International School of Catalunya, Barcelona

Friday 18th November saw ISCAT's end of the Passeig transformed at 3 p.m. to accommodate the first ever Fun Run for charity. The whole school turned out to run different stretches of the Passeig according to age, cheered on by enthusiastic parents, friends and family on the sidelines.

Children worked hard in the days leading up to the event to raise funds through sponsorship for the children in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is ravaged by war and is statistically the second poorest country on the planet.  Through our consistent school-wide focus on the rights of children everywhere, and our work in Assembly each Friday, our students are increasingly aware of their rights and responsibilities towards the less fortunate.

Well done everyone, and a special thank you to all the grandparents, mums and dads, uncles, aunts and cousins who sponsored our students in the run and helped to raise an amazing 1600€ for the Save the Children initiative. Thank you also to the many companies who sponsored us by donating items for the end-of-race 'goody' bags. 

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On Friday 28th October ISCAT celebrated its Fifth Annual Autumn Festival, known locally as the Castanyada.  Each class performed poems, songs and dances in English and in Catalan, and did a wonderful presentation, despite the truly Autumn wet weather, which came to keep us company! 

Year 5/6's dance routine, choreographed by themselves, impressed everyone, and our parent delegates cheered us all up in the rain with their delicious hot chocolate and pastries. 

As an international school, our children are made aware that Autumn is celebrated in different ways throughout Europe, and that while all our festivals may have different names, and different features, they all have a common thread. Celebrating and honouring our differences, as well as our similarities, makes us tolerant citizens!

During Book Week children were able to listen to stories from around the world.

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ISCAT, a British International School in Barcelona, The English
National Curriculum. Native English speaking teachers with
U.K.experience, small classes, with Catalan and Spanish integrated in
the Programme.

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The "Lego Mindstorms" group build robots and models controlled by computer programme which they themselves devise. It also means that they have to work together and arrive at important design decisions together. Information technology is an integral part of the English national curriculum.

Winter on the Farm.

They had a real bus to get there but had fun with this old van. Click here for slide show.

Year 2/3 Visited the Granollers museum to work on comic strip superheroes as part of their work on "Who we Are".

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As part of the Autumn celebration children made the traditional Catalan Panellets. Click here for the slide shows.

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"We Are Alive/Living Things" is the title for the current unit of work for the two class 1 classes. This was a great excuse to go on our favourite visit! We all went to the Zoo where we had a special visit with monitors to show us and explain about the special animals. We are doing lots of work back at school following this visit.”

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"Feelings" is the title of the Class 4/5 Unit of Work and tody the class attended a workshop in the Granollers Museum. They learned about Tapies and then made a sculpture using the first letter of their name as the subject. There were great results and the class walked the length of the newly pedestrianised street in Granollers, with their work as they went back to school.

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The parent delegates arranged a surprise for the end of term for all the children. A puppet show was organised on the patio and everyone had a great time.

ISCAT, a British International School in Barcelona, The English National Curriculum. Native English speaking teachers with U.K. experience, small classes, with Catalan and Spanish Integrated in the Programme.

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The whole school participated in "The Moon Thieves", a musical. The parents provided the costumes and the make-up.

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The whole school participated in the annual Sports Day. Children competed in teams Red, Blue, Green and White.

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Children were joined by their parents to decorate the street in La Garriga. They made a carpet of flowers which celebrated the painting style of the artist Fornells Pla.

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To complete their Unit of Work on Food, Nursery and Reception made a visit to Can Julià (Sant Esteve Sesrovires) where they made yogurt and cakes.

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The Primary classes visited The Gallecs nature reserve to begin their Unit of Work on Habitats.

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Upper Primary concluded their Unit of Work on transport with a dramatisation, in Catalan, of the story of Narciso Monturiol. He invented a submarine and launched it in Barcelona.

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It was a surprise Friday morning assembly. Jazz musicians played for all the school. Soon everyone was dancing!

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During Book Week all the children in the Primary Classes found someone in the Nursery and Reception classes and read them a story.

Book Week 2010 is from the 19th. to 23rd. April. There will be visiting actors, grandparents come to tell stories, we celebrate stories from around the world, we make books and on St. George´s Day, 23rd. April, we will have a book swap and be able to buy books.

Upper Primary visited the Chocolate Museum because they are working on the Unit of Work entitled Chocolate. For this they have studied design, chocolate harvesting, manufacture, fair trade and cooking.

ISCAT, a British International School in Barcelona, The English National Curriculum. Native English speaking teachers with U.K. experience, small classes, with Catalan and Spanish Integrated in the Programme.

"Let´s Pretend" is the Unit of Work for Nursery and Reception and so they went to the Circus School.

ISCAT, a British International School in Barcelona, The English National Curriculum. Native English speaking teachers with U.K. experience, small classes, with Catalan and Spanish Integrated in the Programme.

Lower Primary came to school in the nighttime to look through telescopes at the moon. They are studying "Day and Night as their "Unit of Work".

ISCAT, a British International School in Barcelona, The English National Curriculum. Native English speaking teachers with U.K. experience, small classes, with Catalan and Spanish Integrated in the Programme.

All the children in the school took part in the telling of the story of the Great Baobab Tree, which long ago grew beside the River Zambezi. The parents made the costumes for the numerous animals.

ISCAT, a British International School in Barcelona, The English National Curriculum. Native English speaking teachers with U.K. experience, small classes, with Catalan and Spanish Integrated in the Programme.

ISCAT, a British International School in Barcelona, The English
National Curriculum. Native English speaking teachers with U.K.
experience, small classes, with Catalan and Spanish integrated in the
Programme. 

Lower Primary have been studying Houses and Homes for their IPC (International Primary Curriculum), Unit of Work and to support this they visited Coves de Toll where they saw ancient dwellings from stoneage times to neolithic houses made from local materials.

 ISCAT, a British International School in Barcelona, The English
National Curriculum. Native English speaking teachers with U.K.
experience, small classes, with Catalan and Spanish integrated in the
Programme.

The Fashion Museum allowed the children to see the way people had dressed from 1910 until the present and this they related to their Unit of Work entitled "Inventions". People have been inventing and creating new fashions throughout history.

 ISCAT, a British International School in Barcelona, The English
National Curriculum. Native English speaking teachers with U.K.
experience, small classes, with Catalan and Spanish integrated in the
Programme.

For their Unit of Work for The International Primary Curriculum (IPC),  Called "Going Places", children from Nursery went to St. Mateu de Bages to see all sorts of ways of traveling.

 ISCAT, a British International School in Barcelona, The English
National Curriculum. Native English speaking teachers with U.K.
experience, small classes, with Catalan and Spanish integrated in the
Programme.