8th March: WOMEN’S DAY

8th MARCH: INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

Bilingual teachers, together with the bilingual students at our school,  carried out a variety of activities to celebrate International Women’s Day. Once the projects had been completed, they were displayed in the main hall of Aljarafe building.

P.E. and Physics and Chemistry

A bilingual and interdisciplinary International Women’s Day (8 March) activity involving 2nd-year ESO students, developed by the Physics and Chemistry and Physical Education departments: student have connected physical formulas with their favourite sports, developed their mathematical skills, put into practice everything they have learned about orienteering, and, moreover, the project has enabled them to discover true women legends of our sport whom many of them did not know about. 

History

Women in the WWI: students made presentations on key events in the struggle for women's rights, such as the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen, the Suffragettes, how women helped spark the Russian Revolution, and the opening of the labour market to women during the two World Wars.

Arts, Biology and Technology

Firstly, within the Biology subject, students used their laptops to research different Spanish female scientists working in the field of biotechnology. Prior to this activity, biotechnology and its applications had been studied in class.

Subsequently, in the Technology subject, student groups worked on collecting and organising the information previously gathered in Biology for later classroom use. During this process, several editing and design programs were explored in order to determine which one best suited the project's needs. The groups were given creative freedom to design their work, provided that they met a set of minimum quality and content requirements

Finally, the groups focused on creating a collage that visually and concisely represented both the human values and scientific achievements of their chosen scientists. To achieve this, in the Visual Arts (EPVA) subject, students worked on portraits of the selected scientists, applying manual techniques to transform or deconstruct the images in ways that added movement and dynamism. The final panels were completed with elements symbolising the key values associated with each scientist, while particular attention was paid to composition and colour harmony through the use of complementary and analogous colours.