Colegio Calasanz - Fundación Escolapias Montal

This school belongs to a Catholic Congregation (Fundación Escolapias Montal) and it was founded 110 years ago by “Escolapias Congregation”. Regarding its funding, the Foundation is a charter school, which means that all the compulsory levels, apart from the Bachillerato level, are funded by the Education Office. In spite of being a Catholic-religious school, we do not distinguish between Catholic and non-Catholic students. Our students belong to a middle-low economical range. Nowadays, there are a lot of families who have economic problems, we promote solidarity in our school. We offer all the official stages of education prior to University studies: Pre-Primary level (3-6), Primary level (6-12), Compulsory Secondary Education level (12-16), High School level (Bachillerato) (16-18) and Vocational Training (over 16). We also have “Aula de Enlace”, which is intended for newcomers who do not speak Spanish.

There are around 1000 enrolled students in our school and around 100 staff members. We are considered to be well valuated due to our concern for diversity. We try to involve our students in an inclusive environment. Thus, we are very concerned with gifted students as well as those who have special education needs. Moreover, we are introducing collaborative learning methodologies.

European Dimension is very important for us and therefore we have had experience in five European Projects (1 Socrates, 3 Comenius, 3 Erasmus+, 2 of them as coordinators). Every time we work in an European Project, this reaches all Educational Levels. Therefore a large group of students is able to take advantage of the project.

Our school has already been coordinator of previous European Projects, with satisfying results. We think this kind of projects help to make broad- minded people. Our students start studying English since the age of 3, but we do not teach any subjects in English as yet. We are involved with an EFQM quality system, nevertheless. Although students of a wide range of ages attend our school, all the teachers and pedagogical team move in the same direction, which mean that whenever we are working on a European project all the students and teachers at our school get involved in it.

Therefore, in spite of the fact that there may be a target group in charge of the project, the rest of the students will take advantage of the products and the activities developed.

We have very well qualified teachers, all of them greatly motivated to improve their professional profiles through permanent formation. Our staff has academic backgrounds (M.A. degrees) and extensive teaching experience in all areas the project is concerned with.

There is a Erasmus+ commission of teachers, which involves mathematics, science, languages and technology departments. Two of these teachers are the contact people of this project. In case a member leaves his post, the rest of the team will take over their responsibilities. This team has plenty experience working in European Projects.

Teachers of the Erasmus+ working group of the center:

• Aurora Fernández - English teacher

• Jesús Agua de la Roza - History teacher

• Micaela Vega - English teacher

• MªJesús Laiz - Spanish teacher

• Cristina Pérez - Technical drawing teacher

• Elisa Rodríguez - ITC teacher

• Víctor Agua - Physics teacher