THE DISASTERS OF WAR

By Juan Gabriel Fernández García, Óscar Leira Díaz, Pablo Loureiro Cela, Kevin Moreno Bello, Saúl Sedes Ricoy, Daniel Seoane López and Rubén Suárez Díaz. With the collaboration of History teacher Victoria Diehl.
4º DC - IES de Catabois - Ferrol (SPAIN) 

Cover of the first edition (1863) of The Disasters of War

In 1808 the Spanish rose up against the Napoleonic troops stationed in Spain because of the Fontainebleau Treaty. That’s the way the so called Spanish War of Independence, as it would later be named in History, started. It would keep the Peninsula bleeding for  six years  (till 1814). The students in 4th year (curricular diversification) have studied this terrible episode of our past, terrifying ourselves before the hard images that the amazing painter Francisco de Goya captured in his series of etchings ‘The Disasters of War’ or  in two capital oil paintings in the history of art such as The Second of May 1808: The Charge of the Mamelukes or The Third of May 1808.

THE PATH OF TRADITIONAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS IN 'FERROLTERRA'.

By Mónica Gracía Velasco, Music teacher.
Music stands for one of the most important demonstrations of the traditional culture in the region of Ferrol. Along with the History, a great number of performers and groups have transmitted and preserved the musical repertoire as signs of identity more featured in the popular Folklore. In Galicia we keep instruments and forms inherited from the Middle Ages. Now we have added new pieces that have increased our musical and iconographic heritage. Some instruments are combined in different groups, from individual performances to sets as quartets, pandereteiras groups and the modern pipe bands. 
                  

                                                           

OIL COMPANIES IN CANARY ISLANDS

By Alfonso Martínez Ferreño, Ángela Rodríguez Fernández and Zeltia González López.

3ºESO - IES de Catabois - Ferrol (SPAIN)
On March 18th, the Spanish government gave the Green light to a deep water oil exploration project barely 60 kms. off the coast of the Canary islands Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, where these wells are supposed to be and could yield as much as 100.000 barrels of oil per day.

Facing the actual risk of irreversible contamination that this activity implies in these circumstances, the Canary islands inhabitants say NO to this oil production in their coast.

TWO VISIONS OF CORRUPTION

Corruption and political system

By Paula Fernández Fernández.

4ºESO - IES de Catabois - Ferrol (SPAIN)

Corruption is the main problem in Spain today, more than crisis, unemployment or Catalonia. It has to do with all our problems and it worsens them. Some of those people who are trying to explain it would better keep silent. Some other times, they simply argue it’s other people's fault. An extreme observer would confirm that corruption is the main issue in Spanish politics just by having a look at the front pages in journals and by listening to the news programmes in any of our Spanish radio or television broadcasting companies.

9N: CATALONIAN INDEPENDENCE

By: Jonathan, Xoán, Davis & Anxo
3ºESO - IES de Catabois - Ferrol (SPAIN)

 Catalonia is an autonomous community located in the north-east of Spain. 

                                               

On September 9th, 20014, the Catalonian population was asked about the independence of Catalonia.

This enquiry had much in common with the Scottish independence referendum, which was held on 18^th September 2014, and where NO to independence won.

THE ATLANTIC DIET

By: Marcos Expósito Bello, Alfonso Martínez Ferreño, Sasha Meg Moreira Paulino, Ángela Rodríguez Fernández, Mónica Márquez Fernández y Andrea Aneiros Sabín.

3ºESO - IES de Catabois - Ferrol (SPAIN)

The Atlantic diet, which is the basis of  nutrition in this part of the peninsula, is recommended by the best nutritionists in the World. Its main ingredients are veal, fish, local fruits and vegetables that are steamed, boiled or grilled.

IMMIGRATION

By Marcos Expósito Bello and Alfonso Martínez Ferreño.

3º ESO - IES de Catabois - Ferrol (SPAIN)
 

About 400 immigrants have tried to enter the autonomous Spanish city of Melilla in an illegal way. They were trying to climb and jump the frontier fence from several different spots simultaneously and, at the same time, they were trying to avoid the security measures displayed by the Moroccan Auxiliary Forces and the Civil Guard on both sides of the frontier, which was reinforced by a helicopter from the army. The last try of fence jumping was on 31^st October, when 300 immigrants tried to enter Melilla illegally but none achieved.

FIRE IN A 'CAMPOFRÍO' PLANT

By Jonathan Varela Fernández and Xoán Díaz Fonticoba.

3º ESO - IES de Ctabois - Ferrol (SPAIN).

A terrible fire, which devastated the plant, broke out at the ‘Campofrío’ cold meat factory in Burgos last Sunday 16^th November, leaving behind a number of families in the municipality on the dole.

                                            

LET'S CHANGE THE WORLD

By Bella Jasmin Kahia da Silva, Lucía Loureiro Cela, María Roca Pérez, Carla Gago Castro, Claudia Prieto Puga, Azael Enríquez Fernández, Pablo Rodeiro Rañales, Aicha Pato Romero, Eli Tatyanova Petkova, Mario Martínez Estévez, André Rey Vidal y Elisa Rodríguez Rodríguez.

2º ESO - IES de Catabois - Ferrol (SPAIN)

                                       

In October 2012, the Taliban put a bullet in her head, but they couldn’t silence her. Malala Yousafzai defends the right of school attendance for women in her country, Pakistan, and raises her voice in favour of every boys and girls right of Education.

Her fight and courage have been recognised with the Nobel Peace Prize, shared with the Indian activist Kaliash Satyarthy, founder of the N.G.O. “Global March against children work”.

Malala is 17, and the youngest person ever receiving a Nobel Prize.  But her fight started when she was 11.

MORRIÑA IS WRITTEN IN GALICIAN EVEN FOR A BRILLIANT PHYSICIST

By Maca
English Teacher - IES Catabois - Ferrol (SPAIN)

As some of the most relevant media have pointed out in the last two years, Diego Martínez Santos, was awarded the Starting Grant (an award granted every two years) in May 2013, by the European Research Council (ERC) and recognized as the  Best Young Experimental Physicist on the continent by the European Physical Society (EPS).
     In spite of the fact that he got this international status, which allows him to go on investigating in the field of Particle Physics at the CERN, in Switzerland, and that, on the same date, he was denied the Ramón y Cajal scholarship in order to come back to Spain and proceed with his investigation here, this young scientist has made the decision to retun to Santiago de Compostela anyway.

INVASION OF LADYBUGS IN ROMANIA

By Mónica Márquez Fernández and Andrea Aneiros Sabín
3º ESO - IES de Catabois - Ferrol (SPAIN)

 Several towns in Western Romania, are facing an invasion of thousands of ladybugs. The phenomenon is caused by high temperatures combined with the last humidity caused by summer rains.

A WORLD CHAMPION IN FERROL

By Pablo Loureiro Cela
4º DC - IES de Catabois - Ferrol (SPAIN)

   The Triathlon World Champion is one of us, people from Ferrol. Javier Gómez Noya won in Edmonton and got his fourth world title.

Javier Gómez Noya reaching the goal

  

A NEW POLITICAL PARTY IN SPAIN.

By Alba Aneiros Sabín, Mónica Márquez Fernández and Jose M. Álvarez Medín
3º ESO and 4º ESO - IES de Catabois - Ferrol (SPAIN)

Pablo Iglesias, leader of Podemos

   'Podemos’ (or We Can) is a new political party which, starting from zero, has recently got a relevant status in the European Elections.