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Marta Arriaga a student from the 4th Year. cember of 2009 in the hotel Amara Plaza and
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By Pablo Carbonero Costa Vasca, did the first certificate exam, al-
though they presented to this exam 7 months
earlier than the students of 4 year of E.S.O,
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False fire alarm not only every single student passed the exam,
Last tuesday 4th of february at 12:45 the fire but they got higher results.
alarm rang in school. The alarm started on the
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second floor. Somebody had broken the fire in the fast track, where tim buckwell teaches,
glass. At first teachers didn't know who had there were 5 As, 13 Bs and 5 Cs, and all of
done it, but as there were only 3 people in the this with only being 14 year old, where the
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corridor at the time it rang, at 4:30 they found average age of the whole people presenting
out that it had been Borja Gaiztarro. from 3rd the exam is 23 year old.
year of ESO.
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Of course this has been devastating for the 4
Teachers knew it had been on purpose be- year of E.S.O students, as we presented it later
cause to break the fire glass, another glass and we had worse marks, with only 2 As.
has to be lifted first. after some minutes the "they're not normal people, they all have these
caretaker Txema managed to repair it. amazing marks" said marina, a student of 4
year of E.S.O.
"I think Gaiz- By Kaiana Aizpurura
tarro did a
stupid thing"
said Iñigo No Donuts Because of Singing
Fernandez, 4th year students got punished in the dining
from 4th room without donuts because we sang San
Year of ESO. Sebastian's March and used the tables as
drums.
By Ainhoa
Uribarren 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.
Liverpool Trip
Txema doesn't normally punish us but John
Philips was there so we couldn't even speak Last 5th of December, as happens every year,
while we were eating! the first of Bacaulerate students went on a
school exchange with Liverpool students with
Only 3 tables out of 5 got punished, even the apparent objective of improving their Eng-
though we all sang! lish.
"I found it really unfair, we all had sung so "The journey was very well organized" said Tim
everyone should have been punished" said Buckwell. He says that this year's group were
Sara Ifrim, a 4th year ESO student. the best he has ever gone with.
Guinea Fernámdez-Dans Moreover, this year's trip has a little bit spe-
cial, in particular for Mikel Bravo, because he
New Football field Near School met Fernando Torres, and went to his house.
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ur football field is not in very good conditions The trip organizer, Tim Buckwell, says that the
so it would be nice to play there,in grass.Pablo only possible drawback is that the trip was or-
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Carbonero said:"I think it would be a very good ganized over a long weekend and he said it is
idea,because it always better to play in grass quite hard for him to spend so much time sur-
instead of rock".I have asked to a builder rounded by students without having a day to
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about this football field and he told me"It will relax.
be ready for Donosti cup because the organi- Marta Arriaga
zation wants this football field to be one of
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the football fields in Donosti cup".
Mock Exams
Iñigo Fernández A few weeks ago,the forth year students did
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the MOCK exams for the first certificate in
english and Certificate in advanced english.
Cliona’s Gone Some of them did the fist exam and others
the advanced. In general the results of CAE
The new girl in 4º B after sharing 5 months MOCK exam were quite good, however they
with us, left this school on the 20th january, could improve with a lot of hard work. The
giving as a reason that her father has had a students that did the FIRTS exam last year
job offer in pamplona. and did not passed, this year the FIRST MOCK
exam they did it really well, and the students
However deep within us, we all know that per- that did not do t last year the exam because
haps the real reason was that she had been they did not want to or because they were not
marginalized, but this is just a rumor, nobody as prepared as to pass the exam, they had
knows exactly why she went away. work hard and in the MOCK exam they did it
really well, with effort an working hard they
By Kaiana Aizpurua could get a good mark in the exam.
Marta Arriaga
Psychological Tests Prefect or Perfect!
In November the school psychologist went to Manuel Santos is a student from the 4th Year
the 4th year´s class to examin them. of St. Patricks and he is his second year as
the class prefect. Last year he was also
He only came for two Thursdays, in the maths elected to the school council for all the stu-
hour and the students did two exams, one in- dents at school, but this year there aren’t any
telligence test and the other one of what they students selected at the moment for this re-
like. With the results of both tests, the psy- sponsibility. “He represents us very well, be-
chologist and the tutor of the students are cause he is a responsible and serious person”,
going to meet the parents and the student, said Adrián Tejeda a student in his class.
and together they are going to decide what to By Pablo Carbonero
study next year and in the future.
" The tests were very easy" said Ainhoa and IT Problems
Kaiana.
By Patricia Porta
During the first evaluation, there were some
Music Tames the Beasts problems with the project that 4º year of ESO
group were going to do for the little children.
Begoña has been using new teaching tech- although they had 4 months to do the project
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niques throughout this term. Among these they only used two days to do them.
techniques we should highlight putting music this problem began with the change in
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on at the beginning of classes, which has been teacher.the first teacher made them work for
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generating applause. Recent studies have dem- an hour and then, they could do whatever they
onstrated that classical music stimulates some wanted until the bell went. In addition, the
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parts of the brain and they are even using it second teacher made them do some word
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in order to help people with intellectual prob- documents work that didn't relate to doing the
lems. We’ve been asking pupils what they think project.
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about the use of music and they’ve told us In the end they were able to finish the project.
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that having five minutes to relax at the begin-
By Sergio Tomé
ning of class helps them to carry on working.
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about the success of this new technique, so The 4 ESO Disappointment
through this article we encourage all teachers
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Pablo Gabilondo dents were going to begin the IT class. almost
all the students were thinking we were going to
start talking about how to do the games, how-
Orientation ever we only did some word works and a
power point as the ones we did with Simon in
The fourth year ESO students are already in
1º ESO.
February and they are seeing the baccalaure-
Sergio Tomé
ate really near. Now is the moment when they
Internet at school
have to think seriously what they want to do in
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the future, and in a couple of weeks they will
these last years,
need to have decided. As this decision has to
the inter- net
be taken very seriously by both school and
at school
students, the teachers have prepared some
is slow,
activities for the students to see what their
and none-
options are for next year, as different types
one has
of baccalaureate or professional training (a
look after
more practical way of studying) also exist.
this in-
By Ignacio Mayoz
formation.
(The 4 ESO disappointment continued) each other that did not mind what the other
I asked Iker some question and he told me the classes did’’ said Manu.
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 ex-
plained me that only the technicians can make
your computer able to use those wifis.
By Sergio Tomé
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a really unfortunate experience with a car ac- unhappy with the results and has the intention
cident, and we could see the consequences of of challenging the results. ‘We won football and
being distracted for the shortest of times when
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someone is driving. 4th year student.
They explained how a spine is constructed and
the consequences if a little nerve that goes
By Adrián Tejeda
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through the spine, breaks.
By Susana Santaolalla
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from the 4th Year ate the incredible number of
The 18th of March each year, we celebrate 35 croquets! He beat the last record of the
St’Patricks Day. On this day there is a competi- school that was 34 croquets and that was set
tion in which the class that wins most points, by Juan Félix, a student that was in this school
goes to the beach in June. In such competition a few years ago. He wrote himself into school
there are a couple of activities to have fun. history! said Iñigo Fernández.
Each activity has its own points and not all the
activities have the same number of points due The negative view of this new record was that
to the fact that depending on the difficulty and the people that were encouraging Ander to
how many people win them they give 6 or 3 beat it, were disturbing the others and produc-
points to the winner. ing an unpleasant atmosphere for the dinning
room, However, the main problem was that
Normally the class that wins is one of the 4th
students ignored the dinner ladies. Tim com-
year, but this time the 3rd year group A won
mented that he thought it was a crass and
with X points. They won activities such as:
vulgar and very much a late 20th century phe-
ping-pong (6 pts), basketball (6pts), and 3
nomenon- consuming far too much while other
points shoot-out (6pts). 2nd year also got lots
people don’t have food.
of points and nearly won. ` I think that the two
By Ander Goitia
classes in the 4th year were so focused in
Burka
Since the 11th of February, fourth year stu- A Talk about Accidents
dents have been watching a film, that since the
first time it was broadcast on TV it has cre- When we came back from our winter holidays,
ated a great deal of interest, not as much for a woman and a man in a wheel chair, came to
the actors performance as for the story itself. the school to talk to us about what the car
At first sight it seemed the film had nothing to belt can do for us and how much do we have
do with us, but as the movie went on, you to take care of ourselves, and how a simple
start to think about whether it is possible that “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 ac-
cident, 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
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the conditions in those countries are really like
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they are shown in the film. Swine Flu
We did not watch this film just because of co-
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incidence, fourth years tutors, had a clear ob-
Swine flu, has already affected to 1,545,000
jective, see a reality that is near to us but
people all over Spain and the numbers still
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By Adrián Agüeros
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amongst us, and most of them are not af-
fected by Swine flu. Could it be that students
Danger! Reyes in bad mood are taking advantage of Swine flu to miss
classes? It is impossible for the school to know
As students it is not unusual for us to hear the exact number of people affected, because
teachers telling us that we are the worst class the diagnoses are private and not all the peo-
they have ever had. However, this time Reyes ple missing have Swine flu.
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
mathematics class. She has even told us that
se would prefer to stop teaching us. The
classes go on, and although she is really un-
happy with us, we hope she would continue
teaching us. Whatever happens Sanpa Times
will keep you informed.
By Pablo Gabilondo
(Swine Flu continued) Underpants!
The most noticeable decision that school has
done was putting a bottle of alcohol gel in
Throughout the centuries different clothes have
each class but it seems that the average of
come into fashion and after a while gone out.
bottles used are 2/3 per class and there’re
For example fifty years ago leather jackets
not particularly cheap, the normal bottle, one
were cool and nowadays those who wear them
litre, costs 5.7 euros and adding the taxes
are labelled as people with no taste. However
might reach to 6.6 euros, so students must
this time fashion has gone too far, because
consider it price before using it.
from when you leave your house until you re-
Preschool children are specially “forced” to
turn, you see about a hundred teenagers´ un-
wash their hands properly before the meals
derpants. Although you might believe this new
and when returning from breaks. The kitchen
fashion was created by an exhibitionist, it has
has also worried about getting any type of in-
its origins in prisons in the USA.
gredient that might carry any type of illness,
such as eggs that might carry salmonellas.
Once you are in prison there are several rules
you must obey: as a general rule prisoners are
Finally the long term plan for the school is to not allowed to have belts on because they
maintain the actual ones, but nothing related may use them to commit suicide and they
to closing the school is thought. Surely, this must wear a uniform. These uniforms are quite
illness and its problems might be forgotten due big so it is normal that they don’t fit prisoners
to its controversy whether its true or not. perfectly, and because of the prohibition of
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belts, there is no other alternative for prisoners
By Manuel Santos than wearing their trousers down low. This is
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Toro XL never been in prison or ignore the origin of
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this fashion wear low-cut pants as sign of
Duiring the second term our caretaker Raga them being tough guys.
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to this point it does not seem anything out of
order. However, the issue is the kind of drinks
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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 do-
ing 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 habil-
ity to study'' said tim.
By Adrián Agüeros