RAFAEL DIESTE'S HOMECOMING 2026

Rafael Dieste's 2026

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Fifth edition of Homecoming 2026 organized by English teacher Isabel Viña on Friday, March 24th.

Video by @rodri_vibees (César Rodríguez) from RafaelDieste social media.

[14th CW] CULTURAL MELTING POT

This year our Cultural Week, held in March, was devoted to the Cultural Melting Pot. At our school there's a significant percentage of students coming from abroad, so cultural richness is very present. It's a repeated topic for our cultural week, as the second cultural week held was devoted to multiculturalism & diversity.

Different activities have been planned and carried out by the different school departments on the topic of the cultural melting pot, a reality in our society.

As you can see on the video below there were different aspects shown, amoung others:

- Bits of the planet: a tour around tables and foods in the world.

- Melting pot experiences carried out by teachers and others in Canada and Thailand.

- Talks by Echoes from the South (Ecos do Sur).

- Migrants: letters, stories and interviews by people who have changed countries to live.

- Judgement of Democracy.

The Cultural Week closed with the already traditional Homecoming, including sports, competitions and talent shows of students competing in each of their class groups.

Video:

RAFAEL DIESTE'S HOMECOMING 2024

Today IES Rafael Dieste celebrated the III Homecoming 2024! Here's a sneak peek video of the activity. Congratulations to all students taking part.

HOMECOMING 2023

UPDATED

AND THIS YEAR'S WINNERS ARE:

3ºESO-C

Congratulations!!!

Photos of the TRIVIAL QUIZ:

Photos of the TALENT SHOW:

Photos of the JIMKANA:

Photos of the teachers:

Sara Wade, one of the organizers, as language assistant this course.

HOMECOMING VIDEOS

 

As we had said, we're showing some of the videos recorded during last week's "Homecoming" activities from the talent show.

We're including the ones shot horizontally, as the others don't offer the possibility of inserting them here. We might be uploading others, if received.

...AND THE "RAFAEL DIESTE HOMECOMING" WINNERS ARE...

Photo: Team 4ºESO-A

 We have counted up all the scores of all the teams and the results are the following:

WINNERS OF THE "RAFAEL DIESTE HOMECOMING":

1st: 4ºESO-A "KURT COBAIN" - MAMMOTHS - RED & BLACK 

2nd: 4ºESO-B "FREDDIE MERCURY" - PANTHERS - GREEN & BLACK

3rd: 3ºESO-C "ISAAC NEWTON" - WOLVES - GREY & BLACK

4th: 2ºESO-D "SHAKIRA" - SIBERIAN TIGERS - PURPLE & WHITE

 

Above the final score chart

We also have a special award for the best class representatives to EMMA STERJO & JOHANA OSAYANDE from 2ºESO-C.

And we'd like to give special thanks to SARAY VARELA (4ºA) & KAMILLE PRAINHA (4ºB) for all their work in preparing the activities and helping during them.

On Tuesday's break there will be a meeting with the winning teams to give the awards.

RAFAEL DIESTE'S HOMECOMING

"HOMECOMING" is an annual high school and college tradition in the United States to welcome back all the community members. It is built around a central event, most often a sporting event. When they are held at schools the activities may vary greatly. However, they often consist of activities that promote healthy competition and a sense of belonging to a community. 

Well, this year we've also celebrated a "homecoming" at the "Rafael Dieste".

 (Photo above Kayleigh, together with the head of our English Department Hilda Fraga).

The true organizer of all this event has been Kayleigh Vantassel, our conversation assistant for the last two years, who thought it was a good idea to set it up in our school. Kayleigh has put into this project a great amount of hard work, but we'll sure treasure the experience for a long time. It has also meant a lot of partnership from all the other community members: students and teacher staff. 

Students have taken part in different activities of our particular "HOMECOMING", facing the different class groups against each other in the following activities, but not only the victories and correct answers are valued, also aspects of social relationships and behaviour among them.

- BASKETBALL MATCHES:

- TALENT SHOW: students showing off their different talents.

- TRIVIA QUIZ: answering random questions in a four topic contest.

- GYMKHANA of activties

We believe that this activity has been a very good one for the whole community, especially after the time we have all been living.

Students have participated as class groups, each of them with a name, two specific colours, a pet, and a group song that represents them. Each group had a teacher and two student leaders to coordinate them. At the moment, they are working out the results to see which group has won.

But what we won't forget is the good time we've all had this morning...

...students,...

...and teachers...

We've be updating with the resulting winners on another post.

Special BIG thank you to Kayleigh for all her hard work and an extended one to everyone who has taken part in such a fantastic day!

- Galician version of this post @ RafaelDiesteBlog.