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The Colegio Alborán, has once again participated this course with great success in the Poetry Contest for schoolchildren "Poetas del 27", which this year reaches its XXII edition, and which is convened by the Culture Department of the Malaga City Council with the aim of to recognize the work of encouraging poetic reading and writing carried out by schools.
This poetic contest organized by the Network of Municipal Libraries, has a massive participation, since students from all educational centers both in Malaga and its province participate in it.
We are once again really proud, since eight of our participating students have been awarded. We offer our most sincere congratulations to the winners, the finalists and all our participants, who have been many and with works of great literary quality.
In the Modality of the First Cycle of ESO:
Nestor Salinas Teruel (First Prize), for his poem "Who am I?".
Alexia Villar-Castillo (Finalist), for his poetry "Thoughts?".
Marina Deroyer Rodriguez (Finalist), with his work “The magic of a book”.
And in the ESO Second Cycle Modality:
Elena Donaire Peralta (First Prize), for his poem “En blanco”.
Maria Puertas Cervan (Third Prize), for “No”.
Eva Gonzalez Martin (Finalist), for his poetry "I give you the honor of putting the title."
Lucia Casado Torres (Finalist), for “The legend of Nustrand and Rífnias. Saga: The Mistral Chronicles.
Paula Coronil Gil (Finalist), for "Where are you?".
The emotional award ceremony took place in the auditorium of the Municipal Heritage Museum, MUPAM, on Saturday, May 26 in an act presented by María Emilia García, in which Don Antonio Gómez Yebra, Doña Carmen Ramos and Doña Inés Mª Guzmán presented the collection of poems with the winning poems, recognized the important work of promoting the creativity of Language and Literature teachers among minors and young people and congratulated all the participants, encouraging them to continue writing. Read more
On May 3, the students of 4rd and 15th year of ESO of the Alborán School attended a very interesting workshop organized by the Marbella Town Hall through the Delegation of Culture and Education that took place at the Teatro Ciudad de Marbella.
With the activity "Writers in the Theater", a debate moderated by the writer Don Alejandro Pedregosa (José Saramago Short Novel Award, Arcipreste de Hita Poetry Award and Andalusia Critics Award 2018), our students have been able to share literary experiences with authors of great prestige both in narrative and poetry.
In an enriching day for all attendees, the invited writers exposed the advantages and characteristics of both genres.
The novelist, press columnist and screenwriter Don Antonio Soler (Nadal Prize and Primavera Prize) and the poet Doña Erika Martínez (RNE Young Poetry Prize) encouraged young people to participate in literary contests, while highlighting the multiple advantages that reading to develop abstract thinking and to foster language skills and intelligence.
Erika Martínez explained that poetry offers greater linguistic possibilities, while highlighting the two factors that are mixed in poetry: imagination and music.
Don Antonio Soler, for his part, emphasized the special and rigorous treatment of language that writing stories requires.
And it is that, certainly, as Don Alejandro Pedregosa pointed out, we must achieve the balance between the plot and the words that must be used to tell a story, fictional or not.
A very interesting activity that did not leave any of the attendees indifferent. Read more
We have inherited many cultural aspects from the Romans, but among them is not eating reclining on a triclinium. The students of 4th ESO, in addition to knowing their customs when eating and their favorite recipes, have been able to verify what foods the Romans preferred. Some of his preferences were as strange as flamenco languages and others were much more familiar, such as cheese or legumes.
Of the most important legacies that survive in our current society, the scientific name in #Latin to name plants has made the work of scientists much easier. In this way there is no problem of identification between the different languages of the world. To delve into this aspect, we have come with the list of names in Latin and thus check in our organic garden to which vegetables or fruits they corresponded, such as carrot "daucus carota" or garlic "alium" (who does not know the aioli? literally garlic-oil?) Read more
In the Language Area we used google forms during this unit. In this case, we use formative assessment, which aims to provide feedback to the educational process and provide students with the necessary information that allows them to improve during their learning process.
The purpose of these forms used in 1st ESO to review demonyms has been to establish students on the metacognition ladder, making them aware of their strengths and weaknesses, thus allowing the continuous process of improvement before the final summative evaluation.
In addition, these contents have been later reinforced with a Kahoot. In this way, as expected, the results have been splendid. Read more
The Ñ is part of a large number of words that are frequently used in our language.
However, it has been on the verge of disappearing from keyboards, despite the RAE's statement that "its disappearance is a serious attack against the official language".
Fortunately, reason and common sense triumphed and we continue to preserve it.
This video, lovingly made by 2nd ESO students, is a campaign in defense of the Ñ, a letter whose survival concerns us.
Spanish is alive, constantly changing. The language is flexible, but this advantageous feature also has its downside; sometimes words disappear and we don't want them to go extinct.
That is why the students of 1st ESO have made a fun and creative video in which each one adopts a disused word so that our language does not disappear.
In this way, the Alborán School pays homage to these beautiful words in disuse and thus contributes to expanding our vocabulary. Read more
The proposal of Colegio Alborán is to carry out activities of animation and promotion of reading throughout the year. To commemorate April 23, Book Day, there is nothing better than organizing a very interesting literary meeting for Secondary students with the writer Yohana Anaya Ruiz.
The young writer of novels and poetry, in a very enriching visit with great educational value, promoted a positive attitude towards books.
He talked with the secondary school attendees about the art of writing and exposed the entire process that a book takes until it is published, which served to appreciate the importance of the work of younger writers, while encouraging students to "dare , despite the fears and nerves to feel the emotion of publishing”.
In this fascinating meeting, Yohana Anaya commented in detail on the origin of her love of writing and was able to spread the passion that she has felt for books since she was little, while encouraging the students to fight to achieve their goals. Read more
The students of the four Secondary and 1st Baccalaureate years of Colegio Alborán, through the Department of Language and Literature, have had the opportunity to participate on April 19 in a very interesting session of the "Speak Rhymed Course" Cycle, which has taken place at the Teatro Ciudad de Marbella.
This activity has been coordinated by the UMA Professor and prolific writer of Children's and Youth Literature Mr. Antonio Gómez Yebra and has been launched by the Municipal Delegation of Culture and Education of the Marbella Town Hall.
The cycle, which has become one of the best tools to bring poetry closer to younger students, started with a fantastic exhibition and complete presentation of Vicente Núñez, by Antonio Gómez Yebra, who highlighted the aphorisms and sophistry of this famous Cordovan writer famous for his wit and depth of thought.
Our school has had a special role, since it has been in charge of inaugurating this activity, while one of our students, María Puertas, has been the guest poet, who, from a privileged place together with the organizers, has recited a Beautiful self-created poem dedicated to this great poet, one of the most outstanding of the second half of the XNUMXth century. It was the first time that a student invented a poem to recite in this reading project.
Afterwards, the #ESO and 1st #Bachillerato students of Colegio Alborán and other schools participated actively and enthusiastically, reciting fragments of their most representative works in public in order to foster a taste for poetic texts. Read more
On March 21, World Poetry Day (World Poetry Day), also called Spring of the Poets, was proclaimed by UNESCO on the spring equinox in order to "reflect on the power of poetic language and the flowering of creative capacities of each person.
From the Departments of Language and Literature and English, at Colegio Alborán we celebrate this important Day and throughout the week we carry out poetic events and celebrations, while we develop projects that consist of precious photographs, drawings and texts that are exhibited at school and exposed in class.
The day before we participated in a poetry recital dedicated to Rubén Darío, within the Reading Project “Hablar Curso Rhymed”, coordinated by Antonio A. Gómez Yebra, and organized by the Marbella Town Hall.
In Secondary Education we have carried out poetic recitals and multiple readings, in which the students of 1st, 2nd and 3rd ESO have visited the classrooms of the last cycle of Primary Education and all the ESO courses to declaim poems of their own creation before their classmates , very varied in form and theme, which try to foster a taste for poetic texts.
All these activities serve to awaken poetic sensitivity and educate literary creativity in Spanish and English.
From Colegio Alborán we invite you to reflect on the capacity and power of poetic language to transmit emotions and suggest feelings, because as Irina Bokova, Director General of UNESCO, affirms, "Poetry is a window to the exceptional diversity of humanity" . Read more