HIKING ACTIVITY FOR TEACHERS FROM IES ALHAKEN II

A bunch of school teachers joined together on a Sunday morning for a hike in the mountains surrounding the city. We took a bus to a little village called Santa María de Trassierra, where we started the hike all the way down to Córdoba.

                                     

We went through some dense forests, full of Meditarranean vegetation: holm oak, kermes oak, locust tree, huckberry, etc. 

The path that we walked follows the original route that Romans used 2000 years ago to connect the city (Corduba) to the copper mines in the mountains.

Another nice spot during the hike is the replica of the Fountain of Elepahant, which was built at the time of the Muslim caliphate in Córdoba in the XIth century. This area was a large recreation place in the mountains where the upper classes would come to relax far away from the bustling city of those years.

By the end of the path, there is a fork which leads to the old Palace-City of Madinat Al-Zahra. One of the most beautiful places in this other path is the so-called Puente de Los Nogales (Nut trees Bridge). This three arches bridge connected the caliphal palace and the city and allowed heavy carts, full of goods, to be moved to and from Madinat Al-Zahra.

GOOD ACTIONS FROM OUR STUDENTS: " GET TO KNOW OUR LOCAL NATURAL ENVIRONMENT "

Early in the autumn, still looking like summer, students started the many outdoor activities that are carried out throughout the school year.

The photos show our younger students enjoying a walk in one of the paths around the city. It is an area full of streams and water springs.

They started their walk by the remainings of the Roman water main. Nowadays, It is a cistern or water tank with two spouts, with its current construction dating back from the XVIIIth century.

Then they passed under an iron bridge that was opened to traffic on the 5th of September, 1873, in the late Industrial Revolution. They also strolled, most of the time, by a couple of streams: Pedroches, which is the main one, and Barrrionuevo, a tributary.

The banks of both streams make up a lush riverside forest, in which a great variety of vegetation -tress and bush- can be found: elm, poplar, arbutus, acorn tree, locust tree, hackberry, holm oak, fig tree, kermes oak, pine tree or hawthorn. An abandoned olive grove is not far from the path, too.

At the highest part of the path, our students had the opportunity to see an old quarry that was last mined in the late 1980s as well as a huge old country house -Los Velascos property-, with a well-kept threshing floor, where formerly farmers used to separate the grain from the cereal plant.

GOOD ACTIONS FROM OUR CITY COUNCIL

Campaign that has been launched by the City Council to make citizens aware of the benefits of a clean city by the use of the bike lanes, public transport, cleaning service, citizens' individual actions, recycling bins, etc.

BAD NEWS IN "CORDOBA", THE LOCAL NEWSPAPER

Bad news in the local newspaper: reports show that CO2 emissions are far from controlled, with the highest levels ever recorded. Food for thought for scientists and policy makers at the Madrid Conference for the climate.

NOTICE BOARD AT SCHOOL: STUDENTS PARTICIPATING IN ECOTHINKING for ECOLIVING

Here are the names of participant students in the Erasmus + project. Their own handwriting!

TEACHER TRAINING ON THE ADMINSTRATIVE AND ECONOMICAL MANAGEMENT OF ERASMUS+ PROJECTS

Now available at our local teacher training centre.

PARENTS' MEETING FOR ERASMUS+ STUDENTS

Next Tuesday, the 17th, a meeting will be held to provide parents with information regarding the development of our Erasmus+ project, in which their children are going to take part. The project coordinator, Miss Ana Moral, will greet and meet parents at the school library at 7:00 pm.