PROJECT

Hi everybody!

This is our last school day so it is the last entry we will make this school year. We are writing to tell you that we have been doing some work in a project to win a trip to Belgium. Us, Maddi and Andrea,with another classmate called Maddi we have done a presentation about citizen's rights and the main aims of the European Citizen's Year. The project has to be in three languages, so we have worked a lot! here you can see them
ENGLISH
SPANISH
BASQUE
We hope you learn something about right and you would be more concern about your European nationality. Don't forget that been European means having lots of benefits, so take advantage of them!
Enjoy your summer and have a good time
We will write you during the summer if we have time!

Irish people in San Sebastian!

Hi everybody!

I'm writing to tell you that some classmates have done an exchange to Ireland. They spent five days there before Easter, and last week Irish students came here, to San Sebastian. They did many activities all together, such as going to museums, practising local sports al school, visiting the city and going out to have dinner.
I didn't stay too much time with them because I was quite busy, but on Saturday we had dinner all together in the port and I found them very kind. After that, we went clubbing to the Old Part and we danced all night. I talked mainly with two of them because they were my friends' partners and they were very friendly.
One friend and I spoke with an Irish girl called Isabel, and she invited us to go to her house in Ireland this summer, so I think we will spend a week in her town this July.
I hope we will enjoy ourselves and meet new people there to make more friends and improve our English. I'm quite shy so I think it will be interesting to improve it also.

I will write you soon to talk about new experiences!
See you soon!

EASTER HOLIDAY-2

Hi again!

I'm Maddi and I'm going to talk about some experience I had this Easter Holiday. I've been in Badaguas, a small village near Jaca, skiing with my family and a friend called Marina, who is in our class. While we were skiing, we made some friends because we got lost out of the slope. They spoke English so we took advantage for practising the language. They helped us finding the right way to return to the slope where we were at first. Moreover, as we got on well with them, we gave them our telephone numbers and we continue in contact with them.

I've really had a very good time and I want to go again as soon as possible.

EASTER HOLIDAY-1

Hello everybody!
This time is Andrea who writes. I'm going to talk about my holiday and some interesting things I saw about sustainability.  I've spent two weeks in the Canary Island and I've stayed in two NH Hesperia hotels, one in Fuerteventura and another one in Lanzarote. In both of the hotels, in the buffet they have a kind of project called "cork2cork" to protect the environment. They recycle all the corks used in the restaurant to help polluting less and to make a more sustainable world.
Here you can see a picture of the box where they collect them.

Moreover, I've spent a very good time, I've spoken in English in the plane with the flight attendants and I've enjoyed myself a lot with my parents.

See you soon! 

SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY

Hi guys!
It has taken a long time since we wrote to you the last time. This is because we have been working on social sustainability. We have made a presentation about it to show to you what it is. We have to be more conscious protecting it taking account all the dimensions which it involves: equity, social cohesion, diversity, quality of life, maturity, democracy and governance.



We hope you have learnt a lot and you have enjoyed our presentation one more time!

We also have added some videos we have searched in you tube to you for understand in a better way the subject  we have chosen because we know that it isn't very easy to understand it.

See you soon!

VIDEOCONFERENCE WITH INDIA

Hi everyone! As you know we've been working on different NGOs. This time we have had the pleasure of being visited by a very famous NGO called "EMAÚS".

Few days ago,  they came to explain us how they work and what type of help do they give to people who are in extreme poverty. Moreover, they told us that they have a project called "TARA" in India and in this project they try to support fair trade. Fair trade consists in giving fair salaries to workers who made products in bad working conditions.

Last Friday,  some of them came to our school and we had a very interesting conference with a woman who is responsible for the management of the project in India. She answered several questions we made to her, because we wanted to know how are the conditions in a factory in a developing country.

Apart from economical support, the beneficiaries of the programme receive a better education. Moreover, this people are building new health centres for them. They are becoming more environmentally friendly conserving water and avoiding deforestation. Workers can borrow small micro-credits if they need the money to buy a house and things like that.

They support gender equality, and make campaigns against child labour.
The workers have right wages and in this way, they get more confident with themselves.




Taking everything into account, coming up with a conclusion, we think that we have learnt a lot of new things and we are very pleased with their help and the way they explained us the stuff.

Finally, we want to say that we would be very grateful if we could contact with them soon, it has been a really good experience!

 We would like to make you aware of the situation there and we would like your help.
If you buy things which have this logo, you will be helping people who work in bad conditions. You will also be contributing in giving them bigger salaries and better working conditions.


 Concern yourself!

See you soon.

FOR A LIVING PLANET!

We have been working on NGOs since EMAUS came to school to give us a speech about  fair trade and other interesting solidary actions. 

The NGO we have chosen is environmentally-friendly and keeps on helping endangered species and avoiding pollution. We hope you will find interesting the information in the next few paragraphs.

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is an international non-governmental organization working on issues regarding the conservation, research and restoration of the environment. It is the world's largest independent conservation organization with over 5 million supporters worldwide, working in more than 100 countries, supporting around 1,300 environmental projects.

The group says its mission is "to avoid the destruction of our environment". Currently, much of its work focuses on the conservation of the world's biodiversity: forests, freshwater ecosystems, oceans and coasts. Among other issues, it is also concerned with endangered species, pollution and climate change.

WWF was formed on 29 April 1961, under the name of World Wildlife Fund, and its first office was opened on 11 September that same year in Morges, Switzerland. Godfrey A. Rockefeller played an important role in its creation, assembling the first staff. The American Conservation Association, was joined into the WWF.

WWF has set up offices and operations around the world. It originally worked with grants to non-governmental organizations, based on the best-available scientific knowledge and with an initial focus on the protection of endangered species. As they get more money, its operations expanded into other areas such as the preservation of biological diversity, sustainable use of natural resources, the reduction of pollution, and climate change. The organization also began to run projects, and by the 1980s started to take a more strategic advantage to its conservation activities.

The Giant Panda mascot of WWF originated from a panda named Chi Chi that was moved from the Beijing Zoo to the London Zoo in the same year of the establishment of WWF. As the only giant panda residing in the Western area at that time and as it is an endangered specie, panda has become the symbol of the organization. Moreover, the organization also needs an animal that could be printed in black and white, because they also wanted to avoid pollution.

A cry for help from Sahara

We have worked in a very famous word affair. We have done a work of a conflict which is located in Western Sahara. You can see what we have done in this link. We hope you learn a lot and you enjoy it!