Pelayo Gómez Picó, an ex-pupil of Aloha College, left us to go to London when he signed up for Brentford Football Club.

Aloha College has been a Cambridge ESOL Examinations Centre for more than 20 years. This month students from Aloha and other schools on the coast have been doing their KET and PET exams on a Saturday, and for the first time 50 Aloha students and 7 from EIC took the Cambridge Young Learners (YLE) examinations, for which they have been receiving additional tuition for only the past 2 months.

Aloha College supported Saturday’s worldwide efforts to slow down climate change, by turning off lights, computers etc from 1.30 to 2.00 pm.

Aloha College’s Year 5 and Year 6 competed alongside other local schools at an Athletics festival in the Municipal Stadium in Marbella. The children took part in a selection of events including shot put, long jump, long distance, sprint and relay races.

Class 5ES, along with the Irish Dancing club, celebrated St Patrick’s Day on Thursday 17 March with a tribute to Celtic music, dance, poetry and art. In re-telling the life of the Saint who is the patron of Ireland, the children presented blessings which they had written themselves, modeling Patrick’s own poetic words.

Representatives from the legally registered charity Triple A, Mr Weima and Mr Öberg, gave a presentation today to Aloha College Senior School pupils, encouraging them to think of the over 600 abandoned animals in the care of this association.

The children in 3KB worked hard and produced a wonderful assembly teaching the values of sharing. ‘Stone soup tonight’ told the story of four soldiers who returned home from war hungry and tired and in need of food and a shave! Unfortunately the villagers did not know how to share and didn’t want to help the soldiers. Cleverly, the soldiers got the villagers to work as a team and share their food by making a ‘stone soup’. The children thoroughly enjoyed acting and singing on the stage to the delight of the audience.

Year 5 pupils made up their own Restaurant menus and everything sounded delicious! Pupils pictured are of Danish, British and Dutch nationality.

International Women’s Day (IWD), originally called International Working Women’s Day, is celebrated every year, everywhere, on 8 March. In different regions the focus of the celebrations ranges from a general celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards women to a celebration of women’s economic and social achievements, and a reflection of the goals still to be fought for.

Some of Aloha College’s most talented mathematicians from Year 10 and 11 took part in a ISMTF Mathematics Competition in February with 40 other international schools from all over Europe. During the weekend they had the opportunity to meet students from a wide variety of nationalities and backgrounds and on the last day they had time to explore the centre of Brussels. They agreed that although the competition questions were very challenging, the experience helped them to understand and enjoy mathematics even more.