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Aloha College Book Week
In April Aloha College celebrated Book Week by doing curricular activities which focussed on different characters from pupils’ favourite books. On Friday everyone, including teachers, came dressed as their favourite character and regaled parents and Senior School pupils with their fantastic costumes.
Young Writers Poetry competition
Students from all Year groups were invited to write a poem to celebrate World Peace Day. The standard was so high that many of these poems were submitted to A Young Writers Poetry competition. The best 32 poems have just been published by Forward Press in their book, Poetry Matters.
Visit Aloha College Manuel Santana
The Aloha College tennis team was thrilled to meet the famous Spanish tennis-player and winner of Wimbledon, Manuel Santana.
Pelayo Gómez Picó
Pelayo Gómez Picó, an ex-pupil of Aloha College, left us to go to London when he signed up for Brentford Football Club.
Cambridge EAL exams
Aloha College has been a Cambridge ESOL Examinations Centre for more than 20 years. This month students from Aloha and other schools on the coast have been doing their KET and PET exams on a Saturday, and for the first time 50 Aloha students and 7 from EIC took the Cambridge Young Learners (YLE) examinations, for which they have been receiving additional tuition for only the past 2 months.
Earth Hour
Aloha College supported Saturday’s worldwide efforts to slow down climate change, by turning off lights, computers etc from 1.30 to 2.00 pm.
Athletics Marbella – Years 5 – 6
Aloha College’s Year 5 and Year 6 competed alongside other local schools at an Athletics festival in the Municipal Stadium in Marbella. The children took part in a selection of events including shot put, long jump, long distance, sprint and relay races.
Assembly 5ES St Patrick’s Day
Class 5ES, along with the Irish Dancing club, celebrated St Patrick’s Day on Thursday 17 March with a tribute to Celtic music, dance, poetry and art. In re-telling the life of the Saint who is the patron of Ireland, the children presented blessings which they had written themselves, modeling Patrick’s own poetic words.
Year 3KB Assembly
The children in 3KB worked hard and produced a wonderful assembly teaching the values of sharing. ‘Stone soup tonight’ told the story of four soldiers who returned home from war hungry and tired and in need of food and a shave! Unfortunately the villagers did not know how to share and didn’t want to help the soldiers. Cleverly, the soldiers got the villagers to work as a team and share their food by making a ‘stone soup’. The children thoroughly enjoyed acting and singing on the stage to the delight of the audience.
Year 5’s Restaurant Menus
Year 5 pupils made up their own Restaurant menus and everything sounded delicious! Pupils pictured are of Danish, British and Dutch nationality.
International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day (IWD), originally called International Working Women’s Day, is celebrated every year, everywhere, on 8 March. In different regions the focus of the celebrations ranges from a general celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards women to a celebration of women’s economic and social achievements, and a reflection of the goals still to be fought for.