a student from Padre António Martins de Oliveira school in Lagoa took the test.

‘Making Bread’ On January 8th students from Year 8 of the International Section, under the guidance of teacher Aníbal Oliveira conducted an experiment to demonstrate how heat affects yeast cells and its implications for making bread dough rise. The children enjoyed the end result, of tasting their own bread.

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Upcoming events:

• 20th January: Inter-Schools Sports – 1st Tennis Meeting (Portimão)

• 21st January: Inter-Schools Sports – 1st Speed Skating Meeting (Silves)

• 21st January: Field Trip (Years 7 and 10 National Section) – Ruins of Milreu (Estói-Faro)

• 25th January: Sports – CDEIA Tournament (International School of the Algarve) – date may change due to weather conditions

• 15th February: Sports – International Schools Cross Country (Vilamoura)

• 21st February: Sports – Athletics Festival ‘Megas’ – Regional Round (Parchal)

• 24th February: Field Trip (Year 9 National Section) – Cultural Centre of Lagos

• 25th February: Field Trip (Year 12 National Section) – Cultural Centre of Lagos

• 25th de February: Field Trip (Year 7 National Section) – Gulbenkian Museum (Lisbon)

• 17th March: Thematic Field Trip (Years 10 and 11 National Section) – ’Os Maias’, Eça de Queirós (Lisbon)

• 17th March: Field Trip (Year 5 National Section) – Pedagogical Farm in Silves

• 27th to 29th March: Sports – Spring Festival – St. Julian’s School (Carcavelos, Lisbon)

• 28th April to 2nd May: School Trip – Cazorla Natural Park (Spain)

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