The Icing on the Cake!

I just got the FCE results from Anglo this afternoon and I think we may have gotten the best results ever! These are some of the first conclusions from the grade reports:

• Out of 23 students, only one didn't pass (Gustavo Pak), and everyone else did!
• The best part is that seven students passed with a grade of C; ten with a grade of B; and five with an A!
• One of the 23 took the CAE: Anton Trolleberg (passed with a B)
• The students who got an A were: María Paula Seoane, Ana Belén Rivera Romero, Valentina Pastore, Elizabeth Chaila, and Graziana Caruso. Elizabeth's was the best performance scoring within the 'exceptional' range -the highest in all five papers.
• Unfortunately I don't know who's 1st and who's in 2nd Polimodal, but you, their teachers, will know.

So, CONGRATULATIONS to the teams of 1st and 2nd Polimodal!!! And of course, everyone else who ever taught these kids and contributed to their excellence!

We're off to a promising 2008! :)

VaLeNtiNe's DaY ChUcKle

My Next Life

I want to live my next life backwards!

You start out dead and get that out of the way right off the bat.

Then, you wake up in a nursing home feeling better every day.

When you are kicked out of the home for being too healthy, you spend

Several years enjoying your retirement and collecting benefit checks.

When you start work, you get a gold watch on your first day.

You work 40 years or so, getting younger every day until pretty soon

You're too young to work.

So then, you go to high school: play sports, date, drink, and party.

As you get even younger, you become a kid again.

You go to elementary school, play, and have no responsibilities.

In a few years, you become a baby

and everyone runs themselves ragged keeping you happy.

You spend your last 9 months floating peacefully in luxury,

spa-like conditions: central heating, room service on tap.

Until finally... you finish off as an orgasm.

I rest my case.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments; love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove:

O, no, it is an ever-fixèd mark,

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wand'ring bark,

Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle's compass come;

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

If this be error and upon me proved,

I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

No Workshop Yet

Welcome back everyone! Probably like you, I'm still coming to terms with the idea that soon there will be no more staying in bed late in the morning, or leisure reading or siesta any time of day. However, I am looking forward to seeing you all!
As most of you will be coming to school for 'consultas' tomorrow Monday 11 and Tuesday 12, I just wanted to let you know that I'm not likely to be at school either day as I have no 'consultas' this year! Also, the most important news is that until further notice there will be no IB writing workshop this month. Announced as a possibility in December, it will not take place until I am fully prepared for it as I would like to and as you, my most qualified audience, truly deserve. Do not worry much about it, there is no crisis or any problem at all. I'll fill you in with more information in person whenever I see you at school, or via blog if it's necessary or urgent. Of course, if you'd like to talk before that, just give me a call.
Meanwhile, I'll be meeting with Edith sometime this week to discuss a couple of curriculum changes in 5th and 6th grade. Eventually I might invite the 7th Year team and whoever else would like to come for a 6th-7th Year teachers meeting. The details will be arranged with Edith and I'll let you know right away.
I hope you had a great summer and are fully revitalized for this new beginning... Talk to you soon!

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Convocatoria para docentes y traductores de Inglés

EAFS Programas Interculturales informa que está abierta la convocatoria para docentes del Nivel Primario y Medio, traductores o intérpretes de Inglés, para postularse a tres becas parciales, con el objetivo de insertarse en una comunidad educativa norteamericana por un período de seis meses. La convocatoria está dirigida a docentes de todas las disciplinas y/o traductores o intérpretes de inglés. Quienes estén interesados en participar deberán enviar sus datos personales y currículum vitae por correo electrónico a: argentina@afs.org Los postulantes deberán acreditar experiencia laboral, buen manejo del idioma inglés y tener más de 21 años de edad. El plazo de recepción vence el 22 de febrero. Para más información, deben consultar telefónicamente al 0800-288-2237 (opción 1), de lunes a viernes de 9 a 16.

Aparecido en El Tribuno, Febrero 6 de 2008

Hope someone goes for it!!! :)