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| Desde la Comunidad Virtual de Centros Bilingües nos gustaría que participaseis haciendo vuestro este espacio que la Viceconsejería pone a vuestra disposición. En él intentaremos manteneros informados de cuantas noticias, normativa o experiencias docentes vayan surgiendo. Sabemos que es una tarea difícil por la heterogeneidad de los Centros, pero queremos que esto último sea un valor que nos ayude a interesarnos por lo que hacemos en nuestros colegios. En este apartado, "experiencias", encontraréis diferentes secciones correspondientes a las áreas que se pueden impartir en lengua inglesa. Nuestra intención es que nos enviéis aquellos materiales de los que os sintáis orgullosos, por innovadores, por eficaces, o simplemente porque os gustaría verlos en nuestra "comunidad". Animaos, estamos empezando y tenemos muchas ganas de ver qué se está haciendo en los diferentes Centros Bilingües de la Comunidad de Madrid.
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The school: The school is located in the north of the Comunidad de Madrid, about 26 km away from the capital. The school has two buildings: one for the nursery school and another for infants and juniors. The school has many facilities including: the gym, the music room, the playground, library, two computer labs... There are 325 pupils and 30 teachers. The bilingual programme began at the school in 2005 in year 1 and we have continued with it in year 2 during the academic year 2006/07 academic year. The programme has been a success, both pupils and teachers are really enjoying the teaching and the learning process. | ||
Bilingual environment:
This new term, we have focused on winter; we have presented this season in an appealing and multi-disciplinary way, incorporating science into poems, cut outs, songs and eye catching displays. Through a poem, the pupils had to gesticulate and mime the meaning of the words: cold, monkey, raincoat, fun and hat. We even did the impossible this year. Tres Cantos didn’t get any snow this winter, but we still made our own snowman, snowballs and snowflakes. The children loved it! Winter is a cold season but with good ideas and encouraging the pupils with several activities, we can make this wonderful season warmer. | ||
| Educational experiences: Nursery rhymes are part of the pupils' learning process. Through them, children learn to appreciate the sounds that words make and take pleasure in their musicality. Many of these nursery rhymes and songs have been passed down through generations and will continue to do so because children love them. I have seen that a simple song like Humpty Dumtpy has made children laugh, move and speak... because music crosses language boundaries and allows children to have fun. | ||
| Our twinned school: Our school is twinned with : Ecclessall Church of England Junior School in Sheffield. From the first meeting we got on very well. We had similar ideas, styles and projects in common, so, it didn´t take long to start our exchanges. The British teachers loved their visit to our school and together we prepared a few activities to work on each term. This is our display of the twinned school in Sheffield so that every student knows where they are. Even our pupils and theirs, had the chance to greet each other drawing a personalized pictures and making Christmas cards. | ||
| Cultural activities: October brought lots of ideas and materials to surprise the students during Halloween. A beautiful story and a puppet show were performed by the teachers in year 2. Not just the teachers were involved, but the students also made a great contribution and participated in different areas of the curriculum. They made their own puppets and coloured them. They learnt and understood the whole story and participated by answering all questions and doing the right scary gestures. Children had fun dressing up, singing and decorating the classroom. | ||
| Science,Literacy and Art: Our students use different ways to learn: tasting, hearing, smelling, feeling and looking. They learn through experience. That´s science! In this activity, the pupils were able to identify the sensory organs. They used the nose to smell different smells, they used the tongue to taste different tastes and flavours, the eyes to look and see different objects, the skin to feel different textures and finally the ears to hear different sounds. The new vocabulary was presented to the pupils using flash cards, pictures and realia. We allowed our students to touch, to smell, to see, to taste and to hear to make a clear understanding of the objective.
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If you visit our school, you can feel the bilingual environment inside the building. You can see many English language displays in the corridors, and hear assistant teachers and teachers speaking and giving commands in English. Our purpose is to help our pupils 
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 Our town: Colmenar Viejo is a town of 35.000 inhabitants situated in the North of Madrid close to the mountains (35 km from the city centre). In the last years, it has become a satellite city of Madrid and thousands of people travel from their jobs in the capital to their homes in the town. Although it has grown, there are still some points of interest in the urban area and surroundings preserved with the charm of yesteryear. | ||
 Our school: Our school educates 480 students from 3 to 12 years old, divided in 17 classrooms; their families belong to a medium social level. Most of our students are Spanish but there are a few immigrants in every classroom (especially from South America and the North of Africa). This year, seven classrooms are involved in the bilingual project. | ||
 School Educational Ethos/ Mission Statement. Based on the Centre’s characteristics, our Education Project´s general objectives are the following:
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 A.M.P.A. The parents association annually offers a number of extra-curricular activities, as well as partially subsidising the additional activities of their members. Such activities include: Computing, English, first at school program, karate etc. | ||
 Didactic experiences Our school continually pursues pedagogic innovation and experimentation. In Infant Education as much as in Primary Education, the teachers undertake annual projects designed to improve the teaching and learning processes and, in short, we aim to offer a higher quality education. By means of example:
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 Sister School In order to support the learning- teaching process of English as a subject, our school is “paired” with Stanstead Primary School in the city of Nottingham. During these three academic years, we have established the main basis of collaboration and cultural exchange to facilitate the students´ development. | ||
 School Choir The school’s Music group was started up in 1999 with the intention of introducing the children to popular folklore. With this intention, the objective is that the pupils enjoy music through song as a global medium: as well as singing, they play instruments, and many songs are also accompanied by simple dances or relevant dramatisations. | ||
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