I.E.S. Urola Ikastola Azkoitia-Azpeitia B.H.I. is a public school with 762 students and a staff of 108 teachers. The school is distributed into two buildings in also two neighbouring towns. We range our academic scope from Compulsory Secondary Education to Post-Compulsory Education, including Batxilergoa-Bachiller (Sixth Form and A levels) and Intermediate Vocational Training (Mechanics, Woordwork and Furniture Manufacturing) and Upper Vocational Training (Administration and Finance).
Our area is basically industrial with unemployment rates around 14 % at the moment. Therefore, the L.L.P. funds enable many of our students’ participation in European projects that, otherwise, would hardly be afforded. There is a significant number of immigrant students but their integration has been quite successful so far.
We have always paid a special attention to management quality and pedagogical innovation. We meet ISO requirements and were awarded the silver Q to good quality in education management.
The education language in our school is Basque –the mother tongue of most of our students- alongside Spanish, as the two official languages. We have always endeavoured to offer a multilingual approach, being our European Projects an asset in this pursuit.
We are also involved in Innovation Projects targeting at the content based learning-teaching of languages and the reinforcement of speaking skills. The European dimension of education is particularly highlighted in curriculum subjects such as English Speaking Workshop (students 13-14 years old), English Oral Production (students aged 16-17) and Business English for Administration and Finance which, therefore, there is a CLIL approach to education.
For the last few years we have hosted Conversation Assistants from English speaking countries such as the USA, UK and New Zealand, who help us in our Speaking Workshops. Likewise we have been involved in the ICT update of the staff through our participation in the IT Model School programme run by the Department of Education of the Basque Government in which we were credited as a model school. Finally, for many years our school has been involved in programmes of conflict resolution in school and sex equality. These programmes run by the Department of Pedagogical Innovation of the Basque Government aim at the eradication of sexism and violence.
We also live up to our commitment of innovation through the European dimension of our school. Since 1998 we have been involved in Socrates and L.L.P. Comenius projects and Leonardo da Vinci and Erasmus in Vocational Training We have also held the extended Erasmus chart for six years. In the year 2000 we co-operated in the foundation of “Euro School Net 2000”, a network of European schools and 2 teacher training colleges. We are one of the six Elos schools in the Basque Country. This European aspect of our school has become a distinctive feature of our academic offer, having now to cater for the constant demand from parents and students for our participation in projects, in which almost 700 students and a good number of teachers have been involved since 1998. We struggle to meet this demand as well as tighten our bonds with other European schools in order to give our students better opportunities to work and live successfully as well-informed, critical citizens of the European Union.
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- I.I.S.S. E. Majorana Scordia - IT
- Zespol Szkol O. S. K. Leszno - PL
- I.E.S. S. M.La Real Aguilar De Campoo-ES
- Tornion yhteislyseon lukio Tornio - FI
- J. Frankland Academy Newport - UK
- Charlemagne College XA Landgraaf-NL
- Ies Urola Ikastola Azkoitia-Azpeitia - Basque country,ES
- L. Statale Celio-Roccati Rovigo - IT
- MTÜ Kool 21.sajandil Tallinn - EE
- Mobility
- Short term exchange
- Scordia Italy 11-15 January 2016
- Aguilar de Campoo February 2016
- Rovigo 11-15 April 2016
- Leszno, Poland 14 - 18 November 2016
- Tornio, Finland 19 - 24 February 2017
- Landgraaf, Netherlands - 26–31 March 2017
- Azpeitia, 20th - 24th Novembre 2017
- Tallinn, 25 February - 02 March 2018
- Newport - 15th-20th April 2018
- Short term exchange
- Evaluation
- Dissemination
- Photo Gallery
- Scordia 11-16 January 2016
- Aguilar de Campoo Spain February 2016
- Rovigo Italy 11-15 April 2016
- Leszno, Poland 14 - 18 November 2016
- Tornio - Finland 19 - 24 February 2017
- Landgraaf, 26–31 March 2017
- Azpeitia 20th - 24th Novembre 2017
- Tallin 25th February - 02th March 2018
- Newport 15th - 20th April 2018
- Transnational Scordia 2015
- Transnational Tornio 2016
- Landgraaf digital book
- Transnational Landgraaf 2017
- Transnational Newport 2018
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- I.I.S.S "Majorana" Account: liceo.scordia