Sunday, July 24, 2016

Committees in Action: Sports Centre


Sports Centre
Sport Center is a committee formed by 14 pupils. They meet every Friday in the 6C classroom. Their objective is to organise a football tournament for students of Y1, Y2 and Y3. They went to classes to see who wanted to participate and who didn't want to. Nowadays there are 150 players in the tournament (girls and boys). To prepare the tournament each member gave an idea and voted to see if they were going to put it into practice or not. They were in charge of organising the teams and the schedule. The matches take place at breaktime and the members take turns, acting as coaches and referees. Go and watch them in action during break!

Committees in Action: Jugando con los niños

Would you like to know what the other Committees are doing?
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In “Jugando con los chicos”, the members are preparing are rehearsing two plays for Y 1, Y 2 and Y 3 students.  One of the plays is called “Caperucita en Manhattan”. It’s like Caperucita Roja but in modern times. The setting is New York. In this play, Caperucita is called Skyler.  Caperucita has to take an iphone 6s plus to her grandmother.
The characters of the play are Siri, Skyler, Skyler's Mum, a policeman, Skyler’s Grandmother and two  narrators.


The other play is called  “El sueño de la princesa”. It is also for Y 1, Y2 and Y3 students. It’s about a princess that dreams a fantasy and adventure dream but when she wakes up, it becomes real! The characters are a princess, a queen, two fairies, a witch and a dwarf.
You can't miss these two exciting plays!
 

Friday, June 10, 2016

Australian Students visit Y2


St Andrew’s had some visitors from Australia who came  for an exchange with Y11 students.

On Wednesday, April 13th, three students from Jean Paul College, from Brisbane, visited us. They made a short presentation showing the Y2 kids interesting facts about their country. They taught them the most dangerous animals: Blue ringed octopus, Box Jellyfish, Sharks, Eastern Brown Snake and the Saltwater Crocodile.  They also showed them the typical food of Australia  like: Vegemites, Meat pies, Tim Tams and Lamingtons.  Moreover they presented them, the most popular places in Australia:  The Opera House in Sydney, The Harbour Bridge, and the Great Barrier Reef.

They cooked with Y2 students a snack or dessert called Lamingtons. This snack is very popular in Australia and it is a piece of sponge cake dipped in chocolate sprinkled with some coconut.

Sass Times members interviewed these three Australian girls asking them some questions about what they thought about our country.
They thought that most of our food was the same like: Barbecue sauce. They loved “milanesas”.

We think that this exchange was a great idea and it was a very rich experience. Y2 students learnt a lot of facts that they didn't know about Australia, as they are reading Letters to Felix by Annette Langen, Constanza Droop where students learn about different places around the world.

Watch the Australian students interacting with Y2.


A Visit from Australia.

Friday, April 1, 2016

The So Waited First Interhouse!


El interhouse de fútbol, el primero del año, se llevó a cabo el sábado 12 de marzo en el Campus del colegio.
Este InterHouse fue muy importante ya que Fleming y Brown cortaron la racha ganadora de Monteith que llevaba ya 6 años. Aparte de esto, los alumnos de 6to que están en Fleming, volvieron a ganar la final contra Dodds por 2da vez consecutiva.

Como sucedió el año pasado, algunos de los ganadores dieron la vuelta olímpica.

Los resultados finales del interhouse fueron:

4to : Dodds
3ro:Monteith
1ros: Brown & Fleming

Fleming no solo empató con Brown por el título general, sino que también empató con Dodds por el título masculino.

Los alumnos de 6to grado estaban tan entusiasmados porque era su primer interhouse que  decoraron el Campus más que otros años, con banderas, pinta pelos, serpentina y maquillaje de los distintos colores de cada house.

Friday, November 20, 2015

An Exciting Camping for Y4!

In the month of October, an exciting camping took place.  Y4 spent three days in Villa Gesell and carried out some fun activities.


     
They left school early in the morning and traveled by bus with their equipment. The trip took 6 hours. When they arrived at the camping site, they explored the environment and met their tutors who talked to Y4 about the rules and instructions they had to follow during their stay. 
Once this was over, the children split in their groups and put up the tents.

 
 At night they went to a big hut to have dinner that was cooked by a chef. After every meal, every boy or girl had to wash their own dishes. Next, all Y4 reunited in the hut and went to play night games that were very amusing. When they went into the tents to sleep, a group had to evacuate due to a red ants invasion.
What a fright!


 On the second day, all Y4 went to an exciting expedition to the beach. There, they played fun beach games, including sand-boarding. During the night of the same day, they had a surprise party prepared by their tutors with games and music. This trip was an excellent opportunity for Y4 students to strengthen their friendship bonds and make new friends. In conclusion, this was a wonderful experience.

Friday, October 23, 2015

Dash in Action!

Sasstimes has prepared some interesting videos that show you what this incredible, interactive robot can do when it is programed with the different apps. 

Here are the links to watch Dash in action!

Video One: Showing what to do with the app Go!

Video Two: Dash reacting to the app Path!

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Friday, October 9, 2015

Y6 Students Visited the MuPSA!

During the month of August, Y6 students visited the MuPSA, which is a museum that shows you interesting historical facts about St. Andrews. It was a way of commemorating the 177th school anniversary. It is located in Perú and Belgrano streets.





Click on the following link to learn more about St. Andrew's history and the MuPSA

Friday, September 4, 2015

Meet the New Interactive Robot at School

Good news, a fun interactive robot has arrived at school! It is called Dash. You can do many things with it. You can program it to obey your orders or play with its lights. You can also make it follow a path you create, making noises on its way.



There is also a complex programing app called Blockly, very similar to Scratch. You drag and drop puzzle pieces with orders that make Dash follow them. Below there is an example of the instructions you can create.
Come back for some more news.