TAKING INITIATIVE - SECONDARY
We promote comprehensive personal skills by providing education for disciplinary skills and transversal skills.
We promote the continuous improvement of every student: everyone has achievements and areas that require improvement. Based on this belief, with the help of their tutor and family, each student sets their personal goals.
“WE TAKE INITIATIVE” CHALLENGE-BASED LEARNING
Challenge-based learning engages the student in finding solutions to the challenges posed by society.
There is great potential for critical and abstract thinking during adolescence, so we place vital importance on EXTERNAL PROJECTS. Our students have a great deal to contribute outside the walls of the school, so we go out into society to participate, learn and make a contribution.
PERSONAL GUIDANCE AND ENGAGEMENT WITH FAMILIES, SIMULTANEOUS TUTORIALS WITH STUDENTS AND FAMILIES
The tutor and teaching staff establish a close relationship with the student and the family, with the aim of providing them with academic and also personal guidance. We hold three yearly tutorials with the families, at which the students are present and reveal their goals themselves, along with the steps that they will take to achieve them.
We combine this guidance with more specific academic and career guidance, to help them choose their academic future.
Our students have digital platforms (Moodle, Google Site, Classroom) with content created by our teachers.
Each student has their own device to access and produce that content. In the 1st and 2nd years of secondary school, each student has an iPad and from the 3rd year they have personal computers until the final year of sixth form.
We define ourselves as a trilingual school. Therefore, in secondary school, our students are taught subjects in English (Music, Art, Environment Lab and, naturally, English), subjects in Basque (Gizarte, Kimika… and Basque language) and subjects in Spanish.
We set up exchanges and language programmes with different countries: Finland, Italy, Dublin. We teach German as an elective course during school hours.
