Forty years after the first Earth Day, the world is in greater peril than ever. While climate change is the greatest challenge of our time, it also presents the greatest opportunity – an unprecedented opportunity to build a healthy, prosperous, clean energy economy now and for the future...
Watch this great video celebrating how some students from South Caroline are doing their part to make sure there is a 41st Earth Day!
The answer is on St George’s Day, or Book Day, as people call it. Every year, on 23rd April, people give each other books and roses in honour of St George. The tradition of giving roses began in the 15th century. According to a legend, St George killed a dragon, and the dragon’s blood turned into a rose bush. St George gave a rose from the bush to a princess, and once a year, men still give roses to women.
So how did books become part of the festival? The 23rd April is the date of the death of the famous authors Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare, so people began giving each other books on this day. The custom became so popular that countries all over the world have started celebrating Book Day as well.
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Os invitamos a compartir con nosotros toda actividad que sea de tu interés durante estas semanas , en especial la Sesión Plenaria Inaugural y las diversas actividades a paritr de las 10.00 horas del viernes 23 de abril (nuestro día grande, no podía ser de otra manera).
10.00 APERTURA y SESIÓN PLENARIA.
Presentada por
SR. DELEGADO DE EDUCACIÓN
SR. DIRECTOR
(3º Y 4º ESO*, Bachilleratos y Ciclos)
* Alumnos/as seleccionados
10.30 PERIODISMO Y DEPORTE
a cargo de D. Manuel Castillo
(Bachillerato y Ciclos)
10.30 POEMAS AL VUELO
A cargo de María Eloy-García
(3º Y 4º ESO* Alumnos/as seleccionados en aula de PCPI2)
11.45 TURISMO DE INTERIOR
Cristian Alcaraz
nos presenta su obra poética.
(Bachilleratos y Ciclos)
12.45 TALLERES DE CREACIÓN
A cargo de
Victoria Castillo (con 1ºD) y
Javier Rueda (con 4ºA).
En sus aulas
13.45 DIAPORAMA
sobre la obra de Miguel Hernández
Introducido por M.C. Ruzafa y presentado por 1º de Bachillerato. María Vilches canta
is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year."
~By Mark Twain~
April 1st is April Fools Day. A day when people play practical jokes on each other.
Here are some of the most memorable ones in England:
In 1957 Panorama, a TV programme, fooled millions of Brits into believing that spaghetti grows on trees! The show announced that thanks to a very mild winter and the virtual elimination of the dreaded spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop.
In 2002 Tesco published an advertisement announcing the successful development of a genetically modified whistling carrot with tapered air holes in their side. The extraordinary carrots would start to whistle once fully cooked!
In 2006 The Daily Mail reported that Tony Blair, in a "literally incredible break with decades of tradition," had decided to paint the door of 10 Downing Street red. ""After 270 years, Blair paints No 10 front door socialist red."
Finally , two years ago the Daily Express claimed that biscuits were being mixed into tarmac to help make roads safer. "Scientists yesterday revealed that broken biscuits are in fact the perfect material to help resurface roads... Years of experimental research revealed that crushed-up ginger nuts are the best biscuits for a road's sub-base, as they are more porous and allow water to drain away.
Easter is the springtime holiday marking the rebirth of Jesus and the renewal of the Christian faith.
It is a blessed time for the faithful to celebrate the life, death and resurrection of the Savior... and a magical time for children to enjoy chocolate bunnies, marshmallow chicks and jellybean-filled Easter eggs.
Here there are some craft projects, games, recipes and so much more for your entertaiment:
Here you can see different drawings about girls made by our students from 2º ESO with their teacher Mª José Barbero to celebrate WOMEN´S DAY.
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HISTORY OF THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN´S DAY
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This event was originated in 1908 when women garment makers in New York demonstrated to demand better working conditions. They worked in appalling conditions, earned half of men's wages, died prematurely from poor health and didn't have the right to vote.
In 1910 an international conference of women resolved that each year a day should be set aside to press for women's demands. Since then International Women's Day (IWD) has been celebrated around the world each year on March 8. From its inception International Women's Day has stood for equality between women and men.
At the same time in England, women were meeting and marching to demand the right to vote. The Suffragettes adopted the colours of Green, White and Violet to stand for their slogan "Give Women the Vote". Since then these colours have been used to symbolise the struggle for women to obtain equal rights.
In Sydney, IWD was first celebrated in 1928 at a rally that called for equal pay for equal work, an eight hour day for shop workers, no piece-work, a base wage for the unemployed and paid annual holidays. Rallies and marches have been held throughout Australia every year since.
Of course, much has improved since then, but we still have some way to go to achieve equal opportunity for women, not only in Australia but throughout the world.
So IWD is about remembering the battles long fought to build a society that is just and fair to all its members a society in which diversity, tolerance, safety, social justice and equality between women and men is a given. And its about celebrating what women have done, are doing and can do.
For the first time ever, over a billion people are chronically hungry in the world! But, at the same time, over a billion people are active online and more able to help than ever before! Join the online billion helping the hungry billion.
Free rice es un sitio en el que, a la vez que practicas vocabulario inglés, cada vez que aciertas, donas 10 granos de arroz a un país del Tercer Mundo a través de Naciones Unidas.
Different types of words can be used to make your writing more interesting and easier to read. You need to know when to use them and how to spot them: full screen
Watching videos is a really enternaining way of learning a language. Yappr.com is a useful site where you can find lots of tools to help you better understand English: subtitles in English and Spanish, repetition of phrases that are hard to catch, notes explaining idioms and more...
