Newsletter April 2014 Dear Parents and Students, Welcome to our second Newsletter of the academic year! As always we have included some samples of our students’ work to give you an idea of what is going on in the classrooms! We hope you enjoy them!
Colegio SEK Santa Isabel
Please remember that if you were unable to attend the teacher-parent meetings for the second term, but would like to arrange a meeting at another time, or if you need to speak to me, do not hesitate to contact me on 660 467 459. Teacher-parent interviews can be arranged either at SEK or at the Martínez Campos site. You can also contact your child’s teacher directly through the Portal.
May I take this opportunity to remind you that the third academic term officially started on Monday 24th March and continued after the Easter break. I am available to speak to you on Mondays, The terms have been organised in this way due to Wednesdays from 12.00 p.m. - 15.00 p.m. and on the fact that Easter falls so late this year. Friday’s from 12.00 p.m.—15.00 p.m. and 16.00 p.m.—18.00 p.m. Please contact me if you have had any problems accessing the portal towards the end of this term. Jo Kay, SEK Co-ordinator You can contact me at joanne.kay@britishcouncil.es joanne.kay@britishcouncil.es 660 467 459 I will endeavour to resolve any issues as soon as possible.
Yellow B give us a taste of Mexico!
María Muñoz
Laura Martin Javier Fernández
Alba del Moral
Sofía Hervás Victor de Vicente
Brian’s Reds have been busy designing houses using some very unusual materials, posters about saving the planet and even writing some very silly fairy tales with a twist! Marcos Llamas
Gabriel Cricenti
Mateo Gras Jaime Encinas & Sergio Gómez Valeria Ramos & Gabriela Otero
Xing Yang Guo Julia Perales & Almudena Jara
Gabriel Cricenti
Carla Quintero Xing Yang Guo
Leire Barrondo
Gonzalo Rincón & Mario Rivera
Carla Quintero
Animals to amaze you! Suzy’s Tigers have invented their own animals and given them extra special powers!
Francisco López
Gabriela Formaríz
Enjoy some fine dining with Finola’s Junior 1s
Daniel Vidal, Guillermo Reguera & Jaime Gómez
Claudia Sanz
Marta Díaz, Samuel Vega, Pablo Yécora & Carolina Wu Carlota Wu, Claudia Sanz, Andrea Rodríguez & Pablo Jara
With so many avid readers in SEK, not surprisingly, many students have finished one or more of our library schemes and we have quite literally had to invent another scheme to keep up with the demand! Our new scheme is entitled “Books, books, books…”, and the students receive a bookmark with a quotation about reading for every 5 books that they read. We have also had to re-assess the books designated to each level as many students were not finding those available to them challenging enough. As a result, most of the books in our collection have now been moved down a level. This is fantastic and really reflects the high standard of SEK students. We have also been fortunate enough to receive a large donation of books from the Martínez Campos site, particularly novels for the Junior levels. May we remind you that each class has a designated library day once a week. Occasionally we are unable to provide the service if we have to cover classes, but if possible we try to give the students an opportunity to change their books later on in the week. Here are some examples of Reading Reviews from our youngest students, Pandas and Tigers.....
Jorge González
Victor Torres
Cloe Raymundez
Pablo Bailón
Francisco López
Estibaliz Henao
Gabriela Formaríz
María Abad
Leire Barrondo
Andrés Palacios
Yellow A tempt us with some tasty recipes! Marta Palma
Jorge Palacios
Alba Quintero
David López
Pablo Quevedo
Gabriel’s Yellow class have taken on the Big Book Challenge for 2014. This year’s Theme is “Creepy House” and here they can be seen preparing to write a comic strip for the Big Book which will be printed and bound in June in time for students and parents to appreciate their hard work! Last year’s SEK entry was entitled “A Journey into the Imagination” and was written by students in Jan Byrne’s Yellow class. From left to right: Jorge Pons, Javier Pachón, Jorge Palacios, Marta Palma, Alejandro Rodríguez, Yi Wang, Alba Quintero
Jan’s Pandas have made some very amusing booklets in which you can change a person’s outfit!