Meet our Language Assistant: «Isabel Buckley»
My name is Isabel and I am the English language assistant at IES Antonio de Mendoza for the academic year 2021-2022. I am from Cardiff, Wales and I am 20 years old. I am a student and I am currently studying History and Spanish at Queen’s University in Belfast. This year in Alcalá la Real […]
Antonio de Mendoza’s Enigma
Halloween at IES Antonio de Mendoza
Como todos los años el Departamento de Inglés organiza actividades para nuestro alumnado con el fin de conmemorar esta fiesta procedente de una tradición celta que ha llegado hasta nuestros días por el influjo del cine y de la televisión.El alumnado de 1º ESO creó divertidas y originales «Jack-o’-Lanterns». Los 2º, 3º y 4º ESO […]
Let’s Know Europe
“Let’s Know Europe” has been one of the most hard-working and fascinating projects we have been focusing on this year. We owe it thanks to the epic effort and magnificent work of our teachers, students, janitors and school community. Thanks to all of them!!! This year the fair was recorded by some of our older students […]
St. Patrick’s Day
St. Patrick’s Day is a holiday that observes the death of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. Last March 17th, the English Department together with the Vocational Training teachers and students collaborated with an interdisciplinary activity about this popular festivity. On the one hand, our students learnt about the history of Saint Patrick around […]
Visual Reports
Students in CSE 1 B and C have created amazing Visual Reports after reading the first chapter («The Boy Who Lived») of Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone» by J.K. Rowling. They had to include: Title, Author, Main characters, Brief Summary, 5 quotes, 10 key words and setting. Some of these reports were exhibited during […]
Recipes
As in the case of 3CSE Biology lessons, our school is strongly committed to the importance of teaching our students to have a balanced diet and be in good health. Thus, pupils in 1CSE B have edited some videos sharing their favourite recipes based on ethical eating, showing their classmates tricks to cook wonderful and […]
World Book Day
Some of the activities we carried out to celebrate “World Book Day” last April 23rd were the elaboration of remarkable QUOTES from their favourite writers, and some VIDEOS explaining why they couldn’t live without reading and showing everyone which books they felt passionate about together with the creation of BOOKMARKS. Our students recorded a compilation […]
Video Tours around Alcalá la Real
As part of “Let’s Know Europe” project, our students in 1 CSE B have created fantastic videos about our hometown. It is a way of showing our place within the European Union to make them reflect about the meaning of being a European citizen and an “Alcalain@” inhabitant in particular. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Is0rwcVMIHe0_wsGMtqZIh_aPX-2mX6-/view?usp=sharing Sara Cuenca 1 CSE […]
Musical «Mamma Mia»
Mr Jorge has launched into one of the greatest projects in our centre as it is the adaptation and creation of the musical Mamma Mia together with our Art teacher, Teresa Prat and their students. Secondary 1 and 2 have played and learned the songs and Secondary 4 have performed the musical. The songs they […]