pictures of natural sciencies history museum carmen garrote

NATURAL SCIENCES HISTORY MUSEUM

This Sunday we went to natural sciences history museum, it is in London.

There we saw: dinosaurs, birds’ extinct animals’ earth, (earthquakes, volcanos rocks…) and a big wheal in mammals section.

There was a very long queue to see the big T-rex (that was very real, I made some pictures but it was so dark) and to see the big wheal it was so big but it wasn’t very real…

We went to an earthquake experience that wasn’t very real I think that earthquakes must be more extremes. The floor wasn’t moving much.

While we were waiting to see the big T-rex, we saw some dinosaurs (you have some pictures down) there were some robots looking at you, posters explaining things about evolution of dinosaurs that are now animals like penguins…

We saw some fossils too, and dinosaurs made with bones that they have found…

I think that we need more time because we only saw a few things.

By Carmen Garrote BHGS

Summer fair in Bishop's Hatfield school

On th twentisixth of June, in Bishop's Hatfield school, we had the summer fair. It was great!

That day was a no uniform day so you could wear your own clothes. We had normal class except the two last lessons that we were preparing all for the Summer fair (it was after school). There were lots of things: 3tombolas, a big bouncy slide,  3 cupcakes posts from 10 pence to 1.80 pounds, a place were you pay and you could throw sponges to the teachers...

We threw down the big slide and it was very funny.

Then we tried four times the tombola and we won just 2 thingns. We ate lots of sweets and specially cupcakes ( for 10 pence). It started at three o' clock and finished at six o' clock many of us stayed there until half past five. It was a very nice day. 

By: Cristina Acosta Gonzàlez

                                             Spanish tapas
today at school Spanish teacher has prepared a Spanish food for the Spanish girls our shadows and some teachers
everything was very tasty and very well prepared  
ham, omelette and chorizo was the richest but had more things
the occasion party as the sangria was very tasty but had no  alcohol    after we have given our gift to the shadows and the teacher
then we have started to pick up everything that had been
I would've been fine since been very fun to eat Spanish food again

=≡=MY FEELING=≡=

Before the trip to London I was a little nervous but I stepped forward, I got on the plane and arrived very happy.The school is very good three weeks will fly by the school has a very good environment, teachers are very friendly, the English class are good but many times I do not hear much, but try to learn English I do not know everything.
Best of London are the tours they are very funny times I  go with friends we make jokes.
when I return to Spain I will feel very happy, tired of travel and happy to see my family and will be good to talk to my  friends and family in Spanish again.

 [§≈{JESÚS DÍAZ}≈§]

JESÚS DÍAZ-ESTEBANEZ
 

Differences between Spain and England

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SPAIN AND ENGLAND

Probably for most of the people the main difference between these two countries is the weather, and I totally agree because in these almost two weeks I have been in England the sun was shining for one day and a half meanwhile in Spain it shines everyday. 

English schedule is also very different from the Spanish one. English people have breakfast more or less at the same time as we do, but they spend less time having lunch than Spanish people, but the most different meal is dinner. In Spain, people have dinner at 9.30 p.m.-10.00 p.m. however English people have dinner at 6.00 p.m-6.30 p.m so that is a very important difference. 

The manners children learn and the behaviour are also different. I think English people learn how to respect others and the manners taught are the same but English people actually make use of them everyday and are used to using them but Spanish people only use them in special occasions or when it is specifically required. 

These are the most important differences in my opinion. 

Clara

Differents kinds of SPORTS IN ENGLAND, in Goffs School.

Today, I'm gonna to talk about the diffents kind  of english sports and spanish sports.

In this trip, in Goffs School, we had a Sports Day in the school.
In the sports day, we had a competition between other groups.
First we played "ROUNDERS". In this game, you must to play with a bat, and the boller have to throw the ball to you, and you must to hit the ball and throw the ball all of far as you can and then, you must to run to the different bases and if you pass all of basses, you win a point for you team, but if the other team catch the ball when you are running, you are eliminate. This game is very similar to "Baseball" .

After Rounders, we played "DOGDE BALL". This game consist in eliminate all of the players in the other team. In this game, there are six balls in the centre of the track, and when the umpire give the signal, you must to run to try to catch the balls sooner and you must to throw the ball into a player from the other team and thus you eliminate your opponent.  This game is very similar to "Balon Prisionero", a spanish sports game.

Also, when we went in Grendwich, we played football into a garden. We had a lot of fun because football is a very competitive sport!

I've got some pictures when we were playing:
















Tomorrow, all of year 8, are going to dance and I think we are going to having much fun dancing! That's all for today. Thank you for read my post!

 WEDNESDAY, 1st OF JULY.
By: Blanca Acosta Gonzalez :) 

TRIP TO GREENWICH ON FRIDAY JUNE 26th           Photos        Video

As it was an inset day, the Spanish pupils from Goffs took a trip to Greenwich. After walking through a tunnel under the Thames river, and seeing the famous Cutty Sark ship, they did a spot of shopping, then spent some time in beautiful Greenwich Park.

It was a very hot day! The students all had a photo next to the Meridian Line, then a game of football in the park before eating their well-earned lunch in the shade.

To end the day, we all took a double-decker bus to the O2 arena and visited the Sky TV exhibition, where everyone was filmed reading the news or sport. The Nissan exhibition was also good fun, with several interactive and sporty activites to try out.

                                Spanish festivals y traditions 
 
                                                             Tomatina

The "tomatina" is a Spanish celebration which is on the 27 of August in Buñol. They celebrate it every year.In this party, people wait until midday,and when it is 12 o'clock in the morning everyone goes out to the streets and starts throwing tomatoes to other people.There is also a lorry which goes along the streets throwing tomatoes to the houses and people.
You should wear goggles for safety and old clothes because you will end up red!!!
I like this celebration and i would like to go there because i think I'd throw tomatoes to my friends and other people 
By:Mariola and Candela

After School Activities

Hi! I'm Jorge Lopesino and i'm going to talk about the after school activities me and my Spanish friends we do each day after the school finishes. A good thing is that each day we do different activities.
On Monday we did an exam for knowing our level of english,  because on the last day of the trip we will do the same exam and we will see if we have improved our english.
On Tuesday we had a cooking lesson with Kattie's mother ; we did chocolate cupcakes and an easy peasy pizza; it was so cool and very funny.
On Wednesday we had a drai ma lesson, I liked it so much because it was so funny;  we did a performance without talking,  wearing masks that expressed different feelings like happiness, sadness, surprise, etc.
On Thursday we had a normal english class with Kattie and Gemma.
On Friday we didnt have class so we did a trip to London.
Finally on Monday we did some videos talking about different ideas; for example me and Miguel talked about spanish football.
I havent done more after school activities but i can remember from last year that we did football,  baseball,  and we went to a small lake for canoing; and the last day we did a small party.
Bye!!

SHADOWS

All of us have a shadow who look after us and are with us for all of the lessons.

All of the shadows are really nice and are very interested in helping us and showing us where each lesson takes place and how the school works.

My shadow is called Neave and she is very kind. She is always taking care of me and without her I would be lost in this school.

Neave's friends are also really nice and funny and I usually stay with them at break time and lunch time.

I think having a shadow is a really good idea to meet new English people more easily and as I said before, for helping us.

By Ines Aranda

                 

                                                                  BRITISH   HOUSES

     British houses are all very similar, the aren't normally flats like they are in Spain, there are               detached houses, semi-detached houses and terraced houses. They are made of bricks and cement.       Normally they have two or three floors, the floor have usually got carpet, even in the bathroom, my     house have got three floors, in the first floor are the living room, the garage, one bathroom, the  dinning room and the kitchen, the second floor has got two bathrooms and four bedrooms, finally,    the third floor has got a game room, one bedroom and one bathroom. Here, houses are so much  different from Spain's houses but they're so comfortable and nice.
                                                         
                                                               posted by: Jaime Uriarte

FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF THE SCHOOL

I'm going to talk about bishop’s school first impressions:

My first impression was that the school was so big and I was going to get lost because there were no difference between  floor number 1 and floor number 2 and it was a bit stressing.

They has a better organized than my Spanish school too, because in my school when we try to do projects like the African assemble it’s impossible because people doesn’t want to work...

Also P.E classes are so cool because in my school it’s like ok, go run play… but here they have long jump and javelin and hurdles and it’s so cool

I think that people here work more but some are very lazy and they don’t do anything and don’t participate like in the assemble the was people that prepared everything and people that didn't do anything .

In conclusion a general first impression could be that it’s a good school and that they work more here than in Spain.

CARMEN GARROTE BISHOPS SCHOOL XXX

British Food

British food is not bad,only strange,its differentto Spanish food,they always put cucumber,they have three meals.
At breakfast,you eat alone and normaly it's cereals.
At lunch is at twelve,normaly you eat a sandwich and the last meal is dinner at dinner they eat a lot,but they eat dinner at six o'clock.
They don't have the bread we have in spain they only have bread "bimbo",they always put in it sandwiches cucumber or cheese.

Tuesday 23rd June - Cookery Lesson

Today, after school, the students at Goffs School had a cookery lesson.  They learnt how to make double chocolate chip cup cakes and Easy Peazy pizzas.  Everyone seemed to enjoy the class and were more than happy with the end results!

HOST FAMILIES

Living with an English family is a new experience to learn more about other cultures, languages and improve your English.
The hardest part of living in England is to adapt to the hours when they have lunch or dinner and adapting to the weather, which is really different from Spain.
Host families always try to make you feel like home, they help you and make you part of them.
Siblings are really friendly, they play games or videogames with you, offer to watch movies or also help you with homework from school.
Parents are so nice too, always asking if you need something or you want any food.
This experience shows you how other people live and their habits.

               School routine at Goffs School

The school starts at 9:00 am. First of all, we have to meet our Spanish mates at the reception, then, we go to the main hall to wait for our shadows. Once we are with our shadows we take our bags and we start the classes.
 

First, we have to follow our shadow to the first two lessons and after that, we have a little break of 10 minutes were we can eat some of our lunch. Then we have two more lessons before we finally have lunch time!

After lunch time we have another class and then we say goodbye to our shadows and we meet Katie at the class Y3. When we are there, we do  some after class lessons and she gives us instructions for the next day. Finally we go home with our family.
 

The main difference between the Spanish class and English class is that we have to go from class to class instead of staying in one classroom and the teacher comes. 

 

Sunday 21st of June, first trip to London :-)

London is a city filled with lots of surprises. We first took the underground to get there from our houses in Cheshunt and when we got there we started to see lot´s of interesting places.At first we visited the Tate Museum and we had lunch near it,in a park.Then we went by boat down the Thames river to the London Eye and there we started an interactive quiz by groups, it consisted in anwering some questions about important places we saw likr¡e the Big Ben,The Royal Palace or the Houses of Parliament between others.After all these places we take a typical london´s bus and went to the underground to return home, it was an amazing day.

By Alvaro Flores

June 20th - 11th July 2015

Learn about what you children are doing, learning and finding interesting during their 3 week stay in England.