Another Smashing Success for ABC Students and Staff-DVA 2021

It was with a sense of great community pride that we launched the first-ever live-streamed ABC Digital Video Awards Ceremony known as DVA 2021 last evening. This provided a wonderful opportunity to highlight the best of ABC student filmmaking, in the secondary school. It was with no doubt a moment of great pride and triumph for everyone involved, from the animators and actors to the directors, producers, and staff members. 

Do have a look at the short video below which highlights the nominees, winning producers, and their videos. 

All of the nominees are to be congratulated for the hard work and dedication that lead them to be nominated for DVA 2021! Winning individuals and teams can derive an extra amount of satisfaction in knowing that they came out at the top of their respective categories.  

The DVA Committee will arrange for in-school deliveries of trophies and awards for the upcoming weeks, for both X and Y cohorts. Special arrangements will be made for O Cohort participants. More on that later.

 We will also create a special photo gallery for all of our DVA Nominees and Winners to help mark this special landmark for them, one which they can look back on over the years with a sense of joy and pride in their work as part of the ABC learning community.

Also, check out the live stream video of the event below and the  DVA Website if you would like to know more about this exciting event and the work that leads up to it. 

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DVA 2021 (Digital Video Awards) -Update

The much anticipated ABC Secondary School DVA will take place this week. Do come out to the virtual event and support all of the wonderful student creativity that has taken place this school year. 

We will be using the ABC Bull Dogs Livestream for the event. Please use this link to access it or go to the DVA Website to access it from there. 

We look forward to seeing you all at DVA 2021. 

#ItsGreat2BABC!

 

Secondary Book Week-Announcement 2!

The LRC Team would like to thank everyone who participated in Book Week 2021 and made it the amazing event it was. You may remember from our earlier post that this year's Book Week was very unique in that it was planned and organised as a collaborative project between IB school libraries and local organisations in El Salvador.  You can read more about that here or scroll down to the previous post.

It is now time to report on some of the highlights which arose from the participation strand.

Calligram Competition

The LRC team would like to congratulate Nadine Salume in 7th grade for taking part in and winning the Book Week Calligram Competition with her rendition in the representation of the Hunger Games Novel, which she designed using text arranged to depict an image.  Well done Nadine for your hard work on this initiative!  We look forward to your participation in future activities as well. 

9th Grade Assembly

We also have a winner from 9th grade Michael Romero for leading with student responses during the Book Week Assembly. Well done and a huge thank you to Michael for sharing his ideas with staff members and students during assembly.

Creative Writing Exhibition 

Catalina Portillo in 11th grade won the Creative Writing Exhibition piece for her video submission in which she reads to us from her piece entitled Omaha Beach, which focuses on the power of courage. We would like to thank Catalina as well as all of the participants in this challenge for their exemplary written pieces. We look forward to more creative works from these students and would like to encourage them and others to continue sharing their literary endeavors with us. 

You can view all the submissions here.

(Please be aware that some of the student content is only accessible with ABC login credentials)

Finally, Challenge #3

Read 2 Books per Month, is a student initiative being run by Juan Santos and Sofia Tapias, which as the name states, is a challenge to read 2 or more books each month. This initiative will continue to run until the end of the school year.  Do please consider taking part.