WE HAVE PARTICIPATED IN THE 9TH EDITION OF THE FONIX AWARDS (ENGLISH CONTEST)

Last Saturday 29th February, the students of our high school, Aina Trullàs of 1st ESO, Lifei Borrell, of 2nd ESO, Mariona Planas of 3rd ESO, Clara Mir of 4th ESO and Lluïsa Paredes of 1st Batxillerat, participated in the 9th edition of the English Competition THE FONIX in Catalonia.

The tests were taken in Girona.

Good luck!

CHRISTMAS CONCERT BY THE CHOIR OF OUR HIGH SCHOOL

The last day of school before the Christmas holidays, the choir of our high school in Celrà offered us a small concert in the “audiovisual room”. The classroom was too small to host all the audience!

We really liked how they sang and here we is the video so you can see it.

https://youtu.be/cj1Eo9ntc3E

AUSTRALIA

On Monday 21st March, the students of post-compulsory education attended a talk about Australia by Mary Jane Pratt, teacher of English and Japanese at the Centre d’Exàmens Girona and official examiner of Cambridge.

She talked about topography, demography, weather, fauna, flora and habits… of Australia. The presentation was in English.

BASES FOR SAINT GEORGE 2016 AWARDS

These are the bases of the Saint George Literary Awards 2016. After the Easter holidays,  you will find posters spread around the high school, but if someone wants to spend some time of their holidays writing, here you can find the bases (If you zoom the picture you can read better).

Illustrations by Rosa Pagès

ELECTROPHORESIS AT BATXILLERAT

On Friday 11th March, Lluís Bañeras (teacher at UdG and  father of the student Tomàs Bañeras - currently studying 1st year batxillerat), came to our high school to explain and make an electrophoresis with the students in batxillerat that are studying biology.

We would like to express our gratitude for sharing his time and knowledge with our students!

SCHOOL CHOIR IN THE MERCÈ AUDITORIUM

Last Sunday 28th February the IES de Celrà’s choir participated  in a concert in the Mercè Auditorium in Girona together with the choir of Mountain Lakes High School, New Jersey, USA.

The experience was really positive, both on the part of music and also in the practice of English.

THE DRONES

Students who are studying Industrial Technology in 1st and 2nd year of Upper Secondary School attended a conference about: “Drones and their applications in architecture and construction” last 15th October.

There they discovered the application of drones in the construction sector, which is revolutionizing the traditional way of managing the works, renovations, restoration, and also maintenance. There they could see practical applications and real images of projects. And they also learnt about the current security regulations and types of drones.

It was a very interesting lecture but they were disappointed because they couldn’t make some devices on that place fly .

SWEENEY

English theatre at the Ateneu on 21st Jan. Today all secondary school students attended. They saw the play Sweeney, from IPA Productions, a  very enjoyable play with music and songs. Three actors and one actress, all native English speaker,s represented different characters, and they even took "volunteers" from the audience!

PHYSICS IN CONTEXT ON THE GIRONA TV PROGRAMME "EDUCA QUÈ?"

Girona TV broadcast a programme called EDUCA QUÈ? yesterday evening, presented by Mar Coll, with some reports in classrooms, interviews with teachers and students, etc.

Days ago they came to sing in the classroom of  2nd year batxillerat at physics subject, to explain how physics is taught in real situations, in the programme called Physics in context.

If you want to see EDUCA QUÈ?, be alert at  TV Girona (on the internet):

• Friday, January 29th, at 10h
• Saturday, January 30th, at 23h

RESTART OURSELVES!

On 26th May we celebrated the Day of Our School with the motto: Restart ourselves! We did the first two lessons, the next one third hour we played the game of the goose in our classroom with our tutors, and then for two hours, we did some workshops. In the last lesson we went to the gym to see the final show.

Workshops 3rd and 4th year ESO - Film , The Art of Conversation , Radio Celrà, restart ourselves, with  color, school choir , dancing, Flamenco, Photography , Discover the clown in you , cooperative games , strategies in football, Images and words and reinvent the sandwich .

Workshops 1st and 2nd year ESO - Film , Artistically speaking, tecnologic puzzle , Find Your Way , yellow squash , Segel and printing , Boomerang , making music with computers, recycling objects, you want to be ?, rubber magnets , Wake up Ter, reinvent the art , decoration of clothes, our library , kitchen, always restart ourselves in languages, ​​basketball tournament and enjoy musical melodies .

GEOGRAPHY AND ENGLISH AT 2nd YEAR BAT

Aiming to give a different twist to the agenda of selectivity , high school students from the 2nd year BATX Geography subject held a session on globalization in English last Saturday 23rd . First they read and analyzed a text in groups in English about the pros and cons of a globalized world and subsequently, created teams where everyone could contribute their views in English. The debate was motivating and arose many ideas that will help to deepen into the theme.

UPF AWARDS OF RESEARCH PROJECT OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS

Out of more than 60 projects presented this year at the awards by Pompeu Fabra University, on 11th March 10 of the finalists selected showed their project at the delivery awards.

Among the winners were Guillem Batlle Capa,  student of 2nd year batxillerat (post-compulsary education) for his research project: El robot caminador (the walking robot). Study, design and robot construction of a robot decapod moved by the mechanism of Theo Jansen.

PRESENTATION OF “A L’INSTITUT FEM TEATRE”

You may have seen, on windows, doors, walls in our school, fragments of some of the theater works that have been performed in the last six years in our school, in 4th year ESO and also in batxillerat. There are also fragments of works that have yet to be released.

Those are the works that Josep Maria Uyà has written and has published in his book.

Come to the presentation! (Wednesday, 20th April 2016)

INFORMATIVE TALK BY THE UdG FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AND FAMILIES

On Monday 23rd May, the teacher of the UdG, P.Daunis, came to our high school and gave an informative talk to the students of second year batxillerat, about the studies that they can follow at the University of Girona. He also talked about the “selectivitat” and cut-off marks..

CHRISTMAS THEATRE IN THE MORNING AND NIGHT

In the morning:

1st year ESO: they watched the performance of 3rd year ESO(from 8:45 to 10:35)

2nd year ESO: they watched the performance of 4th year ESO(from10:15 to 11:45)

3rd year ESO : they watched the performance of 3rd year ESO(from11:45 to 13:50)

4th year ESO and 2nd year Batxillerat: they watched the performance of 4th year ESO(from 13:15 to 14:45)

Llençols desplegats (3rd year ESO)

Directed by Olga Soler,in collaboration with Xavier Botifoll.

Quatre i un pel mig(4th year ESO) Directed by Josep Maria Uyà