Important Notice!

You can download and read the children’s stories by clicking on the right of this page

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On Saturday 19th June la Asociación Educativa Oscar Wilde (ASEDOW) and la Asociación de madres y padres (AMPA) del CP Antonio Buero Vallejo invited children between the ages of 9 and 12 to a Sports day and Prize giving event in the school playground.

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This was the itinerary:

11.00h: --- Welcome speech and some warm up exercises

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11.30h: --- Playground games circuit: Skipping rope games , Lifeboats, Queenio, 12.3 Red Lights, Dodge the ball.

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12.30h: --- Fun Races: Egg and spoon race , three legged race, cheese rolling race

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13.30h: --- Prize giving and farewells

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This was also an occasion to hand out the prizes for the

Story Writing Competition.

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How did it go?

The children really enjoyed this informal contact with our traditional Sports Day.

This was only possible thanks to the help and goodwill of all the people involved

-- La AMPA del Colegio Público Buero Vallejo San Sebastián de los Reyes for the use of the playground, distribution of information and refreshments.
-- All the monitors and helpers: Jane, Patri, Manu, Jesús, Victor, Eva and Nicole.
-- Booksellers and Bilingual readers who donated the prizes for the Story Competition.
-- The seventeen children who participated this year.

ASEDOW will continue to organize fun activities each month to bring you close to the English speaking world.

We can only do so if we increase our membership. See details on the right.

And the winners are...

STORY WRITING COMPETITION

First of all a great big thank you to Bilingual Readers and Booksellers for the wonderful books the winners of the story competition received.
The children loved them. These are the prizewinners.

Junior Category
First prize
Ainoa Quirce (prize donated by BILINGUAL READERS)

Second prize (Tie/Empate)

Mario Vila (prize donated by ASEDOW)
Clara, Carolina, Itziar and Cristina (prize donated by BOOKSELLERS)

Senior Category
First Prize
Gonzalo Troncoso (prize donated byBOOKSELLERS)

Second prize (Tie/Empate)
Cristina González (prize donated by BOOKSELLERS)
Daniel Esteban (prize donated by BOOKSELLERS)

The booklet with all the stories is a reward for all the participants.
It is a very special souvenir that all the participants should treasure.
The stories contain the keys to happiness from a child’s point of view.

In ASEDOW we will guard ours very carefully.

A few more pics

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______ !CHAOS! _______________ THE FLYERS

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__Better luck next time. ______________ All over

May Pub Quiz

Here are some photos of the pub quiz and the very lucky winners of a hamper from Food Hall.
People are asking, ‘Where did you get those wonderful cookies?’ The address of Food Hall is C/Isla de la Alegranza 6 Nave 38 San Sebastián de los Reyes

Delicious chocolate bars for second prize winners...The Flyers...the next time we will keep them in a cool box.

The spot prize question:

The kick off match for the World cup will be between South Africa and which other team?

A box of tea for María for guessing correctly...Mexico.

Four teams participated and we will welcome any feedback, criticism etc.

The Flyers
¡CHAOS!
Who knows?
Gerton

And the winners were ¡CHAOS! proving that a combined English/ Spanish team have the best chance of winning!


Many thanks to NUBA and FOOD HALL for their support.

First Story Competition

We have winners!
They will be contacted and with their permission the fantastic winning stories will be published on the blog. We hope you enjoy them. Congratulations.

And the prizes will be typical sweets from England and a good book for the runners up.(Second prize)

For the winners, typical sweets from England, a good book and a pen and pencil set to keep on writing good stories. (First prize)

Also we hope to give all participants a booklet with all the stories so that they can proudly remember their contribution to
ASEDOW’S FIRST STORY COMPETITION

Believe it

Yummy prizes, a bit of crack and all for free.
And why you may wonder.
For the fun of it. Broaden your horizons and challenge your wits. Leave your worries behind about your English, about the questions. Sit up and listen or sit back let others rise to the challenge.
You can think about it before you join this association.
You can pay the yearly 15 Euro fee if you think it is worth your while.

Update

There is a pub quiz (May), a jokes evening and a country walk coming up (June/July).
For the children we hope to organise a Games Day in June.
The results of the Story Competition should come through soon but we know that the jury enjoyed reading the stories and the prizes will be very nice. When the final decision is made the winning stories will be published on the blog.

What about a visit to the theatre?
There is a play Friday 21st and 28th Saturday 22nd and 29th in La Madrilera C/ Don Felipe 9 at 21.30h Metro Tribunal, about an English teacher's experiences in Madrid. This could be interesting .

SPRING PUB QUIZ

An important football final is on the 19th May so we have to change the day of the pub quiz to the 26th May.

EndulzaTE con DANZA

Here is something interesting for all of us.

Una asociación amiga Raksaché is inviting us to the fiestas of San Isidro in Alcobendas. On the 16th May at 6 o'clock in the evening you can come to La Esfera (Avda. Olímpica, 14), in El Arroyo de la Vega and enjoy different performances by their dancers. The exotic belly dancing accompanied by a wonderful percussion player will blend very nicely with the other two activities which are:

Tea Tasting and A Dessert Competition.

The prizes are very interesting too so if you want to compete we have all the information you need. .
Come and join in the fun.