1. The document announces the winners of a writing contest for students in Years 1 and 2 of secondary school (ESO) hosted by the Departments of Music and English. 2. In Year 1, Rafael Álvarez Juan won first prize for their story about musical instruments playing their recorded music each night to wake people up happily through alarm clocks. 3. In Year 2, Damodar Gutiérrez won first prize for their story about a violin who was mocked for being small but was bought by a boy who became a great musician, allowing the violin to realize its purpose.

1. Writing Contest: Years 1 and 2 ESO
Concurso de redacciones: 1º y 2º de la ESO
Departments of Music and English
Departamentos de Música e Inglés

2. Year 1: First prize: Rafael Álvarez Juan
All the people think that
instruments are only instruments,
but the truth is that they aren’t
just that. They have memory and
they record all the sounds they
produce along the day. During the
night they play all the music that
they played during the day. This
music is sent to all the alarm
clocks in the world. In the
morning all the alarm clocks go
off with the music and all the
people around the world wake up
happily listening to it.
And the same story repeats all
the days of the year.

3. 2nd Prize:
Alessandro
Schumaker
3rd Prize: Carlos
Sánchez

4. Year 2: First prize: Damodar Gutiérrez
Once upon a time there was a violin
that lived in a music shop. He was the
only violin of the shop and he thought
that he was a violoncello or a viola but
he was smaller than the violas and the
violoncellos, and the double bass
laughed at him and insult him because
he sounded very sharp. They said that
nobody would buy him and the violin
cried every day.
But one day, a boy who saw him in the
shop window marvelled at him and
bought him. The boy played his violin
very often and he became a great
musician.
That’s when the violin realized that he
was a violin and that we all have
something big to do, no matter how
small you are.

5. 2nd Prize:
Lucía Viejo
3rd Prize:
Miguel Montes