A FINAL THOUGHT

Maybe at this time of the year, after so many projects and enriching experiences, we should become aware of the luck we have. Just to make you think a little!
HAPPY SUMMER HOLIDAYS TO EVERYONE!

HAMLET (THE PLAY)

On April 22nd, students from ESO 41 performed their own version of  HAMLET in front of a deeply impressed audience.This was one of the activities we had in our cultural week. It is very difficult to  imagine the amount of work and adrenaline that staging a play involves, specially when you have very little time to prepare the show.  I would like to thank all the pupils who put their heart and soul into it for their work, attitude and dedication. It was a noteworthy performance and an  unbelievable experience for all of us. We will always remember it!

THE CAST

(in order of appearance)

FRANCISCO.- Antonio Arjona 

BERNARDO.- Antonio Javier González 

HORATIO.- Sergio Martín
THE GHOST.- Justo Rebollo

KING CLAUDIUS.- Iván Díaz

LAERTES.- David Yudes

POLONIUS.- Cristobal Barrionuevo

HAMLET.- Francisco Javier Zambrana

OPHELIA.- Irene Máximo

ROSENCRATZ.- Jordan Toledo

GUILDERNSTEIN.- Pablo Silva

THE PLAY WITHIN THE PLAY 

ACTORS (ACTRESSES IN THIS CASE).- Tamara Martín

                                                                        Nuria Martínez

                                                                        Cristina Moreno

                                                                        María Dorado

QUEEN GERTRUDE.- María Esperanza Mateos

SOLDIER.- Alvaro Mostazo

GRAVEDIGGER.- Victor Manuel Márquez

FORTINBRAS.- Carlos Pérez

PROMPTER.- Elena Madrazo

ASSISTANT.- Nuria Taboada

CAMERA.- Laura López

And the rest of the class for their patience, ideas and support!
I would also like to thank ESO 21 students and Miss Barranco for the castle at the back and Ophelia´s tombstone.

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And thanks Fran for this gift! I really appreciate it!

HAMLET

         On Friday, March 20th, students from 6th Form, ESO 41 and 33 attended the performance of Hamlet, Shakespeare's most popular and powerful tragedy, adapted for a young modern audience. They joined the Pocket Oxford actors who took their audience, and our tragic hero -Hamlet -on an hilarious journey of ghosts, betrayal, duels, poison and murder…. not forgetting Hamlet's ventriloquist dummy and the famous shower curtain scene!

         A tale of deception, revenge and madness - but with plenty of music, dressing up and dancing, what's not to love? All told with the help of our pupils in the audience, of course!

What is Hamlet about? Summary -(the bones!)

Uncle kills Hamlet's Dad.

Uncle marries Hamlet's Mum.

Hamlet sees his Dad's ghost.

Dad's ghost tells Hamlet who killed him.

Hamlet takes revenge on Uncle.

Everyone dies.

Other modern revenge tragedies are

RoboCop (1987)

The Original Star Wars Trilogy

Batman (1989)

The Godfather Trilogy

Many other films are inspired by the plot of Hamlet, the most famous being Disney's animated classic The Lion King (1994). The story borrows from the play 'Hamlet' -the evil uncle kills his brother and takes his throne leaving the young prince confused. 'The Lion King' "disneyfies" the play with songs, comedy, and a happy ending.

Disney borrows ideas from many sources and was very successful.

Shakespeare did the same thing in his day.

William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, in 1564. His parents were quite rich and he attended a school where he studied Greek and Latin. Aged 26, he married Anne Hathaway in 1582 and they had three children -one called Hamnet who is thought to have inspired 'Hamlet'.

Shakespeare then moved to London to become a playwright and actor with the successful theatre company The Lord Chamberlain's Men. Shakespeare stayed with the company until he retired in

1610.

Shakespeare wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets (poems of 14 lines). His plays are grouped into three genres: comedy, tragedy and history plays. 'Hamlet' is a tragedy. Shakespeare retired to

Stratford-upon-Avon where he died in 1616, aged 52.

Shakespeare was alive during the Elizabethan Era when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and supported theatre. Shakespeare is the greatest writer in the English language and the world's

greatest playwright. He is often called 'The Bard', which means the poet.

HAPPY ST. VALENTINE´S 2015

A truly declaration of love!

SONNET XVIII by William SHAKESPEARE

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
   So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
   So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. 

DUMB WAYS TO...

Dumb Ways to Die is a public service announcement campaign by Metro Trains in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, to promote rail safety.The campaign video went viral through sharing and social media starting in November 2012.The campaign was devised by advertising agency McCann Melbourne. It appeared in newspapers, local radio, outdoor advertising, throughout the Metro Trains network and on Tumblr.John Mescall, executive creative director of McCann, said "The aim of this campaign is to engage an audience that really doesn't want to hear any kind of safety message, and we think Dumb Ways To Die will". McCann estimated that within two weeks it had generated at least 50 million dollars worth of global media value in addition to more than 700 media stories, for "a fraction of the cost of one TV ad". According to Metro Trains, the campaign contributed to a more than 30% reduction in "near-miss" accidents in a year.

Video

A video was developed by Pat Baron, animated by Julian Frost, and produced by Cinnamon Darvall. It was uploaded to YouTube on 14 November 2012 and made public two days later. It featured "twenty-one characters killing themselves in increasingly stupid ways, culminating in the last three characters being killed by trains due to unsafe behavior. It was viewed 2.5 million times within 48 hours and 4.7 million times within 72 hours. Within two weeks, the video had been viewed 30 million times.As of December 2014, the video received over 95 million views.

Song

The song "Dumb Ways to Die" from the video was written by John Mescall with music by Ollie McGill from, who also produced it. It was performed by Emily Lubitz, the lead vocalist of Tinpan Orange., with McGill providing backing vocals. It was released on iTunes, attributed to the artist "Tangerine Kitty".

 Don´t shoot the messenger!

(Just take it as as a warning)

A TIME TO CELEBRATE!

Christmas is already here and pupils at IES Mare Nostrum have made all kind of activities to celebrate this time of the year.......... Students of AF11 made a British party where they cooked typical British sandwiches.We ate, drank, danced and tasted a bit of the British culture.

In case you want to become a new Jamie Oliver,here you have the recipe of some of the most popular teatime sandwiches they made.
 Creamy egg and cress  sandwiches (makes 12); 4 eggs ,2 chopped spring onions, 2-3 tbsp crème fraîche

Boil 4 eggs for 8 mins. Cool the eggs, peel, mash, then mix with 2 chopped spring onions and 2-3 tbsp crème fraîche. Season, then spread over 12 small rolls. Add a little cress, pop on the lids and serve.


 Lemony cucumber sandwich (makes 12) • 6 slices wholemeal bread • ½ cucumber, thinly sliced • 4 tbsp mayonnaise • zest of 1 lemon •

Lightly spread 6 slices wholemeal bread with butter. Cover with a layer of thinly sliced cucumber, then use a 5-6cm round cutter to stamp out 12 circles. Mix together 4 tbsp mayonnaise with zest 1 lemon. Top each circle with 1 halved large cooked prawn and a dollop of the lemony mayonnaise.

Prawn sandwich (serves 12) 2 tbsp mayonnaise 100g pack cooked and peeled North Atlantic prawns ½ lettuce,

 Lightly spread 6 slices of wholemeal with mayonnaise. Cover with a layer of sliced lettuce, and then put some prawns in the middle.

Pilchards Sandwich (serves 12) A can of pilchards - Preferably with tomato sauce or 6 slices wholemeal bread ; Butter.

 Open the pilchards and take the spines away. Squeeze the sardines with a fork. Spread some butter on the bread and fill the sandwich with the sardines .


         Pupils from ESO 41 wrote their own personal Christmas tale with the aid of the Instant Button App.
There were really good stories.
Last but not least, students from ESO 33 gave presents to each other in class. They had been preparing the "invisible friend" game for over a month, so it was all excitement and joy on the "D" day.

WISHING YOU A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Thank you so much for such a productive term!
XXX

CHRISTINGLE

      On December 4th, 2014, Rosa and Lucía from BS22 attended a Christingle Service at Saint George´s Anglican Church in Malaga. The service was led by the Chaplain Revd. Mary Ellen Dolan, and the Assistant Curate, the Revd. Doreen Cage.
     But, what is a Christingle?

   Christingle means ‘Christ’s Light’ and it is a symbol of the Christian faith. Lots of churches hold Christingle services around Christmas time. The custom of giving out lighted candles in these services began in Germany in 1747 but it wasn't introduced to the Anglican Church in England until 1968.

Christingles are made up of different parts, each one being there to remind us of something.

• The orange represents the world.
• The candle reminds Christians of Jesus who they believe to be the light of the world.
• The red ribbon goes all round the 'world' and being the colour of blood, reminds Christians that Jesus died.
• The four cocktail sticks could have either of two meanings; the four seasons or the four corners of the world.
• The sweets (or sometimes dried fruit) remind Christians of God's gifts to the world including kindness and love.
• The foil is only there to catch waxy drips from the candle.

           We prayed, sang carols and enjoyed ourselves a lot! 

         And after the service had ended, we looked for Gerald Brenan´s grave ....until we found it!
         It was a lovely way to say hello to Christmas !

          GERALD BRENAN (1894-1987)

He was born in Malta into a well-off Anglo-Irish family, while his father was serving there in the British Army. He was educated at Radley, a boarding school in England, which he hated due to the bullying he endured. His autographical works make it clear that he did not enjoy a good relationship with his father.

At the age of 18, and to spite his father who wanted him to train for an army career at the Royal Military College, he set off with an older friend, the occasional photographer and eccentric, John Hope-Johnston, to walk to China. Between August 1912 and January 1913 they walked 1,560 miles, reaching Bosnia before lack of money made them turn back. Brenan spent the next ten months in Germany, learning the language, surprisingly in preparation for joining the Indian Police Service, but this plan was interrupted by the outbreak of the First World War.in August 1914. He immediately joined the British Army and served in France throughout the war. After being demobbed in 1918, Hope-Johnstone introduced Brenan to the Bloomsbury Group.

 In 1919 he moved to Spain, and from 1920 on he rented a house in the small village of Yegen, in the Alpujarras  district of the province of Granada. He spent his time catching up on the education which he felt he had missed by not attending university, and in writing. An important factor in his moving to Spain was his calculation that his small income would go further there. Despite the remoteness of his new home, contacts with the Bloomsbury Group continued, particularly with his best friend Ralph Partridge and his first wife Dora Carrington, with whom Brenan had an affair. In the late 1920s he formed a relationship with his maid, Juliana Martin Pelegrina, which in 1931 resulted in the birth of a daughter, Miranda Helen.

In Dorset in 1930 he met the American poet and novelist Gamel Woolse 1895–1968); they married in Rome in 1931. During the Spanish Civil war and for many years afterwards they lived in Aldborne in Wiltshire. Brenan was permitted to return to Spain in 1953 despite holding views which were critical of Franco´s  regime. He spent most of the remainder of his life . In 1984 Brenan was moved in controversial circumstances to a nursing home in Pinner, but he returned to Spain after the authorities there made special arrangements to provide him with the nursing care on which he depended. At the time of his death, his body was donated to the Medicine Faculty of Málaga for medical research and later cremated; his ashes are buried in the English Cementery.

          

   To know more, have  a look at the Church Website: www.stgeorgemalaga.org