COL·LEGI EL CARME

COUNTRY: Spain

NAME OF THE INSTITUTION: Col·legi El Carme

NAME OF THE COORDINATORS / TEAM:

Gemma Saladrigues, Emma Vives, Núria Niubó, Judit Tarragó, Rosa Garzón

EMAIL OF THE COORDINATORS:

gemma.saladrigues@elcarmelleida.cat

emma.vives@elcarmelleida.cat

nuria.niubo@elcarmelleida.cat

judit.tarrago@elcarmelleida.cat

rosa.garzon@elcarmelleida.cat

INSTITUTION ADDRESS

Webpage: https://www.elcarmelleida.cat/​

Instagram: @elcarmelleida​

Twitter: @elcarmelleida

Facebook: Col·legi El Carme Lleida

DESCRIPTION OF THE INSTITUTION

El Carme school is a semi-private religious school located in the region of Catalonia, in Spain. The school is situated in the city of Lleida, concretely in a neighbourhood called La Bordeta. The social context where the school is located is characterized by being a quiet neighbourhood 10 minutes on foot of the city centre of Lleida. It is described as being a medium-low socioeconomic area, where there are local shops and products. The students that come to the school are from families located in the same area.

The educational centre has students from 1 to 16 years old and the total amount of students is 620. There are 50 teachers working in the school. One of the main objectives in the School Educational Project in El Carme (PEC) is to improve the quality of inclusive education, in order to foster all the skills and capacities of each student. In this way, and according to the project we present, the school opts for supporting gifted students’ needs which are often disregarded.

The main aim of the school is to educate students in values to prepare them to face the society where we live in. Other main objectives of the school are to foster the participation between the students, to provide the adequate teaching and learning of the languages used to communicate, to value the different cultures, to favour the relationship between the school and the families, to promote the effort and personal improvement of the students and to help students to choose the best options in their learning process.

PROJECTS RELATED TO GIFTEDNESS

Our school is an active educational centre, and the different educational levels participate in local/international school projects, some of which are:

-Improvement planning

Its main objective is to get the main personal and academic improvement of the students according to their own capacities.

-Learning and Service

A project that deals with offering a service to other entities or organization of the cities while the students are learning.

-Term projects

School year level projects which main aim is to develop a final activity. The gifted students work together in these sessions.

-Reading project

The main aim is to foster the reading habit and improve the reading process of students which can freely choose according to their interests.

-Science subject

Primary education groups work the subject through different CLIL projects.

-STEP UP

Once a week, students from 11 to 16 years old work the different skills of the English language according to their own level (CEFR levels).

-Dual Diploma

Secondary students have the possibility to get the certificate from an American High School.

-eTwinning projects

Primary and secondary students participate in different etwinning projects during the school year, some of which have received quality labels.

-Kimono project

There is a special corner in all Primary classes where students who are fast finishers can work in different challenges.

-Extracurricular clubs

Gifted and talented students work together in different projects of common interests.