a) Redacción sobre la opinión de nuestro colegio acompañada de algún dibujo, collage, recortes, puzzles, etc. Elección de varios entre todos los realizados y traducción breve en inglés.

	Coro
	Participan alumnos y profesores bajo la batuta de Diego
	Himno
	En Hoyo de Manzanares, en un bello encinar
	muy cerca de la sierra, venimos a estudiar
	En el virgen de la Encina, colegio singular,
	nacido entre las ramas de un árbol inmortal.
	La encina nos infunde firmeza y lealtad,
	inspira confianza, invita a la amistad.
	Está lejos de los ruidos y de la polución
	muy cerca de las nubes y de tu corazón.
	Si tu quieres conocernos, te invitamos a venir.
	Te abriremos nuestros brazos, cantaremos para tí.
	La encina nos infunde firmeza y lealtad,
	inspira confianza, invita a la amistad

PROYECTO CORO 2007/2008 

JUSTIFICACIÓN:

El coro está formado por niños y niñas de 4º, 5º y 6º curso  de primaria, todos ellos alumnos/as  del colegio Virgen de La Encina de Hoyo de Manzanares.
                
El coro se fundó durante el curso 2004/2005 a propósito de un certamen de villancicos que organiza de manera anual el ayuntamiento del pueblo de Las Rozas.

La acogida por parte de los alumnos fue tan grande que se decidió seguir con el proyecto e instaurar un coro permanente; a esto contribuyó de forma definitiva la convocatoria del I Concurso de coros realizado por la Comunidad de Madrid y el apoyo incondicional del equipo directivo del colegio, del claustro y de los padres de alumnado.

Durante el curso escolar 2006/2007 la actividad de Coro se propuso en el centro como taller, utilizando dos sesiones a la semana con el fin de organizar a los alumnos en dos grupos y conseguir unos resultados óptimos y significativos en el aprendizaje de nuestros alumnos. El éxito de esta idea se ha reflejado en la repetición de este taller para el año en curso.
      

GRUPOS Y SESIONES:

La distribución prevista será de dos sesiones a la semana (al igual que el año anterior) y que se concretarán en las dos horas del miércoles por la tarde. La separación de grupos se verá reflejada de la siguiente manera:

         4ª Sesión:  4º C, 5º B, 5º C, 6º B.
         5ª Sesión:   4º A, 4º B, 5º A, 6º A, 6º C.
      

OBJETIVOS:

• Fomentar el gusto por el canto coral, consiguiendo la máxima evolución en las capacidades de cada niño, desarrollando en nuestros alumnos una sensibilidad estética por las artes, en concreto por la música, que les permita disfrutar de diferentes interpretaciones y estilos musicales respetando la diversidad de las obras y de los que las representan.

• Respetar la interpretación propia y ajena, valorando cada uno sus propias posibilidades y las de sus compañeros, descubriendo las distintas posibilidades de la música, en especial de la vocal, favoreciendo la capacidad crítica de cada niño para evitar el consumo musical pasivo y compulsivo impuesto por las modas del momento.

METODOLOGÍA:

         Será de manera directa con el alumnado a través de ensayos en el aula de música mediante técnicas adecuadas a cada caso para el aprendizaje de cada una de las canciones que vamos a trabajar y favorecer así un aprendizaje significativo de manera individualizada.

ACTIVIDADES PREVISTAS:

• Certámenes de villancicos (1er trimestre).

• IV Concurso de coros escolares convocado por la Comunidad de Madrid (suele coincidir con el 2º trimestre).

• Concierto de fin de curso (3er trimestre).

RECURSOS:

Recursos materiales:

• Aula de música para ensayos.
• Material de audio (CD’s, cintas, reproductores, …), libros e impresos musicales
• Página web del centro dónde se reflejarán las actuaciones del coro en nuestro periódico on-line.
• El Ayuntamiento además ofrece el Salón Cultural para ensayos y actuaciones.

Recursos humanos:

• Director del coro que a su vez es el profesor de música del Centro.
• Profesorado implicado en el coro a nivel pedagógico y de organización. Este gran grupo de profesores que colaboran y participan en el coro garantiza la continuidad del coro por encima de la movilidad del profesorado.
• El equipo directivo siempre nos apoya en todos los proyectos que se llevan a cabo en el Centro.
• EL AMPA del colegio que además de apoyar, colabora de forma activa con el coro.
• Los padres que siempre están abiertos a todas las propuestas que le llegan del Centro y colaboran con nosotros en todas nuestras iniciativas.

PRESUPUESTO:
         Será necesaria la financiación del transporte para el Certamen de Villancicos que suele tener lugar todos los años en Las Rozas (autobús para 63 plazas aproximadamente).

EVALUACIÓN:
         Se realizará de forma continua, valorando las necesidades  de cada momento y si los recursos son adecuados. Del mismo modo se realizará una autoevaluación para comprobar si los objetivos han sido adecuados y se han satisfecho correctamente.
         Al final del año se realizará una memoria valorando y evaluando los aspectos de este proyecto con el fin de mejorarlo curso tras curso.

My village

Hoyo is a big village on the mountains. It is 35/40 kms from Madrid. The population is about 7 thousand. The school is near a park, the “CABILDA”. In the “CABILDA” you can play, you can do all kinds of sports; have picnics or a barbecue. There are swings.  A lot of other schools come here to spend a day in the country. We have a new a gym. It was built last year. We do 3 hours of gym a week. (Only 1 hour in the gym). We start school 9:30 and we have 2 hours of class and then a break playtime last half and hour. Then we have 1 hour of class until lunchtime. I have school lunch. We have 2 hours for lunch from 1p.m.-3p.m. In the afternoon we have 2 classes and we finish school at half past four. It is English study on Tuesdays and Thursdays for 1 hour. After English I do my homework. On Mondays and Wednesdays I play tennis at for 1 hour. At weekends I sometimes have a tennis tournament.Laura y Lucía

"Hoyo de Manzanares"
Hoyo, my village, has plenty of countryside. In Hoyo you can find "La Mira", the highest point of the place. It is located near the Picazo, another mountain that has two peaks (one higher than the other). There are also some beautiful little falls. You can get there by crossing a huge neighbourhood called "La Berzosa". In this village, there is also a park called "La Cabilda", which is one of the most well-known parks in the area. In this park we can find a great variety of granite, evergreen oaks (encinas), cork oaks (alcornoques) and many ot the things. From the cork oak it is obtained cork (corcho). Moreover, cork oaks are empty inside such that squirrels and other animals can find a place to live in there. In "La Cabilda" there is a cave as well. It seems to have been built by men, however, everything here is a marvel of nature.

  My village´s name is Hoyo de Manzanares. It is located in the Manzanares high basin (Cuenca Alta del Manzanares). The school is located at the end of the village. We have an advantage with respect to the rest of schools, this is we have a park named "La Cabilda". This park allows us to have a place to perform many school activities.

HISTORY OF THE SCHOOL

Itziar Rodríguez Coca. (ANTIGUA ALUMNA DE NUESTRO COLEGIO)

This history begins before our parents were born, when the school was not where it is now, when it was not even half of what it is now. This history begins in the year 1939…

In the years 1939 and 1940 the school was in the main square. There was a single classroom just for boys and their teacher. The girls were in a rented place with another teacher, who was a wife. As they did not have any toilets, the children had to go to make their necessities to the STABLES.

During the very cold winter , children used to go to the mountain to gather firewood for the class chimney. This took place every Thursday in the afternoon ,when there was not any class. Those that were in the last banks of the classroom felt their feet, and body in general, as cold as ice.

The tables in the classroom had a hole in the middle where an inkpot was placed to write. There was a single encyclopedia in the whole school. In the month of May children had to go to the church to pray the rosary.

Years later, in the year 1958, the school was located in which it is today “Cervantes square”. It was formed by two buildings: one was called "Scholar Group Carlos Ruiz" and the other had two classrooms and the teacher house.

In this school there were six teachers for nine different courses:

There was a kindergarden whose teacher was Doña Lupe.

There was another class for the first course. Its tutor and only professor, who used to give all the classes, was Doña Tomasa. She was replaced for Dña. Tomasa later.

Soon, there was another class for the second and the third course . These classes were given by Don Mariano.

Later there was the fourth and fifth course whose tutor was Don Fernando, a professor who was very different from those of nowadays. Later another tutor came to replace him, on the contrary, he was very nice. His name was Don José María.

And finally the sixth, seventh and eigth courses. Sixth and eigth were given by Don Jose María who used to teach maths and natural sciences. The seventh course was given by Doña Mercedes who taught social sciences and language. They used to change the classes after one day.

The life in this school was very different from that we know, for example:

In the class of Doña Lupe there was a small room where the coal for the stoves was kept. It was a dirty and dark room where more than once a substitute of Doña Lupe locked up to the children as punishment.

In the classes there was very few material and the children had to buy it on their own from infantile to eighth course.

The school was not a closed site, but a great extension where the students could play soccer . They used to play in the middle of the puddles, which were frozen in the Winter.

There was also a zone with many rocks where children played a lot. In this place there were many “cardos borriqueros”(plants which could hurt you with their thorns).Birds came to eat the seeds of these plants.

There was no dining room and the students had to go to have lunch to their homes .Don Jose Maria brought an infiernillo and the food he wanted to eat and he prepared it in the school.

Meanwhile the old building, which is the current school, was an antitubercular hospital where they brought the patients after the Civil War. Don Francisco Borondo was in charge of transforming the building into a school. At the beginning it was used as Summer residence for children who alternated every fifteen days. Later it became a boarding school directed by nuns.

Every Sunday in that school, there were films and there all the children of the town could go.

In 1.978, the school of the town was not used any more and the old building of the present school begun to be used.

Around the year 1.990 buildings of the old school started to have another utility: the "Scholar Group Carlos Ruiz", is the present municipal clinic; the other building was destroyed to build the Cervantes Square, which was finished in the year 1.992.

From 1,978 to the present time, the school has been growing and has the following buildings:

Kindergarden building: for the children who are from three to five years old.. –

Primary: for the courses from first to sixth.               Gym: where sports take place.

Old Building: It is used like Kindergarden and Primary dining room . Also for the out-of-school activities, road education and the days without school.

Secondary building : it is the building that we have next to our school and it is used for the Secondary Education.

In parking that the professors have, formerly there were quarries; where we have now the gym there was a swimming pool that was used in the summer residence

Below our school, a small river it crosses which you can see on the surface in the Cabilda park. We have also an orchard where before there was a small house.

We are vary lucky and we think that our school is in a privileged location because we are very close to the countryside, next to the Cabilda park. Hopefully it will be like this for a long time.

And thus, we are going to finish our visit to the history of our school.

WE HOPE YOU HAVE ENJOYED IT!