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 GENERAL INTEREST
A TALK ABOUT ACCIDENTS.
When we came back from our winter holidays, a
woman and a man in a wheel chair, came to the
school to talk to us about what the car belt can do
for us and how much do we have to take care of
ourselves, and how a simple “can you drive me
home on your scooter?” could change completely
our lives.
It seems everyone listening to them was very
impressed because the man could tell us about a
really unfortunate experience with a car accident,
and we could see the consequences of being
distracted for the shortest of times when someone
is driving.
They explained how a spine is constructed and the
consequences if a little nerve that goes through the
spine, breaks.
by Susana Santaolalla
SWINE FLU
Swine flu, has already affected to 1,545,000 people
all over Spain and the numbers still growing.
Meanwhile, in our school missing people due to
illnesses are quite noticeable amongst us, and most
of them are not affected by Swine flu. Could it be
that students are taking advantage of Swine flu to
miss classes? It is impossible for the school to
know the exact number of people affected, because
the diagnoses are private and not all the people
missing have Swine flu.
The most noticeable decision that school has done
was putting a bottle of alcohol gel in each class but
it seems that the average of bottles used are 2/3 per
class and there’re not particularly cheap, the
normal bottle, one litre, costs 5.7 euros and adding
the taxes might reach to 6.6 euros, so students must
consider it price before using it. Preschool children
are specially “forced” to wash their hands properly
before the meals and when returning from breaks.
The kitchen has also worried about getting any type
of ingredient that might carry any type of illness,
such as eggs that might carry salmonellas.
Finally the long term plan for the school is to
maintain the actual ones, but nothing related to
closing
the school is thought. Surely, this illness and its
problems might be forgotten due to its controversy
whether its true or not.
By Manuel Santos
UNDERPANTS!
Throughout the centuries different clothes have
come into fashion and after a while gone out. For
example fifty years ago leather jackets were cool
and nowadays those who wear them are labelled as
people with no taste. However this time fashion has
gone too far, because from when you leave your
house until you return, you see about a hundred
teenagers´ underpants. Although you might believe
this new fashion was created by an exhibitionist, it
has its origins in prisons in the USA.
Once you are in prison there are several rules you
must obey: as a general rule prisoners are not
allowed to have belts on because they may use
them to commit suicide and they must wear a
uniform. These uniforms are quite big so it is
normal that they don’t fit prisoners perfectly, and
because of the prohibition of belts, there is no other
alternative for prisoners than wearing their trousers
down low. This is the reason why many teenagers
that have never been in prison or ignore the origin
of this fashion wear low-cut pants as sign of them
being tough guys.
By Pablo Gabilondo
ANDER GOITIA´S NEW RECORD!!
On the 3rd of March, Ander Goitia a student from
the 4th Year ate the incredible number of 35
croquets! He beat the last record of the school that
was 34 croquets and that was set by Juan Félix, a
student that was in this school a few years ago. He
wrote himself into school history! said Iñigo
Fernández.
The negative view of this new record was that the
people that were encouraging Ander to beat it, were
disturbing the others and producing an unpleasant
atmosphere for the dinning room, However, the
main problem was that students ignored the dinner
ladies. Tim commented that he thought it was a
crass and vulgar and very much a late 20th century
phenomenon- consuming far too much while other
people don’t have food.
By Pablo Carbonero
“UN BURKA POR AMOR”
Since the 11th of February, fourth year students
have been watching a film, that since the first time
it was broadcast on TV it has created a great deal of
interest, not as much for the actors performance as
for the story itself.
At first sight it seemed the film had nothing to do
with us, but as the movie went on, you start to
think about whether it is possible that the
conditions in those countries are really like they are
shown in the film.
We did not watch this film just because of
coincidence, fourth years tutors, had a clear
objective, see a reality that is near to us but which
we do not necessary see.
By Adrian Agüeros
CARNIVAL AT SCHOOL!
This Februrary just like every year, we are going to
celebrate the extraordinary festival called Carnival.
We, the students, love this day, because we all get
dressed up as fantastic characters which appear in:
books, films, television or real life. We enjoy this
day at school and it is also one of our favourite
days, because we have lots of fun, looking at some
of the most original outfits you can ever imagine!
“We usually spend a lot of time searching for the
most suitable dress”, said Marta Arriaga a student
from the 4th Year
By Pablo Carbonero
FALSE FIRE ALARM
Last tuesday 4th of february at 12:45 the fire alarm
rang in school. The alarm started on the second
floor. Somebody had broken the fire glass. At first
teachers didn't know who had done it, but as there
were only 3 people
in the corridor at the
time it rang, at 4:30
they found out that it
had been Borja
Gaiztarro. from 3rd
year of ESO.
Teachers knew it had been on purpose because to
break the fire glass, another glass has to be lifted
first. after some minutes the caretaker Txema
managed to repair it.
"I think Gaiztarro did a stupid thing" said Iñigo
Fernandez, from 4th Year of ESO.
By Ainhoa Uribarren

FALSE FIRE ALARM TWO

On Friday at school
suddenly the fire alarm
started ringing.

At 11:30 p.m. the alarm

went off while we were
doing a history exam, it
rang because someone had
broken the glass of the fire
alarm. After that, John
Phillips went to all the

classes to find out who had done it. The guilty
person is still unknown.
" I was very scared, I thought it was a real fire"said
Kaiana Aizpurua
by Patricia Porta
AMAZING FIRST CERTIFICATE RESULTS
the group of 3 year of E.S.O, on the 12 december
of 2009 in the hotel Amara Plaza and Costa Vasca,
did the first certificate exam, although they
presented to this exam 7 months earlier than the
students of 4 year of E.S.O, not only every single
student passed the exam, but they got higher
results.
in the fast track, where tim buckwell teaches, there
were 5 As, 13 Bs and 5 Cs, and all of this with only
being 14 year old, where the average age of the
whole people presenting the exam is 23 year old.
of course this has been devastating for the 4 year of
E.S.O students, as we presented it later and we had
worse marks, with only 2 As. "they're not normal
people, they all have these amazing marks" said
marina, a student of 4 year of E.S.O.
By Kaiana Aizpurua
ORIENTATION
The fourth year ESO students are already in
February and they are seeing the baccalaureate
really near. Now is the moment when they have to
think seriously what they want to do in the future,
and in a couple of weeks they will need to have
decided. As this decision has to be taken very
seriously by both school and students, the teachers
have prepared some activities for the students to
see what their options are for next year, as
different types of baccalaureate or professional
training (a more practical way of studying) also
exist.
By Ignacio Mayoz
THE INTERNET IS SLOW
Along these last years, the internet at school is
slow, and none-one has look after this information.
I asked Iker some question and he told me the
problem is caused because the Telephonics' antenna
is far away from our school, so all this area has the
same problem.
Afterwards, he was asked why the wifis
without password can't be used, so he explained me
that only the technicians can make your computer
able to use those wifis.
By Sergio Tome
"CARIÑOGRAMA"
During the last 2 years, a new technique has been
used with the only objective of improving the
relationship that students have between each other,
this revolutionary technique is called
"Cariñograma".
this technique making a panel, where the good
things the student have done are. This technique
will help the little students to do good things
instead
doing bad things.
This will also help
children
relationship and not
being discriminated
for their color or
their intelligence.
By
Sergio Tome, Adrian Agüeros
MUSIC TAMES THE BEASTS
Begoña has been using new teaching
techniques throughout this term. Among these
techniques we should highlight putting music on at
the beginning of classes, which has been generating
applause. Recent studies have demonstrated that
classical music stimulates some parts of the brain
and they are even using it in order to help people
with intellectual problems. We’ve been asking
pupils what they think about the use of music and
they’ve told us that having five minutes to relax at
the beginning of class helps them to carry on
working. There is no doubt from our point of view
about the success of this new technique, so through
this article we encourage all teachers to start using
it.
By Pablo Gabilondo
PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS
In November the school psychologist went to the
4th year´s class to examin them.
He only came for two Thursdays, in the maths hour
and the students did two exams, one intelligence
test and the other one of what they like. With the
results of both tests, the psychologist and the tutor
of the students are going to meet the parents and
the student, and together they are going to decide
what to study next year and in the future.
" The tests were very easy" said Ainhoa and
Kaiana.
By Patricia Porta
STUDENTS
TORO XL STUDENTS
Duiring the second term our caretaker Raga Nogal,
found some cans on the black field.Up to this point
it does not seem anything out of order. However,
the issue is the kind of drinks the cans contained.
This drink is called ''Toro XL'' the problem is that
on the can it clearly states that children should not
drink it, and the ones that are doing so are the 5th
and 6th year primary school students. They sould
not be drinking it because the amount of caffeine
that one of the cans contains is the equivalent of
seven coffees. ''This severely affect the student
hability to study'' said tim.
By Adrian Agüeros
KOVACEVICS BACK AT SCHOOL.
After Christmas, we had the news that Kovacevicʼs
children were coming one more time to Saint
Patricks to study, three years after they had left
this school. Stella, the older of the two, was born in
Italy in 1996. When her father, Darko, was going to
play in the Real Sociedad, they moved to St.
Sebastian.
Three years ago, they moved to Greece, because
Darko started playing in the Greak team,
Olimpiacos. Recently, he had had a heart-attack,
and he isnʼt playing any more. Thatʼs why they
have returned to St. Sebastian, because they like
this city as a place to live.
”I am happy to be back with the friends I had three
years ago” Stella said 2 months ago.
SAN SEBASTIÁN WHITE AGAIN!!
Like last year at the beginning of the New Year in
Janurary, there were some terrible cloudy days,
which make the city white covered by snow for
four days. This made us very happy, because we
enjoyed these strange conditions and had really
good fun playing with the snow. “It was amazing,
everybody thought that we were in another town!”
said Ignacio Mayoz a student from the 4th Year in
the school.
By Pablo Carbonero
Now, both Stella and her little brother Darko have
left school. Nobody knows for certain exactly why.
By Susana Santaolalla
NO DONUTS BECAUSE OF SINGING
STUDENTS
4th year students got punished in the dining room
without donuts because we sang San Sebastian's
March and used the tables as drums.
Usually, 4th year ESO students are really chilled
while eating, but as it was the 19th January, San
Sebastian's Eve, we were all really excited.
Txema doesn't normally punish us but John Philips
was there so we couldn't even speak while we were
eating!
Only 3 tables out of 5 got punished, even though
we all sang!
"I found it really unfair, we all had sung so
everyone should have been punished" said Sara
Ifrim, a 4th year ESO student.
By Guinea Fernandez-Dans
CLIONA´S GONE STUDENTS
The new girl in 4º B after sharing 5 months
with us, left this school on the 20th january,
giving as a reason that her father has had a
job offer in pamplona.
However deep within us, we all know that
perhaps the real reason was that she had

been marginalized, but this is just a rumor,
nobody knows exactly why she went away.
By Kaiana Aizpurua
PREFECT OR PERFECT! STUDENT
Manuel Santos is a student from the 4th Year of St.
Patricks and he is his second year as the class
prefect. Last year he was also elected to the school
council for all the students at school, but this year
SUBJECTS
REACHING A HIGHER LEVEL OF BASQUE
It is not a secret that the level of English in
this school is much higher than the Basque level,
but teachers are trying to make up for this
imbalance. This year the students of the fats track
of Basque are expected to do he P.L.1, an exam
equivalent to the P.E.T. This is the first time that
the students in the 4th year E.S.O. are going to be
sitting this exam, but are they prepared enough?
We have tried to find out what one of the
students taking the exam, Manuel Santos, thinks
about this issue:” We are the first year group that is
going to do this exam so early, but I don’t think
there’s any problem. I think it’s a good opportunity
to practise and later on to try to pass the P.L.2.
By Asier Amenabar
IT PROBLEMS
during the first evaluation, there were some
problems with the project that 4º year of ESO
group were going to do for the little children.
although they had 4 months to do the project they
only used two days to do them.
this problem began with the change in teacher. the
first teacher made them work for an hour and then,
they could do whatever they wanted until the bell
went. In addition, the second teacher made them do
some word documents work that didn't relate to
doing the project.
In the end they were able to finish the project the 4
ESO disappointment
By Sergio Tome
4º B DISSAPOINTMENT
On wednesday 3 of february some students were
going to begin the IT class. almost all the students
there aren’t any students
selected at the moment for
this responsibility. “He
represents us very well,
because he is a responsible
and serious person”, said
Adrián Tejeda a student in
his class.
By Pablo Carbonero
were thinking we were going to start talking about
how to do the games, however we only did some
word works and a power point as the ones we did
with Simon in 1º ESO.Internet at school
By Sergio Tome
CHANGE OF MENTALITY IN IT
This year in the 4th year there has been a radical
change of mentallity. At the beginning Igor was the
new techer but afterwards Isabel came to give IT
classes.The only work the IT students did were
powerpoint presentations *there is nothing new in
this*. After chirstmas holidays students work in
new stuff.
2 months later of the starting Isabel came
to give them classes, and the students thought they
will learn more. Instead this they continued making
power pont presentation, nothing to be with IT.
Before Christmas the teacher made a questinary
about her classes and she found out that students
were not happy. Therefore the teacher started to
give more interesant lessons. “We learn more in
those 3 weeks that in the whole course” said Asier
Amenabar.
By Adrian Tegeda
NO EXTRA HOUR FOR THE FAST TRACK
This year 4th year ESO fast track students are going
to take the CAE exam in June, That’s why our
teacher hoped to give us an extra class on Monday
afternoon.
During that hour we were going to improve our
writing and practice for our oral exam. Susie also
thought that as this year is the first one that
students only have 4 hours to prepare for CAE, it
would be a good way to try to pass the exam.
However, this was all a dream as the English
Department turned down the proposal. Now we
would only have four hours per week and one
mock oral exam preparation.
“It’s a pity that we don’t have this extra hour,
because we are going to be less prepared for the
exam” said Pablo Carbonero, a student of the fast
track.
“However, I think that people who work hard
would have enough with those four hours, and
they’ll pass it. I’ll bet for it” said Tim Buckwell, 4th
year ESO English teacher.
By Guinea Fernandez-Dans
TEACHERS
NEW TEACHER FOR 4º ESO
In October Iñigo Elias came to substitute Txema
Arbe in Latin classes. Txema had to teach the
Baccalaureate students and he didn’t have any
other time to do it so we can say that he changed
his 4º year ESO students for the Baccalaureate
ones.
Iñigo comes from the German school, where he
used to teach. He comes on Tuesday, Thursday and
Friday to teach the San Patrick’s students who
study Latin. He usually comes really early and
when we come from the playtime he has already
been in class for a few minutes and ready to begin.
“He teaches differently but he does a good job”
says one of his students.
By Carla Aldabaldetrecu
DANGER! REYES IN BAD MOOD!
As students it is not unusual for us to hear
teachers telling us that we are the worst class
they have ever had. However, this time Reyes
seems to be really disappointed with her 4th
year ESO class. She has even said things like
“There is a lack of work and responsibility that
can’t be allowed” or “I’ve no regrets of people
who failed in the first evaluation”. As a result
there is a bad atmosphere in almost every
MOCK EXAMS
A few weeks ago,the forth year students did the
MOCK exams for the first certificate in english
and Certificate in advanced english. Some of them
did the fist exam and others the advanced. In
general the results of CAE MOCK exam were quite
good, however they could improve with a lot of
hard work. The students that did the FIRTS exam
last year and did not passed, this year the FIRST
MOCK exam they did it really well, and the
students that did not do t last year the exam
because they did not want to or because they were
not as prepared as to pass the exam, they had work
hard and in the MOCK exam they did it really well,
with effort an working hard they could get a good
mark in the exam.
By Marta Arriaga
mathematics class. The classes go on, and
although she is really unhappy with us, we
hope she would continue teaching us.
Whatever happens Sanpa Times will keep you
informed.
By Pablo Gabilondo
BASQUE TEACHER ATTENDS A COURSE
From Monday to Friday the Basque teachers of the
4º year Eso went to Bilbao to a Basque course so
they could practise
their Basque.
Ibon and Alazne left
their 4º year students
of Basque, from
Monday 1st
February until the
3rd February
afternoon, so they
could attend to the course. “We had a great time at
Bilbao although we didn’t have enough free time to
visit Bilbao” said Ibon.
By Carla Aldabaldetrecu
MUSIC TAMES THE BEASTS
Begoña has been using new teaching
techniques throughout this term. Among
these techniques we should highlight

putting music on at the beginning of classes, which
has been generating applause. Recent studies have
demonstrated that classical music stimulates some
parts of the brain and they are even using it in order
to help people with intellectual problems. We’ve
been asking pupils what they think about the use of
music and they’ve told us that having five minutes
MISCELLANEOUS
NEW FOOTBALL FIELD NEAR SCHOOL
As we all now ,they are making a new football
field near school,but,It would be the new football
field of our school?
Near school,in
Errondo,they are
making a new football
field.They are going to
finish doing it this year
so all the people ask
the same thing,if we could use it as st-patricks
football field.O
ur football field is not in very good conditions so it
would be nice to play there,in grass.Pablo
Carbonero said:"I think it would be a very good
idea,because it always better to play in grass
instead of rock"
By Inigo Fernandez
FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT
The 27th of January the 4th of E.S.O students
organized a football tournament at the hockey field
The tournament was very interesting and people of
all ages turned up to watch good
football.The teams were chosen
randomly and each team was made up
of by 5 players.The referee
was Adrian Agueros.The initiative of
making this tournament was ignacio´s
idea: " I had this idea because i thought
lot of people like football and by
this tournament all the people could
play,and have a good time"
By Inigo Fernandez
LOOKS LIKE A DRUM BUT... IS A BARREL!
This year, in the drum parade, the school has
decided that is better to use normal drums with a
wooden slice on top in the official performance on
San Sebastian day. In the past, the school has used
to relax at the beginning of class helps them to
carry on working. There is no doubt from our point
of view about the success of this new technique, so
through this article we encourage all teachers to
start using it.
By Pablo Gabilondo
normal barrels
since it
appeared for
the first time in
the drum
parade.
This decision
was taken by
the school
council, who thought it was better because drums
would weigh less, furthermore, previous barrels
barrels were very little and children broke a lot of
drumstick on the edge. On the other hand some
people think barrels were much prettier.
By Ainhoa Uribarren
LIVERPOOL TRIP
Last 5th of December, as happens
every year, the first of Bacaulerate
students went on a school exchange
with Liverpool students with the
apparent objective of improving their
English.
"The journey was very well organized" said Tim
Buckwell. He says that this year's group were the
best he has ever gone with.
Moreover, this year's trip has a little bit special, in
particular for Mikel Bravo, because he met
Fernando Torres, and went to his house.
The trip organizer, Tim Buckwell, says that the
only possible drawback is that the trip was
organized over a long weekend and he said it is
quite hard for him to spend so much time
surrounded by students without having a day to
relax.
By Adrian Agüeros
Teachers’ authority
Nowadays teachers don’t know how to deal with some situations of conflict.
Due to some new laws they have to be very careful when they punish a
student, because if the student’s parents protest they may find themselves in
trouble. What is the correct way of behaving in this new situation? Should
they continue being strict or would it be better to have a friendly
relationship with students?

Teachers should be Being strict doesn’t mean being unfair.

strict in order to Being the authority is not an easy job
teach and educate and sometimes teachers become power-
students. We should crazy. I’ve always liked the quotation
never forget that at that Uncle Ben said in Spider-Man’s
school teachers are comic number one “With great power
the authority. They there must also come great
may make mistakes responsibility”. Joking apart, teachers
and not always do should always try to have proportional
everything correctly, punishments to the incident. Those who
but this is not a really teach pupils a lesson once and for
reason for parents to make a scene every all should not be
time they think that the teacher is wrong. accepted in our
Furthermore, I think schools should help schools because
teachers in these situation, otherwise teachers are
how are you going to punish a student if professionals that
the only opinion that is going to be taken must take into
into consideration is the parents one? In account that they
my opinion being strict is something that are dealing with
should be valued in teachers because it students and not
helps students to concentrate and take criminals.
classes seriously.

To sum up we could say that taking teacher’s authority away is not going to do
pupils any good in education. However some teachers’ methods are nowadays
outdated, old fashioned and are best left in the past so we strongly recommend
teachers to read Spider-Man before giving a class.
What about an Ecological school?
During the school year teachers usually give long speeches about the importance of recycling and turning
out the lights whenever you get out of a room. However, do we really try and give our two cents worth in
this global problem or is there too much talking and too little action? Can the school afford to make some
ecological changes or is the budget too small?

Ecology is nowadays a subject our school is interested in. Since, in the 1990s, the theory of Global Warming
appeared, the world has gone mad trying to solve the problem we have created. Politicians promise ecologi-
cal changes in their electoral campaigns and scientists are working flat out in order to find the definitive eco-
logical fuel. Our school hasn’t turned its back on ecology either, and has been trying to make students aware
of the huge problem we have. Although many people think that the school should try to obtain its energy
from green sources like solar panels, we must take into account that they are really expensive and school
hasn’t got a budget big enough.

The school could go one better and make the school greener. Global warming is not a problem which is go-
ing to be solved with speeches and nice words; we need to get moving immediately. Although solar panels
may be too expensive, the government has ecological projects that give grants to those companies which are
trying to supply their energy from green sources. Furthermore, if we generate more energy than the neces-
sary, we could sell it and earn between 5,000 and 7,000 euros for each kilowatt.

To sum up we could say that Ecological projects need a great investment at the beginning but in the long run
are worthy. Moreover I think the school should try and look for different ways of receiving a grant because
speeches are not enough to solve this problem. Having a green school is not going to be a piece of cake but
where there’s a will, there is a way, so lets get going.
Written by Pablo Gabilondo

Which side do we choose?

Mummy mummy, does marriage exist?
Since our childhood we have been told stories about
couples who had to face difficult situations in order to
achieve their dream: get married. These stories usually
end with happy phrases such as “they all lived happily
ever after”. Are these stories based in real life? Is mar-
riage a long-term decision? Is marriage in danger of ex-
tinction?

Nowadays marriage has nothing to do with the one our

grandparents knew about. To make one’s first Holy
Communion or to get married has become a custom in
the Western World and no one knows the religious
meaning they have. This may seem to be something un-
important but in my opinion it is the main reason why
in Spain 30% of marriages end up in a divorce. While
fifty years ago getting divorce would have meant burn-
ing in Hell, these days it is usual to find children whose
parents are divorced and there are even prenuptial
agreements in case of a divorce.

Marriage is not as necessary as it was. Fifty

years ago if you were a single person when you
were 25 years old they looked at you as if you
were from another planet, however, nowadays
is usual to find people who don’t believe in
marriage. There are about 7,000,000,000 peo-
ple in the earth so imagine that you are a boy,
there are about 3,500,000,000 women and you
are supposed to meet the one who is your bet-
ter half, do you think this is probable? Fur-
thermore I don’t see any difference between
my parents and a couple who have been living
together the same number of years, so what is
the difference between getting married and
just living together?

I would like to end up with a phrase my mother usually says: “If your friend puts his
hand in the fire, would you do the same too?” In my opinion this is a question each of us
should ask ourselves before getting married because marriage is an engagement that you
should not accept just because most people do so.
 I am Charlotte Simmons
This story takes place in the prestigious
Dupont University where we will discover
that a university student has many other hard
situations to deal with apart from studying.
Charlotte Simmons is a young high school
graduate who has spent all her life working
really hard and as a result she has been
awarded a full scholarship in Dupont
University. However, she may have great
knowledge of French, literature and maths
but she is a novice in sex, alcohol and social
status which are three things that play an
important role in university life.

During her time at the university Charlotte

will meet different students: Hoyt (a member
of a fraternity who is cool with the girls), Jojo
(a white player on the university’s basketball
team who is in Dupont thanks to a sport
scholarship) and Adam (an intellectual who pays for university by working in a pizzeria).
We will follow these student’ lives and their relation with Charlotte.

Charlotte is a girl who comes from a rural-town

and has spent all her life working hard in order
to go to a good university. However, spending
all her time studying has stopped her from
getting on with other teenagers and when she
arrives at university she suddenly discovers a
new world. Suddenly being accepted is
something she finds important so she will have
her first sexual relations, get drunk and
discover other distractions so studying will be
forgotten for some time. This is a book that
describes all those situations that a student has
to face in university, all those situations that
teenagers are so scared about.

In my opinion this is a great book and Tom

Wolfe, who is the writer, really knows what he is
talking about. It can be used as a guide by
students or as an old diary by adults and from
the beginning of the book you will identify
yourself with a character which makes the book
even more interesting. I strongly recommend
this book to any person who enjoys reading.
Little miss sunshine
This is a film that when we think about it a smile appears on our face,
not because of famous actors or incredi-
ble special effects, but because this is a film
that people think breaks the Hollywood
mould. Instead of having a super hero sav-
ing the world we have a normal family,
or nearly normal: the grandparent
snorts cocaine, the father gives courses of
how to achieve success which are an abso-
lute failure, the older child is a teenager
who has decided not to talk to anyone, the
uncle is living with them after trying to
commit suicide because his boyfriend left
him, the mother is fed up of everyone and
the younger child is a little girl whose
quite fat and ugly and who is obsessed
with winning a beauty contest.

The film tells the story of how the little

girl finally manages to be accepted in a beauty contest that takes
place in California. The parents, who
know how important it is for their
daughter, decide to put the whole
family into the old van and spend
three days living together and deal-
ing with different situations.

This film is a brilliant dark comedy

that will make you laugh at all
those things that intimidate us. I
strongly recommend it to those of
you who are fed up of watching
films with disgusting jokes about sex
and drugs.

Directed by Jonathan Dayton

Opened in 2006
100 minutes
 James Cameron
Avatar
This is a film which has obviously provoked
a great deal of interest as much because of
whom the director is as for the film. When
his brother is killed in a robbery, the
paraplegic Marine Jake Sully takes his
brother’s place in a mission on Pandora. There
he learns of greedy corporate figurehead
Parker Selfridge's intentions of driving off
the native humanoids who are known as
"Na'vi". The “na’vi” are a humanoid race with
their own language and culture. Parker Selfridge wants to
mine for the precious material scattered throughout their rich
woodland and so he wants to destroy
the natives.

Along the film, you can distinguish
two different bands, the scientific
peaceloving band and the fearsome
aggressive band. Our main charac-
ter works with the fearsome band at
the beginning because he continues
feeling like a soldier. In addition, he
was told that if he helps them he will
have new legs. However during the
film, he starts changing his mind
when he fells in love with the beautiful "Na'vi" Neytiri, the prin-
cess of the tribe.

In my opinion, this is an interesting non-stop action film
without any drawbacks, although, some people say that isn’t eye
catching in all the scenes of the film. This film has won 3 Oscars,
and another 28 prizes and 53 nominations in other film festivals.

Produced by: James Cameron

Running time: 162 minutes
Rating: +13
Source material: http://www.avatarmovie.com
 The perfect teacher

What is the thing you value most in a teacher?

Enjoying his job If you pass or fail Patience Knoledge

Simpathy Know how to teach

In this graph we can clearly see all the

things we value on a teacher. As you can
see knowing how to teach is the most
33% 27% important thing, it seems obvious, but if
you look at the rest of the results you an
see that is not as obvious, we also give a
lot of importance to teachers enjoying
13% their work, their friendliness, and if they
13%
7% 7% help us passing or not.

What do you prefer a demanding teacher or an undemanding teacher?

Demanding Undemanding

In this graph is clearly shown that even

though sometimes we complain about all
the homework teachers demand us, on our
deep-down we know they do it for us 27%
to learn an not to bother us. However,
teachers must not give us too much
homework because is not healthy.

73%

Yes No
Do you like teachers picking on you?
We do not like teachers picking on us,
13% some jokes are OK, but up to a point,
teachers have to be careful, humiliations
in our age can be very harmful for our
mental health

87%

Why do you think teachers pick on students?

What are you reasons for pick on
us? You can clearly see that we
have no idea, however we have
tried to guess, and these are our
results, have we get the answer
right? Please make us know
because is a huge mysterious for
all students.
To demostrate his authority
Because they are angry with student
Because they are bad students
Because they are frustated
Not to relax
20% 20%

What do you prefer, a reliable teacher, or 20%

an unreliable one?
27%
What can I say about this question, it is
13%
obvious we prefer to have a person in who
we can trust, that if we tell this person a
secret he does not go immediately to tell it
to our parents or to whatever
other person. Sometimes, relying on someone that is unconnected to the
aim of the problem can be very helpful for us, even more if this is an
adult person who is willing to help you. Teachers can be those
special persons that help us, even though sometimes we do not
tell you our secrets we like knowing that even in school we
have a person worry about us.
Realiable
Unreliable 100%
 What do you prefer a warm, close teacher or a distant, formal teacher?
In this graphic we can appreciate that more than
half of the student prefer a warm close teacher than
a distant formal one. This could be because with a
warm close teacher you get on with him quickly and
you are more comfortable with him. However, the 35%
other students prefer having a distant formal
65%
teacher because they do not like a authority at
school behaving like if they were their friends.

What do you prefer a beautiful \handsome Distant, formal

Warm, close
teacher or an ugly one?
As you can see having a beautiful
Beautiful\handsom
\handsome teacher is not one of our Ugly
biggest worries, however the majority of
the students say that as they are doing
something boring, it´s always nice
looking at someone that is attractive.
Moreover, the 47 percent of the
students may prefer an ugly teacher,due to 47%
the fact of not losing their 53%
concentration by using their imagination in
a not very useful way.

Yes Do you want teachers to be your

No friends?
We can see in this graphic that almost all
student don´t like having teachers as
friends. Probably, is a result of secrets
7% being told between friends... However if
you have a teacher as a friend, this can
cause problems. These problems could
happen if he has to speak with you
parents or told you that you have fail a
subject. Furthermore, the rest of student
93% will think that you are the teacher´s pet.


What do you prefer a man or a woman to be your teacher?

First of all, I want to tell you Man

that all answers to this question Woman
were; I don´t mind. We have not
got a sexist course at all. We “forced“ all
the students to answer, with the only
objective of knowing, whether students
prefer a woman or a man to teach them, 43%
but as you can see the information is not
very conclusive. However, there is a 57%
slightly difference between both sexes in
favor of men.

Conclusion
Our perfect teacher would have the following
characteristics; He must be a man who knows
how to teach, loves his job, very friendly
and who does not fail us. He must demand
work, but without exceeding with the
homework. Someone who does not pick on you,
someone on whom you can rely. He must be warm and close,
caring about your problems, but without being a gossip, he
must remember that we don t want a friend, we want a
reliable person next to us that will help us when ever we need
him. Finally, if he is handsome girls will be happy to go to his
classes.
SUDOKU (HARD)
WORDSEARCH (FIND 8 SUBJECTS)
P W A B E S I O Z P T
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L R S C I H T E O S E
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Q T E N G L I S H O C
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U W Ñ S A F E T E W H
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I O K C S G T M R T N
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5 7 O P B I O L O G Y A O

4 3 7 8 H S H E O J A M S P L

6 8 9 4 5 G F T N S H T A M Y O
5 6 7 O Y O C U I X N S R G

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CROSSWORD (FIND THE MISTERIOUS TEACHER) all goes downwards

1 THE CHEF WHO LEFT LAST YEAR
2 NAME OF THE OF A TEACHER WHOSE HUSBAND MIGUEL ANGEL DE CASTRO
3 AN ENGLISH TEACHER WHO COMES FROM AFRICA
4 NAME OF THE NEW IT TEACHER
5 ENGLISH EXAM 4º ESO HIGH LEVEL OF ENGLISH HAVE DONE
6 NUMBER OF BOYS IN THE SECRETARY´S OFFICE
7 THE TEACHER WHO IS LEAVING THIS YEAR
8 THE NAME OF THE NEW ALIMENTARY COMPANY
9 SURNAME OF THE SCHOOL´S CARETAKER

3 6 7

4 8 9

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