Tuesday 1 December 2015

Colegio Abad Sola 


Abad Sola School is a concerted school that has students from 2-16 years at the following levels: Nursery, Primary and Compulsory Secondary. We have approx. 420 students and 28 teachers with differents specialities. The students start at the age of 2 or 3 years, and the leave or school at the end of the compulsory Secondary (16). The school offers a wide range of subjects in different fields: science, sports, arts, languages, humanities. We have participated in several european projects, and also in several national programs related to evironmental education, introduction to reasearch... We try to educate with the Information and Communications Technologies: we have two computers rooms, one mobile computer classroom, and every classroom has one computer and a projector. 
Students form Abad Sola school come from all social classes, but most of them come form middle or lower middle classes.

They have quite a long experience with projects in general, and also in EU projects. Their school has participated in environmental projects, and also in one kind of projects that they had in Spain some years ago in which the students took part in a program aimed to recover abandoned towns and rural areas, and also wanted students better acquainted with the way of life in the countryside. These projects have been organized and supported by our National Government, and also by our Regional Government.
In their city they have also participated in environmental projects for example related to reforestation, equality between men and women, and solidarity with the needs. Abada Sola school is sponsoring a group of needy children in Colombia, in order that they can get an education and a future, and the entire educational community participates in this charity project.
For years their students have participated in small projects introduction to research those which have allowed them to participate in contests national, in which attaining some honorable mention.


This wil be their  fifth European project. They have been involved in four European Projects (two billateral Comenius Projects and other two multilateral ones). They have worked with schools from Belgium, Netherlands, Finland, Portugal, Slovakia and Romania. Their projects have focused on issues such as water uses and its legends, visual dictionaries, tourism and heritage... They have also participated in Euroscola, and we have had a couple of language assistants form the EU.
They have worked with one instituion form Gandia that work with handicapped young people. They prepare them to special occupations and cooperate with industries, so that these young people have a job opportunity. They had been in our school and the monitors of the association and some of the young handicapped people had acted as teachers with our students: we were taught to do mosaics.



 

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