Interview to the Spanish Teachers

We interviewed the Spanish teachers, using English. Some of us could also speak Spanish.

Pepe ( Giuseppe) Laserna is the principal of Nuestra Señora del Castillo School, in Perales de Tajuña, a little village near Madrid.

Teo Gomez Calcerrada is the headteacher and the English teacher.

We asked them some questions about Spanish school and about Spain.

In Spain, Primary school lasts six years, from 6 to 12 years old pupils. Classes are composed by 20 pupils.

School subjects are: Spanish language, English language, catholic religion, mathematics, history, geography, science, P.E., art and music.

Children don’t use uniforms.

Pupils in Perales go to school at 9.30 and at 1.30 go home to have lunch , because at school there is not the canteen. At 3 o’clock they go back to school and finish at 4.15.

They organize a lot of school trips and excursions. They told us that they were on the river Tajuña, to watch the wild eagles, to Madrid.

The most popular sports are : football, basketball, volleyball and archery.

Pepe and Teo told us that they liked Rome and the Colosseum very much.

Then they answered to some questions about Spain. So we could know that in Spain there is the monarchy and the king is Juan Carlos I. The bull fight is a Spanish tradition, but they don’t like it.

This meeting had a great value for us because we could understand and use two languages different for our own language,  Spanish and  English.

English is the language we study at school and Spanish is the language spoken by some of our parents.

Class 4^th