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The Alborán School, through the Language Department, organizes numerous activities throughout the course to promote reading, among which we highlight the "visit" to our school by the writer D. Rafael Jurado Morón. In this course and due to the pandemic, the literary meeting has been virtual.
The writer, interviewer, TV presenter and radio presenter, shared a great experience of his work "The Laughter Ambassador", a book read by our students and worked on on February 17 with the 3rd and 4th grade students. classroom, a beautiful fable that deals with the power of humor and the value of freedom, inherent to responsibility.
In its pages, it invites us to use laughter as an ambassador and take the fate of life with humor (the universal language).
With a great literary vocation, he has been developing a passionate career as a writer of Children's and Youth Literature for 25 years (with nine published books), work that he combines with coordinating book clubs at the municipal library of Coín, the municipality where he lives.
It was an enriching activity, in which Don Rafael knew how to address the minors with simple metaphors and answer all the questions that they had previously asked him with the aim of promoting interest in books.
We are grateful for this meeting and we feel honored to have been part of his dream: "to have his books read by thousands of children around the world and that they can discover the magic hidden in words through his own." . Read more
The Colegio Alborán, through the Department of Language, participates every year in the Poetry Contest for schoolchildren "Poetas del 27", convened by the Department of Culture of the Malaga City Council, whose main purpose is to recognize the work of the teachers who promote and encourages reading and poetic writing among minors and young people.
Said contest is organized by the Network of Municipal Libraries and has massive participation, since students from all educational centers in Malaga and its province participate in it.
This year, due to the current circumstances, there has been no official prize-giving ceremony or meetings with the winners, but as Carmen Ramos affirms, "each written verse brings us closer, each rhyme smiles at us, each word sets us free".
So, we hand out the prizes, the trophies and the precious collection of poems with all the poems that have won prizes at the school and we continue preparing our participation for this course.
From the Malaga City Council they have highlighted the enthusiasm with which our school stimulates poetic creation and they have always encouraged us to continue in this line, congratulating our center for the variety and poetic quality.
Eight participants from different courses of our school have been awarded. Read more
The Department of Language and Literature of our center is committed to promoting reading, so every year it coordinates various activities that try to promote interest in books. One of them is to organize literary meetings with writers. During this course and due to the pandemic, the visits are being, for the moment, virtual.
Thus, the four Secondary courses have been able to enjoy the virtual visit of Pablo Álvarez Serrano in February, who, in a close and trusting environment, was able to attract the attention of all those attending. Read more
Colegio Alborán considers it essential to create resources to promote reading, which is why it organizes numerous activities throughout the academic year to promote interest in reading, such as visits to our writers' college. In this course and due to the pandemic, the literary meeting will be virtual. As part of the Preschool and Primary Reading Project, the students of the 6th year of Preschool and
The first cycle of Primary Education enjoyed the online visit of Mr. Antonio Gómez Yebra, one of the most prestigious authors of Children's and Youth Literature, with more than 150 works for minors and numerous poetic and narrative titles intended for adult readers. In January, the UMA Professor shared with our young readers a great experience of his works "Menuda poesía" (a book with a prologue by the famous journalist and writer from Malaga, now deceased Manuel Alcántara) and "Aladdin's Lamp", books read by our students and worked in the classroom. He recited precious poems from these two books and dedicated them to those attending this unusual meeting who listened to him very attentively from class. It was a great honor for our center to receive this prolific writer again, who on this day once again conveyed his interest in poetry. Read more
The students of 1st Baccalaureate in the subject of Universal Literature greatly enjoy their approach to myths, carrying out interesting and attractive projects with great dedication. Read more
The Alborán school yields, through these works carried out in Language of 4th of ESO and Universal Literature of 1st of Baccalaureate, Tribute to women hatless. To all those outstanding artists of the Generation of '27, especially to the writers, who were brave and transgressive, who have left us a great legacy with their works.
With these projects we remember this great generation and especially we rescue from oblivion the great forgotten ones of Literature, those that do not appear in textbooks. Read more
The students of the Alborán school of various courses have reflected on freedom during the months that the confinement has lasted.
Paraphrasing the famous title by Gabriel García Márquez, here we show you a selection of poetic or prose texts, posters, drawings and photographs that they have created of what the absence of freedom has meant for them.
The weekly children's literary contest organized by Hammam Al Ándalus comes to an end.
In its last week, from May 21 to 29, our student Claudia Rodríguez, from 6th of Primary education, for his story "Little Mary".
From these lines, we want to convey our congratulations to Claudia, her family, and all the students of our center who have participated during all this time, since the real challenge is writing and the best prize, the work.
¡Felicidades!
https://relatos.hammamalandalus.com/cuentos/cuentos-premiados/semana-final/
The Alborán School continues to participate in the weekly children's literary contest organized by Hammam Al Ándalus Arab Baths and whose objective is to “build a bridge with words”.
We join this bridge that through literary creativity bridges the physical distance between children and adults.
Until the hugs and face-to-face stories return, it is a magnificent proposal in which the grandchildren tell stories to their grandparents.
In the week of May 14 to 21, our student Angelika Izdebska, from 10th grade of #PrimaryEducation, received an award in the 14 to 6-year-old category for her story "My Nightmare".
From these lines, we want to convey our congratulations to Angelika, her family, and all the participants in our center.
https://relatos.hammamalandalus.com/cuentos/cuentos-premiados/semana-7/
The Alborán School continues to participate in the weekly children's literary contest organized by Hammam Al Andalus and which aims to "build a bridge with words".
We join this bridge that through literary creativity bridges the physical distance between children and adults.
Until the hugs and face-to-face stories return, it is a magnificent proposal in which the grandchildren tell stories to their grandparents.
In the week of April 30 to May 7, our student Jorge Casas, from 6th grade, has obtained the third prize, in the category of 9 to 4 years Primary education, for his story “The bamboo cane”.
From these lines, we want to convey our congratulations to Jorge and to all the participants of our center.
https://relatos.hammamalandalus.com/cuentos/cuentos-premiados/semana-5/
The Department of Language and Literature continues to promote reading, even from home. Thus, the students of 1st of Baccalaureate offers us in this video deep reflections on the freedom found in the Literature. Despite the circumstances we live in, that the creative writing can be a key to open our confinement. Read more