Pumpkin Exhibition 2025 Last Thursday, October 30th, we celebrated our Pumpkin Contest at school! We were amazed by the creativity, originality, and effort of all the participants. Every pumpkin was unique — funny, spooky, and full of imagination! O pasado xoves, 30 de outubro, celebramos no colexio o noso Concurso de Cabazas! Quedamos abraiados coa... Seguir lendo →
Halloween Breakout: The Pumpkin Puzzle in the English Classroom
During this spooky week, our students took part in a Halloween Breakout, a cooperative game inspired by Hotel Transylvania.Their mission was to solve different challenges and find the magic key to open the Great Hall and start the Halloween party! In the English classroom, students faced the challenge called “Mavis’ Pumpkin Puzzle.”The wicked witch had... Seguir lendo →
Learning to Read with Emotions and Family
Today, our 1st grade students took part in a very fun and dynamic reading activity. The goal was to help them read simple phrases in English using family and feelings vocabulary. The children worked in pairs. Each pair received a picture of a family. First, they looked carefully at the image and talked about how... Seguir lendo →
Get Ready for a Spooktacular Week!
This week we are celebrating Halloween at school with lots of spooky fun! On Thursday 30th October, we’ll have our Halloween Pumpkin Contest! Bring your scariest, funniest or most creative pumpkin — there will be prizes for all participants! Our Halloween stage is already ready to receive your amazing pumpkins! In the playground, you can... Seguir lendo →
Let’s Play! Quiz Bomb Games in English
This week we had double fun practising English with two Quiz Bomb games made in Genially! One game helped us practise telling the time, and the other one was about saying years in English. We played in teams, answering quickly before the bomb exploded! If the bomb went off, the turn passed to the next... Seguir lendo →
What’s in the Witch’s House?
A Spooky Sound Story for 2nd Grade This week, our 2nd grade pupils listened to the spooky story “What’s in the Witch’s House?”, inspired by Nick Sharratt’s book “What’s in the Witch’s Kitchen?” It is a sound story full of Halloween surprises and funny noises: creak! whoooosh! bubble, bubble! Through this story, pupils practise: Vocabulary... Seguir lendo →
Pete the Cat and Five Little Pumpkins
Teamwork, colours and pumpkins everywhere! This week in our English class, our youngest students enjoyed reading Pete the Cat: Five Little Pumpkins. It’s a fun and colorful story that helped us learn and review Halloween vocabulary (like pumpkin, witch, ghost…), numbers from 1 to 5, and colours through songs, rhythm, and movement. https://youtu.be/ZGnXklGW3_8?si=CKlFEp3dSiDx_r31 After the... Seguir lendo →
Once Upon a Halloween
Our spooky Halloween Tree full of stories! Halloween is just around the corner! In our English classroom, we have already started to get into the spooky spirit. Last week we created our Halloween Tree, full of pumpkins, ghosts, bats, and witches! On its branches, you can find some of the stories we’ll be reading in... Seguir lendo →
“The Possessive Spell: Learning Grammar with Magic!”
Our 5th graders played a new cooperative game in English class called “The Possessive Spell” The goal was to use possessive ’s and possessive adjectives ( his, her, our, their) while having fun!Students worked in small groups and took turns picking two magic cards from a chest — one with a character (Harry, Hermione, Ron,... Seguir lendo →
The Magic -ed Challenge!
This week in our English lessons, our 6th graders became phonics wizards !We discovered that the -ed ending in regular past tense verbs has three different sounds: /t/, /d/, and /ɪd/. Through the activity “The Magic -ed Challenge!”, students learned to listen carefully, pronounce correctly, and use verbs in past tense while playing.We used three... Seguir lendo →
Teamwork for Reading
Reading Comprehension through Games In our English lessons, we are working on reading comprehension in a collaborative and fun way. This week, the students played a memory game with questions and answers based on short texts about children’s lives, hobbies and families. Nas clases de inglés estamos a traballar a comprensión lectora dun xeito colaborativo... Seguir lendo →
Pete’s Cool Adventure: Learning English with Style!
Today in English class / Hoxe na aula de inglés We are happy to present a new story in our section Good Books to Read. Estamos contentos de presentar un novo conto na nosa sección Good Books to Read. What should I wear today? That’s the big question for Pete the Cat in Too Cool... Seguir lendo →

















