Spanish Picnic

To culminate our Spanish Key Stage 3 work, we decided to arrange and enjoy a Spanish-themed picnic. Each of us brought in different foods and drinks, including tortillas, tropical juices, fruit skewers, and countless amounts of olives! We had great fun sampling all the different food, and we all thought that the picnic was a great success. 8S

Here is a recipie that the students used to make some of their picnic food.

Pastel de Limón

Ingredients

For the Cake

 2 eggs
 200g sugar
 250g self raising flour
 175ml of olive oil
 250ml cup of milk
 Grated lemon rind

For the Icing

 125ml cup of icing sugar
 2 tablespoons of milk
 1 teaspoon of soft butter
 The juice from half a lemon


Method
Put all of the ingredients into a large bowl and mix well. Once the ingredients have been thoroughly mixed and is pourable, put the mixture into greased cake tin, roughly 20cm in diameter.

No need to preheat the oven. Simply put the tin in the oven at 160˚C for the first 15minutes. This is so the cake can rise. Then raise the temperature to 180˚C for 20 to 35 minutes until cooked, or just until the cake is golden on the top, and is completely solid.

When it is cooked, take the cake out from the oven and let it stand until it is cool. Then remove the cake from the tin, before adding the icing.

For the icing simply mix all the ingredients together, before drizzling over the cake.

Spanish Love Poems

Year 9I listened to a song “Mi princesa” by David Bisbal in class. After listening to the song, they wrote their own poems to the “prince of their dreams”. These are some of their poems.

Necesito tus besos para no sentirme sola.
Volar sola no puedo, eres la estrella del cielo.
Estoy muriendo en la tristeza sin ti.
Lucie (9I)

Eres las estrellas de mi cielo.
Me encantan tus besos más que un helado.
Jasmine (9I)

Vivo en el desierto del deseo
¿Qué milagro tiene que pasar para que me ames?
Mi alma sola ha regalado todas las estrellas del cielo
Porque sabe que eres el príncipe de mis sueños encantados.
Bella (9I)

Sabes que eres las estrellas de mi cielo.
Sabes que eres el príncipe de mis sueños encantados.
¿Qué milagro tiene que pasar para que me ames?
Volar sola no puedo; estoy muriendo en la tristeza.
Tus besos curan mis heridas.
Eliza (9I)

A2 Spanish Student Work

Spanish Essay Competition

Our Spanish GCSE students were invited to enter an essay competition organised by the Instituto Cervantes, in collaboration with the Consejería de Educación on the occasion of the International Book Day. The theme of the essay was the Don Quijote in your life.

Amy, in Year 11, entered this competition and her essay has been published in the Instituto Cervantes blog. Congratulations!!! This is the link

Year 8 level 5-6 Spanish classwork

Today we have been analysing how we did in a recent piece of written classwork entitled ¿Qué hiciste?. Here are two examples. What level would you mark them at? If the mark is shown, do you agree? Why/Why not?

9B Las Tiendas de ropa dialogues

Today we peer assessed our shopping dialogues. Add your What Went Well comments and your Even Better If comments below. Sound files will be added to this post later...

Miss Hardman

8S Spanish Invitation Dialogue Medley

¡Hola!

Today we recorded some dialogues in Spanish using our Easi-Speak microphones. The sound files were then combined into a medley using Audacity software and then uploaded to our Podcast. Listen to the podcast entry for today's date and leave some comments below.

What do you think the students did well (WWW) and what could they improve on (EBI)?

Señorita Hardman

Spanish Verbs

Having problems with your Spanish verbs? Check out the below!

(Miss Hardman)