Field Trip to the Country

The 1st and 2nd year classes go on a field trip to the countryside and...

ride a zip-line and...

shoot a bow-and-arrow!

Olimpiu has just ridden the zip-line.


Dani aims and pulls.

Maite aims and pulls.

An Exam, Gifts for Mummy, Animals' Movements, and Book Day

News at our school!

The children take an exam on animals.

Isabel and Ana explain the children's next art project: making flowers to give to their mummies for Mother's Day.

Lola and Ruben's class make flowers for their mummies.

Tiberius' flower.



Lola and Ruben's class learn the different ways that animals move.

The children walk like dogs.

Manuel slithers like a snake.

Book Day: Olimpiu searches for a magic bean, just like Jack in 'Jack and the Beanstalk'.

Cris, Jorge, Omayma, and Dani make cards for their mummies.

Letters from our Sister School

We are very excited and grateful to receive letters from our friends in England, the students of Gateway Primary School. Many thanks for the wonderful self-descriptions and drawings!

News at our School

Sandra (third from left) comes to our school to help Isabel for two months.

The students learn about healthy and unhealthy activities. On the unhealthy side they stick pictures of: a child eating burgers and chips, and another child standing outside with no coat when it is rainy. On the healthy side they stick pictures of: a child playing football, and a child dancing.

The students make clowns, using fabric to make the shirt and pants, and clay to make the nose and bowtie.

The students write letters to send to our sister school in England. Here, Jialing writes the date, his name, his age, and where he is from.


Lola talks about the city, with the difference between day and night.

These are the flash cards, with vocabulary of the city.

The students make their own clay city, with trees, traffic lights, zebra crossings, cars, and buildings.

The students learn about shadows. Here, Isabel shines her torch on an object to cast a shadow on the desk.

The students learn about jobs. Here, Isabel helps Ruben mime a basketball player.

Easter in our School

The children make 'Potato-Heads': we fill stockings with sawdust, and they put eyes, a nose, a mouth, and feet.

On Monday the 10th of March, we go to the Haagen Dazs Theater in Madrid and see a production of Robin Hood. It is in English, so the children have trouble understanding it, but they can enjoy the action and music.

The children look for small chocolate Easter eggs around different rooms in the school. Here, Alice, Raul, and Sheila look for them in the hall.

The children show the eggs that they've found.


Tiberius and Maite look for them in the gym.

Maite, Tiberius, Aitor, and Hugo show the eggs that they've found.

The Students Learn about Foods

We teach the students about the different types of food: some come from animals, and some come from plants.

Here, Jialing and Omayma role-play: Jialing acts as the customer, asking "Can I have _____?"; and Omayma acts as the clerk, who takes the food that Jialing asks for and gives it to him.

Irene and Miriam role-play too.

Lola's class makes posters of the different types of food and places them where they belong: some from plants and others from animals.



The posters from Isabel's class

In Isabel's class, the students cut out pictures of food from advertisements. In this project, they first color and cut out a fruit bowl. Then, they fold a piece of white paper into four and cut the corners to make a tablecloth. They stick both onto construction paper and then paste photos of food on top of the fruit bowl.

The students display their work on the windowsill.

In Lola's class, the students work in pairs: each pair separates their construction paper into two halves- one of plants and one of animals. Then, they cut out pictures of food and stick them onto the side where they belong.

Adelina and Alberto work on the project.

Here, Raul and Sheila work together.

Maite and Omayma work together across from Jialing and Veronica.

The project of Alice and Tiberius

Hugo and Carla's project

Christmas at our School

SEVERO OCHOA SCHOOL WISHES YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY VACATION!

We decorate the main hall. Here, one of our trees is adorned with blue-and-white tinsel.

Ruben always draws a face on the two 0's in 2007. Here, we've drawn Father Christmas.

We've decorated the doors with signs in both languages.

This is the Christmas Tree in Isabel's classroom, decorated with ornaments brought by her students.

We also told the story of 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas' by Dr. Seuss. In the story, the Grinch, inspired by his hatred of Christmas and all joy in the world, decides to steal all the presents, decorations, and food from the Whos down in Whoville.

But, instead of being crying and pouting, like the Grinch had expected, the Whos celebrate Christmas anyway because the festival isn't about possessions but about being with family. The Christmas cheer thaws the frozen heart of the Grinch, and he becomes caught up in the spirit of the season. Here, he is bringing back all the stolen goods to Whoville.

Here, the Whos celebrate their Christmas.

On Thursday the 20th, a trio presented a Christmas play to the children. In it, both protagonists have made a deal with the Devil: they have been gifted with great powers, but in exchange they have promised to commit numerous evil deeds within the year. However, it is New Year's Eve, and the Devil is not satisfied with their work, even though the male protagonist has kidnapped Father Christmas.

Threatened with the prospect of being taken to Hell, the two come up with the idea of baking a magical cake that will make all their spoken wishes come true. So, they called up ten children to act as the ingredients for the cake. They bake it and then speak their desires: that all the pets of all children would die; that the rivers, lakes, and oceans would become polluted so that children could not swim in them; that Father Christmas would not give any presents to any children.

At the end, the two protagonists begin to argue, and they each wish that the other would become a good person. So, when the clock tolls, all their evil wishes have come true, but they are now good-hearted, so they release Father Christmas, and the three set out to undo all their evil.

Here, Michael plays Silent Night (Noche de paz) and We Wish You a Merry Christmas for 1A.

Oh, yes, and the children did work as well. Here is one of the Christmas cards that they made for their families.

Here, some of their cards are on display on the window-sill.

Here, Sheila, Dani, Raul, Patrycza, Edison, Adelina, and Rebeca are working on the cards.