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CLIONA`S GONE
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NEW RECORD!!
On the 3rd of March, Ander Goitia a stu-
dent from the 4th Year ate the incredible
number of 35 croquets! He beat the last
record of the school that was 34 croquets
and that was set by Juan Félix, a student
that was in this school a few years ago. He
wrote himself into school history! said Iñigo
Fernández.
The negative view of this new record was
that the people that were encouraging An-
der to beat it, were disturbing the others
and producing an unpleasant atmosphere
for the dinning room, However, the main
problem was that students ignored the din-
ner ladies. Tim commented that he thought
it was a crass and vulgar and very much a
late 20th century phenomenon- consuming
far too much while other people don’t have
food.
By Pablo Carbonero
The new girl in 4º B after sharing 5 months
with us, left this school on the 20th january,
giving as a reason that her father has had
a job offer in pamplona.
However deep within us, we all know that
perhaps the real reason was that she had
been marginalized, so she just went there
to try her luck at a new school.
"Perhaps some of us didn't like her too
much, but even though, from all of us here
we wish her luck in her new school" says
clionas' class mate Ainhoa.
By Kaiana Aizpurua
TORO XL
During the second term our caretaker Raga
Nogal, found some cans on the black
field.Up to this point it does not seem any-
thing out of order. However, the issue is the
kind of drinks the cans contained.
This drink is called ''Toro XL'' the problem is
that on the can it clearly states that children
should not drink it, and the ones that are
doing so are the 5th and 6th year primary
school students. They sould not be drinking
it because the amount of caffeine that one
of the cans contains is the equivalent of
seven coffees. ''This severely affect the
student hability to study'' said tim.
By Adrian Agueros
NO DONUTS BECAUSE OF UNDERPANTS!
SINGING
Throughout the centuries different clothes
have come into fashion and after a while
gone out. For example fifty years ago
leather jackets were cool and nowadays
4th year students got punished in the
those who wear them are labelled as peo-
dining room without donuts because we
ple with no taste. However this time fashion
sang San Sebastian's March and used
has gone too far, because from when you
the tables as drums.
leave your house until you return, you see
about a hundred teenagers´ underpants.
Usually, 4th year ESO students are
Although you might believe this new fash-
really chilled while eating, but as it was
ion was created by an exhibitionist, it has
the 19th January, San Sebastian's Eve,
its origins in prisons in the USA.
we were all really excited.
Once you are in prison there are several
Txema doesn't normally punish us but
rules you must obey: as a general rule
John Philips was there so we couldn't
prisoners are not allowed to have belts on
even speak while we were eating!
because they may use them to commit sui-
cide and they must wear a uniform. These
Only 3 tables out of 5 got punished,
uniforms are quite big so it is normal that
even though we all sang!
they don’t fit prisoners perfectly, and be-
"I found it really unfair, we all had sung
so everyone should have been pun-
ished" said Sara Ifrim, a 4th year ESO
student.
By Guinea

cause of the prohibition of belts, there is no

other alternative for prisoners than wearing
their trousers down low. This is the reason
why many teenagers that have never been
in prison or ignore the origin of this fashion
wear low-cut pants as sign of them being
tough guys.

By Pablo Gabilondo

Misteries at school
FALSE FIRE ALARM
Last tuesday 4th of february at 12:45 the
fire alarm rang in school. The alarm started
on the second floor. Somebody had broken
the fire glass. At first teachers didn't know
who had done it, but as there were only 3
people in the corridor at the time it rang, at
4:30 they found out that it had been Borja
Gaiztarro. from 3rd year of ESO.
Teachers knew it had been on purpose
because to break the fire glass, another
glass has to be lifted first. after some min-
utes the caretaker Txema managed to re-
pair it.
THE MYSTERY OF THE FIRE
ALARM!
Last Friday, 5th Februrary, somebody broke
the glass of the fire alarm, which inter-
rupted all the activities that the people were
doing at 11:30 am. This was really surpris-
ing for everybody and the most stupid thing
we have ever seen in school, because I
mean, what is the objective of doing that?,
do you gain anything? Well the thing is that
nobody knows who did it, so “it will be the
school mystery!” said Adrián Tejeda a stu-
dent from the 4th Year.
By Pablo Carbonero

"I think Gaiztarro did a stupid thing" said

Iñigo Fernandez, from 4th Year of ESO.

By Ainhoa Uribarren

FALSE ALARM NUMBER

TWO
On Friday at school suddenly the fire alarm
started ringing.

At 11:30 p.m. the alarm went off while we

were doing a history
exam, it rang because Academic
someone had broken
the glass of the fire LIVERPOOL TRIP
alarm. After that, John
Phillips went to all the Last 5th of December, as happens every
classes to find out year, the first of Bacaulerate students went
who had done it. The on a school exchange with Liverpool stu-
guilty person is still dents with the apparent objective of im-
unknown. proving their English.
"The journey was very well organized" said
" I was very scared, I Tim Buckwell. He says that this year's
thought it was a real fire" said Kaiana. group were the best he has ever gone with.
By Patricia Porta
(Liverpool trip continuation)
Moreover, this year's trip has a little bit
special, in particular for Mikel Bravo, be-
cause he met Fernando Torres, and went
to his house.
The trip organizer, Tim Buckwell, says that
the only possible drawback is that the trip
was organized over a long weekend and
he said it is quite hard for him to spend so
much time surrounded by students without
having a day to relax.
By Adrian Agueros
REACHING A HIGHER
LEVEL OF BASQUE
It is not a secret that the level of
English in this school is much higher than
the Basque level, but teachers are trying to
make up for this imbalance. This year the
students of the fats track of Basque are
expected to do the
P.L.1, an exam equiva-
lent to the P.E.T. This is
the first time that the
students in the 4th year
E.S.O. are going to be
sitting this exam, but
are they prepared
enough?
We have tried to
find out what one of
the students taking the exam, Manuel San-
tos, thinks about this issue:” We are the
first year group that is going to do this
exam so early, but I don’t think there’s any
problem. I think it’s a good opportunity to
practise and later on to try to pass the
P.L.2.
By Asier Amenabar
NEW TEACHER FOR 4TH
E.S.O.
In October Iñigo Elias came to substitute
Txema Arbe in Latin classes. Txema had
to teach the Baccalaureate students and
he didn’t have any other time to do it so we
can say that he changed his 4º year ESO
students for the Baccalaureate ones.
Iñigo comes from the German school,
where he used to teach. He comes on
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday to teach the
San Patrick’s students who study Latin. He
usually comes really early and when we
come from the playtime he has already
been in class for a few minutes and ready
to begin. “He teaches differently but he
does a good job” says one of his students.
By Carla Aldabaldetrecu

PREFECT OR PERFECT!
Manuel Santos is a student from the 4th
Year of St. Patricks and he is his second
year as the class prefect. Last year he was
also elected to the school council for all the
students at school, but this year there
aren’t any students selected at the moment
for this responsibility. “He represents us
very well, because he is a responsible and
serious person”, said Adrián Tejeda a stu-
dent in his class.
By Pablo Carbonero
BASQUE TEACHER ATTEND
A COURSE
From Monday to Friday the Basque teach-
ers of the 4º year Eso went to Bilbao to a
Basque course so they could practise their
Basque.
Ibon and Alazne left their 4º year students
of Basque, from Monday 1st February until
the 3rd February afternoon, so they could
attend to the course. “We had a great time
at Bilbao although we didn’t have enough
free time to visit Bilbao” said Ibon.
By Carla Aldabaldetrecu
AMAZING FIRST CERTIFI-
CATE RESULTS
The group of 3 year of E.S.O, on the 12
december of 2009 in the hotel Amara Plaza
and Costa Vasca, did the first certificate
exam, although they presented to this
exam 7 months earlier than the students of
4 year of E.S.O, not only every single stu-
dent passed the exam, but they got higher
results.
in the fast track, where tim buckwell
teaches, there were 5 As, 13 Bs and 5 Cs,
and all of this with only being 14 year old,
where the average age of the whole people
presenting the exam is 23 year old.
of course this has been devastating for the
4 year of E.S.O students, as we presented
it later and we had worse marks, with only
2 As. "they're not normal people, they all
have these amazing marks" said marina, a
student of 4 year of E.S.O.
By Susana Kaiana
MOCK EXAMS
A few weeks ago,the forth year students
did the MOCK exams for the first certificate
in english and Certificate in advanced eng-
lish. Some of them did the fist exam and
others the advanced. In general the results
of CAE MOCK exam were quite good,
however they could improve with a lot of
hard work. The students that did the FIRTS
exam last year and did not passed, this
year the FIRST MOCK exam they did it
really well, and the students that did not do
t last year the exam because they did not
want to or because they were not as pre-
pared as to pass the exam, they had work
hard and in the MOCK exam they did it
really well, with effort an working hard they
could get a good mark in the exam.
By Marta Arriaga

NO EXTRA HOUR FOR THE
FAST-TRACK
This year 4th year ESO fast track students
are going to take the CAE exam in June,
That’s why our teacher hoped to give us an
extra class on Monday afternoon.
During that hour we were going to improve
our writing and practice for our oral exam.
Susie also thought that as this year is the
first one that students only have 4 hours to
prepare for CAE, it would be a good way to
try to pass the exam.
However, this was all a dream as the Eng-
lish Department turned down the proposal.
Now we would only have four hours per
week and one mock oral exam preparation.
“It’s a pity that we don’t have this extra
hour, because we are going to be less pre-
pared for the exam” said Pablo Carbonero,
a student of the
fast track.
“However, I think
that people who
work hard would
have enough
with those four
hours, and they’ll
pass it. I’ll bet for
it” said Tim
Buckwell, 4th
year ESO Eng-
lish teacher.
By Guinea Fernandez-Dans
ORIENTATION
The fourth year ESO students are already
in February and they are seeing the bacca-
laureate really near. Now is the moment
when they have to think seriously what
they want to do in the future, and in a cou-
ple of weeks they will need to have de-
cided. As this decision has to be taken
very seriously by both school and students,
the teachers have prepared some activities
for the students to see what their options
are for next year, as different types of bac-
calaureate or professional training (a more
practical way of studying) also exist.
By Ignacio Mayoz
MUSIC TAMES THE BEASTS
Begoña has been using new teaching
techniques throughout this term. Among
these techniques we should highlight put-
ting music on at the beginning of classes,
which has been generating applause. Re-
cent studies have demonstrated that clas-
sical music stimulates some parts of the
brain and they are even using it in order to
help people with intellectual problems.
We’ve been asking pupils what they think
about the use of music and they’ve told us
that having five minutes to relax at the be-
ginning of class helps them to carry on
working. There is no doubt from our point
of view about the success of this new tech-
nique, so through this article we encourage
all teachers to start using it.
By Pablo Gabilondo
PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS
In November the school psychologist went
to the 4th year´s class to examin them.
He only came for two Thursdays, in the
maths hour and the students did two ex-
ams, one intelligence test and the other
one of what they like. With the results of
both tests, the psychologist and the tutor of
the students are going to meet the parents
and the student, and together they are go-
ing to decide what to study next year and in
the future.
" The tests were very easy" said Ainhoa
and Kaiana.
By Patricia Porta
DANGER! REYES IN BAD
MOOD
As students it is not unusual for us to hear
teachers telling us that we are the worst
class they have ever had. However, this
time Reyes seems to be really disap-
pointed with her 4th year ESO class. She
has even said things like “There is a lack of
work and responsibility that can’t be al-
lowed” or “I’ve no regrets of people who
failed in the first evaluation”. As a result
there is a bad atmosphere in almost every
mathematics class. She has even told us
that se would prefer to stop teaching us.
The classes go on, and although she is
really unhappy with us, we hope she would
continue teaching us. Whatever happens
Sanpa Times will keep you informed.
By Pablo Gabilondo
A TALK ABOUT ACCIDENTS
When we came back from our winter holi-
days, a woman and a man in a wheel chair,
came to the school to talk to us about what
the car belt can do for us and how much do
we have to take care of ourselves, and how
a simple “can you drive me home on your
scooter?” could change completely our
lives.
It seems everyone listening to them was
very impressed because the man could tell
us about a really unfortunate experience
with a car accident, and we could see the
consequences of being distracted for the
shortest of times when someone is driving.
They explained how a spine is constructed
and the consequences if a little nerve that
goes through the spine, breaks.
By Susana Santaolalla
I.C.T World
IT PROBLEMS
during the first evaluation, there were some
problems with the project that 4º year of
ESO group were going to do for the little
children. although they had 4 months to do
the project they only used two days to do
them.
this problem began with the change in
teacher.the first teacher made them work
for an hour and then, they could do what-
ever they wanted until the bell went. In ad-
dition, the second teacher made them do
some word documents work that didn't re-
late to doing the project.
In the end they were able to finish the pro-
ject
By Sergio tome
THE 4TH E.S.O. DISAP-
POINTMENT
On wednesday 3 of february some
students were going to begin the IT class.
almost all the students were thinking we
were going to start talking about how to do
the games, however we only did some
word works and a power point as the ones
we did with Simon in 1º ESO.
By Sergio Tome

INTERNET AT SCHOOL
Along these last years, the internet at
school is slow, and none-one has look after
this information. I asked Iker some ques-
tion and he told me the problem is caused
because the Telephonics' antenna is far
away from our school, so all this area has
the same problem.
Afterwards, he was asked why the wi-
fis without password can't be used, so he
explained me that only the technicians can
make your computer able to use those wi-
fis.
By Sergio Tome
CHANGE OF MENTALITY IN
IT
This year in the 4th year there has been a
radical change of mentallity. At the begin-
ning Igor was the new techer but after-
wards Isabel came to give IT classes.The
only work the IT students did were power-
point presentations *there is nothing new in
this*. After chirstmas holidays students
work in new stuff.
2 months later of the starting Isabel
came to give them classes, and the stu-
dents thought they will learn more. Instead
this they continued making power pont
presentation, nothing to be with IT. Before
Christmas the teacher made a questinary
about her classes and she found out that
students were not happy. Therefore the
teacher started to give more interesant les-
sons. “We learn more in those 3 weeks that
in the whole course” said Asier Amenabar.
By Adrian Tejeda
Extras
SWINE FLU
Swine flu, has already affected to
1,545,000 people all over Spain and the
numbers still growing. Meanwhile, in our
school missing people due to illnesses are
quite noticeable amongst us, and most of
them are not affected by Swine flu. Could it
be that students are taking advantage of
Swine flu to miss classes? It is impossible
for the school to know the exact number of
people affected, because the diagnoses
are private and not all the people missing
have Swine flu.
The most noticeable decision that school
has done was putting a bottle of alcohol gel
in each class but it seems that the average
of bottles used are 2/3 per class and
there’re not particularly cheap, the normal
bottle, one litre, costs 5.7 euros and adding
the taxes might reach to 6.6 euros, so stu-
dents must consider it price before using it.
Preschool children are specially “forced” to
wash their hands properly before the meals
and when returning from breaks. The
kitchen has also worried about getting any
type of ingredient that might carry any type
of illness, such as eggs that might carry
salmonellas.
Finally the long term plan for the school is
to maintain the actual ones, but nothing re-
lated to closing the school is thought.
Surely, this illness and its problems might
be forgotten due to its controversy whether
its true or not
By Manuel Santos

FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT
The 27th of January the 4th of E.S.O stu-
dents organized a football tournament at
the hockey field
The tournament was very interesting and
people of all ages turned up to watch good
football.The teams were chosen randomly
and each team was made up of by 5
players.The referee
was Adrian Agueros.The initiative of doing
this tournament was ignacio´s idea: " I had
this idea because i thought lot of people
like football and by doing this tournament
all the people could play,and have a good
time"
By Iñigo Fernandez
NEW FOOTBALL FIELD
NEAR SCHOOL
As we all now ,they are making a new
football field near
school,but,It would be the new football field
of our school?
Near school,in Errondo,they are making a
new football field.They are going to finish
doing it this year so all the people ask the
same thing,if we could use it as st-patricks
football field.Our football field is not in very
good conditions so it would be nice to play
there,in grass.Pablo Carbonero said:"I
think it would be a very good idea,because
it always better to play in grass instead of
rock".I have asked to a builder about this
football field and he told me"It will be ready
for Donosti cup because the organization
wants this football field to be one of the
football fields in Donosti cup".
By Iñigo Fernandez
Since the 11th of February, fourth year stu-
dents have been watching a film, that since
the first time it was broadcast on TV it has
created a great deal of interest, not as
much for the actors performance as for the
story itself.
At first sight it seemed the film had nothing
to do with us, but as the movie went on,
you start to think about whether it is possi-
ble that the conditions in those countries
are really like they are shown in the film.
We did not watch this film just because of
coincidence, fourth years tutors, had a
clear objective, see a reality that is near to
us but which we do not necessary see.
By Adrian Agueros
SAN SEBASTIÀN WHITE
AGAIN!!
Like last year at the beginning of the New
Year in Janurary, there were some terrible
cloudy days, which make the city white
covered by snow for four days. This made
us very happy, because we enjoyed these
strange conditions and had really good fun
playing with the snow. “It was amazing,
everybody thought that we were in another
town!” said Ignacio Mayoz a student from
the 4th Year in the school.
By Pablo Carbonero
“CARIÑOGRAMA” heart-attack, and he isn’t playing any more.
That’s why they have returned to St. Se-
bastian, because they like this city as a
During the last 2 years, a new technique
place to live.
has been used with the only objective of
”I am happy to be back with the friends I
improving the relationship that students
had three years ago” Stella said 2 months
have between each other, this revolution-
ago.
ary technique is called "Cariñograma".
Now, both Stella and her little brother
this technique making a panel, where the
Darko have left school. Nobody knows for
good things the student have done are.
certain exactly why.
This technique will help the little students to
do good things instead
By Susana Santaolalla
doing bad things. This will also help chil-
dren relationship and not being discrimi-
nated for their color or their intelligence.

By Adrian Agueros and Sergio

KOVACEVICS BACK AT
SCHOOL.
After Christmas, we had the news that Ko-
vacevic’s children were coming one more
time to Saint Patricks to study, three years
after they had left this school. Stella, the
older of the two, was born in Italy in 1996.
When her father, Darko, was going to play
in the Real Sociedad, they moved to St.
Sebastian.
Three years ago, they moved to Greece,
because Darko started playing in the Greak
team, Olimpiacos. Recently, he had had a