2008-9 3rdyr School Magazine Produced By Kids At School

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3RD YEAR MAGAZINE

Sanpa Times This yearʼs edition includes some fascinating surveys whose answers will surprise you. These themes have been selected by the third yearʼs students, from a wide variety of subjects. It also includes some interesting articles with relevant information on the latest news with the most up to date information. You wonʼt be able to stop reading!

CONTENTS: Sports

-New Chinese classes in school

-New goals on the black field

-Itʼs difficult to reach the objectives of the LOE

-Paying for doing sport at school

-New law new subject

-Broken arm because of football

-Intensification at languages

-Diabolo

Trips

-A new cupboard in the “chapela”

-First of bachiller to Pyrenees

-4th yearʼs students go to swim

-2008/2009 exchange with belgium earlier

School colleges

-Basque intensification trip

-Rafa will continue in the school

-New technology

-Where is Pilar?

-Cameras at school

-Gill leaves the school because of the law

new

-Imacs change place

-Irene the new secretary

Others

-The missing teacher

-Violence is not the solution

-Begoñaʼs new look

-Strange light from axular

-Mariano again drum paradeʼs boss

-The new dinning room staff and food

Subjects

-Unforeseen weather

-New subjects at school

And fantastic surveys with OUR opinions about what really matters to US!!

News News 08-09

Sp o r t s :

grass, but it is too expensive. That is why the sport commission decided to bring the goals.

New goals on the black field:

The school had to decide between spending a lot of money and having full team football competitions at school or improving the playtime by putting new goals, also this way it is more comfortable for Rafa because that way he does not need to move the goals.

Last week four new goals were put up on the black field because the sports commission wanted to improve playtime.

Paying for doing sport at school This year it will be necessary to pay to do sport at school. It is a decision of the school council to cover costs that sport at school produces.

The principal idea was not putting new goals on the black field, it was putting artificial

This year, the first in the history of St Patrick’s, it will be necessary to pay if you want to do sport at school. The prize is 36€ per term ( if you are in primary) and 48€ (if you are in secondary).

This is a decision of the school council. It will be used to cover the costs that sport at school generates such as, trainers and goals. This was surprising for Rafa Nogal, the school coordinator, who says it might be because the school couldn’t afford this cost any longer.

have one. “I can’t believe what I see, there is a diabolo in every corner of the school”, said Borja Lilly. Pablo Carbonero

A new cupboard in the “chapela”

Ander Movilla .

Broken Arm Because of football A 3rd ESO student broke his arm playing football. Sergio Tomé as playing football with his “Bidasoa” team mates when someone kicked him with the ball.

He was immediately taken to hospital and he had his arm in bandages. 4 weeks after, on October 22nd, the bandage was taken off. “It’s like I’m free again” says Sergio. Guinea Fernández-Dans

Diabolo This year, school has started with a new fashion called the diabolo. It is a hobby which consists in making all the complicated tricks you can imagine. The person who introduced this hobby is Borja Lilly, a student in the 4 year of E.S.O. Now, nearly all the students from 3 of Primary to 4 of E.S.O.

A few days ago (20th October), a new cupboard in the “chapela” was installed. I spoke to Rafa the sports manager in school, and he told me that it is to keep some material for P.E. classes and for the basketball team, called Easo. “This is much more convenient for the basketball team, so they don’t have to go down to Rafa’s office”, said Irene Ascorreta. Pablo Carbonero

The fourth year students go to swim In St-Patrick’s, the fourth year students are going to swim for 20 days, in “Anoeta”. They spend the fifth and the sixth hour of class swimming.

The swimming teacher, talks to them in Basque. This is to improve their Basque level. Evelyn is the tutor of one of the classes and she is in charge of this swimming classes. “This is the coolest activity we have done in school” says a student in the fourth year. Susana Santaolalla

Where is Pilar? Ten days ago Pilar Goyoaga went to Bilbao because she had some family problems. Pilar two weeks ago asked school whether she could have a special permission to go to

Sc h o o l ’ s colleges Rafa will continue in the school: The school’s sport manager, Rafa, told us that it’s not true that he will be leaving the school this year. “This year I will be 60 years, so some people thought that I was going to retire, the rumor has travelled throughout the school, although it is not true” said Rafa. “That's what I would like to do but it is not possible at this moment. I will be in the school for at least one more year” he said laughing. He also explained that before leaving the school he needs to find a person able to replace him, which according to what he says, is something very difficult. “After I’ve found this person and after I’ve taught him, then I will go, but not at the moment”. Rafa said that he was very impressed how a false rumor has been able to expand so quickly and asked us to say that it is a false rumor, until the next 2 or 3 years! David Crespo

Bilbao to look after her mother. The school gave her a companionable leave. While Pilar was out a new teacher took her place, her name is Pilar Arsuaga, but she preferred us to call her Pili. Maybe for all Pili is new in the school, but she is not, she had been twenty six years staid for fifteen days ago, but she only because she found a better job on an other school. Adrian Agüeros.

Gill leaves the school because of the new law: The new law introduced by the Basque Government provoked Gill to leave the school. “Unfortunately and because of the new law, we have fewer hours of English in the school (exactly 5 hours), so we also have fewer groups, and this situation

forced me to take a decision. You know the result of it” said John Phillips. The school’s English department’s chief also told us that the ex-English teacher Gillian De Gruchy (born in Liverpool) has been in StPatrick’s for sixteen years, the same as him. It was a sad conclusion but there was an extra English teacher in the school. David Crespo

Irene, the new secretary

Begoña’s new look

A new young woman called Irene came to S t - Pa t r i c k ’s English school to try to be the new secretary. She came from the university to St-Patrick’s English school because she was practicing to be secretary. She came in September like all the teachers.

Iñigo Fernández

The missing teacher One of our teachers didn’t come to school last week and also she didn’t come a month ago because of some private issues. Begoña Elordui didn’t come to school last month for two weeks because she had a cold. So she stayed at home. Also last week she didn’t come to school because she is the tutor of first of ESO and she went with them to Barria (A place were they talk in Basque). That’s the mystery of the missing teacher. Patricia Porta

Now Begoña’s look is her natural hair color instead of the others looks that were with dyed hair. She was this look because she read in a magazine that it is better to show your real hair color. She is going to continue with her appearance until she gets bored. Normally she goes to cut her hair in Bilbao, there was the place where she read the magazine and cut her hair. “I think Begoña is better now” said most of the people.

Sergio Tomé

Mariano again drum parade’s boss Mariano has been the Drum Parade’s boss for a lot of years. Last year he retires, and he has not given any class since then. But, to out surprise, he is going to organize the Drum Parade this year again. He is going to start with the preparations on the 4 th of November. “We don’t mind who comes to teach us the Drum Parade. But, as a tradition, I think he should come” says a boy that is going to take part. Susana Santaolalla

Su b j e c ts New Subjects

him what she would like to do, the director accepted. Miren contacted the teachers, Maria and Lin. She chose them because they have similar ideas of teaching. “it’s very important to learn other languages and cultures when you are young, communication is more than words” said Miren Gabilondo. The classes have started this year in October and Maria and Lin are the teachers. They have a lot of experience, Miren has been for 20 years organizing Chinese courses for 20 years and lin has been teaching for 6 years.

This year in ESO there are some new subjects. This is because the government has obliged the schools to have Ethics, Citizenship and Spiritual Education. The government obliges teaching Ethics and Citizenship. In the 1st year of ESO John Phillips teaches Citizenship, in the 2nd year Tim teaches Citizenship. In the 3rd year Igone teaches Spiritual Education, and in the 4th year Mac teaches Ethics. The new subjects in the 3rd year of ESO are: Audiovisuals, and Ethics. Audiovisuals with Xavier Susperregui has been taught in the 1st and 2nd year of ESO, but this year also in the 3rd year of ESO. Adrian Tejeda

New Chinese classes in school! This year Chinese classes have started. Chinese teachers teach Chinese to pupils from our school. The person who organized it was Miren Gabilondo, she presented some ideas to the director of the school and she explained to

Although people are still starting to do Chinese, there are places for much more people. Ainhoa Uribarren

It’s difficult to reach the objectives of the LOE. The LOE (Organic Education Law) is hoping to take 4º year students to the B2 level (equivalent of First Certificate) in Basque. Nowadays it’s difficult to get the B2 level with the hours of class given in school. Due to this the school is going to try to put Social Science in Basque in primary to raise the level of Basque. Agustin, Coordinator of the Basque Department, says that a third of the students

in 3º of ESO will reach the B2 level if they work hard. He says that another third could do the same but have a problem with speaking. As there are a lot of different levels of Basque he thinks it ‘s almost impossible that the other third achieves it. However, he says that all the students have the necessary level of grammar in Basque to get the B2 level. Now it’s difficult to reach the LOE’s objective but in the future it will be easier. However, 1/3 of the pupils that study today in 3º of ESO will be able to reach the LOE’s objective. Ander Movilla

New law, new subject The Basque government and the school decide to introduce to school a new subject called Ethics, to help us mature. Last year the government established a new law called L.O.E. Inside this law there is a subject called Ethics.

teaching Spiritual Beliefs and in fourth Mac is teaching ethics. Patricia Porta

Intensification at languages This intensification at languages are obligatory. The rule has been introduced by the LOE. Tim, Arantxa, Caroline and Pilar give this intensifications at languages (English, Basque, French and Spanish) to all ESO students. These classes were introduced in May of last year. The bosses of school thought that many people need help in maths, for that reason they put one hour of maths per week. “I think it is a brilliant idea” said Juan Elvira. Sergio Tomé

t r ips First of Bachiller to Pyrenees From the 20th of October to the 27th the students of 1st of Baccalaureate, went to the Pyrenees. They went with four teachers: Mac, Igone, Tim and Mikel Ochoa.

The tutors in the secondary school John Phillips, Tim Buckwell, Igone Arrazola and Miguel are the teachers that are giving this subject, but in different ways: In the first year of ESO John is teaching it more individuality (for each student), in the second year Tim is teaching the Citizenship, in third Igone is

They left school about 9:00 o’clock on the bus when they arrived in Siresa, a village next to the Pyrenees. They had to climb a little bit to get to the hostel. They stayed in 3 different hostels and almost the activities that they did were orientation, walking, reading, writing and enjoying being I in a natural environment. Adrian Tejeda

2008/2009 exchange with Belgium earlier

from outside the school to come inside or students to go out the school with out permission.

This year the exchange with Belgium is earlier than other years because the students f r o m B e l g i u m a l s o h av e exchanges with Poland. This year the our students go in winter and students from Belgium come in spring.

The cameras weren’t approved of by the school council and that’s why the school asked a man to look for people coming out or in, there were other ideas, the ideas were: to give cards to fathers and students so they can came in, to make a door that closes with security keys or a bell connected to secretary, the problem of this idea was that it would be to much work for them. None of these ideas were approved of so the school decided to install these provisional cameras. John Phillips said: “Last year there were some problems because some people from outside came in and I think that’s why they installed the cameras”.

For next year the opposite is planned. To go there in spring, with better weather. Other years the exchanges were in February and in May, but now things have changed. Susana Aizpurua

Basque intensification trip For the first time in school, 1st ESO students have done a Basque intensification trip. Last week 1st ESO B went to Barria, Alava, and they did different kind of activities like: football, basketball and art; but all in Basque. They went with Begoña Elordui and Isabel Sorarrain. During this week 1ºESO A are in Barria doing the same activities. They have gone with Eli Etxebarria and Marisa Rodriguez. “We had lot of fun and a very good time. We also have learnt lot of Basque” says Alejandro Dans, 1ºESO B student.

Carla Aldabaldetrecu

Imacs change place 6 imacs computers were moved from the IT lab 2 to the Audiovisual room. Auritxe moved them before the school started in September. People from the 3rd and 4th year can use the imacs in the same computer in the IT lab 2. “Tim says it`s good to have more space to work Iñigo Fernández

Guinea Fernández-Dans

N ew t e ch nology Cameras at School A couple of weeks ago the school installed some cameras on the entrance because last year some parents didn’t want anybody

Other s Violence is not the solution. The last Wednesday 8th of October two pupils from the 3rd year of ESO had a fight. The fight started in the “chapela” and it finished in the 3rd B class.

The two students, student A and student B were in the “chapela” when they started fighting. Rafa separated them, “my first concern was to separate them, and that’s what I did” says Rafa. At 2:30 the fight started again, student A said he wanted to hit student B. the fight lasted until Maria Zuloaga came in and saw them. “I don’t like fights, but I also don’t like punishing them, I think we should be near them all the time and when there is a problem talk with them” says Rafa. Ainhoa Uribarren

Strange light from Axular A strange powerful green light was seen in Axular last week, very few though people saw it, and they do not have any idea of what could that be. This phenomenon hasn't got any explanation yet, but many theories have been mentioned, such us this: it was an experiment in the chemistry laboratory. Something like his hasn't happened before, in terms of strange phenomena, but it is also true that things like goat on the black field have happened. This light was produced during a class exchange, the reason for the small quantity of viewers. I thought Axular was going to bomb us added Ainhoa Uribarren one of the witnesses. Manuel Santos

The new dinning room staff and food This New Year the school has got a new catering service, with the company Aibak. This proposal was first made in May, when Miguel, the previous chef and food buyer, said he wouldn’t continue with his job in the next year. The dinning room staff has also experienced a few changes with new cooks and kitchen assistants. The menu has also varied a little. The menu includes more legumes (twice a week). There is also a bigger variety of fishes and different styles. ìI like the Saint Jacob very much as well as the hake with fried garlicî said Lourdes Latova. Manuel Santos

Unforeseen weather On january the snow surprised us all inside the St. Patrick's English school as the snow began to fall while the students where in class. There was too much snow, so the buses didn't come to the school to collect the students and teachers had to organize their students to know who was going to go home and how. Some students went home walking and other ones went by car, despite the difficulties of driving with the snow. "I had a lot of fun that day" said Manuel, one of the students in 3rd. year "and I didn't had problems going home as I live near the school". Asier Amenabar

TV series Survey

The majority of psychological experts can demonstrate de big influence of TV series watched by teenagers. Can TV series change our minds? Is it parents’ fault or ours?

In this survey we’ve tried to get ourselves concerned about teenagers’ TV likes and dislikes. So, is it that psychologists want to restrict our TV joy or might be just to test our respect to law? We have asked the whole 3rd of ESO (56 students) some questions related to TV

Series, and then represented the results of the survey with some graphs.

What kind of series do you watch? Action/Mystery

drama

18%

41%

Comedy

30%

11%

others

A bit of swered) comedy, are in

equality (they are the most anbetween action/mystery and surely because both of them the afternoon session and

probably because they last just to fit in most of our timetables. In the other hand we have drama as the less watched

Do you watch TV alone or with your parents?

60 45 30 15

Alone

As we can see most people watch TV alone, perhaps because is a better way of relaxation, or 0

Yes

Sometimes

No

19

0 With parents With borthers

Sometimes

maybe just because their parents do not let them watch it and they profit when parents aren’t at 38

56

75

home?. Meanwhile, we have the ones who watched TV with parents, just with 6.1%.

Do your parents control what you watch?

Most of us, watch TV with out any control that means, that we are totally free of watching any over-18 program! 17.6% of us are controlled by parents, however, curiously the majority of them didn’t mentioned any kind of problem.

Do you respect the ages limits?

80 60 40 20 0

Yes

No

Sometimes

grams and don’t think they could give us a bad influence. In the other hand some

The majority of us, don’t respect age limits, because we like those kind of pro-

people respect age limits, they’re only the 8.9%

Why do you watch those TV Series? Publicity Ohers

Recommendation

Zapping

11% 30%

29%

30%

Most people said that they watch it because other things but we can see that there isn’t a very far % between zap0

13

25

38

30 minutes 1 hour +1 hour +2 hours

These statistics can show us how we behave in front of the TV, our respect to law and responsibility. Something that stands out more is the freedom teens have in their TV sessions, and our parents’ tolerance. In the first chart shows our likes in TV series. In the second chart, we can see clearly that more than half of 3rd of ESO watch TV alone, this way parents can never control what they watch. In the next one, parents trust teens too much in their TV habits; more than 70% of parents don’t control their sons or daughters. In the fifth one shows that zapping is the popular tendency of

ping and others, this is because people doesn’t have an specific idea of what is going to watch. 50

How much time do you spend watching those TV series? People watch TV between an hour and more than one hour that is cool because it means they aren’t hooked to the TV. The percentages are very low on the ones of 30 minutes and more than 2 hours. TV Series election. In the second to last pie chart we can see with out doubt that the majority of us watch TV Series for “nothing” and plenty of us also gained motivation watching them. In the last chart shows how much time do we spend in front of TV, most people watch it for more than an hour and a half, meanwhile with a high percentage a hour is also very answered.

It seems that the conclusion to these questions is that we aren’t concerned about TV’s influence on us, in addition its consequences.

by Carla Aldabaldetrecu, Asier Amenabar and Manuel Santos.

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TV Habi ts A lot of parents complain that their children only watch TV and that they don’t do anything else during the day. But are they completely right? Do we only think about TV?

In this survey we decided to find out everything about this complex issue. So are parents right? What are our TV habits?

We asked the whole of third year (56 students in total) some questions related to how TV affects their lives and their TV habits and then compiled them below in some graphs. We think the results are surprising, so please we encourage you to read on.

How Much Time Do Students Watch TV Every Day?

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We can see that most of us watch TV from 1 to 2 7 hours per day. But the 2 surprising result is that 2 30 min 1-2 hours there are two students 2-3 hours + 3 hours who watch TV more than 3 hours per day! Maybe the less surprising is that only 7 students watch 30 minutes TV.

What’s The Favourite Channel Of Teenagers? TVE1 cuatro

Antena 3 others

Tele 5

13% 2% 7% 5% 55% 18%

La sexta

We can clearly see that our favourite channel is Antena 3. Then far away from Antena 3 we’ve got Tele5 and others (mostly of “others” choices is Fox). The least popular channel is TVE1, probably because TVE1 has no teen programs.

Do Teenagers Have TV In Their Rooms?

Yes

The graph shows that there are fewer students with TV in their room, but there is no a big difference.

No

41%

59%

How Many TVs Do Teenagers Have? Students

11

More than 3

19

3

23

2

1

3

We can see that most of the students have between 2 and 3 TVs. It is a little bit shocking that there are 11 people with more than 3 TVs and only 3 students with one TV. It is also worth commenting that no-one does not have TV- we all have at least one.

What Type Of Programs do Teenagers Like To See? As we can see the most popular programs are series. Then we have films and sports. Gossip, News, Quizzes and especially cartoons are not very popular for teenagers

Series

Films

2% 2%

9% 2%

16%

Gossip

70%

News

Sports

Cartoon

Conclusion Looking at the results we can appreciate that we don’t only think about TV but we like watching TV especially series. We usually have more than 1 TV in our house so we can have a personal TV so maybe parents think we only watch TV because they can’t control what we see or we don’t see.

Written by: Adrian Tejeda, Guinea Fernández -Dans and Sergio Tomé.

SPORTS AMONG TEENAGERS

A lot of people of our age do sports in their free time. Is that because we want to be healthy or we want to be the most popular in the class? In this survey we decided to try to get to the bottom of this thorny issue. So is the problem of

doing sports related to some academic failures or not? We asked the whole of the third year (56 students in total) 8 questions related to sports and then compiled them in some easy to read graphs. We hope you like it, so please continue reading.

Do you play sports?

5%

We can see that nearly all the students in the third year play sports (94, 6%), while a small group of students don’t play any sport (5, 4%). Yes

No

95%

What type of sport do you play? This statistic clearly highlight that a majority of students attend to do other sports (25 students). Football Tennis Surfing Others

25

13 11 12

Basketball Bodyboarder Swimming

5

3

4

Do you play in a school or in a team? This statistic shows that most of the students asked play in a team while the minority of the students plays in school.

School

Team

23%

21%

57%

None

Do you play matches? This statistic does not show a majority or a minority. It shows that both answers are more or less equal.

Yes

49%

51%

No

How often do you play? This statistic clearly highlights that most of the students play sports weekly and the other the students play daily. Weekly

42% 58%

Daily

What influences you the type of sports you play?

We can see that the majority of the students do not feel any influence (32%), the second majority of students do have an influence of there friends who do sports while a small group of students have an influence films that they see on Parents None

Friends

Tv Matches

32% 2% 11%

13%

42%

Films

TV.

How much time do you spend doing sports? The statistics clearly highlight that a majority of students spend 2h (41, 5 %) doing sports and minority of students spend 3 hours doing sports. Also there are two groups which are nearly the same that are the minority of students and the students that spend less than 1 hour. Although the other group of students spends more than 3 1h

2h

3h

32% 9%

17% 42%

More

hours doing sports.

Do you think sports are healthy? This statistic clearly show that all the students asked said yes to the question about Yes

100%

health.

Conclusion These statistics are remarkable for many reasons, but what stands out most is the graph about the time doing sports because some students spend more time doing sport than studying. The first pie chart shows the general informa-

tion and the other pipe charts are more specific. It seems that the answer to the question in the first paragraph is that students care more about health and less about popularity, the second question in the second paragraph is

that the students care more about doing sports, and that’s why there are a lot of people that have problems at school and they also have difficulties in the exams,

because of sports. We Written by Adrian A,Pablo C and Patricia P

think that students need to organize their free time well, we encourage students to divided well there time so they have time to do both things.

THE TRUTH ABOUT FASHION People usually say that teenagers like us care too much about fashion and also that fashion is more a girls thing and

Where do you buy your clothes?

that we spend too much money on it. Is it true that teenagers are so superficial to care much how we dress or is it just an-

16% 8% 8% 18%

other stereotype that people give us? In this survey we decided to try to get to the bottom of this thorny issue. So is the

16%

problem the stupid fashion magazines that makes us think that life is about looking

20%

good? We asked the w hole of the third year (54 people in total) some questions related to our fashion tendencies and compiled below in easy to understand graphs. We hope this is of interest so please read on!

14%

Flow Zara

Hawaii Roxy

Carhartt Others

We can see that the most popular place to buy clothe are bershka and Hawaii with just one vote of difference, while Roxy and flow are at the bottom with 7 people.

How often do you go shopping? Well, it’s pretty obvious that people prefer to go shopping when they need clothes with 67%, but also many people prefer to buy clothes every weekend.

Bershka

Do you follow fashion?

40

It shows clear it that nearly half of the people asked, 42%, follow fashion and a

30

pretty close number of people, 34%, only follow it when they like it.

20 25 20

10

15 0 every week

each month

when I need

With whom do you prefer to go shopping?

10 5 0 yes

no

when I like

It is obvious that most people prefer to go with friends than with their mums (46%) while 25% of people don’t mind if it is with their mums or friends

What influences on the kind of clothes you buy? These clearly highlight that people’s choice

25%

29%

is influenced by their friends, 37 people, and only 2 people feel influenced by their mother, and secondly we’ve got magazines and fashion with 8 people each.

45% Mother

Friends

0 I dont care

friends magazines fashion mother nobody

10

20

30

40

These statistics leave it clear that we care a lot that our clothes are fashionable and also that most people likes to go to buy their clothes in shops like

It is clear that a half of the asked people spend in between 25 and 50 € when they go shopping and only a 4 % spends more than 100€.

bershka and Hawaii that are more expensive than other shops with better quality and much nicer clothes. Also it shows that 42% of people follow fashion but at least not everything is lost and a 24% don’t care if what they wear is fashionable or not and that 34% only follow it if they like it. Although Bershka has low prices, Hawaii has higher because it sells famous skater and surfer trends and also surf, bodyboard and skate complements.

We have asked all the class which of those questions was the most interesting one and they have answered that the most inter-

How much money do you spend when you go shopping?

esting one was the one that we asked about how much money do they spend when they go shopping because they thought it was very interesting to see those results, to see how much money people normally spend when they go shopping along the month. We hope you like this survey because we

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have spent a lot of time doing it, and we

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have selected the most interesting ones for you to read.

Susana Santaolalla,Iñigo Fernandez,Susana Kaiana.

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ABOUT TEACHERS Te l l i n g l i k e a n

t h e t r u t h o p e n b o o k

We always complain about teachers, but now we are going to tell the truth about this controversial subject. We will see which teachers teach best, are most difficult to understand or which is the best teacher to go with to a desert island with and lots more questions. We asked the whole third year, except the new people (who didn’t know much about teachers at school); in total 54 pupils. In order to see easily the results we put them up into graphs.

Index:

Written by:

Introduction Questions about the teachers, each one with it’s graph Conclusion

Ainhoa Uribarren, David Crespo Ander Movilla

St-Patrick’s English school, has been opened for more than twenty years. It is one of the biggest schools in “Guipuzcoa”, Basque Country. There are more than a hundred people working on it most of them teachers, but in school the majority are pupils, and that’s why their opinion is also very important.

1º. Who is your favourite teacher? In this graph we can see that the most popular teacher Josemi (32%) followed by Blas (20%). After all this the other teachers have very similar results (between 4% and 9%). But I have to highlight Tim and Agustin; both have 9%. Tim Isabel Agustín

Blas Begoña B. Elena

Josean Jose Others

Josemi Juani

4%9% 4% 9% 5% 20% 5% 5% 2% 5% 32%

2º. Who gives the easiest exams? This graph shows us that Marisa gives clearly the easiest exams (26%). The next one is María (8%). The results of the other teachers are very similar, all around 4% or 5%.

Marisa Josemi

Enrique Maria

8% 6% 14% 10%

Helen Gill

26%

10%

6% 10% 10%

Blas Others

Tim

3º. Who gives the most dif-

Simon Isabel Begoña B. Susie

ficult exams? It is easy to see who gives the most difficult exams, Simon with 50%. He is followed by Isabel and Josean. From this graph we learn that the subject is not important; the results are due to teachers, that give very different exams. Simon Begoña B. Mariano

Elordui Josean Others

11%

31%

Isabel Agustín

Blas Begoña C. Igone Others

8% 17%

9%

9% 6% 9%

5%4% 6% 5º. Which teacher teaches

11% 50%

5% 13%

6%

4º. Whic h teac her do you think pic ks on you most? This graph shows us that there is a lot of variety in this issue. This says us that there isn’t a teacher that picks on or is thought to pick on a lot of people. However, if I had to say a teacher that picks on most I and the graph would say that it is Isabel (17%) .

best? This graph is good to show that the students think that the teacher that teaches best is Blas (37%). He is followed by Tim and Begoña B. Blas Arantza Jose

10% 4% 4% 4% 6% 8%

Begoña B. John Agustín

37%

15% 12%

Tim Susie Others

7º. What do you think is the worst thing you can do in front of a teacher? The thing that must never be done by a student in front of a teacher is smoke, according to what 23% of the students of 3º of ESO in St-Patrick’s. It i s a l s o r e m a r k a b l e t h e p e r-

6º. Which teacher don’t you understand when he/

c e n t a g e o f S e x ( 16 % ) , I n s u l t ( 2 1 % ) a n d V i o l e n c e ( 18 % ) .

she is speaking? I t i s n’ t d i f f i c ult t o see t hat Simon is t h e t e a c h e r t hat we f ind is mos t diff i c u l t t o u n d e r s t and (67%). It is a l s o i m p o r t a nt t he percent ag e of Jo s ea n ( 2 3 % ) Simon Isabel 70 53 35 18 0

Josean

Agustín

Sex Smoke Kill

Insult Break

Hit Copy

6% 16% 10% 6% 21%

23% 18%

8º. If you were in a desert island with a teacher, which teacher would you prefer to be

Blas Elena Juani

with?

Tim Begoña B. Jose

said that the best teacher to go with to a

10% 7% 8%

desert island with was Blas. Nearly 1 out

8%

The students in 3º of ESO in St-Patrick’s

of 4 gives us this answer. Tim (17%), Jo-

21%

10% 7% 14%

semi (15%) and Begoña B. (10%) were

Josemi Agustín Others

16%

also important answers.

Conclusion

even when teachers try or try not to do that certain thing.

It is difficult to say something general about this survey because it talks about very different issues, all related with teachers. However, as there were a wide variety of teachers in each issue, we think that this probably is because we can interpret in many different ways what the teachers say or do. So as a consequence of this there are all kind of results,

But there are exceptions for example in the 6º Which teacher don’t you understand when he/she is speaking. There was a huge difference between Josean (23%) and Simon (67%) and the others. Perhaps it is because we would like them to speak louder and slower.

St patrick’s english school 3rd yearmagazine

Magazine written by: Adrián Agüeros, Susana Aizpurua, Carla Aldabaldetrecu, Asier Amenabar, Pablo Carbonero, David Crespo, Iñigo Fernández, Guinea FernándezDans, Ander Movilla, Patricia Porta, Susana Santaolalla, Manuel Santos, Adrián Tejeda, Sergio Tomé, Ainhoa Unibarren and special thank to Tim Buckwell.