MONTE TABOR N E W S May 2018. Trip to Rome: In the last year of school, 2º Bachillerato... "Milla Solidaria":This year 2018 the milla last Friday, April...20th Movies Suggestions: Wonder, Soul Surfer. REVISTA REVISTA Index Index 4. Letter from the editors. 20.Clubs. 5. School phases. 21. Summer Camp. 6. Trip to Rome. 22.My Experience. 8. Trip to Lourdes. 23.Her Experience. 10.Charity Dinner. 24.Interviews. 12. Missionary week. 27.Bullying. 13. Cultural week. 28.Embarassing Moments. 14. Milla Solidaria. 29.Movies Suggestions. 16. Graduation. 31.Shakespeare and Cervantes. 18. Debate Club. 32.Avicii. 2 3 School Phases: ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: study intellectual and affective of the Letter From The Editors: pupils of this age (ages 12 to 16).A very At these stage children learn how to important aspect to take into account interact with others and socialise via is the individualized advice: Monte education. We help them organize Tabor students receive individualized Dear Readers: their ideas and discover new things advice from a tutor, who is in contact by making the students take an active with parents, being the family one part in their learning. This facilitates a After a whole year of waiting we are back once again of the most important elements that more motivating and organic growth. make up our identity. Together they with an issue of new Monte Tabor Magazine. Last year, In elementary school we contribute to the students of 1 de bachillerato created this magazine define objectives and help each student develop student’s abilities that will allow achieve a full development of their and it turned out to be a success so this year it won’t be them to encourage student attitudes like personality in a process that will value any less. The students of 1 de bachillerato of Extension effort, respect and responsibility.Using the effort, daily work, order, discipline of English are bringing you guys a new magazine full of appropriately the Castilian language, as and responsibility in compliance, new article, interviews, features, student’s experiences well as acquire the basic communicative respecting the identity and the personal etc. skills allowing them to speak and situation of each student. I believe understand the English language and We have worked really hard to make this magazine that this aspect is the one that best the basic concepts such as reading. defines the school Monte Tabor and work and it couldn’t have been possible without Finally, children end up at this stage the different experiences you live here. the help and support from our teacher Miss Victoria with a developed personality that will Pascual who has been there since beginning. allow them to make their own decisions. SIXTH SCHOOL: In my opinion is a good stage in which Is the last stage of the school, students they made new friends and work in choose between the 4 options the a way that it promotes their learning. We hope you enjoy reading this magazine as much as school provides such as Health and we have enjoyed making it. We want to thank everyone SENIOR SCHOOL: Technology, Social sciences and Arts who has participated including the students and & HumanitiesThey learn the different people who have contributed to this project, we really It's time for a new phase which is aimed subjects of each category, they have to develop and enhance the capacities the option to apply to Cambridge appreciate the time and effort you have put into this and skills of each of our students, magazine to make it succeed. exams and in the last year of high such as stimulating critical thinking, school they make a trip to Rome that personal initiative and creativity. Under allows students to enjoy the end of the guidance of tutors and teachers, Your sincerely their school phase.To conclude, I think students acquire the basic elements that Monte Tabor encourages students the editors. of culture and habits that favour in their learning and development independent learning and forming of creativity and innovation, Ana Ferrero 1º Bach B people free and responsible, taking into reaching the academic excellence Miriam Amores 1º Bach A account the physical changes, work and and focused on Christ and Mary. Borja Pradana 1º Bach B REVISTA REVISTA Trip To Rome: Trip To Rome: Most students wait anxiously for the arrival of 2º Bachillerato to make this trip. 1º and 2º of Bachillerato are the most important years of your life, because depending on the grades you achieve you will be able to study the degree you want. This trip would be a small break of all buildings such as the Coliseum or the In the last year of school, 2º the tension students Pantheon. Although some students Bachillerato, the students are offered experience I these two have already visited Rome with their a trip of a lifetime, the end-of-year crucial years. It is also families, most of them say that the trip, a journey full of emotions being a great opportunity to experience is different when you visit that it is their last year all together. get to know people you it with your friends. Two years ago, Tutors of each class of 2º Bachillerato don’t usually talk to. also join the students in the trip, students had the amazing opportunity so that both students and teachers to have an audience with the Pope To every student enjoy their last moments together. Francisco; they had the chance to who is reading this, pray all together. This experience I encourage you to The trip takes place in Rome, there that marked some students for life. live this fantastic the students get to wish whatever experience the they desire in the Fontana Di Trevi; school offers you. I they also get to see the ancient roman also encourage the architecture, in particular famous parents to allow their kids to make this wonderful trip. Sofía Silverberg 1º Bach C 6 7 REVISTA REVISTA Trip To Lourdes: Trip To Lourdes: Last February, students of the course it is an area of ground surrounding 4.The Way of the Cross: The those kinds of places that 4 of E.S.O of Monte Tabor School went the Grotto to Our Lady of Lourdes. Way of the Cross is a way brig us closer to God. This to a little village situated near the The Virgin Mary first appeared to of prayer. It winds its way is a unique experience; frontier of Spain and France called Bernadette in 1858 at this grotto. When around a steep and forested we greatly recommend it. Lourdes. This trip is made so students Bernadette asked who she was she site. In its size it reflects the that will receive the Sacrament of said, “I am the Immaculate Conception”. magnitude of the Sanctuary Confirmation can meditate andThis is a very holy site for Catholics. of Lourdes: 115 figures in renew their faith. Here are the top 4 There the students were able to cast iron depict the fifteen places that the students enjoyed the approach the area of the apparition to stations on a path of 1,500 most of this year´s trip to Lourdes: pray and touch the walls of the Grotto. metres in length. The 1.The church of San Ignacio de Loyola 3.The baths: “Go and drink at the spring students did it with a spirit (San Sebastian): There the students and wash yourself there!” these words of penance and reparation went on a guided tour where they of the Virgin Mary to Bernadette during for forgiveness of sins. learned about Saint Ignacio´s life. They one of the Apparitions inspired the In conclusion, these kinds also visited various rooms of the house creation of the baths near the Grotto of trips are those that mark of the saint located in the compound. in which the pilgrims are immersed. you for life. It is also fun At the end of the tour, a mass was This baths are known for the miracles to travel abroad with your held in a chapel inside the house that happened there because of their friends and to get to know where Jesus appeared to the saint. water. There the students lived the places you have never experience in their own body and soul. 2.The sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes: been before, in particular Nerea Calvo 1º Bach B 8 9 REVISTA Charity Dinner: Charity Dinner: The reason why the dinner is like that is because its aim is to raise money for people who does not have anything, not to have a luxurious or a fancy dinner. During the dinner you can buy tickets for the raffle. We have two kinds of raffles; the big one and the small one. In the small one, you can win a small but meaningful gift. If you do not win anything, keep your ticket!! because you have the chance of winning something in the big one. In this last one, the presents are usually a stay in an affordable hotel or a trip. All the money raised, both tickets or the dinner, goes to Cuba. This year 2018 we collected 1,500€. This is the way we help people from Cuba. So do not be shy and join us! Let’s put our grain of sand! Sofía Martín 1º Bach B The charity dinner is an event that This event takes place in March and takes place every year in our school, starts around eight in the afternoon. The Monte tabor. Its aim is to raise as procedure is always the same; we begin much money as possible for a charity with a mass in our school sanctuary project in Cuba.