WOMEN'S RIGHT TO VOTE.

By Sandra Cepeiro García, 3^rd year ESO A. Coordinators: Emilia Saavedra Seijo and Alfonso Prieto Pita.

Women's right to vote should have been accepted much earlier. The first time that women could vote without any restriction was in New Zealand in 1893, because of Kate Sheppard´s struggle.

 

INTA AND UAVS: New Technologies for the Future. Unmanned aircrafts.

By Pablo Rodeiro Rañales and Sergio Dopico Arnoso (4th year ESO)

(After a visit to the INTA facilities in Rozas, we're presenting the second part of the article published on June 8th 2016, called 'The Drone Industry in Galicia')

Since the taking off of the first aircraft by the end of the XIX century or beginnings of the XX until now many things have changed. The first aircrafts used to fly just a few metres from the ground, were piloted at least by a pilot and they were very little self-sufficient concerning fuel. Today, the situation is completely different and the models which are trying to get a place in the world of aviation are unmanned aircrafts, which can travel long distances and don't even need any crew on board to be piloted.

In a recent visit to the INTA installations near Lugo to investigate this new centre of development that the Xunta de Galicia, together with private enterprises, has promoted, we became aware that the future of aviation is probably in the hands of these aircrafts.

Freak Culture

By André Rey Vidal (4th year ESO)

 

In many places in the world, even in the core of this “sub-culture”, Japan, it’s impolite to go out with the T-Shirt of your favourite anime, saying you play “Dungeons and Dragons” or shout 'Avada Kedabra’ with your friends. But, let’s go back to previous times, how have we got to this almost irrational hatred?

 

Life in the Galician mountains: Ancares, Biosphere Reserve.

Ancares, in the north-west of Spain, is an amazing mountainous area located on the Galician border. It shares its territory with with three different autonomous regions: Galicia, Asturias and Castilla-León. It was declared a Biosphere Reserve on 27th Ocotber 2006 by UNESCO under the name: Os Ancares Lucenses y Montes de Cervantes, Navia y Becerreá.

Because of its isolation and location, in a complex orographic zone which mingles characteristics of both the Euro-Siberian and Mediterranean biogeographic regions, it displays an extraordinary and complex biodiversity. Its environment is well-preserved and contains some species in danger of extinction, such as bears or capercaillies.

'What's New on the News?' on the air, for the 2nd year.

Last February 24th 2016, a group of students from IES de Catabois and the coordinator of the Erasmus + project 'What's new on the news?' were interviewed at the COPE radio station in Ferrol, to continue with the series started in January 2015, during the first year of the project. Now, after a year and a half involved in it, we had lots more to tell.

 

It was a live programme with Ada Romero as the interviewer again.
This radio station has shown a great interest towards our project since its very beginning and it keeps in touch with us, collaborating in the dissemination of it. We are thankful for that!
 

THE DRONE INDUSTRY IN GALICIA.

By Pablo Rodeiro Rañales.

 

The Rozas Aerodrome is a private aerodrome in the municipality of Castro de Rey, about eight kilometres from the town of Lugo in the north of Galicia, Spain.

It was opened on 4th June, 1943. It is generally intended for sports aviation. The ground where it's installed belongs to the Ministry of Defence, but the airdrome is managed by the Royal Flying Club in Lugo.

The aerodrome was built by the Germans during the Second World War, with the purpose of providing quick maintenance to the antennas of the radio beacon Consol.

Once the battle was finished, the airdrome was recognized as an exceptional place for the creation of a larger airport. It was an airbase for some time, where there was a military garrison for aviation troops. In 1949, Rozas Aerodrome became the Central Airport in Galicia and it kept this status for 2 years , while the Santiago de Compostela airport was being built.

Miguel Bardem films '22 Angels' in Ferrol.

By Marta Díaz Freire.

Ferrol has been chosen, once again, as the setting for a film.

Last February, Miguel Bardem, cousin of the popular Spanish actor Javier Bardem (married to Penelope Cruz), was filming his new TV movie, '22 Angels', in Galicia. 

VISIT TO IL GIORNALE DI SICILIA.

Last Thursday 7th April 2016, Il Giornale di Sicilia was visited by a large group of students and teachers from six different countries: Sweden, Poland, Turkey, Romania, Spain and Italy (the host school). The visitors are working on an Erasmus + programme KA2 project related to the media and the news.
At its offices, the guests were explained how a journal is made from its very beginning until we get them in our hands and they had the opportunity of visiting the installations as well. They got precise information about what the work in a journal is like by watching an explanatory video of its history. This is what they learnt after watching it: The history of Il Giornale di Sicilia.

The newspaper was founded in 1860 by Girolamo Ardizzone, whose bust can be seen at the conference room at the journal headquarters. The owners of the journal have been the same family since it was started, which is a unique case in Italy. The actual owner and manager is Antonio Ardizzone, one of the descendants of the founder.

3 YEARS..

A poem by Carla Gago Castro.
Some people have the ability to communicate feelings through poems. Here is one written by a young student in 3rd year ESO which can touch you deep inside.

                                
Click on the link below to read it.
3 Years poem

Sicily: An island of contrasts.

Have you ever wondered what a trip to Sicily would be like?
This is what we found on our recent visit to the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an island full of history which wants to keep its rich cultural bakground at the same time as it is trying to meet the new requirements to fit the needs of the modern society of the 21st century we live in.

Through this series of photographs, some of them with comments, you'll discover a little bit of its history as well as some of the most important UNESCO sites on the island, together with their beautiful traditional music and astonishing landscapes and monuments.
You'll also have a look at one of the most important journals on the island: Il Giornale di Sicilia, which we visited as an important part of the project we're working on.

Click here to watch the film.

OUR TRIBUTE TO HENNING MANKEL, by the library team.

     We would like to dedicate a few words to Henning Mankell, a writer from far away from us who became closer through his novels.

'What’s new on the news?” Erasmus + project at IES de Catabois

     A few months ago, a young woman from Ferrol, Aroa Fandiño Serrano, contacted me via e-mail. In her mail, she explained that she is specializing in management of European projects and that, after reading about our Erasmus + KA2 project in a newspaper, she was immediately attracted to it. She expressed her interest in arranging an interview with the person in charge of the project at school in order to get information about its implementation and management, the goals we are achieving, the materials produced and the way both the students and the schools involved in the project are living it, what they are learning and so on... She added that she would like to include our project in her blog europeaconvencida.wordpress.com where she deals with topics which try to get Ferrol closer to Europe by relating different European projects with the town, as for example, the Urban Plan.

     Below is the post that she published in her blog talking about our project, after an interview with Maca Torres, coordinator of the project at IES de Catabois.

An effective protection against enemies: Beautiful St. Philip castle, by Jonathan Varela Fernández.

     The castle of San Felipe is one of the military fortresses in the estuary of Ferrol, a town located in
the province of La Coruña, autonomous region of Galicia, Spain.

 In the photograph on the right, Erasmus + international students on a trip by boat to the castle.

Spain celebrates its 30th anniversary as a member of the European Union, by Eli Tatyanova Petkova and Claudia Prieto-Puga Gonzáles.

     Last 12th June 2015, Spain commemorated the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Accession Treaty of Spain to the European Communities, now the European Union.

A sport born from the film: The Salute of the Jugger, by André Rey Vidal.

Jugger is a sport inspired by the 1989 movie The Salute of the Jugger, in which a game of the same name is played. The transformation into a real sport happened independently in Germany and in Australia.
 
                  

Tanum, Sweden. By, Anxo Fernández Embade.

Tanum, Sweden
Tanum is a municipality in Västra Götaland Country in southern Sweden. The town council is in Tanumshede.
                                             

The first European Cultural Route: The Way of St. James (El Camino de Santiago), by Alba Rama Carneiro.

                    THE FIRST EUROPEAN CULTURAL ROUTE: THE WAY OF ST. JAMES
                                                       EL CAMINO DE SANTIAGO

     The Camino de Santiago, or Way of St. James, is a route used by pilgrims from around the world to reach the city of Santiago de Compostela, where the relics of St.James the Great are venerated. After the Council of Europe’s Declaration of the Way as the first European Cultural Route in 1987 and the adoption of a common European graphic identification system to guide the pilgrims from any nationality or religion, the route has continued to grow, until The French Route (one amongst several routes) was eventually declared a UNESCO World Heritage Route in 1993.

Street art: Las Meninas de Canido are exported to Europe, by Bella Jasmin Kahia González.

      'LAS MENINAS' IN CANIDO ARE EXPORTED TO EUROPE. 

Canido, in Ferrol, and Montmartre, in Paris, share nothing in common but the fact of being located on a hill at the top of the city and keeping some characteristics of the villages they used to be long ago. Those aspects create a personality of their own in both quarters.

Exploring Spain

Can you remember a movie published by Spanish team at our blog in February? It showed the talk about Poland prepared by a Galician speaker Weronika Urbanik-Pęk for IES de Catabois students in Ferrol. Now, you are invited to watch video material from a twin meeting which took place in Bieruń. We were pleased to host the same speaker Weronika. She presented us a very interesting speech about Spain and Galicia. The information provided by Weronika was useful during our visit to Ferrol.

Enjoy the movie in the link below:
Weronika's talk in Bieruń

  

THE IMPRESSIVE GALICIA

Student: Mădălina BONCHIŞ, IXth B grade; Coordinating teacher: Ioana Lacrimioara RADA; School: “Samuil Vulcan” National College

            

Being on a “news haunting”, Spain seemed to be the perfect destination. And so it was. Galicia (North-West region of Spain) welcomed us with open arms and delighted our hearts with its wonderful culture and various monuments full of history.