JOAQUÍN ARAUJO
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MINI CLIMATE CONFERENCE WITH JOAQUÍN ARAUJO. January 2018
As part of the activities programmed in our project, European Olympics, in relation to education for the protection of nature and the environment, the past 11th of January, we celebrated the First Mini Climate Conference in our school. The activity took place in The Youth Hall and was attended by the prestigious Spanish naturalist Joaquín Araujo, who closed the event by addressing students and teachers with a masterly talk.
The activity also included the choir of our school and Performing Arts students, who put on stage their own interpretation of the rebirth of nature.
The first part of the activity was developed by students from the 1st year of Bachillerato, who adopted the role of representatives of the major international powers and explained the different policies that each country is following in relation to climate change and global warming.
The interventions highlighted the lack of effective policies in favour of life on our planet and the need to act drastically before the consequences of global warming make even deeper the differences between humans, the harm for animal and vegetable life and end up consumption of the already scarce natural resources which we count with.
In this sense, Joaquín Araujo underlined the importance of small individual actions and the enormous repercussion that each of our acts may have in order to take care, protect and preserve life on Earth.
Our project, European Olympics, has as one of its most important aims to provide our students with the necessary tools to become citizens aware of the importance of maintaining an active life and a balanced diet along with physical exercise. It is our intention that these values exceed the circle of friends of each student and extend to the community. In this sense, our goal is to form active citizens who maintain and protect a healthy lifestyle that, unfortunately, is being lost little by little.
When we speak of healthy life, we are not referring only to diet and exercise but also to the protection of the environment and the care of nature. For this reason, we consider essential an awareness of the problems that are affecting the environment among our students and to provide them with the necessary tools to solve them.
The activity was organized by the teacher of Biology, Pilar Valverde. We also counted with the collaboration of the music teacher María José de Vega. It is also remarkable the contribution of the students of Image and sound, who took photographs and recorded the event.
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JUAN BAUTISTA PÉREZ
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THE OLYMPIC CHAMPION JUAN BAUTISTA PÉREZ VISITS IES RODRÍGUEZ MOÑINO. Fabruary 2018
As part of the activities programmed in the European Olympics project that our school is developing, last February 27 we had the pleasure of having among us the Olympic Champion Juan Bautista Pérez, who had the deference to direct a speech to our students.
Juan Bautista Pérez reviewed his sports career through photographs that gathered different moments of his professional career.
Being still very young, Juan Bautista Perez became one of the most incipient promises of Table Tennis in our country. His career, however, was cut short after contracting a serious illness that caused severe muscle atrophy while playing a championship in India. He then had to play the hardest set of his life to win the game to a disease for which even doctors predicted no improvement. Despite this, his personal commitment, his daily work, his tenacity and his desire for improvement made possible his rehabilitation. After playing different jobs, he decided to face new sporting challenges. He changed the way he played, but he did not lose the hunger for titles. He signed for the Club Obrero Extremeño de Almendralejo, with which he was runner-up in the Copa and third in the top division.
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After these successes, after engaging in sports competitions for athletes with disabilities and ignoring the advice of some of those around, he proposed to prepare physically and mentally to participate in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, where he returned with a silver medal and a fourth place.
Juan Bautista Pérez does not give up, he is currently preparing to participate in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
After the speech, some of our students had the opportunity to challenge the champion.
His story is full of struggle, work and humanity. An example from which we all, students and teachers, learned. Thank you, Juan Bautista.
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LOLO UNIÓN
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A VETERAN OF SPORT VISITS OUR SCHOOL. December 2018
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Manuel Union is one of the most admired and loved athletes in our city. At his 75, he has gathered more than 185 Spanish Athletics and Swimming Veteran Championships.
When he was 14 he competed for the first time in Portugalete, and then in Tarrasa, Manresa. Then in 1966 he started swimming in the Guadiana. As there were no winter pools, he could not train during the winter season and that's why he started practicing athletics. Then, when he was 40, he became a national coach and he started competing with veterans.
Last February, Manuel Union increased his amazing collection of titles with seven more medals in the Championship of Swimming Masters of Malaga. He hung two golds in 50 and 100 free in the category of over 75 years old, , four silver in 200, 400, 4x50 free and 4x50 mixed and a bronze in 4x50 styles, in addition to a fourth in 100 back and a fifth in 4x50 mixed styles. Lolo Union did it again, he became the absolute champion.
His enthusiasm was rewarded when he gained the Extremadura Medal for Sporting Merit in 2004. His passion has led him to guide and train athletes of all ages for years.
Our students of 4th of ESO could know about Lolo Union´s experiences the last December 20th, Lolo Union made a review of his sports and shared many anecdotes. He also devoted much of his exposure to the way of eating and the inclusion of sport in life as a guarantee of health and wellbeing.
Thank you Lolo for your wisdom and for sharing it with us.
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Last Friday, the 1st of February 2019, students from 4th of ESO and 1st year of bachillerato attended the speech that Professor José Enrique Campillo offered at “Centro Joven” of Badajoz.
The speech was framed within the activities programmed in the project Erasmus plus, European Olympics, that our school is developing and was entitled "Obesity is a disease that is cured with exercise".
José Enrique Campillo Álvarez is a doctor, expert in nutrition and food. He received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Granada and has been Professor of Physiology at the University of Extremadura.
His research work has focused, above all, on the study of diabetes, human nutrition and physical exercise. It is National Research Award 1989, granted by the Spanish Diabetes Society. His teaching vocation not only exercises in the classroom, but also gives lectures, in Spain and abroad, in universities, High Schools and adult education schools. In recent years he has been interested singularly in the so-called Darwinian medicine, focused on the study of diseases of opulence (metabolic syndrome and associated diseases). He regularly collaborates in specialized magazines, is co-author of several collaborative works and author, among other successful books, of La Cadera de Eva and El mono Obeso.
The talk aroused great interest in our students, who did not stop asking questions to the professor. Campillo responded kindly to all the doubts raised by his talk and ended by offering to visit our school on another occasion.
Thank you very much José Enrique for sharing your wisdom and for your kindness.
JOSÉ ENRIQUE CAMPILLO. Fabruary 1st 2019
