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We at Laude San Pedro are excited to announce that we now have the privilege of offering LAMDA examinations. LAMDA is an awarding organisation, delivering world-renowned qualifications in communication and performance and inspiring the next generation of confident communicators through examinations in drama, literature and poetry. LAMDA believe drama has the power to transform lives. With the launch of our new Laude Academy of Performing Arts we will be offering examinations to be taken twice throughout the academic year. If you would like more information regarding this and LAPA please visit our website at www.lapa.laudesanpedro.com. Mrs. A. Blaney – Head of Creative Arts

SCIENCE CLUB

During the whole first term, the Science Club students have worked tremendously well and showed true initiative when completing their weekly tasks.

We’ve built our own catapults and models of flood-proof homes, solved a ‘murder’ using forensic techniques and even learnt how to dissect an entire rabbit.

I hope the students had fun and that they take away with them a rejuvenated passion for science. .

Miss Claire Gaukrodger – Head of Science

HOSPITAL IN FS2

FS2H have turned their classroom café into a hospital. They have been looking at information books about hospitals and doctors and have been learning some new and very long words, such as stethoscope and thermometer! The hospital has only been open a couple of days but already the children have been fixing broken arms, giving injections, removing splinters and Tamila even had a baby wonderfully delivered by Doctor Ilyes! The children are looking forward to welcoming the school nurse who is coming to visit the hospital soon and will demonstrate how she looks after hurt or unwell children and the children have been thinking of lots of interesting questions to ask her too.

Mrs. M. Hill – FS2 Teacher

LAUDE MAKES NEW LINKS WITH A SCHOOL IN INDIA

Year 8 Geography students received a mystery skype call from Redfields International School in Andrha Pradesh, India. Our students had to guess the location of this school by asking questions and using an atlas. Once both schools guessed each other´s locations, the Indian students showed us their traditional costumes and played various instruments from their region. They also told us about their food and asked us about our school and the uniform, which they seem to like a lot! Finally, our students greeted the Indian students in various European languages including French, Russian, Spanish, Danish and German. You can learn more about Redfields school by visiting their website and their facebook pages here: http://redfields.weebly.com/ https://www.facebook.com/redfieldsschool The Geography department has already planned more mystery Skype lessons with schools in other parts of the world for January. Last May, our students already contacted the National World War II museum in New Orleans, USA. Mr. F. Marcos – Head of Humanities

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YEAR 1 AT THE FARM

Our Year 1 children enjoyed a wonderful experience on their trip to Las Vistillas situated in a tranquil location on the southern slope of the Guadalhorce Valley in Coin. During a pottery workshop they were shown how to mould clay and they proudly sculpted a figurine and made a ladybird. They were very excited to see and pet the resident donkeys, particularly a very young and friendly foal.

They were fascinated to watch the donkeys pull an ancient cart with spiked wheels which was used to show them how wheat is separated from the chaff ready to make flour.

Lots of fun and games followed, they put on a puppet shoe, face painting, making Indian headdresses and exploring in their beautiful gardens. We concluded our visit with a picnic before heading back to school.

Mrs Briggs & Mr. Bendel – Year 1 Teachers

GREAT ENTREPRENEURS OF THE INDUSTRIAL AGE

Our year 9 students have been working on a history project about the Industrial revolution. Their task was to design and create a display cabinet for an exhibition on the great entrepreneurs of the Industrial Age. They also had to give a short inter-active presentation on their entrepreneur to the rest of the class. In both the display and the presentation students were trying to prove that their chosen entrepreneur was the greatest, most successful figure of the Industrial Revolution. Student displays had to include: A chronology highlighting key dates in the entrepreneur’s life and their achievements Interesting and/or unusual facts and statistics A model relating to the entrepreneur and their business Replicas of documents or artefacts Their presentations had to include: Key facts about your entrepreneur and what they achieved

Well-argued reasons why your entrepreneur was so great and successful Interactive features, for the rest of the class to learn and get involved e.g. a quiz The projects were peer-assessed by the students on effectively they had worked as a group, the quality of the display and how informative their final presentation was. Congratulations to William, Antonio, Lukian and Tylin for their display and the effort they put into preparing and delivering their presentation. Mr. F. Marcos – Head of Humanities

FS2 LIVE THE HIGH-LIFE!

We recently walked down to the Padel Club as part of our Understanding of the World curriculum. In our classroom role play area we have set up a café where we have plenty of opportunities to role play visiting and working in a café but we wanted to get some real experience of being a customer. So, on Wednesday afternoon we walked down to the Padel Club where everybody was able to order a drink and also something to eat. It was very exciting! When we had finished we asked for and paid the bill.

The people at the Padel Club kindly gave us some racquets and balls that

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we could play with and so after our refreshments we went and played tennis and explored the play park. We had so much fun!

As we were leaving we were each given a packet of crayons and colouring pencils too! The children were all very well behaved and enjoyed themselves immensely. Sanae commented that “this is the best day of my life!”

Thank you to the Padel Club for looking after us so well and creating such a wonderful experience. It will definitely enrich our role playing in our classroom café!

Mrs. M. Hill - FS2 Teacher

LAUDE DEVELOPMENT AWARD

Over the last term nearly 40 of our Year 10 and 11 students logged hours towards their Laude Development Award. This award is designed to extend our students and offer them an alternative award pathway to their academic studies. Spread over five areas, ranging from volunteering in the local area, to development of skills and physical attributes, our students are

encouraged to enhance their studies by undertaking this qualification.

Local charities such as Triple A and Debra Butterfly children have welcomed our students, who have given up their time to volunteer their services to aid them in their vital charity work in the local area. From organised dog walking and pet care to charity shop work, our students have given up their time to help out on a number of projects.

Year 10 student Eyra Bystriansky (pictured above) volunteering at Triple A dog shelter.

As part of their skill development our students have been brushing up on their First Aid skills. All year 10 and year 11 students have been offered the opportunity to undertake an online awareness of first aid course. Looking at important areas such as assessment of casualties, raising the emergency services and simple first aid techniques, these vital skills allow our students to develop their leadership qualities.

Following completion of the course, we are very proud to announce that 17 of our student have passed the qualification and are now certified. The students were recently presented with their certificates in front of the whole school.

Mr. C. Litchfield – LDA Coordinator

YEAR 4 SETTLERS & SCAVENGERS TRIP

TO RONDA

Year 4 children recently went on a school trip to La Algaba de Ronda Prehistoric site. During the trip, the children discovered how fossils are made as well as different interesting facts about our early ancestors. They had an exciting opportunity to explore skills our ancestors needed to survive and used real artefacts to find out about a prehistoric hunter.

We had an interactive tour around a Stone Age village and compared the lifestyle of a Mesolithic hunter-gatherer to a Neolithic farmer by doing typical tasks from each period.

After starting the day with a timeline activity to ensure children could follow the chronological changes involved, we walked through the forest and village so that they could see and touch prehistoric hunting tools. We even experienced what it would have been like to live in a real Stone Age house.

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They also learnt how to make a fire and understood the importance of clay in that period. The day ended with two exciting workshops, which were `cave painting´ and `archaeological excavation´.

The children had so much fun and were very inspired to continue exploring this exciting project.

Mr. A. Finca – Year 4 Teacher

PUBLIC SPEAKING IN ESO

In both Natural and Social Sciences we have begun our class presentations of the projects we have been working on. This is an important element of the student’s education, as speaking in front of the class (in a second language) builds confidence, self-esteem, public speaking skills, improvement in the second language being learned as well as specific subject content knowledge.(science)

Students of ESO1 have been studying units on the continents and the gaseous part of the Earth. Projects being presented range from hurricanes and tornadoes to the greenhouse effect and the ozone layer. In ESO2, students will be presenting an African country project that involves a combination of geography, economic and social indicators and culture to coincide with their unit on population. On the Natural Sciences side, students have been studying the Earth’s internal energy and will be presenting a power point on an active volcano from around the world. In Biology and Geology, ESO3 have been studying a unit on food and nutrition and are presenting on one of the seven food groups associated with the Mediterranean diet in Spain.

Students enjoy working in the computer labs to produce a high standard of finished product that they can also be proud to show parents at home. Their ICT skills also improve through this process as they increase their knowledge and learn from others.

Finally, it has been pleasing to see how the majority of students take pride in their work and really enjoy the opportunity to show the rest of the class what they have created and learnt.

Mr. D. Windsor – Spanish Studies

INTER-SCHOOLS CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIP

The Inter-Schools Cross Country Championship was kindly hosted by Novaschool Sunland International. Ten participating schools on the Costa del Sol took up the challenge to race over a mixture of flat, undulated and graded terrain.

The vast majority of pupils enjoyed competing for their school regardless of what position they finished in and demonstrated great character whilst running in a mix of race conditions. Although running is an individual discipline, children who run for their school often find it hugely rewarding

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and it can help boost self-esteem. It was a great day and a championship worthy of repeating. Well done LAUDE.

Ms. O. Garcia – PE Department

SHOCKING REACTIONS IN SCIENCE

Reactive metals are reactive because they have either one or 2 electrons in their outer shells. These metals find themselves in groups 1 and 2 of the periodic table respectively. Year 10 have been investigating just how the electronic configuration of these metals affects the way in which they react with oxygen in the air and with water. The group one metals in particular have a very strong tendency to lose their outer electron. So strong in fact; that they can even explode under the correct circumstances. As you can see from the photos: the Year 10 Core science group was even able to carry out a controlled explosion with Sodium metal and water.

Dr. M. Wolley – Science Department

SHARING IS CARING

Some Year 6 have been indulging in some creative writing courtesy of 100wc.net. Every week, new writing stimuli are added and children from around the world can upload their super creative ideas. The only limitation is that each piece of writing has to be 100 words! This week's stimulus was an old picture called "Aerial Firemen." Year 6 students had to think very carefully about their choice of words, especially their use of verbs, adverbs and adjectives. Some even had to edit their writing to reduce it to 100 words. Creativity and originality flowed. Once finished, the children had to tell their stories for their peers to evaluate. Honesty is always the best policy. There were many positive comments about each other’s' work. I think we may have some budding authors at Laude. Mr. E. de Comarmond – Year 6 Teacher

YEAR 3 TRIP TO GRANJA ESCUELA EL PATO

Y3 had a super day at Granja Escuela El Pato in Malaga. The trip was linked to Y3’s study of plant growth, plants in the rainforest and healthy food choices. After the bus ride to Malaga the children were greeted with fresh air and all of the monitors who work at the farm. The children took part in many different activities. All of the children enjoyed making paper. Here you can see their home made paper hanging out to dry!

Whilst one group made paper another group went to go and meet the animals. The children were taught how the animals are cared for and what they eat.

There was also an opportunity to go on a pony ride!!

The children also got the chance to plant as well!

The most exciting part of the day was when the children had a ride on the horse and cart!! Year 3 really had a

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splendid day and they said a very big Thankyou at the end of the day to all of the lovely monitors that helped to make the day extra special.

Mrs. R. Backwell – Year 3 Teacher

FABULOUS FABLES

In the English Department, Year 7 students have been studying fables. From the well-known Hare and the Tortoise to The Fox and The Crane, students analysed the moral messages of a number of stories and how they are successfully communicated to young audiences. Students then designed their own fables with a moral teaching using animal characters and a simple, child-friendly plot. These stories were then turned into comic strips to provide a more visual illustration. With a prize for most original plot and most attractive visual aid, students excelled and produced some wonderful stories which will be shared with Primary students soon.

Mrs. A. Moody – English Department

PLANETS & STARS

IN YEAR 5

In Project we have been learning about the Earth, Sun, Moon and Mars. First, we discovered why we might need to go to another planet and then what we need to survive on Mars. After that, we looked at why those negative things are happening on Earth, such as: global warming, pollution, comets, overpopulation and war. We looked at the sun and found out how long a light year is and why do we see the sun 9 minutes after it goes up for real. Last of all, we looked at the Sun , Earth and moon and I found out it took 28 days for the moon to orbit the earth and 365 days , a year, for the Earth to orbit the sun. By Maxim Savenkov – Student in Year 5K

INTERMEDIATE MATHS CHALLENGE

On Thursday 4th February, the Mathematical Stars of Years 9, 10 and 11 took part in the Intermediate Maths Challenge. This is a mind-stretching question paper that is taken on the same day in around 4,000 schools. As a school we have been getting better and better at this competition in recent years, and many of our students are already holders of Gold, Silver and Bronze certificates from these challenges. Based on unofficial calculations, it looks like Alexandra Shevchenko has come out as top Laude student again this year, narrowly beating Marcos Díaz. There is a good chance that both will qualify for follow-on competitions though due to their impressively high scores. We also like to run it as an Inter-house competition, and we offer our congratulations to Air on a solid victory. Information about this challenge, as well as other UKMT events can be found at: https://www.ukmt.org.uk/ (The above diagram is a sample question from this year's paper) Mr. P. Teale - Head of Maths

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SAY “CHEESE”!

Pirates, princesses, fairy tale characters and heroes of all description were gracing the catwalk as Year 1 celebrated commencing our new Project Topic with a photo shoot. The reporters and ‘paparazzi’ were well trained in the handling of ipads and cameras, and were quickly reviewing the photos. After much reflection, the favourite ones were sent for printing.

Year 1 have since been treated to presentations by professionals in the field (pictured above), and have been finding out about techniques for taking successful photos, and about photography as a profession. With great zest and enthusiasm, we have been investigating how to download, save, edit and print photos, as well as how to work with text and images.

The ‘paparazzi’ will undoubtedly be returning the next time the stars are in town.

Mrs S. Briggs & Mr A. Bendel – Year 1

A SCIENCE-FICTION AUTHOR VISITS LAUDE!

Alejandro Ruiz, an engineering student, presented in our school his novel ““Génesis y las Cinco arcas”.

Alejandro Ruiz with just twenty years of age, has fulfilled his dream of publishing his first novel of science fiction, and our students have had the luck to share his great experience. It has taught us all a great lesson,

“everything is possible with dedication and enthusiasm ““Dreams come true!”

We wish him luck!

Susana Montes – Spanish Studies

BLAST FROM THE PAST IN YEAR 2

This term, as part of their I.P.C (International Primary Curriculum) work, Year two have been studying ‘Famous People from the Past’. We have been getting prepared and organised, like Edmond Hillary when he climbed Everest. We have been codebreaking and programming like Alan Turing; the inventor of the modern computer. We have painted like Picasso. We have been caring and compassionate, but not to germs, like the famous nurse Florence Nightingale, and next week we will be finding out how Johannes Gutenberg’s invention made the world’s first newsletters possible.

We were visited by the school’s own Florence Nightingale, Nurse Isabel, who taught us all about germs and showed us some first aid techniques. The children then ‘had a go’ at bandaging each other’s wounds. (Disclaimer: No children were harmed during the production of this photograph).

Mr. C. Drane – Year 2 Teacher

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A SPECIAL GUEST VISITS OUR HISTORY CLASS

On Friday 5th February we were pleased to welcome Ms Mary Page to our school. Ms Page has been living in Estepona since 2008 and has many years of political and trade union experience. She fought parliamentary and European elections, and served as a town mayor, councillor, and group leader of an East Anglia district council in the UK. Ms Page participated in a Question and Answer session with our year 12 and 13 history students who asked her about several issues regarding the topics they are currently studying - Britain 1964-1990 and the Cold War in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Ms Page was a member of the Labour party until 1995 and visited the Soviet Union in 1986 and 1987. She shared her extensive first-hand knowledge about politics and the history of Britain and the USSR with our students who also questioned her about immigration laws, Margaret Thatcher and the state of the British economy in the 1960s and 1970s.

Mr. F. Marcos – Head of Humanities

ANCIENT GREECE IN 30 MINUTES BY YEAR 6

For our IPC Exit Point, we performed an ‘Around Ancient Greece in 30 Minutes’ extravaganza for 6LG’s mums and dads. Our reporters, Titi and Nicole, travelled 2500 years back in time to Athens.

Adrian (pictured above), looking like an eccentric mathematician, played Pythagorus as he worked his way towards discovering his famous theorem.

Our Athenian artists, Martina and Athina (pictured above), spoke of

poetry, drama, art, literature and beautiful buildings. Tales of Homer’s ‘Odyssey’, including Achilles, Hector, Paris, the Trojan Horse and Odysseus' homeward journey to Ithaca, were then told my Jhoubin and Nicole. Afterwards, we met Socrates (Alexis) who questioned whether the children were getting enough pocket money. It was democratically decided that mums and dads would have to increase 6LG’s weekly pocket money! Aristotle, played by Luna, explained that he was currently studying anatomy, astronomy, geography, geology and much, much more! We overheard his ambitious student, Alexander (Rudy), claim that he would one day rule the world. Our time travelers must have imagined that Ancient Greece was an incredibly advanced and sophisticated society. However, that was not to be the case in all of Ancient Greece;

the Spartan boys (Tawan – pictured above) liked wrestling, javelin and discuss and the girls (Alena – pictured above) preferred wresting, gymnastics and athletics! Nacho and Jhoubin then debated whether it would be better to be educated in Sparta or Athens. This included the Spartans being asked to spell challenging words, say tongue twisters and solve mathematical puzzles, while the Athenians were asked to do 10 push-ups, run on the spot and pick up a sword. They were, however, soon to face of an even greater challenge: the Great Darius (Kemi) and his mighty Persian army, who had landed at Marathon.

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The Athenians sent Pheidippides (Javier – pictured above) to ask the Spartans for help. At the same time in present day, Usain Bolt (Adrian – pictured above) was testing out the most advanced starting blocks ever built, designed and developed by the makers of the F22 Raptor. He was catapulted back to Ancient Greece where he raced Pheidippides to Sparta and back. Pheidippides pipped Bolt at the post, then fought and defeated the Persians and still ran all the way to Athens to deliver the news of their awesome victory, before dying moments later of exhaustion. Ten years later, in 480BC, the Persians, led by Darius’ son, Xerxes (Zakaria), returned. This time 300 Spartans blocked Xerxes’s massive army from entering Greece at the narrow path of Thermopylae. Led by King Leonidas (Juan), they repelled wave after wave of attackers. However, betrayed by a traitor, they now found themselves fighting on two fronts. When their swords and spears broke, they fought with their hands and teeth. Defeating the Spartans, Xerxes’ 10,000 Immortals seemed unstoppable…or were they? After Xerxes received the World Cup for his victory, his navy was smashed by the Athenians at Salamis. We ended off by voting for Mr. Ancient Greece (our finalists were the heroes from our previous 11 scenes). The winner was…you’ve guessed it: Alexander the Great. “I told you I’d rule the world,” he said, to which Xerxes

replied, “My Empire was bigger than yours!” It truly was a trip of a lifetime around Ancient Greece in 30 minutes. By Mr Roger Lang-Gordon (6LG class teacher)

PASTORAL NEWS

This term we started off well, with lots of emphasis on the Charity side of our School. The following students were awarded the “Above and Beyond" award for their amazing contributions:

Sophie D. Year 13, who organized and took part in the Sixth form sponsored swim in the Sea in January. A number of our sixth form students and two brave members of staff, Miss Gaukrodger and Dr. Wooley took a dip! This is the second year that Sophie has organized and took part in the event. Over two hundred Euros was raised and the following charities benefitted, Unicef and CLIC sergeant.

Karim Year 10, brought in so much food for the collections for Banco de Alimentos, he could have opened his own shop!

Alexander Year 7, who collected a substantial amount of money for his sponsorship in the Save the Children charity run on the San Pedro Boulevard.

A special mention must also go to Ghita, Year 8, who came up with the idea of raising money for the Children Cancer ward at the Materno Infantil in Malaga.

Students and staff were asked to dress in Yellow or Gold and give a donation. Students who participated got the chance to win a Raffle Prize. The two winners were Year 6 Yuri and Year 9 Sonya. Yuri received a book and Sonya a voucher for the School tuck shop.

Not only did she organize this, her and a few friends held a cake sale during the Primary and Secondary students break time, this resulted in 250 Euros on its own. Money was still coming in and the total so far is just under three thousand euros, an amazing amount of money. This will allow the School to buy a lot of items for the Children. Ghita, along with three other students, who have been involved, and staff members took the Toys to the hospital

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last Thursday.

It is at times like this that I am especially proud of our students at Laude.

Talented students

Eva Marcus is a very talented Tennis and Padel player, winning many competitions. I asked her to write about her experiences for me and this is a summary.

“I was interested in Tennis from an early age, playing with my grandmother in the house with plastic rackets. I then started to enter competitions at the age of 7, and now train four times a week.

There is a lot of travelling, which I love, as I meet new people and new cities. My trainers are nice people and help me all the time with my footwork and techniques, even recommending my current racket.

I have to be physically fit and

concentrate when on the court. I am extremely dedicated to this Sport and thank my parents for the payments and the time travelling with me”.

By: Eva Marcus – Year 8 student

PSHE

During the first two weeks back, students looked at setting their own SMART targets and Year 7E came up with an interesting way of presenting them. They decided on the design of a “darts” board and filled in their targets.

Specific Measurable Achievable Realistic Timed targets were written by the individual students and they will look back at them next term to see if they have achieved them, and if so make some more. This encourages the students to take responsibility for their actions and a sense of Pride in their successes.

The new topic for the term is Healthy Living and this will cover the following areas:

Healthier Diet, Importance of Sleep, Exercise, Leisure, Active minds and the down side from the effects of substances detrimental to their wellbeing.

The students have begun in earnest, with groups investigating what is

actually in their food, and looking at their eating habits. Some students will be designing and making healthy “Smoothies”, I have volunteered to be chief taster!

Mrs. S. Shuttleworth – Welfare Officer

LEARNING ABOUT SHAPES IN EYFS

We have been finding out about shapes in the environment in EY and FS1, Recognizing, describing, naming and using shape is part of our mathematical curriculum.

We have painted, printed, used stickers, drawn shapes and looked carefully for shapes all around us. We have had great fun and discovered shapes are everywhere!

Miss S. Bulloch - EYFS

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CELEBRATIONS AROUND THE WORLD

In the Y10 Spanish class, students have been working on the topic about holidays and trips. In this Unit it has been very interesting and fun to find out how people from different countries around the world celebrate special dates.

Thanks to the international atmosphere of our school and the number of nationalities that coexist in it, the students have been sharing and presenting the most important celebrations in their countries.

We have learnt about Christmas in England, Three Kings in Spain, Depavali in India, Halloween in United States, Oktober Fest in Germany, and some more examples that made us travel to these beautiful places.

Ms. R. Pilares – MFL Department

ACCELERATED READER IN PRIMARY

All Primary students have been working hard to improve their reading comprehension skills through our Accelerated Reader program, and their weekly efforts to achieve the highest word count for their class has had a positive impact. This week we celebrated all children who have reached their reading targets early through hard work and dedication. Well done everyone!

Mrs. N. de Comarmond – Head of Primary