domingo, 4 de diciembre de 2016

November 2016

 Hello everyone!
 
The main theme at school during this last month was tolerance and diversity. I would like to you to reflect about what means sharing a big part of your life in an international community. Being apart of the motherland can bring several challenges and sometimes discomfort, however we can’t forget the huge positive impact that living abroad, surrounded by people from different cultural backgrounds, have on our students. They are being educated in a multicultural environment, which leads to more open-minded and tolerant future citizens. This is one of our aims as school, to teach future citizens ready to live and interact in a rapid changing multicultural world, where diversity is one of the main characteristics. That’s why our UN International Day is one of our major school events. It illustrates clearly our commitment with the principles of respect and appreciation of the differences.
 
 
 

 
Part of SEL lessons was connected to the joy of diversity. Students discussed about their cultural differences and, at the same time, their common points. They understood that, even if they are coming from different countries, all of them share a common place and goals. Some of them prepared interesting countries presentations both for the class time and UN International Day event.
 





 

































We also continued with self-awareness in SEL, discussing about how emotions are linked to thoughts and behaviors, and viceversa. We described some situations and students practice with their own examples. They could learn how important is to identify our thoughts in order to manage our emotions. We also reflected about helpful and unhelpful behaviors related to emotions. It is very encouraging to realize students are starting to use this vocabulary (feelings, self-control, self-esteem, etc.) in their daily lives at school and transferring into other situations, not only at SEL class.
 
 

 
Thanks one more time for your feedback and suggestions during this first term. I really appreciate your trust and cooperation, and I hope this can be constant in the future. I wish a successful exam period for the students and a great holiday for everyone.
 

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.
Stephen R. Covey