ADM GOES TO SIEMENS IN GERMANY.....

A GROUP OF STUDENTS FROM ADM 3 ARE GOING TO TRAVEL TO ERLANGEN IN GERMANY NEXT WEEK ACCOMPANIED BY THEIR TEACHER MANUEL FERNÁNDEZ.

THEY WILL VISIT THE GYMASIUM WHERE THERE ARE STUDENTS ALSO STUDYING ADMINISTRATION.

THEY WILL ALSO HAVE A GUIDED TOUR IN THE INTERNATIONAL COMPANY 'SIEMENS', SO THAT THEY CAN DO SOME PRACTICE JOB IN SUMMER.

AGATHA CHRISTIE AT SCHOOL...

YESTERDAY, WE MET MISS MARPLE, THE DETECTIVE LADY WHO USUALLY APPEARS IN HER MYSTERIOUS NOVELS.

THE STUDENTS COULD ALSO ACT IN THE PLAY AND PRACTICE THEIR ENGLISH.



AT THE GYM ........

BURLINGHTON LECTURES NEXT WEEK

ON THE 7TH OF FEBRUARY, OUR STUDENTS WILL ATTEND INTERESTING LECTURES ABOUT BRITISH CULTURE .

3A AND 3B AT 11.30

3C AND 3D  AT 12.20

4TH ESO  AT 1.30

SEE YOU THERE...!!!

STRONG WINDS IN ZARAGOZA TODAY

THE WIND IS SO STRONG IN ZARAGOZA TODAY THAT GIOCONDA WOULD BE TERRIFIED HERE.......

'PUT A SMILE AS AN UMBRELLA' = AL MAL TIEMPO BUENA CARA

ADM 2 IN RECREARTE EXHIBITION TODAY !

TODAY, IN RECREARTE, AT THE LIBRARY,  IT WAS THE TURN OF THE STUDENTS FROM 2ND ADMINISTRATION (13)

THEY HAVE PARTICIPATED IN THE TRADE FAIR OF 'EJEA' WITH SOME OTHER VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES DFROM OTHER TRAING SCHOOLS IN ARAGON.

THEY SIMULATE A REAL BUSINESS INSIDE THE CLASSROOM EVERY DAY AND THEY LEARN HOW IT WORKS IN THE DIFFERENT SECTIONS: MARKETING, SALES, PURCHASES. PUBLIC RELATIONSHIPS, ETC.....

ROBERT BURNS NIGHT IN SCOTLAND (25 JANUARY)

Tonight it is Robert Burns Night in Scotland)has been added to Inglespc.com Tonight it is Burns night in Scotland.

 People tonight commemorate the life and the works of  Robert Burns, a poet that was born on  January 25, 1759.  Many people today will meet to have a Burns supper (dinner). Burns suppers may be formal or informal and they include music of bagpipes, 

MAUTHAUSEN LECTURE AT PEDRO CERRADA SCHOOL!

MAUTHAUSEN LECTURE AT PEDRO CERRADA SCHOOL!

                   FROM WAR TO DEPORTATION IN NAZIS CAMP

CONFERENCE GIVEN BY A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ASSOCIATION 'AMICAL MAUTHAUSEN IN ARAGON' BECAUSE OF THE COMMEMORATION OF THE VICTIMS OF THE HOLOCAUST BY UNITED NATIONS. 

"My father’s brother survived the camp. My mother’s cousin was killed there!!!  " HE SAYS.

·         During the civil war in Spain, rebels who decided to start war against the legal government won so many people had to leave and go pass the frontier to save their lives.

·         France hosted Spanish people in unhealthy places, beaches with no facilities, etc.… 30,000 out of 70,000 who went there died in the first months (the famous writer Antonio Machado and his mother in 1939)

·         “My father didn’t stay. He eventually came back to marry his girlfriend. That’s why luckily, I am here today. He was 28 when he came back." He says.

·         Then, about 50,000 Spanish refugees from exile worked building fortifications for the French.

·        Later, in Dunkerque, they tried to escape, some died of course and some were caught prisoners and went to the so called ‘starlags’ or work camps.

·         In 1940, there was a meeting between Himmler and Serrano Suñer (Franco’s brother in law) when Himmler asked: “What shall we do with them?” and Serrano answered: “If they are not in Spain, they are not Spanish, so do as you want with them”, so they were taken to Mauthausen, where nobody was supposed to escape death.

·         Everything started in 1932, there were elections in Germany and the National Socialism won in Germany.

·         1933 in Dachau, the famous S.S. officers begin to get ready to act.

·         1934 Hitler starts the Shutzhaft for a perfect state with one race and a sort of apartheid for Jewish people begins.

·         Ordinary people would participate in the brutish attempts in the camps later on. Only the leaders would never have been able to carry out such a genocide. Of course, it was more comfortable to kill prisoners than to go to the Russian front and have the option to die there. 

·         9/11/38 That was the ‘Kristallnacht’. From 5% goes to 50% of the Jewish population. 30,000 were deported.

·         The first killing was the handicapped people. 300,000 victims were taken to special centres and gasified with Carbone Monoxide  in the so called ‘AKTION  T4’

·         In 1940, Spanish people went to Mauthausen to work there in the stone mines. It was very hard. 3,846 people were killed in that year.

·         50,000 are in the foreign workers camps in order to do forced work. The’Company 9’ are the Spanish ones who liberated Paris and then went to the residence of Hitler in the last part of the war.

·         In 1941, it was all doctors who went to do the dealing with handicapped people. So they went there and checked also the deported people and "if they can’t work, they are not useful and therefore, they would be sent to the gas cameras and then, to the crematory ovens "(Operation 14F13)

·         In the Heimschloss, there were also victims, part of Mauthausen too, where 18,269 people were killed in several places, not only one: 431 were Spanish and 38 victims of medical experiments.

·         Even 66 had the red triangle distinctive on clothes, meaning that they had been caught from the French resistance front.

Yellow triangle: Jewish

Brown: gypsies

Violet: testigos de Jehovah (they didn’t want to fight or carry out the Salutation.

Pink: gays, lesbian.

Red: Politicians

Black: people who unsociable , who were not into society as single mothers, rebel students, homeless, etc.….

Blue: not belonging to any state or country.

·         The centres had categories: Cat. 1 for people who might be educable, Cat 2 for people who were difficultly educable, and cat 3 for people with no solution like Mauthausen where there were 8,000 Spanish people working and only 2,123 survived. Unfortunately, 125, 000 died.

·         In Gusen. 3,100 Republicans from Spain died.

·         The name given to the burning ovens where they put all the bodies to be burnt was ‘NACHT AND NEBEL’.

·         VERY IMPORTANT: NEVER CONFUSE ‘GERMAN’ WITH ‘NAZI’.There were a lot of Nazis everywhere, even in France, not only in Germany. Without them, the process would never have been the same. Nazis in France were denouncing their neighbours.

·         It was amazing for us  to hear that his uncle was in Mauthausen from 5/4/1941 being 21 years old to 5/5/1945, over 4 years. The first year was terrible because of the cold winter, especially for old people and people who already arrive in bad health conditions.

·         In this photo, we can see him: Manolo San Martin, together with some colleagues, 2 of them survived because they were mechanics and some of them because they were working in the kitchens or other places which were safer than working in the mines and in the Death staircase, where they had to take up 50kg stones while being tortured or menaced by dogs and therefore, killed as soon as they fell over or went out of the queues.

·         The stories told by the survivors are terrible. One anecdote is a commander obliging his 11 year old boy to kill Jewish people with a gun and then after a long time saying that was the most terrible experience in all his life. But “we will never hear the most terrible stories taken place, as those victims are dead and cannot tell them” He says.

·         Over 6 million people were killed, 4% were Spanish. Although, nowadays in the Museum of the Genocide in Washington, they have over 50 million victims and they are still collecting details.

·         The German and the French Governments have apologized whereas the Spanish Government has never said sorry to the victims of the camps. Now, there are no survivors from Mauthausen  any more.

·         We really learnt a lot of things today. It was a very interesting conference. 

       THANKS A LOT TO THE TEACHER RAFA FOR ORGANIZING RHIS EVENT.

If you are interested in further information about the acts in commemoration of the holocaust by United Nations, you can visit this link: 

http://www.un.org/es/holocaustremembrance/2018/calendar2018.shtml

AGATHA CHRISTIE AT PEDRO CERRADA SCHOOL (30/1/2018)

Next Tuesday the 30th, there will be some acting in English at the Gym.

4th and 1st BTO students will have the opportunity to see 'Agatha Christie's diaries'.
I hope you enjoy the play.

3rd ESO ARE GOING TO VISIT CTRUZ !!!

YES, THEY GO EVERY YEAR, ORGANIZED BY RICARDO CERVERA, ThE GEOGRAPHY TEACHER, IN ORDER TO VISIT THE CENTRE FOR DEALING WITH DOMESTIC RUBBISH IN ZARAGOZA.

I HOPE THEY SEND SOME PHOTOS

CELL EXHIBITION IN OUR CORRIDOR .....!!

YOU CAN SEE AN EXCELLENT EXHIBITION ABOUT CELLS IN THE CORRIDOR THAT JOINS OUR BUILDINGS. tHEY HAVE ALL BEEN MADE IN 1ST ESO,

THIS ONE IS MY FAVOURITE       M.H.

CULTURAL QUIZ

SOME PEOPLE GO TO PUBS FOR AN ENGLISH QUIZ IN ZARAGOZA

DO YOU LIKE QUIZZES??  IF YOU DO, YOU CAN TRY WITH THESE QUESTIONS

1.- WHAT WAS THE TITLE OF THE BEATLES FIRST FILM?
2.- WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE UNUSUAL SCHOOL THAT HARRY POTTER ATTENDED?
3.- WHAT IS BURNS NIGHT?
4.- HOW OLD MUST YOU BE TO DRIVE A CAR IN U.K?
5.- IS IT ALLOWED TO SMOKE IN BUSES IN BRITAIN?
6.- WHEN YOU ARE INTRODUCED TO SOMEONE IN UK, YOU SHOULD KISS THEM ON ONE CHEEK OR ONN BOTH CHEEKS?
7.- WHAT IS THE CAPITAL OF WALES?
8.- WHAT IS THE TYPICAL FOOD THAT YOU CAN EAT ALONG THE STREET?
9.- WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE BRITISH FLAG?
10.- HOW OLD IS THE QUEEN?

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN THE GRANT BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ?

IF YOU WANT TO GO TO THE USA NEXT SUMMER (16-18 YEARS OLD) GET INFORMATION ABOUT THESE GRANTS 'BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'  BEFORE THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY.

NEW PLANS FOR 2018

HERE WE ARE AGAIN AFTER HOLIDAYS WITH LOTS OF PROJECTS PLANNED FOR THIS TERM:

1.- VISIT TO THE UNIVERSITY OF SAINT GEORGE - 12TH OF JANUARY.

2.- THEATRE AT SCHOOL. AGATHA CHRISTIE'S DIARIES  30TH JANUARY AT 12.30

3.- A GROUP OF ADMINISTRATION STUDENTS ARE GOING TO GERMANY- ERLAMGEN WITH THE TEACHER MANUEL TO VISIT THE SECONDARY SCHOOL AND THE FACTORY OF SIEMENS. ( 6-9 FEBRUARY)

4.- WE WERE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE MUSIC WEEK AT ENGER- GERMANY, SOTHAT 6 STUDENTS ARE GOING TO PLAY INSTRUMENTS AND SING IN THE SOLIDARITY CHOIR FROM 26TH- 3RD OF MARCH, 2018 . THEY WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY SARA SANCHEZ  AND  EVA CEBOLLA.

5.- ERASMUS+ PROJECT WILL HAVE THE NEXT MEETING IN MARTINICA IN MARCH FOR THE PRESENTATION OF WORKS.

6.- BURLINGHTON PUBLISHING HOUSE IS OFFERING SOME CONFERENCES ABOUT BRITISH CULTURE ON THE 7TH OF FEBRUARY, 2018.

IN SUMMARY, WE ARE VERY SATISFIED WITH SO MANY PROJECTS GOING ON...

MONEY DOESN'T BRING HAPPINESS

MONEY DOESN’T BRING HAPPINESS

Firstly, we live in a materialistic society where the people prefer the money than to health due the fact that everyone wants to have a lot of money in their hands but they don’t know that the money and the happiness aren’t compatible.

Secondly, in this society we can observe an evolution of interests. When you ask a children “What do you want to be?”, they respond that soccer players, basketball players, military, police … Nevertheless, when they grow up, they develop their ideas and they prefer money. But there are some cases where money gives happiness, such as Lionel Messi due to when Messi was a poor child, he played football and he become famous because he is a good soccer player. There are other examples where money doesn’t bring happiness and one of them are people who have nothing but appreciate the things they have.

Finally, from my point of view I think that the rich people must learn of the poor people and vice versa. The poor and the rich will learn that money is not everything.

( by Lucas Ainzua from 2nd BCSS - January 2018)