Mathematical Kangaroo

The 18th edition of the “CANGUR” Mathematical Contest, organized by the International Society “Le Kangourou Sans Frontières” took place last Thursday 20th March.

52 countries and more than 30.000 students from Catalonia participated in this year’s contest. Among the participants from Catalonia we have the 82 Europa International School students (ESO 3 to Baccalaureate 2) who gathered in the school library and did their best. Congratulations!

The results will be published in April. Good luck!

Exchange Programme

This week, Europa International School’s ESO students will participate in exchange trips with student from Paris, Lorient, Mont-de-Marsan, Lyon, York or Cardiff.

During their stay in the host country, ESO students will carry out a Synthesis Project which will allow them to research, identify and experience everything they learnt about in class.

3rd Crystallization Contest

3rd Crystallization Contest at school
Do you remember Superman’s famous Kryptonite crystals? The green crystals with perfect geometric shapes? Well, it’s not easy to make a crystal! Obtaining good crystals is an art that demands of technique and knowledge, as well as a good deal of patience and time…especially time…

This year we decided to participate for the first time in the 3rd edition of the Crystallization Contest at school organized by the UAB. The Baccalaureate 1 students who will participate in the contest are:  Meritxell Serra, Clàudia Peirò and Cristina Abellán.
Our main goal was to submit to the competition crystalls as big and nice as possible and learning everything we could from the experience.

We were able to learn the basics of the crystallization process and also we coloured our crystals with methylene blue. We have been working for 2 months to obtain the results you can see in the photographs.
Now we must get ready for the final that will take place on the 4th April.
Good luck!
foto foto1

Mathematical Drawings Contest

Europa International School participates in the 2nd Mathematical Drawings Contest by ABEAM.

The main goal of the contest is to promote mathematical creativity as well as to foster the development of mathematical competences in our youngest students (Infant and Primary school). Besides, this activity will be the perfect way to celebrate the School Math Day.

For any further information you can visit the following webpage (in Catalan):

http://abeam.feemcat.org/course/view.php?id=25

37th Edition of the Young talents and Short stories Contest

Coca-Cola Iberian Partners, in collaboration with the Departament d’Ensenyament de la Generalitat de Catalunya, fosters the development of reading and writing among ESO 2 students through a literary contest that has been established as one of the most important contests of the country.

The Europa International School students who will be participating in the 37th final of the Short Stories contest organized by Coca-Cola are the following:

 ESO 2A: Laia Torres Masdéu,Inés Pérez Fernández, Lola Tobía Ruber.

ESO 2B: Esteve Vila Cortijo, Emma Perrault, Maxi Ibáñez Morán.

ESO 2C: Carla León Contreras, Eugenia Arroyo Ruiz, Claudia Palomares Tuells.

The final stage of the contest will take place between March and April. The Departament d’Ensenyament de la Generalitat de Catalunya will provide students with a sentence they will have to include in the story, which will not be longer than both sides of a piece of paper, and which they will have two hours to write.

We must highlight that the jury will be made up of well known figures in the world of arts and letters such as university professors, writers, and journalists. The jury will take into account three main factors when deciding which the best short story is: literary quality, linguistic resources and proper writing.

Those students who finish between the 1st and 5th position will win an iPad  and those students who finish between the 6th and 15th place will win a digital pad.

We wish them all the luck!

For any further information you can visit (in Catalan):

http://estaticos.cocacola.es/bases/cjt/37o_edicio_premi_Cataluna.pdf

Cambridge English – Computer based exams in Europa!

This week students in Baccalaureate 2 will be the first to take the new Cambridge English Computer based exams at our school. On Saturday March 22nd, for the first time ever, our students will be taking the Proficiency exams in our own computer room using internet to download and complete the exams, at the same time as thousands of other candidates from all over the world press their “on “buttons to connect with Cambridge and begin their exams. The exams are then sent off to be corrected, giving them a rapid response and a prestigious qualification. Similar sessions will also shortly be held for the CAE and FCE exams this year in June. We wish them all the best of luck!

Europa International School organizes a charity dinner benefiting UNICEF “Gotas para Níger”

Europa International School organizes a charity dinner, which will take place next Friday March 25th at 20:30h at the Hotel Sant Cugat (Vermell restaurant), supporting UNICEF.  All proceeds will go to UNICEF programmes in Niger, and their main goal is to provide children from such poor countries with vaccines.

Since 2013-2014, Europa International School, in Sant Cugat, holds the title of Child-friendly School (UNICEF), following the example of our very own city, recently awarded with the title of Child-friendly city. This recognition means committing to UNICEF’s values such as securing safe, rights-based, quality education for each and every child, irrespective of his or her circumstances. With this goal in mind, Europa Internatinoal School organizes a series of activities throughout the year, aimed at raising money for UNICEF.

Europa International School would like to thank, on behalf of all the boys and girls from Niger, the generous contribution of the Business Community of Sant Cugat for all the different objetcs they donated for the charity raffle that will take place throughout the benefit dinner.

Copa Colegial de Baloncesto

Europa International School’s boys basketball team will fight for the semifinals of the Copa Colegial de Baloncesto this Friday 21st March.

With this 8th season, the Copa Colegial de Baloncesto has become a competition of reference. If you want to learn more about the competition, we recommend you read the following article published in El Mundo Deportivo (the article is written in Spanish).

http://www.mundodeportivo.com/20140317/baloncesto/otros/basket-al-salir-de-clase_54403744629.html

 

ClaroRead: a useful tool to improve reading and writing at home

We introduce you to the ClaroRead programme: a tool that will help students improve reading and writing at home.

We will be presenting the ClaroRead software this Wednesday 19th March at 19:15h in the school library. This programme the school bought, and which we will be giving for free to those families who want it, is aimed at students with some kind of difficulty reading or writing.

Through multisensory tools the students will learn how to compensate their difficulties in these areas autonomously.

The talk will be given by Xavier Garcia, Project Manager at Integratek, Industrial Engineer and Specialist in Accessible Technology.

La tecnología multisensorial y las Dificultades Específicas del Aprendizaje (link in Spanish): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wxBSDXeKK8