A memorable journey to London

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During the first week of September, between the 4th and the 9th, the 11th grade students of Escola Básica e Secundária Ferreira de Castro had the amazing opportunity to visit some of London's most iconic attractions and places. They were accompanied by their teachers Ângela Costa, Isabel Moutinho, Júlia Lopes, and Marta Pinho.

On their first day, after leaving their luggage at the hotel, they learned how to take the underground and headed to the Madame Tussauds Museum. There, they were excited to see wax replicas of various people ranging from actors to musicians, the British Royal Family, Princess Diana and iconic movie characters and franchises. In the evening, they experienced an amazing musical theatre production of Mamma Mia! by the theatre company Delfont Mackintosh Theatres.

During the morning of the second day, they visited the Natural History Museum and the Science Museum. Some students even got to visit the Victoria and Albert Museum, had that been their preference. All three museums offered an enriching experience, allowing the students to expand their scientific vocabulary in a fun, entertaining way. During the afternoon they walked around London, visiting parks, Buckingham Palace and the Big Ben. In the evening, they explored Piccadilly Circus and Chinatown freely, enhancing their conversational English.

On the third day, and arguably the most tiring day, they walked around Camden Town during the morning, learning more about the local culture and, in the afternoon, they had the opportunity to walk the Millennium Bridge and see St.Paul's Cathedral and the Shakespeare's Globe as well as the Tate Modern Museum. After dinner, they observed the London Eye and the Big Ben at night with their lights lit up, taking in the beautiful view.

During the fourth day, in the morning, they saw the Tower Bridge before travelling to Greenwich and, during the afternoon they saw a breathtaking view of London while inside the London Eye. After what felt like a couple of minutes in the London Eye they visited the London Dungeon, an immersive story-driven horror experience that left some excited and some scared to continue the journey inside. After leaving, they visited the famous Leake Street Arches, observing various graffiti.

During what should have been their last day, the students visited the British Museum and the Covent Garden Market. Some students also visited the National Art Gallery, expanding their knowledge on art from the 13th to the 20th century. After lunch, they headed towards the airport to catch their flight and, upon arriving at the check-in, found out that their flight had been cancelled. After tiring hours of waiting they discovered that they would have to spend the night at the Gatwick Airport until their flight in the afternoon of the following day. The night was unforgiving as the students and teachers slept on the cold floor of the airport, barely having any news about their situation.

Overall, even though they had that problem at the airport and walked a lot during the day, this was an enriching and fun experience, where the students had the opportunity to learn more about a different culture and country as well as practice their English skills and make new friends through an experience that a textbook could never provide. It was a remarkable experience that they will always remember and cherish.


Tatiana Borges 12.º A

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No dia 2 de novembro, um dia de vento frio e com aguaceiros, os alunos dos 10º A, B e C da Escola Secundária Ferreira de Castro, com os respetivos professores Alexandra Esteves, Manuel Alberto, Paula Catela e Paulo Gião, deslocaram-se à região de Arouca para observarem alguns dos 41 geossítios (sítios de interesse geológico) que fazem parte do seu Geoparque, o qual inclui um singular e valioso Património Geológico.

Logo pela manhã visitou-se a jazida paleontológica de Canelas, uma louseira onde se têm vindo a encontrar invertebrados fósseis de numerosas classes, com especial destaque para as trilobites gigantes que viveram há mais de 400 milhões de anos.

Após um vídeo explicativo sobre a formação dos fósseis, foi possível uma visita ao Museu, onde os alunos observaram exemplares de fósseis que constituem uma coleção única.

O almoço decorreu no Parque de Campismo do Merujal, localizado em pleno planalto da Serra da Freita e constituiu um momento de bom convívio entre alunos e professores.

Dali partiu-se para o miradouro da Frecha da Mizarela para observar um fenómeno de erosão diferencial provocada pelo rio Caima que, ao passar de uma zona de granitos para outra de xistos, origina um desnível acentuado de 70m.

Perto da Frecha da Mizarela o grupo pode observar um contacto nítido entre os metassedimentos ante-ordovícicos e o granito da Serra da Freita, onde se encontra grande abundância de cristais de estaurolite que podem atingir dimensões de vários centímetros, o que evidencia a existência de metamorfismo regional na origem das rochas que os contêm.

De seguida rumou-se à aldeia da Castanheira com o objetivo do observar as famosas “Pedras Parideiras”. Neste local observou-se o plutonito de Castanheira (granito nodular) e os nódulos, de forma discoidal e biconvexa, que integram um “núcleo” de composição granítica (quartzo e feldspato) envolvido por camadas de biotite; estes nódulos destacam-se facilmente da rocha deixando nela o seu molde forrado pela biotite; os nódulos estão dispersos pela rocha, podendo alcançar 15 cm de comprimento e o fenómeno de separação da rocha, por ação dos agentes erosivos, é conhecido por “pedras parideiras”, a “pedra que pare pedra”.

De regresso a casa, e no quentinho do autocarro, reinou a boa-disposição.

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