EUROPEAN LANGUAGE PORTFOLIO

The European Language Portfolio (ELP) was developed by the Language Policy Unit of the Council of Europe. It was created:

-       to support the development of learner autonomy, plurilingualism and intercultural awareness and competence.

-       to allow users to record their language learning achievements and their experience of learning and using languages. (1)

(1) http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/education/elp/

This is the design of our Portfolio for this year:

Children in Primary school enjoy writing and decorating their own portfolios. The pupils express their new knowledge of English in it.  Each child regularly updates their portfolio; you can see how we do our portfolios in María Inmaculada.

Year 1:

Year 2:

Year 3:

Year 4:

Year 5:

Year 6:

Skipping at María Inmaculada

Getting kids active at María Inmaculada.

It´s proven that children who are physically active are more motivated and academically focused. We want to our children to try to do as many sports as they can, such as basketball, football, hockey, ballet. They can practice these activities on the playground at our school or in the school gym.

This week we looked up information about skipping in cooperative groups. Children from 5^th and 3th grade made some posters with information about the benefits of skipping and how to skip correctly.

You can see all the children’s posters hanging throughout the corridors of the school.

I am sure you have skipped when you were a child and that it made you feel very happy. It is an activity which you can practice with some friends or by yourself. You can also sing the typical songs at the same time you and your friends are skipping.

It is fantastic when you look around and see all your pupils laughing or smiling during the P.E lesson.

Yes, skipping induces happiness. 

Our native English speaker.

Last Monday, our native English speaker, Denis was in the 3th grade class and he talked about the geography of Spain. He also spoke about the capitals of the different countries in the world. 

The children enjoyed listening to him and they had fun trying to guess the capitals of different countries and different things about the cultures.

For example:

“What´s the capital of…”

“What´s the biggest….”

“What´s the smallest…”

“Is it in the North/ South?”

We want our students to continue learning English in the most natural way.

BONFIRE NIGHT! ANNUAL FESTIVAL

Remember, remember the 5th of November!

Hi guys!

Remember what we talked about at school! Tomorrow is the 5th of November it is an important day in England. Every year on November 5th people remember Guy Fawkes and the plot to blow up the House of Parliament by celebrating Bonfire Night.

Do you want to know more about that annual festival? Like what are the typical clothes? What English people normally eat that day? Why do they make a bonfire outside?

Then click here for more information. The website also has some games, questions to check your understanding of the reading and exercises to check your grammar.

If you haven’t had the opportunity to have that experience in the UK. Well now you can! Watch this video and step into the shoes of an English person.  

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/word-street/bonfire-night

Don´t forget to answer the questions which will help you to improve your comprehenson and if you have any doubts, please just ask me!

Baked potatoes

Hot chocolate

Marshmellows

Toffee apples

Tomato soup

If you considered yourself an artist you can try to make:

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Mini Guy Fawkes