HAPPY HOLIDAYS

En el LRC, disfrutamos la época de navidad, hacemos que nuestro alumnos sientan que esta época es especial llena de mucho amor y paz.

Desarollamos diferentes actividades y display que nos permiten dar ese toque mágico.

Primero empezamos con la decoración de nuestra biblioteca para despertar el espiritu navideño. Tomamos inspiración de Pinterest donde pudimos encontrar decoraciones que eran posibles para nosotras realizar.
Luego celebramos la semana del Festival de luces donde incluimos los festivales siguientes:

Yee Peng: se celebra anualmente en la luna llena del duodécimo mes del calendario Lunar tradicional Tailandés y en él se fabrican linternas de papel que se elevan en el cielo como expresion de buenos augurios y liberacion.

Hannukah: Se celebra el 25 de Kislev del calendario Judio,es celebrada por el pueblo judío durante ocho días seguidos. En esta fiesta, familias y amigos se reúnen a compartir tradiciones, juegos, cantos, platos típicos y a encender cada noche una nueva vela en el candelabro de nueve brazos.

La festividad acontece el 25 noviembre y comienzos de diciembre del Kislev del calendario judío, fecha que acaece entre fines deL  calendario gregoriano.

Como parte de las actividades de Makerspace, los estudiantes hicieron estrellas de origami, bolitas de navidad con brillantina, copos de nieve de papel reciclado y vasos con decoraciones navideñas. 
Les invitamos a ver las fotografías. 

En el álbum de Flickr puede ver todo lo que hacemos en esta época del año.

Feliz Navidad en cada país, en cada corazón, en cada hogar y los mejores deseos para el año 2017.
LRC Team

Book Week 2016

It is Book Week this week in the Secondary School.
Do have a look at the variety activities available and take part in the many tribal competitions.

We will post photos in our Flickr album, as they come in.

Input Devices 2

This week we have continued our study of Input Devices in 11th ITGS. The students randomly selected one input method to focus on and then scripted a short In Plain English Style video.

Some opted for paper cutouts, other whiteboards, and pens. The resulting videos were varied not only in content but in method. The students not only consolidated their understanding of these input methods but also found creative ways to teach others about them.

Here is a short mash-up of those that were turned in today.

ABC DVA 2016

The 6th Annual DVA was a Fantastic success. This was a gala event in which students, teachers and parents came from across the school in celebration of ABC student digital video work.  A wonderful audience was in attendance to witness the numerous awards that were given out during the evening. 

We would like to offer an additional word of congratulations to Victor Hugo Salazar in 11th grade, who this year became a member of the DVA Committee and produced the final video production for the show. 

Do have a look at our Flickr Album, The LRC Facebook page additional for photos and details about this event.

Here is the list of winning videos:

2nd Grade Animation

Ariella Schaeuffler for The Hungry Shark

3rd Grade Animation

Gerardo Cuellar Scratch Toy Design

4th Grade Animation

Diego Bendeck for Utari Shape Animation in Scratch

5th Grade Animation

Adriana Menjívar for Agario Animation

KS3 Animation

Eliza Giammattei, Pablo Hernández,Daniel Figueroa, Adriela Grijalva for Snowflakes on Track

KS2 Educational

Diego Salguero for How to Make a 2x2 Piston Door

KS3 Educational

Maria Paulina Garrido for Huge Volcano Eruption

Star Wars Parody

Airi Shibata, Ivana Salomé, Montserat Gagliardo Monge for Star Wars A Capella

Independent Trailer

Víctor Hugo Salazar and Natalia Castaneda for Buble gum

IB Promo

Víctor Hugo Salazar and Andrés López for Introduction to IB Film

11th Grade Short

Víctor Hugo Salazar, Gabriela Zedán and Mauricio Velásquez for Time to Move

IB Short

Javier Miguel for Letters to Heaven

Movie of the Year

Victor Hugo Salazar, Gabriela Zedan and Mauricio Velasquez for Time to Move

DVA16

The 6th Annual ABC Digital Video Awards is almost upon us.  Thursday May 19th is the date for this this gala event, the purpose of which is to highlight excellence in student video work, done throughout the school year.

This year we have 52 student filmmakers, from 2nd to 12th grade, involved as nominees in the following categories, (some within several subcategories):

Best Animation
Best Educational Video
Best Star Wars Parody
Best Advertisement
Best Short Film
Movie of the Year

The theme is Star Wars, and at 7:30pm on the 19th of May, those people lucky enough to be in the PAC, will be transported to a galaxy far far away.

Community voting opened on Monday and will be closed as of 3:00 this Thursday, in time to tally the votes and prepare the awards.

We would like to thank all of the parents in advance, whose children have been nominated for an award,  for their support the evening of the event. Please ensure that you fill in the RSVP you were sent.


Do mark your calendars as this is an event you will not want to miss.

STEAM Fest 2016

Our first ever STEAM Fest was a great success. 

The ABC and local community came together in a full scale celebration of STEAM. The projects were wonderful, and the energy crackled as the whole school, whole day event took centre stage across 3 different venues. The level of engagement and excitement was paramount, as student and staff presenters, and creative centre leaders from our school, as well as from around El Salvador, worked and interacted with students, staff, visitors and local dignitaries.

Here are some of the preliminary photos from the event. The organisers of the event issue a huge thank you to the hundreds of people that made it all possible! 
We now look forward to STEAM Fest 2017.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/48254552@N04/albums/72157662253275704

WAAM-We Are All Makers!

Next week promises to be spectacular. Not only will Brain Awareness Week and Science Week come together, but this year they do so along with our community of makers, which will trigger an explosion of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics initiatives. The event is STEAM Fest and it promises to captivate, compel and inspire the community through creativity and innovation.

This is the first ever STEAM Focused event to take place at the ABC, which brings together the whole school, schools from the community, as well as local educational and STEAM based organisations.

Over 240 ABC Staff and students are directly involved, as are several local schools, international organisations and businesses.

The Fest or Faire opens on March 16th at 8:00, with a keynote delivered by the British Ambassador on the topic of British Science Week. The Ambassador will then award the prizes for the winning Primary and Secondary Science Faire projects. The event will run all day and end at 2:00, with the final Keynote delivered by via video, by one of our very own STEAM pioneers, Exabrit Roberto Melendez.

During the day students, staff and visiting teams will run exhibits, creative centres and in some cases, competitions. A total of 57 exhibitions and creative centres and 34 Science Fair finalist projects,  will fill the Auditorium and PAC, and spill over into the Auditorium Mezzanine and Drama Studio.

Classes from every year group will visit STEAM Fest during the course of the day and be able to engage in creative, active experimentation and learning. STEAM Fest promises to stimulate all the senses and build cognitive and community connections for everyone who involved.

Parents are invited to drop in during the day and visit the various STEAM Fest venues, which will be open all day, but close briefly at Secondary lunch and break times. Parking for the event will be on the basketball courts, which can be accessed through the Administration parking lot. 

We do hope to see you there and  invite you watch our latest teaser , which will give you a good idea of the sorts of activities that are taking place, in preparation for STEAM Fest 2016.

Finally we would like to thank our wonderful STEAM Fest sponsors, who play an important role in  STEAM Fest 2016.

Book Week 2016

ABC Book Week 2016

The ABC annual Book Week event wound up today. Book Week is a whole school event, which takes place around World book Day, and is a  celebration of books, a love of reading and and a love of writing.

Many activities took place during the week, in different sections of the school.

Secondary school students arrived on Monday to encounter a large reading tree, which had sprouted at the centre of the LRC. This tree was quickly embellish by students who prepared and hung their very own book reviews on its branches. The annual Book Week Fair took place from Wednesday to Friday and hosted a variety of  local book shops and artisans. A good number of students and other members of the community seized the opportunity to visit the stalls in lessons and during break times.

The LRC Librarians organised several visits by acclaimed local authors, who lead workshops and talks for many of the students during their Spanish and French lessons. Amongst these authors were Carlos Colindres from the American Embassy and Susana Reyes, each of whom spoke to the 11th grade students. Ligia Salguero Mediateca from the Spanish Embassy, Isabel Barrientos from the Colegio Liceo Francés, Lucia la Guacalcía, and Josué Peña, all local authors, ran reading and writing workshops for the 6th grade students.

A book donation centre was placed at the front of the LRC for members of the community to deposit new and used books in. This will remain in place for the following week. The donations, which are destined for the Centro Escolar Católico Virgen de la Paz, Tamanique, La Libertad are greatly appreciated.

The week’s activities culminated in the annual Character Day, in which students demonstrated their love of books by dressing up for the day as their favourite book characters.  Alternatively, students had the option to show their support of school charities, by wearing charity focused  t-shirts.

This was a high energy Book Week, full of activity and special events, which focussed on the joy to be found in reading and writing. I would personally like to thank Hilda Gomez and Eugenia Rivas for their hard work in organising Book Week in the Secondary.

Jennifer Garcia

LRC Coordinator

Here are a few photos from the week. They entire collection can be accessed from the LRC Flickr Page.

STEAM Fest 2016

This year has been a year of transition for the LRC. Not only have we created a 3 tier maker system of drop ins, an extra curricular club, and making in our ICT PBL units, but we are about to launch our ver first STEAM Fest on Wednesday 16th of March.

This whole school event will be partnered with both Primary and Secondary Science Fairs, as well as Brain Awareness Week. It will provide a venue, not only for our school community, but for other schools and organisations around the country, at which to promote educational development and student innovation through STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, The Arts and Mathematics) projects.

STEAM as an educational approach, focuses on the whole child, through inquiry, problem solving, creativity, critical thinking and collaboration using Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths. STEAM focuses on the learning process and provides students with learning opportunities to investigate, plan, and develop meaningful open ended projects.

STEAM Fest will provide opportunities throughout the day for students to participate in creative activity centres, view expositions and interact with presenters. Please visit our STEAM Fest Site to learn more.