European School Alicante
| European School Alicante Escuela Europea de Alicante |
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|---|---|
| type of school | European school |
| founding | 2002 |
| address |
Avenida Locutor Vicente Hipólito, s / n |
| place | Alicante |
| Autonomous community | Valencia |
| Country | Spain |
| Coordinates | 38 ° 22 '23 " N , 0 ° 25' 54" W |
| student | over 1000 |
| management | Carmen Carro |
| Website | www.escuelaeuropea.org |
The European School Alicante (EEA for short) was opened in Alicante in 2002 .
The purpose of this European School is to educate the children of the staff of the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market . However, children who pay themselves can also go to school.
The EEA has four language sections: a German-speaking section, a French-speaking section, an English-speaking section (these three are represented at all European Schools) and a Spanish-speaking section.
A few meters in front of the school is the tram stop "Condomina" of line 3 of the Alicante light rail . There are also school buses that come at the beginning and end of school.
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In the European school system, there are two (voluntary) kindergarten years and twelve school years: 1st to 5th grade in primary school (GS) and 1st to 7th grade in secondary school.
kindergarten
Children aged four and over can attend the EEA kindergarten. The groups are not divided according to age, but according to language. The basic features of the learning objectives correspond to those of monolingual kindergartens: social skills, living in a group, playful approach to letters and numbers, handicrafts and painting. Children between the ages of two and a half and three and a half years are looked after in a separate group.
primary school
Children who turn six in the calendar year are enrolled in the EEA primary school. The lessons consist of the main subjects mother tongue, first foreign language and mathematics and the minor subjects art, music, sport and religion or ethics. In addition, so-called "European lessons" are offered in which different activities are undertaken in mixed language groups. The objectives in the primary school of the EEA correspond to the teaching of the first foreign language and the formation of an understanding of other languages and cultures beyond those of the monolingual primary school: literacy, arithmetic, reading, writing, independent work.
High school
Lower level (1st to 3rd grade)
The lower level of secondary school is also called the "observation level".
In the 1st grade there are no elective courses and, apart from the 2nd language, only the mother tongue is taught. The subject of expertise is omitted and Science Humaine (also called SCH / Geography and History) and Science Intégrée (also called SCI / Biology, Chemistry and Physics) are taught instead. In music, the students can choose between traditional music lessons and a string or wind class . You can always choose from the instruments violin , viola , violoncello , double bass , flute and clarinet as well as either oboe or bassoon , either horn or trumpet and either trombone , euphonium or tuba .
In the 2nd class, the 3rd language is added. You can choose from German, English, French, Italian and Spanish.
There are various changes in the 3rd grade:
- Science Humaine is taught in the 2nd language
- ICT is an elective
- 3 options: art (2 h) and music (2 h), art (2 h) and Latin (4 h), music (2 h) and Latin (4 h)
Intermediate (4th and 5th grade)
- Compulsory subjects: language 1, language 2, language 3, religion / ethics, sport, history, geography, physics, chemistry, biology,
- Elective subject: Mathematics (weak: 4 h / strong 6 h)
- Electives: Language 4 (4 h), Latin (4 h), Economics (4 h), Computer Science (2 h), Art (2 h), Music (2 h)
In total, the student must have between 31 and 35 hours per week. From the 5th grade onwards, so-called exams are written, which are large papers that the entire grade level writes and have a significant effect on the grade.
Upper level (6th and 7th grade)
- Compulsory subjects: language 1, language 2, sport, religion / ethics
- Elective subjects: Mathematics (weak: 3 h / strong 5 h / specialization: 8 h), philosophy (compulsory 2 h / option 4 h), history (compulsory 2 h / option 4 h), geography (compulsory 2 h / option 4 h )
- Electives: Latin, economics, language 3, language 4, art, music, language 1 specialization, language 2 specialization, physics, biology (2 h or 4 h), chemistry
- Supplementary subjects: art, music, language 5, computer science, laboratory studies, economics
At the end of the seventh grade of secondary school, the European Baccalaureate is taken. This is valid throughout the EU, Switzerland and the USA, without any “foreigner examination”, as a university entrance qualification and must be recognized.
Buildings and grounds
The school mainly consists of 7 buildings:
- Building I: Kindergarten
- Building P: primary school and primary school library
- Building S: All high school classes and high school library
- Building A: Administration
- Aula Salón de Actos "Antonio Pino"
- canteen
- Sports hall and changing rooms
Contacts with other European schools
ESSS
Students from the European Schools meet every year at the ESSS, the European Schools Science Symposium, a science competition.
Grading system
In the Oberschule there are grades from 0 to 10. From the 4th grade onwards the grade is divided into an A grade (oral) and a B grade (written / work).
