This year for the first time we held the IB Primary School Programme (PYP) exhibition. The PYP exhibition is a team-based research project that gives the sixth grade students who complete the PYP stage the opportunity to apply and synthesise the knowledge, skills and conceptual understanding they have acquired throughout the programme. These students started […]
This intense month began with our School Entrepreneurship Fair. All the Primary 5th groups have shown the educational community the product of a whole year’s work. We have all been amazed by the creativity and entrepreneurial vision that these children have: they have looked for efficient solutions to real problems and above all they have […]
On Friday 17th June we held our end of year party in aid of the Red Cross. After a two year break due to the pandemic, we were able to celebrate the end of the school year in style. We had our traditional “Tómbola”, where students of all ages were surprised with what they got, […]
Spelling is important for many reasons. Among others, communication skills, reading and spelling skills are closely related and help develop overall literacy. At Internacional Aravaca School, yearly we celebrate our Spelling Bee in Primary. As children are required to spell words while on stage, that practice helps them to develop their self confidence and communication […]
From 9th to 13th May we received the visit of a school from Vienna, Austria, as part of the European project Erasmus +. 36 students from the Franklingstraße Gymnasium in Vienna were doing different activities and games with our Primary and Secondary students. Also, they presented their culture to the high school students and we […]
Last Saturday, May 21st and Tuesday, May 27th our 1º and 3ºESO students sat for the corresponding Cambridge exams: 1ºESO sat for Preparatory for schools (B1), while 3ºESO students sat for First for Schools (B2). They have all been thoroughly preparing for the aforementioned for the whole school year, and finally the big day arrived. […]
Once again this year we have held our Public Speaking Competition. Our 6th of Primary pupils prepared themselves during two units of enquiry, during Social Studies, Language and English, for their public speaking competition. During Social Studies and Language, they were working on writing and poetry in order to be able to write their own […]
During the month of April, we have continued working on the ECOSCHOOL plan. An itinerary full of activities, focused on raising awareness among pupils, the educational community and families about caring for the environment. We celebrated Mother Earth Day, in a very full day where the main objective was to highlight the value of caring […]
On April 23rd we celebrated the book day. Therefore, Internacional Aravaca wanted to celebrate it in style. Just back from vacation, we had organized a week full of activities to celebrate this day as it deserves and to focus, once again, on the importance of reading. We wanted to transmit to the students all the […]
ur 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade students have shared with Nervión School a morning of competitions, where they participated in endurance and speed races, games like dodge ball, and sports such as field hockey and soccer. The students gave us a lesson that sport, once again, is a great transmitter of essential values, demonstrating effort, […]
