The following students participated in the annual ESSARP Creative Writing Competition held at St Brendan´s this month:
Junior Category
Eugenia Balassanian and María Cabella
Intermediate
Sofía Terán and Manuel Alcalá
Seniors
Sofia Brisson and Tomás Bréard-Anderson
These students have been chosen for their talent and creativity in the English Language. 
After some years of not having this competition at school, the History and English Departments are glad to inform that it is back!
In the light of a globalized world, we decided to organize this competition initially for Middle School to help our students understand the world around them.
It will consist of two rounds. In the first round all students will represent their Houses answering questions on all the curricular subjects at school. A team per House will emerge as a result of this 1st round.
One student from M1, M2 and M3 from each House will form each team for the final stage of the contest.
It is important to highlight that teachers from all subjects have been invited to provide questions for the first round. We want to thank them all for their contribution to make this competition possible.
After the winter holidays, the rest of the students who had been eliminated in the first round will participate as audience to support their teams.
We hope that you will eagerly follow the developments of this challenging contest that will broaden our students ‘minds.
Monica Bruck and Gladys Lesmi Dallas (respectively, Coordinators of History and English, Middle & Senior) The European crisis and the new terms being coined
I believe the language we speak defines who we are. I was always taught at the Training College that the language must do things for us. Speakers of any language must coin words to express their emotions and experiences, to make themselves being heard. The European crisis is making the Old World question themselves about pollution, traditions and even the use of Language to fit the situation. Here the latest!
The phrase ‘squeezed middle’ invented by Labour Party leader Ed Miliband in the UK, is the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Word of the Year for 2011. It refers to people who are on low or middle incomes, and who feel like they are suffering the most in the current recession. Though it is the phrase of the year we will have to wait to find it in a dictionary.
Source:The Day - Explaining Matters
http://www.theday.co.uk/arts/squeezed-middle-is-word-of-the-year-says-oed
Dec. 1 , 2011
By Gladys Lemsi Dallas, M&S Coordinator of English
This blog is to share with you interesting news and latest information related to the english culture around the world.
Hope we all enjoy it as a small reading room!
Gladys Lesmi Dallas
IT IS BETTER TO GIVE THAN RECEIVE!
I would like to share with you an ad which has been watched by over one million people in the UK in only five days!. It is one of those ads that leave you misty-eyed.
John Lewis is a popular UK department store, known for high quality goods. It is very popular with the upper middle classes.
POETRY CAN ALSO BE FUN
This is about what we do not want to happen at school!
There's a fight, Sir By the lockers, Sir And Aidan's battered Paul Daniel's strangled Jordan Cos Jordan took his ball Isaac's ripped his shirt, Sir And Michael spat on Sue She was only trying to stop them And she's got it on her shoe! The lunchtime supervisor left, Sir She said she couldn't stay Jane's crying in the toilets And the gerbil got away Saqib knocked the cage, Sir The door, it just flipped back And it ran behind the cupboard And it's stuck inside a crack. We poked it with a stick, Sir But the powder paint got spilt It's all over the carpet And that castle Connor built I think you ought to come, Sir Mildred Miles was sick And all the boys were yelling And Martin threw a brick It nearly hit John Bailey And he stepped on Sama's thumb So shall I say you're coming? She wants to call her mum Shall we get the cleaners And can I mop the paint? The new boy's torn his jacket And he thinks he's going to faint. The other teachers said, Sir That I should come to you Cos you're the Head of Progress So you'd know what to do, Sir.