Can you help the children of Sotogrande?

Your help is needed again! The Spanish children of Sotogrande school do not know anything about school life in Worksop or infact any school in England! Can you help them by taking lots of photographs of your school facilities and what you do during the school day? Will you then use these to put on the computer with typed sentences and spoken sentences using your cool microphone? The Sotogrande children can then log onto Fronter from their classrooms miles away and learn all about YOU!

Will you accept this mission?

We are off to School :)

Buenas Dias (good morning),

It is nearly time for us to return back to Worksop but before we leave Spain we have gone in search of schools in Spain so you can learn about the children who live across the channel in this exciting country. The first school we came too was called The Firs Independent Primary School (www.firsprimary.com). What language do you think the children and teachers spoke? Not Spanish but English, as this is a school where families who leave England and move to Spain take their children. They learn all the same subjects and topics that you learn about and their teachers were once teachers in England but have decided to leave the English schools and teach abroad. But the mums and dads must pay for their children to come to school because the Spanish government does not give them money. Use the website to navigate around their school website. Can you see their school building? Where in Spain are we at the moment? How is this the same or different to our school building? Can you find a photo of the children and what are they wearing?
WOOSH, ZOOM, POW! Ahh the children of Firs Primary school were very welcoming but now we have arrived at a second school next to the beach in Andalucia, Sotogrande. (www.sis.ac). This is a very different school as the children here are Spanish and English. Children start here in the nursery and stay at this school until they are eighteen years old! KS1 have their own 'pod', KS2 have their own 'pod' as do the even older children. Another strange thing is that the children at this school do not go home to see their mums and dads until the school holidays. This school is called a boarding school where children will finish their learning at 5pm and then go with all their school friends to their living quarters and be looked after by house parents. This sounds scary but the children here are very happy and enjoy living at their school. Can you use their school website to find out about their location, facilities and about their learning known as IBPYP? What are the children wearing? What does the boarding house look like?

The Feast of Ephiphany

Buenas Tardes (good afternoon) children and teachers of Ryton Park,

WOW what an exciting morning we have had. Today is January 5th 2010, which was thought was just a normal sunny day in Madrid. We woke up this morning as normal ready for a Spanish breakfast of cafe con leche (coffee with lots of hot frothy milk) and lemon flavoured cupcakes, but instead we found a pile of beautifully wrapped presents with our names on the gift tags! Its not our birthday so why have we got these presents? Are they really for us? Should we open them? Can you use your computers search engine to find out the answers to these questions please? We have heard children from the houses around us shouting and cheering happily 'Gracias Baltasar'!

Use the search engine which is safer for children www.askkids.com and type into the search box 'los reys'

Thank you and let us know if we can open these presents we do not know how long we can wait!

NB: To teachers the first website on ask kids should be www.studioporto.com/diadelostreyesmagos/

Money worries!

Que tal Ryton Park? We are still in Madrid enjoying the shining sun and now that we have our shorts and t shirts we are less sweaty! Gracias (thank you). Today we are going to the Zoo Aquarium de Madrid. Two children from our hotel went their yesterday and they saw a giant panda, a massive boa snake, a bongo (no not from Miss Smith's class) but an antelope and loads more mammals, reptiles, birds, arthropods and amphibians. If you have time have a look on google for their website to see.

But we have another problem... We cannot go to the zoo until we have the correct money. The zoo keeper would not let us in because we did not have any Euros. Apperently in Spain they do not use the pound coins and pence coins but euros and cents. He took some photographs of what they look like so you can help us get some. When you have some can you leave them in a purse on your teachers chair and we will come back faster than the speed of light! WOOSH ZOOM POW!

Can you help?

Oh no ...

In all the excitement of travelling to Spain we have forgotten to pack a suitcase. Can you help us quickly? Your teacher has some photographs of Spain so we would like you to use these to find out what clothes we need. :( :(

Breakfast!

We got up early and had a Spanish breakfast. In this country they enjoy churros con chocolate. These are long, thick doughnuts served with hot chocolate. You are allowed to dip your churros into it! Yummy! What did you have for breakfast this morning back in Worksop?