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