Vedruna Balaguer School has been certified by
the FECC (Foundation of Christian Schools of Catalonia) as a multilingual
school because of the huge importance given to the teaching and learning process of
foreign languages.
According to this line, we would like to highlight
the significant increase of hours of English in kindergarten, five hours a
week, and the implementation of non-curricular subjects in English language (CLIL:
Content and Language Integrated Learning) taught throughout Primary Education
(Science, PE, Arts) and Secondary Education (Science). The school also offers
some optional subjects in a foreign language at Secondary Education.
It is also
important to mention that the school has been organizing summer stays abroad
and participating in several occasions in European projects for 20 years.
We should
also take into account the fact that Vedruna Balaguer School is an official
examination center for Cambridge. Since 2008, many of our students have taken
official tests and have obtained excellent results.
The school
promotes the communicative competence and specific initiatives in English such as the
English Day, the participation in English contests like Fish & Chips and
Fonix, as well as the speaking support of a conversation auxiliary (from P2 to Secondary Education).
Finally, we
should mention that this year the school has joined the GEP project (Experimental Group
for Multilingualism). Moreover, a group of 25 students from ESO 2 have been awarded a
grant from the Ministry of Education in the program "Linguistic Immersion Autumn 2015" and they had the chance to enjoye a week of total English immersion in Villanúa (Pyrenees of Huesca).
School
Vedruna intends to continue and improve this multilingual project, a cornerstone of our educational proposal.
