Primary education
All about Primary Education
At this stage, which includes children between the ages of 6 and 12, we support our students in their personal development, always responding to each other’s needs, and seek to maximize their abilities, both in terms of learning and personality. The proximity between the teacher and the student facilitates the personalization of learning and the continuity and care of each of them.
Continuous coordination within this stage ensures an appropriate learning sequence, and increasing school hours by two hours a week allows us to strengthen core subjects.
Linguistic project
We are committed to a trilingual school (Spanish, Basque, English). In it, the time distribution of each language varies in the courses to achieve the ability of our students to communicate in each language.
We use the Integrated Language Treatment (TIL) as a methodology and organize this project through the Teacher Language Association. This facilitates our students’ communication in each language and identifies them with their teacher. The participation of students at this stage in the European eTwinning community allows the development of international projects.
Our school is the official examiner’s center in Cambridge and our students have the opportunity to take exams to get an official degree at the school itself.
Methodological innovation: improving learning
In the process of continuous improvement of the teaching-learning process, we combine guided teaching and discovery learning, working in a standardized way in our primary classrooms, collaborative strategies and project-based learning that we complement with skills and thought routines
Training in methodological innovation is continuous and allows us to implement and test various pedagogical tools. We attach great importance to the emotional education of students, because we know that emotions are the fundamental element of learning.
Participation in pedagogical initiatives such as the International OSOS Project (Open Schools for Open Societies), in which the Urdaneta College participates as a pilot school, facilitates the interaction of our students with the actors around them, leaving the school space.
STEAM
We think it’s very important that our students get interested in science. The increase in sessions aimed at these areas and their experimental approach allows students to develop their abilities in this field.
We are a pioneering center in the INSPIRA STEAM project. It has been promoted by the University of Deusto with the help of Innobasque and aims to promote the scientific-technological vocation among girls.
We teach robotics in English at all levels of primary school, to involve our students in learning programming languages and to facilitate the development of structured thinking, teamwork and creativity. Participating in Scratch Day as an organizing school allows third-cycle primary school students to present projects designed in their schools.
All primary school classrooms have different computer devices as a pedagogical tool: in the first cycle of primary school, they work with iPad in an Apple environment, and in the second and third cycles, they use Chromebooks to learn how to operate in a Google environment.
Bet on culture and art
We want our students to develop their own aesthetic criteria and create an artistic and literary sensitivity that allows them to learn to enjoy different cultural activities that are representative of different artistic aspects. To this end, throughout the course we organized various cultural enrichment activities: theatre performances in all three languages, concert of Santa Cecilia Day, Book Day of each language, etc.
In addition, our students have the opportunity to enroll in extracurricular activities such as theatre, languages, pastry, piano, guitar, etc., to increase their creativity.
Attention to diversity
Responding to the individual needs of each student, trying to achieve the greatest possible development of each student, is a priority axis for us.
The Guidance Department has a psychologist and a pedagogue whose main purpose is to advise and assist students, teachers and parents in providing inclusive, personalized and quality education.
In addition, it has a specific team working with our students with special educational needs, consisting of teachers of therapeutic pedagogy and specialists in educational support, seeking greater integration of these students and the development of all their skills. This integration is a great wealth for all our students and for the life of our school.
In our time distribution, we organize reinforcement rooms, as well as divisions in some subjects, to help our students overcome difficulties and achieve a better result in achieving the programmed goals.
The College’s bet is supported by excellent results in terms of promotion percentages and eligibility rates.
Sport
Sports practice has a strong presence in the day-to-day life of the school and is a strategic area that allows us to work on the comprehensive education of the student, developing physical skills and group cohesion.
Every week, students teach a Physical Education session at the facilities of the Swimming Improvement School, at which stage they have the opportunity to enroll for the first time in many sports activities outside the school.
Life in Primary
There are many activities throughout the stage that allow you to enjoy very special experiences with your peers and teachers in a different environment.
A key moment in school life and in our stage is the preparation and celebration of school parties. These are days full of playful, cultural and sporting activities where children unleash their joy and illusion.
Special mention should be made of the costume parade, which participates in each primary school year with a theme and choreography. Hundreds of families participate in this event, and on this day they approach school to see, enjoy and share this special moment.
In inter-school competitions, students passionately defend the colours of their section, and make it possible to create close ties between their classmates.
They enjoy in the camps of the Garden, organized to cultivate autonomy, Euskera and values in the rural environment, and which for many is the first experience outside the family.
Extra-curricular
In primary school, we offer a lot of extra-curricular activities, either at noon or at the end of class.
Language deepening activities, cultural activities (theatre, music, painting, chess…) and various sports disciplines are an appropriate complement to academic activity, contributing to the physical and intellectual development of students at this stage.
Summer camp
After the end of the course, Udaleku is organised, which is mainly aimed at students in Primary and the final year of Early Childhood Education, with the main objective of promoting participation, communication and the physical and mental development of its participants through recreational and educational activities, by means of sports and technological activities and using the trilingual model of the School (Basque, English and Spanish).