SAYING GOODBYE TO KAYLEIGH

Today's the last working day for our current conversation assitant KAYLEIGH VANTASSEL. The American assistant who has been with us these last two school years 2020-21 e 2021-22.

To end her stay with us, she organized the "HOMECOMING" activities, which have brought us so much satisfaction and fun last week. 

Kayliegh, we just want to thank you for your hard work, your efforts, your vitality and kindness. We wish you all the best in your life and we'll certainly miss you, though you know where we are.

LINK: ALL OUR CONVERSATION ASSISTANTS.

 

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.

PASSWORD COMPETITION: OUR PAIR-TEAMS & POSTER

 This is the poster that announces the "PASSWORD COMPETITION" which will take place on the 6th of June. We'll be competing against the secondary schools of Sada ("Isaac Diaz Pardo") & Santa Cruz-Oleiros ("María Casares").

The "Rafael Dieste" Team is formed by the following pairs:

ANGÉLICA IGLESIAS LORENZO & IRIA MILES DIAZ (4ºA)

LAURA CASTRO EXPÓSITO & KAMILLE PRAINHA PEDROZO (4ºB)

ISABEL GARCÍA ALLER & IRIA TORRE CASTRO (4ºB)

NOA OTERO FERNÁNDEZ (4ºA) & TANIA CALVELO MONTES (4ºB)

TOMAS ALONSO CALVO (4ºA) & ROQUE TORRE CASTRO (4ºB)

XOEL AÑÓN LAGE (4ºA) & IAGO LÓPEZ PÉREZ (4ºB)

Wishing them all good luck in the competition!!

10 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE KING RICHARD III

 

TEN INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT KING RICHARD III

NOUN SUFFIXES: '-HOOD'

 

CONFUSING 'HARD' vs 'HARDLY'

'HARD' & 'HARDLY' are two words that can seem similar, but they mean quite different. Hard is an adjective and adding '-LY', we get the corresponding adverb, but not with the supposed corresponding meaning. These two images show the meaning of each.

SELECTION OF BRITISH TV ADS

Here are two video compilations of some British TV ads from 2019.

THE "PASSWORD GAME" COMPETITION

We have the opportunity of competing against other two secondary schools of our area in this PASSWORD GAME. It's going to be for 4th year ESO students and the secondary schools competing are: "IES "María Casares" in Bastiagueiro, IES "Isaac Díaz Pardo" in Sada and ours. These are the rules and below the list of words that can appear in the competition, so that you can train and prepare:

- LINK TO LIST OF WORDS FOR THE "PASSWORD GAME".

 

[12th CW] HEALTH & WELLNESS INDEX

Today sees the start of our 12th Cultural Week 2022 devoted to "HEALTH & WELLNESS". This post works as the index of all entries published about this topic throughout the blog. Most of them present related vocabulary, general information, expressions in certain medical situations and advice all in English.

- THE WELLNESS EXPO

- STUDENT'S PROJECT

- WELLBEING VIDEOS

- THE WELLNESS LIFSTYLE PYRAMIDS

- MENTAL HEALTH

- WELLBEING

- HEALTHCARE LIFESTYLE: YOGA

- HEALTH & WELLNESS

- ALL THE ENTRIES ABOUT COVID19

- TYPES OF DOCTORS

- PHRASAL VERBS RELATED TO HEALTH

- ILLNESSES

- MEDICINES, FIRST AID & MEDICAL EQUIPMENT

- GOING TO THE DENTIST

- GOING TO THE DOCTORS

- BODY ANATOMY, HEALTH & FITNESS

- PARTS OF THE BODY

 

[12th CW] THE WELLNESS ENGLISH EXPO

 

[12th CW] A STUDENT'S PROJECT ON "EATING DISORDERS"

Presenting a student's project in English about "EATING DISORDERS", done by:

MARÍA FERNÁNDEZ SÁNCHEZ (4ºESO-B)

 

Link: "EATING DISORDERS"

[12th CW] WHAT HUMANS NEED TO DO TO STAY HEALTHY?

 

[12th CW] HEALTH & WELLNESS, THE POSTER

Next week, we'll open our twelfth cultural week, which this year is devoted to HEALTH. Today we're presenting the poster.

You'll be able to follow all the activities on our library's blog: 

ARQUIVOS DO TRASNO / A SAÚDE

On this blog you already have related information in English on the label: HEALTH & WELLNESS

 

[12th CW] WELLBEING VIDEOS

 

Here's a collection on wellbeing for young people. Each of them focuses on a different aspect of wellbeing:

1- Resilience, 2-Health habits, 3- Confidence & self-esteem, 4- Identity values.

[12th CW] THE WELLNESS LIFSTYLE PYRAMIDS

 This post shows different pyramids, just as the famous well-known nutritional pyramid, but this time with actions and needs to feel better and lead a healthier lifestyle.

St. PATRICK'S DAY 2022

 It's Saint Patrick's Day another year on. This day is the patron saint of Ireland and everything's green. Showing some symbol icons of the day and the possibility of linking to previous posts about this day in our blog.

[12th CW] MENTAL HEALTH

 

- Problems that lead to mental issues:

Postive thinking: