My School (Year 9)

2009-10

IBAIALDE, My School homework but they’re good. My favourite

teacher at Ibaialde was Juantxo Pagola a
Hello!!
teacher of English. He was my teacher in 1st
I’m going ESO. He’s very funny and teaches English
to tell you very well. I learnt a lot with him but he went
about my to another High
high School. And other
school. It’s favourite teacher
called was Pilar, she was
Ibaialde. my teacher of
Ibaialde is Spanish Language
a public in 1st ESO too and
school and she taught me very
it’s in Burlada, my town. Burlada is near well, well I like
Pamplona, the Capital of Navarre. Spanish Language
Most of students who go to Ibaialde are from too.
Burlada and Villava but some students are But in this High
from other small villages. The people that School there aren’t a lot of excursions and I
aren’t from Burlada or Villava come by bus. don’t like it because we go a lot of days to
Ibaialde has a very good bus service. The the school and the excursions are very little
people from Villava and Burlada come on and with very little hours because they aren’t
foot because it’s near. one day long, only a few hours.
Ibaialde is a big school. The high school is The High School hasn’t got a sports team but
for girls and boys. It’s divided in 2 buildings, sometimes it participates in some contests.
one foro students of ESO, and I am here.
I think Ibaialde is a very good High School.
ESO is from 12 to 16 years old and the other
buildings is for Bachillerato and Vocational Do you like it?
Studies, from 16 to 18 years old. In
Vocational Studies there some students
studying to be Cooks, Hairdressers... Edurne Urricelqui
The timetable at Ibaialde is from 8:30 to
14:30. They are very good hours because in
the afternoon we can do other activities,
sports, academies... or watch TV but
ALWAYS the homework.
At 11:15 we have a break and it’s from
11:15 to 11:45, it’s short because we have 6
hours to study and only 30 minutes for the
break.
The subjects at Ibaialde in ESO are Maths,
Spanish Language, Basque, French, English,
P.E, Religion, Natural Science, Educational
Activities, Music and art. The best subject
for me is P.E. because I relax in this class
and the worst for me are Maths and Art.
The teachers and students of Ibaialde are
very good. There are a lot from Villava or
other villages. The teachers give us a lot of

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 My School (Year 9)
2009-10
My school
In my school
there are a lot of
people. All the
people are in
three floors. I’m
going to explain
how the classes
are divided.
On the first floor there are the classes of the
students of 4th ESO –years 7 to 10-. Also
there is a music room, the library, the
caretakers lodge in which there are four or
five porters who can assist you if you have a
problem. And there is the telephone, because
sometimes people are ill and there you can
phone home. And near the workshops of the
school, there is a small gym. And it has its
own changing rooms. It is small gym to do
some activities with the teacher of PE.
On the second floor there is the changing
room for the girls and on the other floor
there is the changing room for boys and in it
you have toilets.
On the second floor you can see a lot of
rooms. For example the departments of all
the teachers, and the rooms of 3rd ESO
students. Also there are other special classes
for drawing and sometimes you go there in
the class of plastic or drawing. I like these
classes because you can relax more than in
the others.
On the third floor there are the classes of
first and second ESO students. They have to
walk much every day to go to their rooms.
There are also rooms for older students, they
are students of the “Preparatorio”, they are
people who want to do vocational studies.
On all the floors there are toilets. The
playground is really big and this is very good
for playing, because there is a football pitch
and also a basket court and the rest is for
relaxing. There is in at the beginning of the
playground a small shop to buy sweets.
The timetable of Ibaialde’s high school is
very good because we only have classes
from half past eight to half past two, and in
the afternoon you can do some extra
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activities, like football, swimming, table
tennis, classes of English, maths…
I like the installations and the timetable very
much. It could be better, but it is good like
that.
Amaia Garacochea
My school
I go to a public
school called
Ibaialde.
Ibaialde is a
high school in
Burlada, a
village in
Navarra, in the
north of Spain.
The students of Ibaialde are from Burlada,
Villava and villages near them.
In Ibaialde the classes start at 8:30 and end at
14:30. The classes are 55´ long and we have
one break of half of an hour.
We have eleven subjects: Maths, religion,
natural sciences, Basque. Language, P.E,
English, social science, music, plastics and
C.E.
Religion and C.E are only once a week.
For P.E we have one gym inside the school
and one sports centre, sometimes we also use
the playground, but only sometimes.
We, the students and the teachers all the
years, organize one festival at Christmas
where the students dance, sing and play their
musical instruments, but not only the
students take part, the teachers that are in the
chorus also sing in this festival.
At the end the jury decides the winners of
the festival and they receive their prizes.
Naiara Palomo
 My School (Year 9)
2009-10
My School
My school is Ibaialde. It is a public school
situated in Burlada and next to Villava, in
Navarre and in the north of Spain. It’s a high
school in which we study from 1st of ESO to
4th and two years of Bachillerato (from year
7 though 12).
I begin classes at eight thirty in the morning
and I finish at half past two. We have six
lessons of fifty minutes each one and a brief
break of thirty minutes. I think that my
favourite day of school could be Friday.
Although the three first classes can be a bit
boring because they are mathematics,
biological sciences and language, after the
break I have physical education, in which I
(and most of the people) have fun, music, in
which we sometimes relax with classical
music and English that’s not bad at all and
normally is interesting. Another good thing
is that we have not got classes in the
afternoon and we can make that we want
(apart from doing our homework).
Maybe you would like to know some more
about Ibaialde. Well, I think the best thing
that it has is that we haven’t got class in the
afternoon as I have said before. I know that
we haven’t got the best installations but we
have two informatics rooms, an audiovisual
room, a science laboratory, a gym and some
other ones so it’s another good point of my
institute.
On the other hand I think the worst thing
could be that we have not got many trips
(last year, for example, we had two or three)
in all the year so I would change It.
And, well, as you can see, that’s my high
school.
Iosu
Rodríguez
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My School
I study at
Ibaialde high
school, it’s
public.
Ibaialde is in
Burlada, a
village near
Pamplona, but also not all the people are
from Burlada, many of them are from
Villava, Arre , Huarte,...
I start classes at 8:30 and finish at 2:30, we
have a break of thirty minutes but it’s not
enough.
I have to go on foot because I live very near
but I arrive home very tired!!
My school is not very big and it’s very old.
But I like very much the Christmas Festivals.
It’s the best Christmas Festival of the world.
This is my best memory of my junior days in
Ibaialde. All the people can participate but is
difficult to win because there are many
competitors, many people of Ibaialde dance
very well. It’s very funny to participate
because all the people collaborate and it’s
very interesting, most of the festival is
organized by the students!!
Last year my friend Maider and I won and
today I remember the emotion that I felt!
In the afternoons I also have to study and do
the homework because we have very
demanding teachers. My favourite subjects
are religion and PE, because in religion we
have a good time ! My teacher of religion is
Juanjo, he is my favourite teacher. I like
religion and PE because are different
subjects. We talk about many things and we
do many dynamic activities , see videos,...
I don’t like Basque, it is the second language
of Navarre and it’s optional. I don’t like it
because I’m bored in this class and because I
don’t like this language very much.
And that’s all, this is my school, it’s a
normal school but at the same time it is very
different to others!!
Idoia Iriarte
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IBAIALDE, My School
Hello, my name is Alberto Aragón, I study
at IES Ibaialde and I’m going to talk about
It. It is in Burlada, near Pamplona, the
capital of Navarre, in the north of Spain.
We start classes at 8:30AM, and we finish
them at 2:30PM. We have six classes and
one break in the middle. The classes are fifty
five minutes long and the break is thirty
minutes 11:15AM to 11:45AM, It is a short
time! I think that we need more time for the
break because it time passes very fast, and
we have to relax, because the classes are
very tiring and long..
All the teachers give us a lot of homework
almost every day. All of us have to be
hardworking people, because of the
homework. I think that it is unfair because
we study in the institute 6 hours more or less
and then we arrive home and we have to
study (or do homework) 2 hours or more. I
think that it is too much! I will never
understand it.
All the people have forgotten the homework
at least once, and they make funny excuses. I
think that once is not important but a lot of
times is a very big problem!
Good bye!
Alberto Aragón
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My School
I go to Ibaialde’s high school that is a
situated in the north of Spain.
This high school is public because we don’t
have to pay money and Navarra’s
Government pays it.
I love my school because I go with all my
friends, you can learn a lot if you want and
because there all is good. Well not all, but
almost all.
In some aspects I don’t like my school
because I am a teenager and I don’t like
studying and doing the homework, but I
have to do it.
We always start classes at 8:30. I go to the
high school on foot with my friends, I like
doing this very much because we can talk
about our things.
We always have three classes, then the break
and finally the other three classes.
I like this timetable because you can do the
things that you really like in the afternoon.
And this is
something about my
high school, maybe
you can learn more
about it by reading
the compositions of
my partners!
Nerea Buldain
 My School (Year 9)
2009-10
My School
Hello!
I’m going to
describe for
you something
about Ibaialde
high school,
our school.
It is situated
approximately
in the center
of Navarre in Spain, near Pamplona the most
important city in Navarre.
The best thing I like of Ibaialde high school
is the timetable. We start to study at 8:30 and
we finish at 14:30 so we have during the day
six classes each one of 55 minutes.
We have three classes before the break
which we starts at 11:15, then we have only
30 minutes to speak with our friends, eat our
snack, in general the students always bring
their sandwiches of something they love!!
There are people that also spend this time
with sports, some play football in the
football court or some prefer to do it in other
places, others play basketball and some also
play pelota. So this is the short time that we
have for snack .It’s one thing that probably
we have to change, I think we need more
time!!
After the break we have the last 3 hours of
classes and we can go home. I like this
timetable because in the afternoon we have
time to study or to do the things that we like
to do.
Ibailde’s building is another thing that is
good, it is big and here we have a lot of
classrooms and all of them are very tidy, for
example we have a gym, a big sport center, a
playground in which we can do any
activities for P.E, we also have laboratories,
workshops, a library in which students can
do their homework in a good place, there are
also teachers’ rooms, each one divided
according to the different subjects. Here the
teachers discuss about their own subject.
There is also a place in which you can make
photocopies, and the most important
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classrooms are the classrooms of the
students, they are big and you have all the
necessary things to study.
There are also other things that make
Ibaialde a great school!!!!
Do you like Ibaialde school?
Marianela Mariño
My School
My name is Marina I am 14 and I live in
Burlada a small city near Pamplona, the
capital of Navarre in the north of Spain.
As I have said I am 14 so I am studying 3º of
ESO at Ibaialde high school, Ibaialde is
situated in Burlada, so it only takes me some
minutes to arrive. I always go to school with
my friends, it is really entertaining, and we
talk all the way.
Ibaialde is quite big, it is formed by two
buildings, one for students from 12 to 16
who are studying in secondary and the other
is for bachiller. It has an audiovisual room, 2
computer rooms, laboratories, sports
complex… etc, all of them in the secondary
building because I haven’t been in the other
building.
All the students have the same timetable, we
start at half past eight in the morning and we
finish at half past two, finally we never have
classes in the afternoon.
The school has too extra activities like a
literary contest that is done all the years, and
the Christmas festival. Sometimes we do
school trips, but only sometimes. The thing I
don’t like about the school is that we hardly
ever realize trips,
for example we
are now in 3º
ESO and we have
gone to only one
place at the and of
the course and
during it we only
have 2 or 3
concerts.
Marina Tiscar Aramendía
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My School My School
My school’s name is Ibaialde and it is Hi!
located in the centre of Navarre. I’m going to tell
I have chosen two main ideas to tell you you about my
about it. high school called
Ibaialde.
-The schedule: We have the same schedule
along all the week. We start the classes at Ibaialde is a high
8.30 in the morning. Each class lasts 55 school in Burlada,
minutes. After three classes we have a little near Pamplona.
break of 30 minutes, from 11.15 to 11.45. There are two
After that we have another three classes until different
14.30 when we return back home. The buildings, one for
timetable allows us to be off all the the students from
afternoon. twelve to sixteen
Some people have extracurricular activities and the other for Bachiller and F.P. The ages
such as music, sports, academies... normally go from sixteen to eighteen.
From my point of view it is wonderful In the second building there are some people
because we have all the afternoon for our who study to be cooks, hairdressers, ...
own things. On the other hand, we have to We only have classes in the morning from
get up very early and in the first class some half past eight to half past two, we have all
people fall asleep on the desk. the afternoon free, but in the afternoon I do a
- The bilingual option. Three years ago the lot of things.
students of 1st ESO (that are now in 3rd I think that the normal classrooms in
ESO) started the first bilingual group at Ibaialde should have more decorations
Ibaialde. It is working perfectly, so each year because are boring. They only have
there is one group more. In these classes windows, chairs, tables and a blackboard.
there are around twenty people, the students
are divided into two classes. We have a At Christmas we do a festival.
higher level of English and we also study The students of Ibaialde every year like to
Social Sciences in English. For that reason make a magazine with information about the
we are together in those classes. school, the name of the magazine is Ibaialde
All the students of 6th of primary can make News. This year I will participate.
the exam to form another bilingual group. It I like Ibaialde but I would like it more if we
is a wonderful opportunity! had more excursions.
In my opinion this has been a very good idea Do you like my high school?
because we
learn a lot in Noelia Pérez
these
classes.
Naiara
Irigoyen

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 My School (Year 9)
2009-10
My School
I’m a student at Ibaialde High school. Now
I'm going to tell you many things of my
institute, the
best in the
world.
My school is in
Burlada, a My school is Ibaialde, in Burlada near
village near
Villava, my city,
so I always good
on foot with my
friends Naiara and Idoia and I can do it in 15
minutes more or less.
Everyday we start the lessons at eight thirty
and after three lessons we have, at quarter
past eleven, the break. I think that it’s very
short, only 30 minutes. Don't do you think
so? In this time I eat my snack with my
friends, It is time to relax!! After it we have
three lessons more and then, at half past two,
we finish and go home.
In my opinion it’s is a very good timetable
because we have only in the morning and in
the afternoon we can do our hobbies or the
homework, stay with friends...
In Ibaialde there are two buildings one of
them for people between 16 and 18 years old
in which study the people who are doing
Bachiller or Vocational Studies then the
second building is the one where I'm
studying. People who are in this building are
between 12 and 16 years old. I'm 14 so I am
in the third level of ESO. In this building
there are laboratories, many classrooms, a
gym, departments for all the teachers, toilets,
the photocopy room, many workshops...
This year we've got eleven subjects:
Geography, Physical education, Physics,
Biology, Music, Art, Spanish language,
Basque language, English, Maths and
Religion.
The teachers are very strict with their
students but this is good because the students
learn a lot.
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Ibaialde's the best institute in the world I
wouldn't change it with any other one
because I like it a lot.
Maider Eguilaz
My School
Pamplona. Ibaialde is big, there are a lot of
classes.
Up, on the 3rd floor there are the classrooms
of first and second ESO, and there is also the
computers room. And on the first floor there
are the second of ESO classrooms and the
departments for the subjects, and there are
also some laboratories and the toilets.
Out of the school there is a small garden
with some trees. But there is also a big gym
and inside the school there is a small gym.
Now we are studying in 3rd ESO. I'm in
3rdC with some of my second level
classmates; for example Lucia, Ruben,
Maitane, Josune, Leire, Gorka,Claudia,
Yaiza... They are a very good classmates but
in this year there are some new people and
they are very nice too.
The subjects that we are studying are:
Spanish Literature, P.E., Math, Basque,
English, Natural Sciences, plastics, Religion,
Geography and Music. My favourite subjects
are English, Basque, P.E. and Natural
Sciences. We sometimes have an exam, but I
don't get nervous at it. Some exams are too
difficult!
The School starts at
8:30 and finishes at
14:30, but we have a
little break of 30
minutes to eat our
sandwiches. We like
a lot the break! We
started the school at
12 and we are going
to finish it when we
are 16, and then we will go to Bachillerato
building, but that is another story!
Lorea López
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2009-10
My School
Hello, I’m going to tell
you about my school.
Its name is Ibaialde. It’s
a high school in
Burlada. I’m from
Burlada too, so always I
go to school on foot.
Ibaialde is big: we have
many classrooms, seven
or eight teachers’
departments, one
secretary room, rooms with computers, and
one audio-visual class, gymnasiums, a big
playground and several workshops for
technology.
Every day, we begin our classes at eight
thirty, and we finish the classes at two thirty.
In the middle of the morning, after three
hours studying, we have a break. This time
of relax is from a quarter after eleven, to
quarter to twelve. In this time, we talk with
our friends, and we eat a sandwich. Then, we
continue the classes three hours more. We
don’t wear a uniform, but we’re forced to
wear clothes of sport the days of P.E.
In my institute we have two grades: ESO and
Bachiller. Now, I’m in ESO because I’m 13.
In Ibaialde, we’re a lot of students and a lot
of teachers.
At Christmas we have the Christmas
Festival, and we can dance, play flute…
We have holidays in December, Easter, and
summer.
We have 10 subjects and my favourite is
English. We have one teacher for each
subject.
There are many rules and these are some:
- Punctually (this is the most important)
- Don’t eat chewing-gum in class
-Don’t wear cap, sunglasses…
-You can’t use your mobile.
There are many more, but in this moment, I
don’t remember them
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Other Institutes are maybe better than this,
but I like it.
Marina Pascual
My School
I’m a student of the institute Ibaialde.
Ibaialde is in Burlada, a small town near
Pamplona, in the centre of Navarre and in
the north of Spain.
Ibaialde is a big school. There are
approximately 1,000 students aged twelve to
twenty. It’s a State School, with boys and
girls in the same lessons.
Most of the students are from Burlada and
Villava, a village next to Burlada, but there
are some who come from villages around
and they come by bus.
Ibaialde has got two buildings, one for the
pupils who are studying ESO, from 12 to 16
years and for another Vocational Studies,
they are between 15 and 20 years. In the
Vocational Studies there are people who
study to be Cooks, Hairdressers,
Estheticians,... and bachillerato.
The Compulsory Education building has got
three floors; on the first floor is the music
room, bathrooms, offices, classes of 4th
ESO, a small gym, some workshops and the
cafeteria where teachers are during the
break.
On the second floor are all the teachers’
departments. Each subject has a department
and all the teachers who belong to that
department have a desk there. Also there are
the rooms of 3 º ESO, the audiovisual room,
computer room, some workshops,
laboratories and bathrooms.
On the third floor are all the first and second
ESO pupils.
The playground is very big and there we
have got a football pitch and a basketball
court. We also have got a gymnasium, sports
hall and a pediment.
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The classes are more or less of 24 or 25 My School

students. The students are very friendly and
My school is a
most are workers, but sometimes they get
public one called
bored. Teachers sometimes are fun, but
Ibaialde that means
sometimes they are strict.
"near the river"
because is near the
We study, Math, English, Spanish Literatura, river arga.
Geography, Basque, Religious, Physics, Ibaialde is in
Natural Sciences, Physical Education and Burlada, a little city
Ethics near Pamplona, in
At Christmas we make every year a festival the middle of
Navarre in the north
in the house of Culture in Burlada, also
every year we have trips to different places. of Spain.
My high school is big, the biggest in
We have lessons from Monday to Friday.
Burlada, I think, and for me is the best. I
Our lessons are fifty five minutes long and
know that Ibaialde can be better, but I like it
we have a break of thirty minutes, between
as it is now very much.
the third and the fourth lesson, from 11.15 to
11.45. In the playground we have a little We’re approximately 1,000 students and I´m
shop for goodies for all students. We have in third course with a lot of girls and boys
six classes every who are fourteen and fifteen years old.
day, we enter every We have a lot of subjects, my subjects are:
day at 8,30 and we Spanish, Language, Phisics and Chemistry,
leave at 14,30. Biology and Geology, P.E, Mathematics,
We started the Basque Language, Geography, English
course in Language, Art, Music...
September and will
My favourite one is English but I don’t like
end in July.
Maths because I think is boring.
We like Ibaialde a
In third course we have these subjects, but
lot because there is
some people change Basque or AE for other
a good relation
subjects, and in first and second level they
between teachers
have less subjects, and in fourth level have
and students.
more.
Josune Ciriza But I think the best of my high school are the
people. The teachers are very nice, but
sometimes they’re also strict. But normally
they’re good with us.
And the students are incredible, some are
hardworking, some are lazy, some are good,
some no, some are funny...
But for me the best students are my friends,
they’re sometimes the reason why I go to
school.
My favourite time is the break. It’s only 30
minutes but we’ve got time to have a
sandwich ant talk a lot.

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I have got lots of friends in Ibaialde, but they homework can go to the library to do it. We
aren’t all in my classroom. There are three have got many subjects: Science, Maths,
groups of third ESO and we are distributed Biology, Spanish Language, English, Basque
depending on the subjects we choose. language, Music, P.E, Physics and Religion.
In the institute there’re some rules that you
It would be great if we were in the same
must respect. If you don’t respect the rules,
class because I really like it! But is
the teacher decides now to punish you by
impossible!!
giving you something to do.
And the best, the best thing of my high
Every year, the institute organizes a festival.
school (after the school trips) is the
The festival is at Christmas. The people
Christmas festival. I love it!!! In the festival
dance, sing, play the flute… and finally there
we dance, sing and play the flute and some
are winners. There are very professional
people are really very nice!
dancers at Ibaialde I think.
Well, that’s all I really care about my
I think that the most difficult level is 3rd
institute, but there are a lot of more
ESO. Now I’m in 3rd ESO, so I’ll work and
interesting things!!
study a lot. Normally you must do the
Iratí Segura homework and study all of days, at least two
hours.
The best teacher I’ve got is Juantxo Pagola.
He’s very funny and a good English teacher.
My School But he went to other high school.
Hello!! I’m going to I think Ibaialde is an exemplar high school.
tell you about The teachers demand so much and it is good
Ibaialde, my school. for students.
Ibaialde is a high OK!, Don’t you think six hours sitting in the
school in Burlada, chairs is too much? I think so. Finally the
near Villava. All the last piece of information. We started classes
people don’t come on the 15th of September, and we’ll finish
here on foot, some the 22nd of June.
people come here by
bus or by car. I hope you like my writing!!

Villava is near Burlada, so the people from Rubén Recalde

Villava, like me, come here on foot. In my
opinion Ibaialde is too big. We have got
some much space.
In Ibaialde there are three floors. The first is
for the teachers, custodians and for 4th Level
of E.S.O. The second floor is for teachers
and 3rd Level of E.S.O. And the third is for
1st and 2nd Level E.S.O. There are a lot of
classes for different things. Laboratories, an
audiovisual room, a gym, computer rooms,
departments…
We have six lessons everyday. We start
classes at 8:30 and in the middle of the
morning we have a break of 30 minutes. We
finish the classes at 14:30. In the break, the
people the people who haven’t done
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