Students have been so creative during our school’s
Third Book Festival! After reading A Classic Collection retold by Julie Hart, 4th ESO students have chosen their
favourite short stories and turned them into comic strips with the help of
their Art Teacher, Irene. Do you like them?
We have received a
beautiful card from Kostelec nad Vltavou,
a village and municipality in the Písek District of the South Bohemian Region
of the Czech Republic, 1,875 kilometres away!
The postcard Václav has sent us features a map with
the location of his village.
We have done some reseach on Václav's village and have discovered that it is located quite near Sumava National Park, one of largest forested areas in Central Europe. If you want to learn more about this natural wonder, visit our section EXPLORING PLACES.
Děkuju, Václav! Máme rádi své pohlednice (Thank you, we love your postcard!)
Kostelec nad
Vltavou is a village and municipality in the Písek District of the South
Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. The municipality covers an area of 32.81
square kilometres.
The oldest railway
line on the European continent, connecting České Budějovice and Linz, was built
in 1825-1832 mostly for the purposes of transporting salt from the Upper
Austrian Salt Chambers to Bohemia. It was the culmination of many years of
efforts to connect the watersheds of the Vltava and Danube Rivers.
The Šumava National Park and Protected Landscape Area
In 1963, Šumava
was declared a protected landscape area, and in 1991 the Czech government
declared it a national park. In 1990 it became a UNESCO biospheric reservation.
It holds remnants of glacier basins, glacier lakes, and stone and granite
outcroppings that resulted from glaciation. The national park is one of the
most extensive forestlands in central Europe and even though most of the forest
growth is secondary, it is approaching the condition of a natural forest
composition. Šumava is the headwater area for the longest Czech River, the
Vltava (Moldau).
LIFESTYLE
South Bohemia is a
dream paradise for holidays whether you decide to spend time sightseeing or
relaxing. The countryside here offers endless possibilities for visiting places
of natural beauty, but also has lots of historical monuments and great
conditions for cycling and water sports.
Our first literary card is on its way to Saint
Petersburg, 3222km away!
You may well remember that “Literary Cards” is an initiative we
came up with a few weeks ago in an attempt to contribute to our school’s Third Book Festival.
We hope our Russian friend, Anastasia, will appreciate
this postcard, which offers a glimpse into Wonderland, the fantastic setting of
Carroll’s thought provoking and entertaining novel.
Thank you, Ledicia!
If you want to read about Anastasia’s hometown, one of
the most impressive cities in the world, visit our section, EXPLORING PLACES.
The travelling notebook we are posting today has not travelled abroad; it has travelled around Ourense instead before coming back to the classroom of 5 year-old students in order to be presented during the Third Book Festival.
It is a wonderful notebook they have created with the help of their teacher María José and their families. It has travelled from family to family and is now displayed in the school’s lobby.
Watch the video below to browse through their travelling notebook.
Congratulations on your amazing work! We simply love it!
400 years ago two of the most well-known writers of world literature died: Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) and William Shakespeare (1564 -1616). That's why we are celebrating Book Day today!
The connection between 23 April and books was first made in 1923 by booksellers in Catalonia, Spain. The original idea was of the Valencian writer Vicente Clavel Andrés as a way to honour the author Miguel de Cervantes, who died on this date.
In 1995 UNESCO decided that the World Book and Copyright Day would be celebrated on 23 April, as the date is also the anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega.
Ledicia (3º ESO A) has recorded a brief podcast about William Shakespeare's life. We hope you like and find it interesting!
Thanks a lot, Ledicia!
Our Student Teacher from the University of Georgia,
Monan Lu, has recorded this video to share her reading habits and likes with all of us and also to reflect on why reading matters.
Thanks a lot, Monan, for such an inspiring message!
We are so thrilled! Today we’ve had a very inspiring
talk with an artist from Ourense that we all admire, Rafael Cachaldora. You may well remember
that we sent 5 postcards featuring some of his colourful and unique
representations of various emblematic places in Ourense.
On the occasion of our school’s Third Book Festival,
Rafael was invited to give a talk on his artistic production, which is not only
limited to digital representations of Ourense but includes fascinating abstract
paintings that evoke the prehistoric art of our earliest ancestors.
Cachaldora has told us many interesting things about his
sources of inspiration, the evolution of his artistic career, his techniques
and workshop, his exhibitions worldwide and, very importantly, about the need
to be true to one's passion.
2016 World Book Day marks the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death (April, 23rd, 1616). This is way our second contribution to our school's Third Book Festival is a postcard featuring some of the best-known scenes of Romeo and Juliet in alphabetical order.
Romeo and Juliet's A to Z by ESO 4 students. Collage by Eva Pousa
ESO 4 students' selection provides a glimpse of the greatness of one of Shakespeare's best known tragedies, Romeo and Juliet's doomed love.
Our Annual Book Festival starts today and runs until Saturday 23rd with a programme full of inspiring and exciting activities!
As noted in a previous post, our contribution to the Book Festival consists in creating, writing and sending postcards that feature any aspect related to any literary title/author or to anything related to the pleasure of reading as a whole. The first postcard we’ve chosen to write is a wonderful collage of various illustrations by ESO 3 students put together by English teacher Eva Pousa: Alice’s ABC.
As you can see, Alice’s ABC shows in alphabetical order key elements of one of our favourite books of all time, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) whose 150th anniversary was celebrated last November.
All the twenty-six illustrations are now on display at the school’s lobby ready for the inauguration of the Third Book Festival.
If you want to read how the first day of the festival has been celebrated, click HERE. More literary postcards are being prepared, stay tuned!
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