Science Fair

If you didn't have time to visit our stand in the Science Fair, don't miss it!

See it here!!


Science Fair on PhotoPeach

 

October

October at Newlands means... reaching the end, parents to call, examinations to design, the school sports and sometimes the science fair. But the thing I enjoy the most is HALLOWE'EN!!!

What is Halloween?

Halloween is a secular holiday combining vestiges of traditionalharvest festival celebrations with customs more peculiar to the occasion such as costume wearing, trick-or-treating, and decorative imagery based on seasonal change, death, and the supernatural. It takes place on October 31.

What does the name 'Halloween' mean?

The name Halloween is a contraction of All Hallows Even, meaning the day before All Hallows Day (better known as All Saints Day), a Catholic holiday commemorating Christian saints and martyrs observed since the early Middle Ages on November 1.

So, this year we are celebrating Hallowe’en again…..

don’t come to complain!!

Happy teachers' Day!!!!!!!!

Changing Paradigms in Education

Bring on the Learning Revolution!

I LOVE what I do, it´s what I really am....
but sometimes it is tiring!!!

Green Helping Hands

The decision made with Clau to go beyond what is just said and written on the board has been the correct one. I´m liking the idea of having students experiencing what we learn in class instead of parroting lessons learnt by heart and forgotten the following year. I love leaving a stamp on them so that they never forget the projects. Helping Hands has been very successful, students got to know different realities that people in our country live and they now know that there is something, even if it is little, that can be done to give a day of happiness to others. Now, green helping hands and the presentations is actually teaching them that something must be done in order to help our planet. Apart form repeating a lesson on how to separate rubbish, they will put it into practice. And experiencing is what makes teaching meaningful. Instead of teaching conditional sentences by drilling, for example, it has become more memorable since they went to secondary to explain the consequences of throwing rubbish the way we are doing it nowadays. I´m really liking it. I found a quote that I liked and it´s related to what I want to achieve with the shcool projects:

"The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book"                                                                     

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Parents' meetings

I don´t know what my problem with parents' meetings is. I think I consider them awful experiences and I can´t cope with them. I get stressed and I feel everything is going to go wrong so I start blushing. And once this process is triggered I can´t find the way to stop it. I get conscious that I´m totally red and hot inside and I keep getting red until my cheeks are about to explode. It is something that I haven´t had the strengh to stop it, not even with NLP techniques. Once I´m there in front of everybody I panick and I forget everything!

I sometimes get anxious too. It´s a mixture of emotions I need to organize beforehand so that I don´t feel so bad about them. I think I need to build up confidence in me first of all, and then check I have everything under control. Once I notice there is something out of order, I panick and the blushing starts!

And it´s getting worse with age!!