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De nuestra comunidad

Del ámbito de la fe Durante los días 24, 25 y 26 de mayo tuvo lugar el retiro (mixto) para alumnos de S6, coordinado -como siempre- por el Capellán, Pbro. Alejandro Russo, y un grupo de Old Facrecteans. Además, les recordamos que la próxima misa (como siempre, de participación optativa), tendrá lugar el jueves 6 de junio a las 10.40hs. Los esperamos. Staff News! He aquí los últimos ingresos informados por la Of. de RRHH: Kinder: Paula Erijman Paolillo, ayudante de comedor. Primary: Constanza Pando, maestra;  Agustín Bassetti, celador; Nicolás Fernández López, docente de Ed. Física; María Florencia Brasil, celadora;  Alexia Bréard-Anderson (OF 2011), helper y Margarita Franco, celadora. Middle & Senior: María Sol Canale, Formación en valores; Luz Trifiro, preceptora. Music "Academy": Gastón Carlos Otero, Vanesa Turón y Jésica Crespo (secretaria). Asimismo, en el área de IT (soporte) se incorporó Marco Álvarez. A todos, bienvenidos y mucha suerte. Invitaciones En otro orden de cosas, la docente de Arte de M&S y exalumna del BDS Julieta Ortiz de Latierro, comparte la información sobre dos muestras colectivas de las que participa: una, "Extrañas topografías", sobre arte y nuevos medios ("apadrinada" por Marta Minujín), y la otra, "Desproporciones", con el aval del Fondo Nacional de las Artes. Ambas se inauguraron durante el mes de mayo pero, lamentablemente, están cerradas los fines de semana. De todos modos, abajo, los afiches con los datos para poder visitarlas. ¡Felicitaciones, Julieta! [gallery link="file" order="DESC" columns="2"]
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(English) Literary Summit in Porto Alegre

(English) Old Facrectean writer! litWe are proud to announce that former students Gustavo Bondoni was the only argentine writer to be invited to the Fantastic Literature Odissey in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Gustavo comes back to BDS every year to share his experinece as both engeneer and writer with Senior students during the annual Art Week. We have been delighted by his stories and interesting anecdotes which encourage students to keep on writing in English after leaving school and why not becoming  proffesional writers!
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(English) ESSARP Forum

BDS students, Maureen Chudnosky and Victoria Croceri, participated yesterday Wednesday 3oth, in the forum at Northands organized by ESSARP.

The girls prepared the following speech on white lies.They debated this against Bede´s Grammar School.

OPPOSITION SPEECH

Topic One: “There is no such thing as a white lie. A lie is always a lie”

These are their words!

A white lie, is always a lie Who hasn´t broken up with someone saying that they are confused? “It’s me, not you” when the real dreadful truth is that you don’t love the other person anymore. And if you told the truth you would be hurting your ex even more. So if the proposition wants truth, this is the truth. If it weren’t for white lies we would be totally alone and excluded from society, and even more hurt deep down inside. We wouldn’t have friends, boyfriends or any relationship whatsoever. There is a huge step between a lie and a White lie. The difference lies upon the intention, the positive intention of it. A white lie is something you tell someone in order to protect them or avoid hurting their feelings. During this speech you will discover the other side of the coin, why a white lie is not the same as a plain, straight LIE. Beware… A white lie is a harmless statement that can be used to save the occasion without harming anyone. For instance, a stranger calls your home asking for private information of a family member. No one would tell the stranger the truth because they would be afraid of something bad happening to their loved one. They would simply say that they don’t know. Everyone would do that and THAT is a white lie. White lies are necessary and are everywhere… With children for example, white lies are necessary for creating a safe environment and giving them the tools to be good. They are there when parents tell their children to be good or else Santa won’t give them a Christmas present. Parents also use white lies when children ask them questions when they are not mature enough to hear the answer like where babies come from. It is also true that sometimes we lie to be polite or politically correct and sometimes we tell our children at an early age the difference between these two. Another important point is when omitting your thoughts. This clearly leads to a better environment, if everybody spoke up their mind we would be living in ww3. Cordiality is the synonym of white lies, teachers and parents teach us to treat others as you would like to be treated and to care for others, and white lies are a way of softening the occasion. Of putting yourself in the other person´s shoes… Empathy is a key word when talking about white lies. They are white because they are pure, inoffensive, and harmless. Being nice with something you do not agree with is also a white lie. White lies save occasions  for example when you are not sure about an issue and in order not to mess things up, you tell a white lie, until you are sure, white lies give you time to prepare a reasonable answer.
The aim of a white lie is to save a situation, to protect yourself or others.  Sometimes white lies are a way of protecting our most private vulnerable side that we don’t want to share with the whole world. Everyone has secrets that should be respected and it’s more important to protect them than to expose them. There is such thing as a white lie which in fact is more than a thing and less than a fact but saves us from human cruelty or rough truths, therefore helping us to get along with respect and softness, repressing the violent truth by saying something harmless instead or having more time to give it a second thought; it’s a cordiality to manners and carefulness towards others and ourselves.
Quoting Tennessee Williams in a Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche says: Women are 50% illusion but when a thing is important, I tell the truth. Stanley does not understand this white lie view of the world Blanche has, sometimes lies are a projection of yourself, you create the world you live in by illusion and reality, which in fact this fantasy world keeps you going without hurting others. Eg, Facebook profile. There are white lies, the problem is when you are a liar and can’t distinguish from a white an inoffensive lie from a harmful and malicious lie.
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Storyteller at BDS for M1 students

(English)

storytellerStoryteller at BDS for M1 students - June 21st at 2 pm

Julie Pasqual´s Bio

Julie Pasqual is a renaissance woman whose first art form was dance. She is a student of renowned ballet teacher Dick Andros, and a graduate of New York City’s High School of Performing Arts. Julie has appeared with ballet and modern dance companies, and her work in musical theatre has taken her to 49 of the 50 states. As an actress she has performed in everything from Shakespeare to the work of inner-city teenage playwrights. As a clown she is part of the Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit, performing as Dr. Ima Confused for pediatric patients in New York City hospitals. Her storytelling work encompasses all of her performance skills, (along with her knowledge of American Sign Language and occasionally, her stilt walking ability) and she has told at venues such as the Kennedy Center, the New Jersey Storytelling Festival, The Connecticut Storytelling Festival, and at numerous schools, libraries, museums, festivals, and even weddings! Julie was chosen to record three stories for the Cotsen Children’s Library in Princeton University, and she is the voice for several children’s and young adult audio books at the Andrew Heiskill Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped in New York City. Her written short stories have won several prizes in Byline Magazine; and Julie would like it known that she is a whiz with a crochet hook, and bakes a mean cookie!  
30 may 2012 | Comunicacion BDS
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«BriDgeS» Update (novedades del área de Acción Social)

  • Útiles de Esperanza: durante este año, seguimos adelante con la campaña de reciclado de hojas A4 que tienen a su cargo los chicos de M1, acompañados por sus docentes de IT, Nilda Caamaño y Lucía Lobos. Ya están las cajas instaladas al lado de las distintas impresoras que hay en el Colegio y, en breve, va a haber una en cada puerta de entrada para los que quieran colaborar trayendo hojas de su casa. Sígannos en Twitter: #greenbridges
  • Un Techo para mi país: el miércoles 16 de mayo se realizó una reunión informativa para padres y el viernes 1° de junio los chicos de S6 recibirán la visita de algunos voluntarios que darán testimonio de su experiencia. Empezamos también a trabajar en la recaudación de fondos para costear la/s casa/s que se construirá/n este año.
  • Feria Solidaria: el martes 22 de mayo tuvimos la segunda Feria de venta de manualidades y cosas ricas hechas en casa, que realizan los chicos de Primary. En cada edición, nos sorprenden con cosas nuevas y con su incansable delicadeza. Como siempre, agradecemos a los padres su apoyo en este proyecto.
  • Venta de pastelitos, a beneficio: aprovechando la Semana de Mayo, los chicos de M1 hicieron una venta de churros y pastelitos, a beneficio de BriDgeS. ¡Muchas gracias a ellos por su iniciativa y a todos los que colaboraron comprando!
Próximamente:
  • Festejo del "Día de los Jardines de Infantes y la Maestra Jardinera". Los nenes y nenas de nuestro Kinder compartirán una función de teatro con los chicos de la “Casa del Niño Amanecer”, como invitados especiales.
  • Recibimos en nuestro Colegio a los chicos del Centro Integral de Desarrollo de Quilmes, para la producción - junto con nuestros alumnos de S6L- de un documental que se presentará en el Concurso de cine "Hacelo Corto", que organiza el Gobierno de la Ciudad. Coordina el proyecto la prof. Mariela Jiménez, docente de Comunicación Oral y Escrita.[gallery link="file" order="DESC"]
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Nuevo año olímpico

La coordinadora de Matemática de Middle & Senior, Lic. Paula Gutiérrez, informa acerca de la reciente ronda intercolegial de la Olimpíada Matemática Argentina (OMA). El encuentro tuvo lugar en el Colegio Mekhitarista, el pasado jueves 17 de mayo. Participaron los siguientes alumnos: Nivel 1 Daniel Figueroa (M2C) Rodrigo Amor (M3B) Nivel 2 Matías Martino (S4A) Sofía Brisson (S5S) Agustina Dasso (S5S) Hee Jung Lee (S5S) Estamos a la espera de los resultados; los chicos que tengan bien resueltos 2 de los 3 ejercicios propuestos, pasarán al Certamen Zonal previsto para el día 21 de junio. Con respecto a la Olimpíada Ñandú (para los más chicos), el jueves 10 de mayo participó en el Certamen Intercolegial, Nivel 3, Luis Alfonso Pabón Madrid (M1B). Seguiremos informando. ¡Suerte para todos los participantes!