Hotel Brochures

Our 2nd Year Baccalaureate students started their writing tasks this school year with a group assignment. Their first unit dealt with leisure and relaxation, and they had to create a brochure advertising a hotel. We decided to use real hotels in Spain, that the students had visited or knew about, and we used iPads and the Pages app to create a layout that would look professional. They wrote about the hotels’ locations, restaurants or spas, and they chose photos and color patterns to go with their text. 

The results were amazing, quite like a real brochure any of these hotels might create to advertise their services, and the experience made the students realize how English can be used in the future if they want to pursue a career in advertising or in tourism.

Javier García Sebastià

English teacher

My Experience at Boca Prep

I started my mornings with two sessions of soccer practice, my favorite sport, and I found it very different from the game in Spain. In the US, soccer is very physical, while here we are more technical in general. Finally, on Sundays we went on trips, to the zoo, to Orlando (my best trip ever)...

I just came back from staying at Boca Prep International School (Florida) for six weeks, and there were many things I liked about the experience. First of all, people were really friendly, from my host family and their friends to classmates, teachers and administrators. School lunches were very tasty, with plenty to choose from, and the activities we did at school were like in movies, where you had to present and everybody came to see you. I also loved riding on the yellow buses.

It has been an unbelievable experience that left me wanting to go back!

Vicent Diego

1st Year Secondary

 Mi experiencia en Boca Ratón, por Vicent Diego

Acabo de volver de pasar seis semanas en el colegio de Boca Prep (Florida), y han habido muchas cosas que me han gustado de la experiencia. Primero, que todo el mundo fue muy amable, empezando por mi familia anfitriona, sus amigos hasta mis compañeros de clase, profesores y personal de administración. Me gustó mucho la comida del colegio (había mucha variedad) y las actividades que hacíamos en el colegio eran como en las películas: teníamos que presentar los trabajos y todo el mundo venía a vernos. También me encantó ir en los famosos autobuses amarillos.

Empezaba la mañana con dos sesiones de fútbol, mi deporte favorito, y me pareció muy diferente al fútbol que jugamos en España. En EEUU el fútbol es muy físico, mientras que aquí somos más técnicos, en general. Finalmente, los domingos íbamos de excursión, al zoo, a Orlando, el mejor viaje de mi vida...

¡Ha sido una experiencia increíble que me ha dado muchas ganas de repetir!

Vicent Diego

Alumno de 1º ESO

GRANTHAM TRIP

School exchanges are brilliant for introducing students and staff to new cultures and languages. In a few days, some pupils in Third Year Primary will have an excellent chance to travel to England staying with a host family and attending the Grantham Preparatory School, one of our partner schools abroad.

There are innumerable benefits, as well as potential challenges, involved in the process of sharing one’s home with a young person from another culture, like learning about another part of the world and understanding daily life in another country. When I told my pupils about this wonderful adventure, they felt lucky and grateful for this great opportunity. Everybody is looking forward to our next trip and I hope that the pupils who go on this exchange will come back feeling much more confident and with great memories to tell.

Eva Furió

English Department