Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve is the evening before Christmas Day, on December 24th. Many churches ring their church bells and hold prayers in the evening before holidays. Since Christian tradition holds that Jesus was born at night (based in Luke 2:6-8), Midnight Mass is celebrated on Christmas Eve, traditionally at midnight, in commemoration of his birth. The idea of Jesus being born at night is reflected in the fact that Christmas Eve is referred to as "Heilige Nacht" ("Holy Night") in German, "Nochebuena" ("the Good Night") in Spanish. 

Julaftonen (Christmas Eve), a 1904–05 watercolor painting by Carl Larsson

The princess and the dragon

Un monstruo horrible ha encerrado a la princesa en una torre. 

¿Alguien podrá rescatarla?

 3rd Primary School. British Council  

A Christmas Game

¡Es justo antes de Navidad y Santa se está poniendo gordo!

 ¿Cómo podrá llevarle regalos a todos los niños?

 ¡Debe ponerse en forma! Santa va a ejercitarse corriendo. 

¿Puedes ayudarle a correr por el país invernal de las maravillas? 

¿Cuán lejos podrá correr sin toparse con las sorpresas de Navidad?

 Primary School. British Council

Whose Christmas Present?

Santa and Amy have a bag full of presents, but who are they for? 

Help Santa and Amy deliver the children's presents in time for Christmas.

Click on the picture and play. 2nd Cycle primary School

Christmas Stories and Poems

Long, cold, winter evenings are the perfect time to enjoy some stories with your children, and what could be better than Christmas stories! Here there is a collection of Christmas stories which you can enjoy with your kids.

 

Click on the picture to read more stories

A Christmas Memory Game

What does Santa look like? 

Where will he leave your presents? 

Can you match these Christmas words and pictures?

Click on the picture and play

Christmas Pudding Biscuits

These Christmas Pudding Biscuits are slightly chocolate, delicious and fun to make and decorate!

You will need: Makes 16 

175g soft unsalted butter, 175g caster sugar 3 eggs, 400g plain flour, 75g cocoa powder 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt 200g white chocolate, Green writing icing, Glace cherries 

  Instructions: 

Pre-heat the oven to 180C. Cream together the butter and sugar. Beat in the eggs. Sift the flour, cocoa powder, salt and baking powder in to the bowl and mix in well to form a dough. Wrap the dough in cling-film and pop into the fridge for at least 1 hour. Roll out the dough to about 1/2 cm thick. Use a large circle cutter to cut 12 circles. Place on a lined or greased baking tray and bake for 12 minutes. The biscuits should be browning slightly but still spongy to touch. They will firm up as they cool. When the biscuits are cool, melt the white chocolate. Coat half of each biscuit in white chocolate. Trim the glace cherries into small pieces and put them on to each biscuit to form the holly berries. Use writing icing to draw on the holly leaves. If you don't have the time or inclination to make your own biscuits any shop bought chocolate cookies can be substituted and decorated in the same way.

The Alcazar of Jerez de la Frontera

Students of 2nd cycle of Primary Education went to visit the Alcazar of Sherry last Wednesday. We saw the play "where sleeping dragons".  A Grimm brother told us a legend happened inside the Alcazar.  This monument is a Moorish fortress. It was declared in 1931 Property of Cultural Interest (Bien de interés cultural). A first fortress was probably built in the 11th century in the south-eastern corner of the city. In the 12th century, a new structure was erected to be used as both residence and fortress by the Almohad rulers of southern Spain. Later, after the Reconquest of Andalusia, it was the seat of the first Christian mayors.

 Features include:a grossly quadrangular line of walls (with a perimeter of 4,000 m). The Octagonal Tower (in Almohad style). The Tower of Ponce de León (the donjon dating to the 14th century). A mosque (the only remaining of the eighteen once present in the city. The minaret was turned into a bell tower. The praying hall, preceded by a small room of ritual ablutions, features a mihrab, indicating the direction of Mecca, and a rib vault with a circular window at the top. Palace of the Patio de Doña Blanca (dating to the 12th century Islamic structure, originally a leisure pavilion). Baths (they include an entrance area for undressing, leading to the cold and tepid rooms, the latter being the largest in the complex. The final room is the hot room, whose heating system is still partially visible). Gardens (there are olives, cypresses, mixed flowers and goldfish ponds).

Del original alcázar islámico, se conservan las puertas, la mezquita, los baños árabes, la torre octogonal y el Pabellón del patio de Doña Blanca de Borbón. De etapas posteriores, destaca la Torre del Homenaje (siglo XIV) y el palacio barroco de Villavicencio (donde escuchamos el cuentacuentos) y el Molino de aceite (siglo XVIII). Circundado en parte por la amplia Alameda Vieja, destaca la imponente Torre Octogonal, de estilo almohade, así como la Torre del Homenaje de los Ponce de León. Más tarde, una fachada renacentista sustituyó al antiguo muro de paso a los baños árabes. Fue entregado en 1255 por Ibn Abit, último rey andalusí de Jerez, a Alfonso X El sabio tras la reconquista de la ciudad.

En 2009, unas excavaciones encontraron fondos de cabañas así como la huella de la presencia de antiguos silos que parece que correspondían a asentamientos de época prehistórica, concretamente del periodo Calcolitico de hace 5.000 años

A Christmas present wordsearch

Santa's been busy delivering presents and he's hidden ten toys in this puzzle. 

Can you find them?

Click on the picture to start. 1st Cycle Primary School

Every child has the right for education

En este video podrás ver a todos los alumnos de nuestro colegio, desde 3 años de Ed. Infantil hasta 6º de Ed. Primaria, escuchar sus opiniones sobre el colegio, ver como juegan en el patio y observar como trabajan en la clase de inglés.

   

Preschool Education

Primary Education

Where are you from?

You have a right to a name and to be a member of a country.

En nuestro colegio estudian niños de muchas nacionalidades distintas, ¿los conoces?

Click to watch this video which shows all the countries in Europe.