The bilingual Education Program at CPI ZARAGOZA SUR

The Bilingual Educational Program

Our Bilingual Educational Program (PEB) began in 1996 together with the Ministry of Education to provide access to bilingual and bicultural education to boys and girls in Spain, based on the educational model of the British Council School in Madrid. Currently the program reaches 40,000 students annually in 90 Early Childhood and Primary Education centers and 58 Secondary Education Institutes in 10 Autonomous Communities .  

Integrated Curriculum and methodology

The PEB methodology is characterized by the focus on reading-writing skills and the development of linguistic, scientific and intercultural skills in English and Spanish. At the center of the PEB is the integrated competency curriculum that combines contents and methodologies from both the Spanish and British curricula. The Ministry of Education and Vocational Training has published: Guidelines for the development and implementation of the bilingual educational program in the second cycle of early childhood education and Guidelines for the teaching of English (Literacy) within the framework of the Bilingual Educational Program in Primary Education with the aim of updating the integrated curricula through methodological support  within the new educational legal framework in Spain (LOMLOE).

PEB initiation program

Every September within our annual PEB initiation program highlights the presentation of our roadmap for the academic year. It also offers initial and fundamental support to new teachers at the PEB on the methodology and characteristics of our program through specific online courses for teachers at the PEB in the Early Childhood and Primary Education stages.

Investigation

Research and evaluation are necessary to measure the effectiveness and to ensure the quality of PEB. We have currently designed five research projects for 2021-26 with several Spanish universities and institutions. You can download the publications available to date as well as our self-assessment tool for the management of bilingual centers or the conclusion reports of our seminars with the Cervantes Institute entitled "Inclusion and the right to learn a foreign language" and "Artificial intelligence in language teaching".

Teacher training

We organize courses and webinars for teachers in Early Childhood, Primary and Secondary Education to help PEB centers achieve the best results for all their students. The key topics of our training are: effective techniques for teaching Literacy, effective assessment, planning and teaching within an inclusive curriculum. We also share the opportunities offered within our Global Teacher Training Program so that PEB teachers and teachers throughout Spain have access to more quality training opportunities. You can access our latest PEB methodology webinars on our YouTube playlist.

Downloads

• Report: Level of scientific competence of 6th EP students in centers with a Bilingual Educational Program (Adobe PDF 610KB)

• Tool for planning literacy in Primary (Adobe PDF 754KB)

• Learning situation for literacy 1 (Adobe PDF 591KB)

• Learning situation for literacy 2 (Adobe PDF 605KB)

• Self-assessment tool for center management (Adobe PDF 4MB)

• Self-assessment sheets (Self-assessment tool for center management) (Adobe PDF 66KB)

• Bilingual Educational Program: Fuue of Bilingung Education Report (Adobe PDF 1mb)

• PEB photo album 2025 (Adobe PDF 5MB)

• Report: Artificial intelligence and language teaching (Adobe PDF 1MB)

• Inclusion and the right to learn a language (Adobe PDF 1MB)

• Self-assessment tool for bilingual centers (Adobe PDF 59KB)

• Bilingual Education Program in Spain. Evaluation report (Adobe PDF 2MB)

• Bilingual Education Program in Spain. Evaluation report (online supplement in English) (Adobe PDF 2MB)

• Hand in Hand: 25 years (Adobe PDF 6MB)

• Rules for primary children's contest 2026 (Adobe PDF 365KB)

• Secondary contest rules 2026 (Adobe PDF 252KB)

• Ed Primary 2026 teaching contest rules (Adobe PDF 267KB)

See also

• COP 26 Digital postcard project

External links

• Bilingual Educational Program (PEB)

• Guidelines for the bilingual educational program 2nd cycle of Early Childhood Education (2023)

• Guidelines for teaching English (Literacy) within the framework of the Bilingual Educational Program in Primary Education (2024)

• Influence of school educational policy on bilingual education in Spain

• Guide to bilingualism for parents

• Bilingualism and language similarity modify the neural mechanisms of selective attention (Nature: journal of science)

• Inclusion and the right to learn a language