Condolencias - Condolence

La semana pasada, sufrimos la pérdida de Jos Bolscher, uno de los coordinadores del Programa Internacional de Intercambio con Holanda, World Wide Professional. Expresamos desde este blog nuestro más sincero pésame.

Last week, we had to regret the loss of Jos, one of the coordinators of the International Programme of Exchange in Holland.

In his last e-mail Jos wrote to us:
“ Everything is going well. Preparations of meeting Almería, Study visit Málaga, New exchange Canada and visit South Africa. What a fine job with a lot of challenges!”.

We really think “a fine job” only can be successful when you work with people like him.
He has helped us all this time not only with our work but showing us how to improve our human relationships.

We would like to emphasize on this point. Every week we had either an e-mail or a skype with him and we have had the chance to know to what extent, besides being an excellent professional, he was as a person with a great amount of tolerance, humanity, ability to coordinate, sensibility and what is more a person with a great heart.

We feel very close to you in these days and we hope we will be able to recover from his loss.
We wish all his “challenges “ will become the challenges of all of us, as a way to keep him in our minds always and to honour all of his work.

Ana and Marisi and the rest of pupils and teachers send you our deepest sympathies.
We will miss him a lot and we will never forget him.With love from La Cala de Mijas

Peace my heart…

Peace, my heart, let the time for the parting be sweet.Let it not be a death but completeness.Let love melt into memory and pain into songs.Let the flight through the sky end in the folding of the wings over the nest.Let the last touch of your hands be gentle like the flower of the night.Stand still, O Beautiful End, for a moment, and say your last words in silence.I bow to you and hold up my lamp to light you on your way.

Informative Day for Foreign Residents - Jornada informativa para residentes extranjeros

El Ayuntamiento de Mijas celebra el día 17 una Jornada informativa para residentes extranjeros.

Next 17 March, Mijas Town Council celebrates an Informative Day for Foreign Residents.

Más información:

More information:

http://www.mijas-digital.es/mijas/extranet/noticiasdetalle

Conferencia - Conference

Nuestro Centro, representado por la profesora de ATAL, participará el próximo lunes en unas jornadas educativas sobre multiculturalidad y convivencia en el ámbito escolar, organizadas por la Universidad de Málaga. Para más información, hacer click en siguiente enlace.

Our school, represented by the ATAL teacher, will take part next Monday in a cycle of conferences about multiculturality and convivence at school, organized by Malaga University. For more information, click on the following link.

SIEI (Seminario Interdisciplinar de Estudios sobre la Inmigración)

Universidad de Málaga.

Proyecto de los alumnos - Students´project

Los alumnos de ATAL* ayudaron a elaborar paneles explicando cómo se celebra la Semana Santa en España y en sus países de origen.

The ATAL* students helped in the ellaboration of boards explaining how Easter is celebrated both in Spain and in their countries.

*ATAL

Aula Temporal de Adaptación Lingüística

Linguistic Adaptation Temporary Classroom

La Pascua en el mundo - Easter in the world

El alumnado de ATAL está realizando un trabajo en español para exponer en el Centro, comparando las distintas formas de celebrar la Pascua en sus lugares de origen.

De momento, se encuentran trabajando sobre la festividad de Pascua en el Reino Unido, en Hungría, en Holanda, en Dinamarca, en Islandia, en Alemania y en España.

Se insertarán fotografías de los paneles en este blog cuando estén acabados.

The ATAL students are working on a project in Spanish to be displayed at school, comparing the differents ways of celebrating Easter in the world. At the moment, they are working on Easter in the UK, Hungary, Holland, Denmark, Iceland, Germany and Spain.

A picture of the boards will be inserted in this blog when available.

MARZO 2009 - MARCH 2009

DÍA INTERNACIONAL PARA LA ELIMINACIÓN DE LA DISCRIMINACIÓN RACIAL

( 21 DE MARZO)
INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION

(21 MARCH)

Decoración del Centro
School Decoration

Los alumnos de ATAL expusieron el viernes 20 de marzo un panel decorativo, con la colaboración de otros alumnos del Centro cuya lengua materna no es el español.Se trata de un abanico con ocho partes de color rojo que simbolizan las provincias de Andalucía. Cada parte está decorada con el logotipo “Todos diferentes, todos iguales” en los idiomas maternos del alumnado de nuestro centro.

El logotipo está inspirado en el de la Comisión Europea contra el racismo y la intolerancia. Se ha cambiado la forma, eligiendo un círculo en lugar de un rectángulo, para que visualmente se identifiquen con lunares andaluces, y se ha traducido a idiomas no comunitarios, puesto que recibimos a alumnos de países que no pertenecen a países de la Unión.

Agradecemos a la Administrativa del Centro, Beatriz García Martínez, su paciencia con nosotros y su colaboración en el diseño. Queda demostrado una vez más que en el IES La Cala, toda la comunidad educativa participa en actividades de tipo intercultural.

The ATAL students displayed on Friday 20 March a decorative borrad, with the collaboration of other students of the school, whose mother tongue is not Spanish.
The board has the shape of a fan with 8 parts coloured in red which symbolize the 8 provinces of Andalucia. Each part is decorated with the logo “All different, all equal”, en the mother tongues of all our students.
The logo is inspired in the European Commission against racism. The shape has been changed, choosing a circle instead of a rectangle, to make it similar to the Andalusian spots. It has been translated to languages of countries which do not belong to the EU, as we receive students from many different places.
We would like to thank the secretary of the school, Beatriz García Martínez, for her patience with us and her collaboration in the design. Once more, it has been proved that in this school, all the staff contribute to intercultural education.

Ciclo de talleres (Lunes 23 y 30 de marzo)
School workshops (Monday 23 and 30 March)
El alumnado de 1º, 2º y 3º de ESO participaron en un ciclo de talleres sobre el tema de la eliminación de la discriminación racial. Estas charlas fueron impartidas por el servicio de Mediación Intercultural de la Delegación, en coordinación con el Departamento de Orientación del Centro.
The students of 1st, 2nd and 3rd ESO took part in a series of workshops about the topic of elimination of racism. These workshops were organised by the Intercultural Mediation Services of Malaga Educational Authorities, coordinated with the Guidance Department of the School.

DÍA MUNDIAL DEL AGUA (22 de marzo)
WORLD WATER DAY (22 March)

Los alumnos de 1º Bachillerato de Ciencias están trabajando durante este curso escolar en un proyecto sobre el AGUA, dentro del programa internacional World Wide Professional.

(Recordamos que en el marco de este programa se encuentran trabajando también alumnos de 1º de Bachillerato de Ciencias Sociales, con un proyecto sobre los Derechos de la Mujer, y alumnos de 2º de ESO, con un proyecto sobre Turismo).

Con motivo del Día Internacional del Agua, los alumnos realizaron una encuesta sobre los usos del agua. Incluyeron los resultados en la wiki que están elaborando y que se podrá ver a final de curso. De momento, su uso está restringido a los centros que trabajan en el proyecto.

The students of 1st Bachillerato (Group of Sciences) are working during this school year in a project about WATER, in the background of the international programme World Wide Professional.
(We would like to remind that the 1st Bachillerato students of the Group of Social Sciences are working in a project about Womens´s Rights, and those of 2nd ESO in a project about Tourism, also in the background of this International Programme).
On the World Water Day, the students did a survey on the use of water. They included the results in the wiki page they are creating and that will be available at the end of the school year. At present, the access to this page is restricted to the schools who are working on it.

Más información
More information
http://www.worldwideprofessional.wikispaces.com/

Enero 2009 - January 2009

En el mes de enero, nuestros temas principales de trabajo son:

-Informar sobre la nueva línea de trabajo de la Unión Europea para el 2009 (Año Europeo de la Creatividad y la Innovación)

-Actividades relacionadas con el Día Escolar de la No Violencia y la Paz (30 de enero):

Se decora el Centro desde la semana anterior con la palabra paz en todos las lenguas maternas de los alumnos.

Se emiten durante el recreo del 30 de enero canciones relacionadas con la paz.

Se realizan en sesiones de Tutoría actividades relacionadas con los conflictos armados actuales en el mundo. Los alumnos deben leer unos carteles informativos expuestos en el centro sobre estos conflictos, localizar los países afectados en un mapa y cumplimentar un cuestionario.

Este año, para desarrollar la creatividad y la innovación en nuestros alumnos, se organizó un concurso de marcapáginas sobre el tema de la paz. Los premios fueron vales para comprar material escolar y una buena nota en Plástica.

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January 2009

In January, our main areas of work are:

-Giving information about the new topic chosen by the European Union for this year: European Year of Creativity and Innovation.

-Activities related to the School Day of Non Violence and Peace (30th January):

The school was decorated with the word "Peace" in all the students´mother tongues.

Songs for peace were played during the break on 30 January.

A research activity about nowadays wars in the world was organized. Students had to read information displayed at school, find the countries in a map and answer a questionnaire.

This year, to celebrate the School Peace Day, and to develop creativity and innovation in our students, there was a competition. The students had to make bookmarks decorated with Peace issues. The bookmarks were displayed and 3 winners were chosen. The prizes were vouchers for school materials, and good marks in Arts.