Every year the world celebrates International Biodiversity Day on 22nd May. This is a great opportunity to think how important biodiversity is for healthy and sustainable development on earth.
April twenty-third is a symbolic day in the world literature. Declared as International Day of the Book by UNESCO in 1995, this celebration of books and literature draws its inspiration from a Catalan tradition, the Festival of the Rose.
Legend has it that Saint George, Patron Saint of Catalonia (Spain) and international knight- errant slew a dragon about to devour a beautiful Catalan princess. From the dragon's blood sprouted a rosebush, from which the hero plucked the prittiest rose for the princess. Hence the traditional Rose Festival celebrated in Barcelona since the Middle Ages to honor chivalry and love.
In 1923 this lover's "festa" bacame even more poetic when it merged with "el dia del llibre", or The Day of the Book, to mark the nearly simultaneous deaths of Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare, the two giants of literary history, on April 23, 1616.
April, 26th marks the beginning of our School Cultural Week. This event brings to our community a celebration, appreciation and understanding of the varied cultures at school.
All of us, teachers and pupils, are working to get everything ready. We have just chosen the best slogan for the week :
"A WORLD FULL OF COLOURS IS BETTER"
Let's start with a beautiful poem "WHOEVER YOU ARE"