SEK International School - El Castillo

It starts at 09.00

It ends at 17.00

Yes, it lasts one and a half hours.

We provide school bus routes to suit our families needs.

Yes, we provide lunch and snacks at different times of the day.

Yes, we offer special diets and these are supervised and validated by the nutrition service.

Yes, they are.

The maximum number of students is 25 in each classroom.

The average number of students is from 17 to 22 students in each classroom.

Yes, it does.

We have a well established VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) where students and teachers upload units of inquiry, asignments and reflections. This VLE includes collaborative digital tools and serves as a place to show-case work by students. We continue to offer school lessons through online video with processes developed in response to COVID-19 quarantines. Our school is equipped with HyFlex technology to ensure simultaneous inclusion of face-to-face and remote students. We have integrated digital simulators for laboratory work. Some groups who continue to access virtual classes include those confined by COVID issues, or other types of illnesses, students in other parts of the world (only in exceptional cases and as a short-term solution), high performance sports and arts students. Also, we are delivering an online Baccalaureate for high performance students.

1300 students in academic year 22-23.

After the Spanish nationality, the second nationality is the Chinese followed by the American (USA).

76 % are local students versus 24 % international students.

The School has designed, in accordance with the protocols established to ensure the health and safety of the students in this 22-23 school year, a wide range of Extracurricular Activities that provide students with the opportunity to enrich their education from an academic and cultural, artistic and sporting perspective. Within sports we offer volleyball, swimming, football, skating, taekwondo, athletics, padel, tennis, personal training, zumba, horse riding. In the technological field we have robotics and STEAM projects. In the artistic field we offer music, educachef, circus, parkour, dance and mindfulness.

As part of the curriculum, all students have physical education classes, swimming classes (from nursery to primary school) and all the students rotate through different team sports.

We have volleyball and football teams, which compete in school and federated leagues. We also have a swimming team.

Library, laboratories, Maker Spaces, Assembly Hall, Music School and choir and Canteen

Sports centre, three multi-sports courts, two volleyball courts (one of them sand courts) and athletics track and in the adjacent sports club next to the school, we have tennis, paddle and equestrian courts and an Olympic size swimming

Our teachers are either native speakers of or they have a proficient level (C2 in European Framework) in the language in which they teach the subjects.

We deliver language acquisition in both English and Spanish (languages of instruction) in phases, this allows us to place students in the phase that is appropriate for their level. We also offer two specific academic language programmes called EAL ( English as additional language) and SAL ( Spanish as an Additional Language) Students can also study Chinese, French and German as part of our for mother tongue celebration programme.

Chinese, French, German and as language B or language acquisition at different levels and stages of learning. Chinese as a subject in the Diploma Programme as Language B and as extracurricular activity.

We have developed an inclusion policy aligned with the IB special needs requirements and are always working on diversity and differentiation, though we do not carry out significant curricular adaptations.

From the Counselling and Pedagogical Department, working on inclusion in the curriculum and providing diversity in assessments. Our language policy states the various opportunities to develop one or both of our languages of instruction. Our educational technology has resources to enhance skills for students with special needs and also language learning.

Diversity, talent, opportunities for different projects and activities and participation in significant and authentic projects, where pupils provide real solutions in collaboration with other schools when possible.

There is a counsellor for each stage of learning and programme, we also have a psychotherapist and a speech therapist.