Europe's Strongest Man 2014

Here you have (click here) the article about the strongest man in Europe for 2014. It is amazing how many kilograms some athletes can lift. Maybe you don't know who the strongest man in Spain is, his nickname is "El Porruo". I think that if Hulk was real, He would be "El Porruo"! Don't you think so? ;)

OUR CIL PROJECTS FOR EDL

Last 26th September we celebrated EDL, European Day of Languages. Our students at 1st ESO did these nice CIL projects (CIL means "Curriculum Integrado de las Lenguas") about the 28 countries in the European Union and their languages, both in English and in French. 

And the best projects are...

By Rocío Lavela, María Muñoz, Araceli Ramírez and Laura Ramírez. 

By Carmen Morán, Araceli Pineda, Araceli Bermúdez and Araceli Ruiz. 

By Ana Jurado, María Hidalgo, Araceli Montes and Alicia Jiménez. 

By Manuel, Rafael, Pedro and Víctor from 1º D (contact me for surnames)

By Carmen Víbora, Alberto Arroyo, Antonio Jiménez, Adriana Leóna and Lucía Mejías. 

By Emilio López, Marta Pacheco, Laura Huertas, Ana Belén Rodríguez and Sofía Ruiz. 

By Magdalena Carmona and Clara Estepa 

(no names, contact me)

I hope you enjoyed these wonderful posters as I did.
See you soon!:)

Let's go to the mountains for a better training!

Now that you are studying landforms in Social Science, perhaps you would like to know why many athletes prefer to train at high altitudes, in the mountains.

As you know, we need oxygen continously, and so we need while doing physical activity. At high altitudes, there is less oxygen and our body must produce more red blood cells, in order to work properly. That increase of red blood cells makes us have better stamina when we are at home, near sea level. That is why those athletes train in Sierra Nevada or in other high mountains.

Another detail to consider is that almost everybody likes to listen to music while training. It seems that we hold better any effort while we keep our mind occupied, maybe listening to music.

So, if you want better results when training, consider doing that at high altitudes and listening to good music. 

PE UNIT 1 NOTES

Here you have the notes about warm up and cool down (click here) for the exam.

Also the notes about bones (here), muscles (here) and the joint diagram (here)

Good luck!

Good Morning and thank you to all who participate. I look forward to having a great time.
Feel free to ask me anything that we can discuss in class. Manuel

Sports and music in Ancient Greece

Maybe you think that sports are modern but they are actually as old as human beings, and so is music.

In Ancient Greece, people, teachers and students looked for perfection at all levels. That was what they called Areté. Since Sun was considered the main 'planet' in the Universe, Greek God Helios, the God of Sun had a lot of power and gave to his sons great skills at sports and music. For that reason, students had to study sports and music among other matters, in their way to Areté.

Mixing Areté and cult for their Gods, greek people took part in the Olympics, the biggest sports meeting in the whole world. Boxing, Pancracio (a sort of wrestling), pedestrian races, horse races, throwings were part of the Olympic program.

Not only sports, but also music was useful to reach Areté, because music powered students intelligence a lot. The sentence 'Mens sana in corpore sano' explains very well which was the way of thinking of the greeks.

Do you find interesting that way of thinking?