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CHARO MÁRQUEZ
...and got in contact with a company selling them. After selling 1,165 wristbands in Estepona, Manilva, Casares, Marbella, Algeciras and Rota with the help of one of her son's former teachers, she was able to make the purchase. "Nothing can bring my son
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Charlotte Way
Mobile phones: a technological tool or dangerous distraction? Capturing pupils’ attention can be a daily contest for teachers, and, for many, the presence of mobile phones at schools presents just another challenge to overcome. While educational ... are schools reluctant to encourage such addictive behaviour, but worrying results from investigations mean that teachers are also wary of the obsession’s adverse effects. Evidence suggests that addiction to screens negatively impacts the neurons in the ... brain, triggering shorter attention spans and issues with distraction. The intermittent vibrations and ringtone chirps disrupt the flow of lessons, as guilty pupils sheepishly admit to not having turned off their phones. The frustration of teachers is
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...talent and the dedication of both our students and our teachers. "These students have a bright future ahead of them and I wish them the greatest of success in the future."
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Rachel Haynes
We have to go back to January to find the start of this story. That was when teachers at the international schools in southern Spain and Gibraltar received their annual emails inviting their students to send in work for the annual SUR in English ... served in the television studio. Students who were unable to attend were given their certificates by their teachers at school. Winners The best works chosen this year in the short story section were by Seve Bonvini of Swans International School
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Tony Bryant
...the classes to other schools in the area that have shown an interest in the project, so they are desperately seeking more volunteers. “We now need more volunteers to help with the classes. They do not have to be professional teachers, more of a ... volunteers from Scandinavia, Denmark and Holland. Volunteers do not need to be qualified teachers and they do not need to speak Spanish, but they must possess a good level of English; although, as Angela points out, the accent is extremely important. “We ... to more schools in the area. “Some of our volunteers are retired school teachers, while others are people that love to be surrounded by children and who offer their time in order to give something back to the community.” Juan Vicente, president
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Of all the words and images that drop into the SUR in English mailboxes throughout the year, the submissions from schools for this supplement are among the most enjoyable. This year teachers from 14 international schools on the Costa del Sol and ... identified and, as always, praise and thanks were sent out to the teachers, whose dedication helps turn raw talent and untamed imagination into poems, stories and works of art. This new generation may be growing up in an electronic world of smartphones and
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Four students and two teachers from Huelin secondary school in Malaga went to the city of Palermo in Italy recently to meet and work with fellow students from schools in Finland, Italy, United Kingdom, Croatia and Germany. The visit is part of an ... Turchi, a Unesco world heritage site. At work in Finland.SUR Earlier this year students from all five countries, including a group from Huelin, got together in Tampere, Finland, on the second leg of the project. Students and teachers from the five
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...symptoms and it is thought that she caught the virus while on a school trip to Italy with 77 other students and three teachers. Also in Malaga, a 73-year-old man is being kept in isolation at the Hospital Clínico after suffering pneumonia as a direct
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...back,” said the head teacher at Santa Rosa de Lima school, which had 78 pupils and three teachers in Italy. “We’ve been coming to Italy for 17 years, and this time we’ve been surprised by fewer people than usual in the streets of Rome,” said a teacher
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...venerated for his help to the poor, was commissioned to mark 400 years since his birth and 50 years since La Marina school opened in the area. Teachers and pupils attended the event.