The Butarque News 5

The Butarque News 5

Welcome to our weekly program. Today we are going to talk about a visit to the Prado Museum, the Muvies, the Butarque Basketball Championship and Antonio Sánchez. But first,

The Prado Museum.
Last 18th of February, the students of Classic Culture of 3º ESO went with the students of 4º ESO of Latin to the Prado Museum. We were accompanied in the visit by the teacher Juan of Latin and María Jesús of Art. When we got there, we took a free time and we had a walk for the surroundings of the museum. Then, at a quarter to twelve, we entered the museum and saw sculptures and paintings of mythology. We saw pictures of Goya, of Velázquez, of Rubens... Finally, after we had finished the visit, we went back to our school by coach. (By David).

The Muvies.

It was a trip to Muvies, that is, a sample of videos made at school. The authors were invited to watch the videos made at different schools. Most of the students studying French were the authors and they would like to thank the students from different courses for their collaboration. (By Jose Andrés).

Butarque Basketball Championship.

Our school conducted a Butarque Basketball Championship, which will be in classes throughout the school, where the three best basketball players in each class will play against other three. Matches will be played at half track until they reach ten points, the first team to reach ten points win. The winning school team will receive prizes, as happened previously when the competitions were free kick, triple, three to three and skills. I remember that we were visited by Romay. This project is organized by the Fundación Sociocultural Basketball, from Spanish Basketball Federation. The date is not yet fixed. (By Juanma).


Antonio Sánchez.

As was announced last week, student Antonio Sánchez from 3ºB suffered a knee injury playing football. He will be away for three weeks, after which he hopes to return to school. He had intended to return on February 23rd but he couldn't. (By Roberto).

The Butarque News 4

Butarque News 4

Welcome to the fourth issue of our secondary school weekly. Today we will hear of an accident at Butarque, defending public school and school trips. But first,



Accident in Butarque.
Last Tuesday, at Butarque school a fellow student from 3ºB suffered an accident while playing basketball. Antonio suffered an accident and one of the teachers went to call for an ambulance to take the boy to hospital. Finally, the ambulance arrived and took the kid away. Here, we hope our fellow is well and better soon.

By: Eduu' Orozco 3ºB


Defending public education.
We ask for an inmediate withdrawal of all the Bologna plans and privatization measures. A decent job when finishing our studies. Not even a workers' euro for the bankers Let the crisis be paid by their leaders: the capitalists. All to the fight. General strike on March 4th.

By: Andrea Bejarano.


School Trips.
Last Tuesday some students of Butarque Secondary School have attended a trip to Guadarrama Mountains to learn to ski. A short course of two hours in which to lead students through the snow to learn how to manage this very practiced sport in places where it snows much: skiing. Other students went in another trip to the Prado Museum, accompanied by several teachers to admire some of the great works of painting, very well known at the time of our ancestors.

By: Alejandra Girón.

The Butarque News 3

Out-of-school activities... Coming soon!!

Last twelfth of February, we spoke to the representative of the pupils of IES Butarque about the interesting things that soon were going to happen at our school. He told us that he spoke to the people of the town hall

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Is learning English important?

In my opinion I think that learning English is nowadays one of the most important things for travelling all over the world, although some people feel it isn't necesary.

Firstly, I personally think English is useful for finding a job or for talking to other people you work with and understand them. Besides, if you know English you can travel and speak to someone in another country because this language is very important.

Secondly, it's necesary, or, at least, it will be useful in the future for meeting new people and for moving to a foreign place to find, for example, a pub or a restaurant.

In conclusion, English is the most important language at this times. However, here in Spain we are very lucky due to speaking Spanish, that is one of the most spoken too.

Is reading important?

There are some people who think that reading is boring and that it isn’t important but in my opinion it’s very important.

Firstly, it takes you to a complete different world and you can be there watching what are the characters of the story doing.

Secondly, scientifics have proved that reading is good for the brain because it activates a lot of parts of it. And also if it’s a text to be informed such as a news paper or a medicine magazine, it will help you to be more intelligent.

In conclusion, I think we should read to have fun and to be informated.

Do teenagers read as a hobbie?

There are so many different answer to this question. In my opinion, the correct answer is "Yes, they do". But, in this masochistic society, people only see what they want. There are a lot of reader-teenagers, in fact.

Firstly, bookshops are plenty of books specially dedicated from 12 to 18, of to many thematics: fantasy, love, horror, magic...

Secondly, teenagers have got too much time to spend in their hobbies, and, for a very big percent of world's teen population, read is one of their.

Thirdly... Only go to the cinema and see! Adaptations of teenagers books breaks the theatre every year: Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia and the newest Twilight. They break records of best-sellers and of "most viewed"! And all were books. Specially for teenagers.

In conclusion, teenagers read what they want when they want. So, "yes, they do" and "yes, I do".

Silvia San Segundo, 3ºB.