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So said Fiona Jacobs, Director of the Almuñécar International School – which is a private institution established three decades ago.
Sep 26, 2016 - 7:28 PM
‘British education is very creative, practical and the pupils are more implicated’
So said Fiona Jacobs, Director of the Almuñécar International School – which is a private institution established three decades ago.
Sep 26, 2016 - 7:28 PM
The Almuñécar International School (AIS) arrived on the Granada coastline in 1987 and since then, it remains the only private school following the British curriculum in Granada Province – the nearest is Málaga city – and it currently has around 270 students from infant to degree and where ‘the key belief is the participation of the pupils, and their implication to lead them into being eager to learn’
A few days after the start of the academic year 2016/17 the school is bussing in the classrooms and the corridors of the AIS, teachers and professors with students and pupils starting their classes, with lessons ‘very practical and participative where the pupils are very implicated and going further than mere theory, highlighting the importance of learning about life’ said Fiona Jacobs to the Info-Costa webpage, and who added the AIS is also co-validated with Spanish education including language and social sciences.
With a large percentage of high pass levels, Jacobs said the secret is to let the children and youngsters talk, ‘A pupils Council exists where always under the guidance of teachers, the can explain their needs and ideas in the development of the class and the subject being discussed, which stimulates them to study more enthusiastically’. Classroom sizes are also important around 20 and since three years ago they can now take university exams.
‘A private centre on many occasions causes confusion’ noted the director who explained most of the graduates from the AIS choose public universities such as in Granada and the Pablo Olavide in Sevilla or in their respective countries. Given 75% of the pupils at the ‘school’ are Spanish, in their classrooms you can hear children from England, France, the USA or Sweden among other nationalities, whose parents have chosen to live in Almuñécar or nearby in Torrox, Nerja, Motril or Lanjarón, an area of cultural richness which reflects in the progress of the classes which have learned to live together, understand and respect different cultures and customs’
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A few days after the start of the academic year 2016/17 the school is bussing in the classrooms and the corridors of the AIS, teachers and professors with students and pupils starting their classes, with lessons ‘very practical and participative where the pupils are very implicated and going further than mere theory, highlighting the importance of learning about life’ said Fiona Jacobs to the Info-Costa webpage, and who added the AIS is also co-validated with Spanish education including language and social sciences.
With a large percentage of high pass levels, Jacobs said the secret is to let the children and youngsters talk, ‘A pupils Council exists where always under the guidance of teachers, the can explain their needs and ideas in the development of the class and the subject being discussed, which stimulates them to study more enthusiastically’. Classroom sizes are also important around 20 and since three years ago they can now take university exams.
‘A private centre on many occasions causes confusion’ noted the director who explained most of the graduates from the AIS choose public universities such as in Granada and the Pablo Olavide in Sevilla or in their respective countries. Given 75% of the pupils at the ‘school’ are Spanish, in their classrooms you can hear children from England, France, the USA or Sweden among other nationalities, whose parents have chosen to live in Almuñécar or nearby in Torrox, Nerja, Motril or Lanjarón, an area of cultural richness which reflects in the progress of the classes which have learned to live together, understand and respect different cultures and customs’
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