Pumpkin contest 2025 #IESAzorín

For another year, our high school's English Department has organized and hosted its traditional Halloween pumpkin contest. 

The competition saw great participation, as is customary, especially from the younger grades. The awards ceremony for the most terrifying, most creative, and most amusing pumpkin took place on Friday, October 31st, during the first break. 

Our congratulations to all the participants and winners!

Halloween Pumpkin Contest

Once again, our school welcomes back a contest that’s becoming a true classic at IES Azorín! Organized by the English department, the competing pumpkins were displayed in the entrance hallway throughout last week. Congratulations to all participants for their terrifying creativity!

Pumpkin contest #Halloween #IESAzorín

Once again, the school is adorned with shadows and cobwebs to celebrate Halloween. As is becoming tradition, the English department organized its terrifying pumpkin contest, featuring student participation in an attempt to create the most original one. The award ceremony took place last Wednesday during the first break. 

Congratulations to all who took part.

En el IES Azorín no te damos calabazas

Un año más el departamento de inglés del IES Azorín ha convocado su tradicional concurso de calabazas en Halloween. Con este motivo, durante la semana se han expuesto los diversos modelos presentados por nuestro alumnado más joven. 

El viernes 28 el jurado ha seleccionado las tres calabazas ganadoras y ha entregado los premios a sus autores y autoras.

Muchas gracias por vuestra participación.

Halloween Science Videos

Playlist with 10 videos connected to science and Halloween for children. 

Learn about bats, spiders, rats, pumpkins, ravens, the changing of the leaves, the human skeleton...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw2cuKNQvZ2fZ1IvaecIH3Iw76hXjU-pf 

Halloween explained simply

With Halloween approaching, our blog post features this video explaining Halloween in simple words. Ideal for use in class with your English students.

Created by Shona Nichols whose Youtube channel we recommend you to visit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0R2NxEsL5g  

Slide deck (PDF)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u4L_0f9v-Rs9EWLeP49-EE2vjm0HBqB7/view 

Halloween at IES Azorin

Halloween

Halloween is coming. If you think it would be interesting to replace your typical school Halloween party with a valuable service-learning project, we invite you to celebrate it in a fun alternative way.

Here we have an example:

https://www.unicefusa.org/trick-or-treat

Halloween Teaching Ideas on Pinterest

Within these 10 links you will find on Pinterest a selection of resources related to the issue of Halloween and its educational potential.

https://es.pinterest.com/jvanthul/halloween-crafts-ideas/

https://es.pinterest.com/happyteacher/best-of-halloween-kindergarten-first-grade/

https://es.pinterest.com/deals_3bd/halloween-recipes-crafts-education/

https://es.pinterest.com/joanneogs/education-halloween/

https://es.pinterest.com/hhhomeschool/free-halloween-printables-educational/

https://www.pinterest.com/rachelfriedrich/halloween-teaching-ideas/

https://es.pinterest.com/pizzazzerie/halloween-party-ideas/

https://www.pinterest.com/reallyrachel/halloween/

https://es.pinterest.com/smarttech/halloween-lesson-activities/

https://www.pinterest.com/aecarter24/halloween-k-2-special-education/

Supersimplelearning.com. Halloween

Enjoy Halloween at your school on Supersimplelearning.com: songs, games, ideas, lesson plans and resources to help you make Halloween fun and educational.

http://supersimplelearning.com/halloween/

Some Halloween Teacher Resources

Halloween is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. The word Halloween is a shortening of All Hallows' Evening also known as Hallowe'en or All Hallows' Eve.

Traditional activities include trick-or-treating, bonfires, costume parties, visiting "haunted houses" and carving jack-o-lanterns. Irish and Scottish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century (...)

Halloween has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain (pronounced "sah-win"). The festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture. Samhain was a time used by the ancient pagans to take stock of supplies and prepare for winter. The ancient Gaels believed that on October 31, the boundaries between the worlds of the living and the dead overlapped and the deceased would come back to life and cause havoc such as sickness or damaged crops. (Source: http://www.halloweenhistory.org/)

Below you will find some resources, teaching ideas and lesson plans about Halloween:

http://www.oxfordmagazine.es/2013/10/01/special-halloween-corner/

http://www.pinterest.com/jvanthul/halloween-crafts-ideas/

http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/themes/halloween/

http://lessonplanspage.com/halloween-htm/

http://www.anglomaniacy.pl/halloween.htm

http://www.sweetteaclassroom.com/2012/09/halloween-teaching-activities-lots-of.html

http://bogglesworldesl.com/halloween_worksheets.htm

Celebrating Halloween

From Wikipedia: Halloween or Hallowe'en (a contraction of its original title "All Hallows' Evening"), also known as All Hallows' Eve, is a yearly holiday observed around the world on October 31, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows. Most scholars believe that All Hallows' Eve was originally influenced by western European harvest festivals and festivals of the dead with pagan roots, particularly the Celtic Samhain (…) 

On the following webpage you will find a lot of Halloween teacher resources. It could be a good idea to take advantage of its popularity among the students and integrate the resources into your classes. 

http://www.teachervision.fen.com/halloween/teacher-resources/6626.html