Thursday, May 29, 2008

2nd Issue

GRADUATION TRIP
By Galguera, Nietzke, Rosa, Fernandez and Salas

AND THE WINNER IS…
By Melina Mora

MOBILE PHONES IN THE CLASSROOM
By Romero, Testoni, Niccolini, Alegre and Mora

IMAGE POLL
We're still voting to choose the image for our blog.

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GRADUATION TRIP

During the last days, 2nd polimodal were organising their graduation trip.


They met with different travel companies to know about of them. Later, students compared each service. Then, they debated to choose the travel company. Immediately, different opinions appeared, because some students wanted to go with a company and other students with other companies.


Finally, they agreed on something: To continue talking and organizing more meetings to decide on a company.


That will take them to the trip their dreams.

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AND THE WINNER IS…


Last week, the students from 9th adapted fables at San Antonio School. They spent two hours with their teacher, adapting fables about animals. Then the teacher published their fables in a blog, where you could vote the best fable.


All the students from 9th and some from other schools voted, and finally Nuñez, Roda, Álvarez and Almeida won. The students who won were very happy.


You can read the adapted fables here.


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MOBILE PHONES IN THE CLASSROOM
(A new perspective on the mobile phone case)


On Wednesday 14th May, in San Antonio School, a group of twelve students planned a joke in the language class. They hid two mobile phones behind the classroom’s fans and started to phone them.


The teacher didn’t realise and asked the students to stop. Then, she got angry and called the headmaster. Finally, the headmaster said, “I can’t understand why you are bothering instead of studying.”


Damian, one of the punished boys, said, “It’s unfair to punish us because all the students were laughing”.


Photo of the "amonestaciones."

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IMAGE POLL


There's still one week to vote for the best image to illustrate our blog. Look at the images in our first issue and vote on the sidebar.


Look at the images here.


Thursday, May 22, 2008

About Apple News

This blog publishes material written by students from 2nd Polimodal at San Antonio School (2nd level), in San Antonio de Padua.

Our intention is to maintain a school magazine in English to practise the language and keep us informed at the same time.

Everyone is welcome to leave comments and opinions. You can also send ideas and contact any of us if you have news that can be interesting to share.

We hope you enjoy it!

1st Issue

TODAY

SCHOOL FEES INCREASE
By Barbella, Cerminaro, Federici, Ninin and Salomón

SCHOOL IN BAD CONDITION
By Alegre, Niccolini, Mora, Romero and Testoni,

A CELL PHONE IS THE PROBLEM
By Difonso, Benes, Dellabella and Vázquez

WICHI COMMUNITY
By Negri, Almeida and Batana

IMAGE POLL
Help us choose the best image to illustrate our blog

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SCHOOL FEES INCREASE


Last month the fees increased too much. Parents were very angry for this. San Antonio school doesn’t offer extra activities for students. San Antonio’s school is falling off professionally and institutionally. It doesn’t offer the same that years ago, for example, the education, the respect between the students and teachers or the attention to the students. The constant absences of the teachers cause the anger of parents that are paying the fee of the school.


Causes for this anger:

- Desks in bad condition

- Chairs in very bad condition

- Dangerous windows

- Heaters in bad condition

- Toilets without the necessary elements

- Absences of teachers.

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SCHOOL IN BAD CONDITION

On Monday 17 March, there was a leak on the ceiling. Some pieces of painting started to fall. Finally, a big piece of ceiling fell down. Three days later the students wrote a letter to the headmaster, but he didn’t answer.

Two days later, the headmaster and the legal manager of the school came to our classroom to talk with us about the problem. One of the students said, “We pay a very expensive fee, this can’t happen”. The legal manager said, “To fix the problem is not as easy as we thought”.

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A CELL PHONE IS THE PROBLEM

Last wednesday, in Cristina Comas's class, a problem aroused. Twelve students played a practical joke. This consisted in hiding a cell phone to ring it later during the class. This joke provoked the teacher's anger and she said "No sé por qué tipo de tecnologías lo lograron."

Later, the teacher called the vice-principal to penalize the responsible. This consisted in eight "amonestaciones."

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WICHI COMMUNITY


Estela created an organization that every year collects food, clothes, toys, etc.These elements are sent once a year to Salta for the Wichi Community. They are in need of these elements.

At the school door there is a box; in this we put these objects. Every week we put different elements. This week we are giving sugar.

These elements will be handed by the end of the month. Today, the vice-principal came to the Chemistry class to remind us of this project and said, “Help us and collect elements for the community.”


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IMAGE POLL

We're choosing the best image to illustrate the header of our blog. Everyone can participate by voting on the poll on the sidebar. There’s time till June 6th. These are the options: