English Club

Happy Birthday St. George!

Today, our school is 77 years old and we are ready for the celebration!
Students and teachers got ready for a RALLEY DAY, we prepared games and performances at school.

Students of junior and senior school decorated their classrooms and participated in different games such as puzzles, dressing the knight, dances and others.

This is the first time St. George's College has a ralley day and we enjoyed it so much that it will take part of our school activities every year.

Check some of the pics.

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Classes have just started and a new friend has made his way to our lives.

Russell Ormes comes from England and he is working as a volunteer in our school. He has been visiting a few countries in South America and he will stay with us for a month or so.
He will be working with senior school students and I am sure he will enjoy many of the activities we have at school.

It is a pleasure to have you here Russell, enjoy your stay!

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During the recess time there is a magical place that opens its doors and happily receive all the students of St. George´s College.

All the ones who are passionated about reading stories, knowing unique characters and imagining a new world of entretainment are welcome to share a special moment with Miss Charito, who is more than glad to have students in the library where she reads interesting books, shows them videos and more.

These activities help our students to have better reading skills; to be more interested about books and educational videos; and to grow in them curiosity and creativeness.

Thank you very much Miss Charito for sharing your experience and great ideas with the students.

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Students of Senior School had the experience of participating in debates. The topic to dicuss was very interesteing for students and for teachers too. On the picture you can see students of Eight Milton (Year 8) doing the activity.

The topic was: "IS LEARNING ONLINE A GOOD ALTERNATIVE TO HAVE A GOOD EDUCATION AND TO OBTAIN CERTIFICATES?"

In this task students had to organise in 3 groups. One group will be the affirmative team, the other one will be the negative team and we will also have a jury (3 Students) and the Chairperson (Teacher).
The affirmative and negative team had to give 5 strong reasons to back up their opinions regarding the topic given. This was a very interesting task to work with my students. They developed speaking and thinking skills.

They worked as a team, they organised and enjoyed the activity. I strongly recommend to have this activities with your class. =D

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TODAY, 9th of March, all Senior school had a friendship trip where students and teachers had the opportunity to share moments of joy and fun.

We left school at 8:10am and we departed to our destination "Club Molle". Here students and teachers had the opportunity to relax and share special moments. We had all the facilities we needed. We spent our time in the swimming pool, at the playground or just sitting around having somebody to talk to.

At lunch time, we tasted a delicious and tasty roasted chicken and french fries, and as desserts we had ice-creams.
We spent a few more hours playing around and then it was time to leave, we packed our things and left back to school.

This event takes place every year and it is a day to know each other and interact with new friends and teachers.

I hope we all enjoyed this day and let's wait for more events to come!

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JUST A LITTLE REFRESH TO ALL TEACHERS

Blooms Taxonomy

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We all know that two children are not alike, they don't learn the same way, a comfortable environment for one won't be the same for the other one and we can mention many other characteristics that will differentiate our children.

That's is why it is very important to learn about out children and to know how we can improve our children's learning process.

We should include a variety of teaching techniques aimed at reaching students at all levels, involve all students in the lesson, allow that some students will require adjusted expectations and evaluate students based on their individual differences.

At St. George's College teachers are conscious that we can make a difference if we work together and use differentiated instructions when guiding our children.

We are very happy working in this way and we want to thank Pilar Galup, Carmen Aranda, and Rosario Armero for the talk they had with us to refresh a bit what differentiated instruction means and can do for our children.

Thank you,
Ursula Tello

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