Our English Blog - 5th of Primary

Welcome everyone! Here you will find all the infromation regarding the learning performance of our students of primiry fifth. We will upload lots of things such as oral and written productions, murals, videos of our presentations, interesting links and everything related to what we are doing in the English class. We hope you like it!

The school year flew by, we cannot even think about how fast it went! We have learned lots but still we have to get a final unit done. We will make a unit test, watch a film, make a debate and also evaluate teacher Simon´s performance! This is the film we will watch: Soul Surfer! Here you may find the hetero evaluation worksheet:

This time we will work on transgender. It may seem a difficult topic to work on but still necessary to understand the reality of our people. First af all, we will explain the topic, evaluation criteria and final task. We will also review our pedagogical contract. This video explains pretty well what is transgender and clarrifies some concepts that are crucial to understand it. Key concepts to understand what transgender is, you can check on this interesting website :  GENDER: how we express masculinity and femininity regardless our biological anatomy. SEX: sex is what everyone is biologically born as male or female TRANSGENDER: when your gender identity (how you feel) is different than what doctors/midwives assigned to you when you were born (girl or boy) We will also read a very interesting story about a trans girl called I am jazz! Here you have the video: After clarifiying the concepts to understand transgender, we will prepare an intervi

In this unit we will work on physical disabilities. Our school is inattely inclusive so are our students. However, many places are not accesible for everyone and our school might be one of them. As we want to educate tolerant and plural students this unit is intended to raise awareness on physical disabilites. As a final product students will detect somewhere in the school installation that is not adequate for a person with physical disability and they will find a solution about the problem. However, to start with we will set groups, create the name of the group, mural and a flag. Also we will write the didactic contract and play team building games. We will also explain the topic, evaluation criteria and task. In order to get involved in the topic we will watch this interesting video recently recorded: Then, we will carry out a self assessment activity: We also will read a book named Howie helps himself and then we will do a reading activity. Have a l

Our pupils have worked a great deal throghout these months, well done folks! Now it is time to review what we have learnt: we will make a unit test, watch a film, create a debate and evaluate teacher Simon. Lots of things to be done! This time we will watch Bend it like a Beckam, a courageous football player that breaks the rules! Here you may find the trailer, enjoy! Here you can find the hetero evaluation worksheet:

In this project we will work on bullying. We will undestand the phenomenon, identify its aspects and fight against it! In order to deep into the topic, have a look to this  great material  and  web page. First of all, we will explain the topic, evaluation criteria and final task. We will also review our pedagogical contract. To get started we will watch the following video: After watching it, we will define what bullying is. What is bullying? We will make a definition of bullying.  Where does it happen? We will think of where it happens.  If you see bullying... we will think of things we do if we see bullying.  We will listen to this Anti-Bullying song! What can I do? Things we do to prevent bullying. Students will write down five things we do to prevent bullying. Then they will gather in groups and create a Decalogue.  Here you have the Decalogue model: Now it is time to make a mural wi

The school year flies by! In this project we will be dealing with ICT's and socialnetoworking. We will reflect on our daily day usage as well as risks and benefits they offer us. Here you can find some material we will use to work on the topic. We hope you like it! Before starting we will explain the topic, evaluation criteria and final task. We will review our pedagogical contract. This video we will make us reflect on the usage of social networks. After wacthing the video we will make a poster! Now it is story time! We will read about Neardy Birdy and his friendship with vulture. Social media may be a problem for their relationship! Today we will carry out pair reading activities. Students in pairs will have one part of the book, they will rehearse it and evaluate each other! When they are ready they will present us their part of the book. Great version of a song written by "The Police". However, this song may make us

In this unit we will keep working on equality regarding men and women. Specifically, we will focus on some significant women that contribute towards scientific, historical and social improvement. Now it is time to set groups, create the name of the group, mural and a flag. Also we will write the didactic contract and play teambuilding games. We will explain the topic, evaluation criteria and task. In order to get involved in the topic we watched the following video and make a self-assessment activity: In order to present the topic we watched this interesting video: We are also reading about 13 women that played a key role in the history of the Unitated States of America. Now we will make a presentation about the biography regarding the women we read in the book.  Today we will carry out pair reading activities. Students in pairs will have one part of the book, they will rehearse it and evaluate each other.  It is presentation day! T

It is time to get relaxed. We have learnt lots. However, learning never ends. Firstly, we will take a unit test to review what we have learnt throughout this unit. Also, we will evaluate teacher Simon's performance. And, finally, we will watch a very interesting film related to what we have worked on the last months. Here you have the trailer: Here you can find the hetero evaluation worksheet:

From working on multilingualism we are moving to commit ourselves regarding equal rights among men and women. In this unit we will be working on Violence Against Women. It is going to be a tough way but for sure rather gratifiying. Before starting, we will explain the topic, evaluation criteria and final task. We will also review the pedagogical contract. What comes to your mind when you see this picture? This video made us reflect a lot about the situation some girls unfortunately live.     Now we will prepare an interview. A worker of Emakunde will explain us all our doubts and questions. Here you have the model for writing the interview: Carrying out an interview: We are going to start rehearsing our play. We will be inspired in this story. Watch out! Little Red Riding Hood runs away from the book! Here you have part of the plot translated to English. And finally it is time for presentations!

We keep working on mulingualism and languages. Throghout this project we will certainly learn lots, no doubt about it! Teacher Simon went with some firends to the old part in San Sebastian and took some pictures about the written displays they found. Here in this link you can see all the pictures they took. We are surronded by many languages we may not be aware of! We will upload both oral and written productions of our pupils! First of all we will explain the topic, evaluation criteria and final task. We will also review our pedagogical contract. After activating our students previous knowledge we will create a "Languages Booklet". Here you have the model: Now it is time for presentations and self regulation activities: Self Evaluation worksheet: After investigating the language landscape of our neighbourhood, we have created a collage with Canva. Now it is time to make a mural, a coevaluation activity and present the job done!