School and context

Josep Guinovart School is an Infants and Primary school located in Castelldefels, a city of the central shore of Catalonia, about 20 km south of Barcelona. It is located in a suburbia area closed to the Garraf Natural Park and near the beach.

The school started in the year 2005/06 with only three classrooms (P3, P4 and P5), at the beginning it was placed in another building situated in the city centre. We moved to the new building during the 2011/12 year. We were increasing our groups and had two groups per level until one point where the necessities the Secondary School in the city obliged to reduce our classes and we are becoming a school with only one group per level. Therefore, we have one group from P3 to 2nd grade, two groups from 3rd to 5th grade and only one group of 6th grade.

A part from our school, the services and equipment are a nursery school and a Secondary School (with which we share building). There are no other services around us. We have got a bus stop in front of the school connecting regularly our school with the rest of the city and also with others cities near Barcelona.

During the year 2016-17 the school started to work with CLIL methodology in all primary levels, after the first experience the school decided to take part in the GEP programme, in order to be more accompanied and guided. We are three teachers in the promotor group in our school, two of them enrolled in the GEP1 course. We meet once a week to coordinate, design and improve the materials and programmes we are using.

All the CLIL sessions in the school are in small groups and the content is different in each grade.