Halloween 2022

HALLOWEEN!!!

 It is celebrated at school with students in English classes to teach them part of the British culture :

     The Celts lived in regions that are now Ireland, Britain and Northern France. They had a tradition of remembering those who had died and they did this every year the 31st October, it was called Samhain, but their practices were opposed to the Christian way.

     Seven hundred years after Christ, the Head of the Catholic church moved an important Christian day THE ALL SAINT’S DAY ( a festival in honour of all the saints in heaven) from 1st May to 1st November. They thought everybody would forget about Samhain, but people didn’t forget, so the evening before the All Saint Day  became the  Holy Evening or All Hallow Even:

          Hallow is the old word for Holy  and

          Even is the old word for evening.

    Soon All Hallow became HALLOWEEN !!

     Dressing up as spirits and ghosts became a part of AllSaint’s Day celebration, because people who celebrated Samhain believed that wearing scary costumes would scare away the evil spirits and keep them away.

   4th year Bilingual students have  performed some scary stories  in the library to their bilingual mates from 1st, 2nd and 3rd year, based on old, popular stories from our village.

After the story, students have asked questions and later they have played different games related to halloween.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN  !!!

SAINT PATRICK’S DAY

SAINT PATRICK’S DAY

Every year the 17th of March, the traditional death date of Saint Patrick, people, specially from Ireland and also from the United Kingdom, United Satates, Brazil, Argentina,Australia and New Zeland celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day.

Saint Patrick's Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick is a cultural and religious celebration ,the patron saint of Ireland

Celebrations generally involve public parades and festivals, Irish traditional music sessions, and the wearing of green clothes , shamrocks or green accessories as symbols of good luck.

Christians may also attend church services, and the restrictions on eating and drinking alcohol are lifted for the day. Saint Patrick is said to have used the shamrock, a three-leaved plant, to explain the Holy Trinity to the pagan Irish. 

 

IES Fuente Roniel has also wanted to commemorate this day with bilingual students from the groups of 1st and 2nd ESO, doing diferent activities in History and English classes

In History students watched a video in English about the history of Saint Patrick and later they made a shamrock to wear as a badge or pin.

In English students watched a video about how Irish people celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day: people wearing green clothes, the beautiful parade and the happiness of pople in this day. After this they were doing some activities to learn specific vocabulary about Saint Patrick.