Private school in La Moraleja

Our international model is designed to educate pupils as members of a global community: responsible, active, well informed and with strong communication skills. Learning foreign languages is key to shaping global citizens and competitive professionals.

We also encourage pupils to take part in events throughout the year that bring them closer to English-speaking and French-speaking cultures, awakening their curiosity about the world around them.

Our pupils learn to speak, think and communicate in three languages (Spanish, English and French) within an international education framework, taught by specialist, experienced teachers.

The Primary curriculum is taught 50% in English and 50% in Spanish, with three French lessons a week from 4º de Primaria (age 9–10).

We are an official examination centre and prepare pupils for the B1 (PET) qualification before the end of Primary.

To enrich our pupils’ international experience, we offer academic stays abroad for a term, a school year or a summer camp in:

• OAK Academies (USA, Ireland and Switzerland)
• American high schools partnered with our OAK Academies
• Versailles, France
• Saint Louis, Missouri

Thanks to the support of form tutors, teachers and our educational psychology and guidance team, at our private school in La Moraleja we adapt the resources each pupil needs — starting from their interests and taking account of their own pace of learning — so that they achieve strong results and stay highly motivated.

Our pupils learn mathematics applied to real situations through deductive and creative thinking. We encourage curiosity and an interest in science through experiments in the classroom, in laboratories and in natural settings. We run science workshops and creative stimulation activities and develop deductive reasoning to strengthen scientific skills.

Through interdisciplinary projects we include cultural and artistic content that allows pupils to express themselves and develop their creativity.

We run art appreciation workshops at school and on museum visits, working with outside specialists to enrich curriculum learning.

Our form tutors and the educational psychology and guidance department, together with those responsible for personal and faith formation, offer an all-round programme of support for each pupil, which includes:

• Emotional education (Educación Responsable programme, Botín Foundation)
• Relationships and sex education
• A virtues programme
• One-to-one tutorials
• Building positive relationships and preventing bullying through the TEI programme

The educators at our private school in La Moraleja work so that children discover, day by day, the values behind the rules, so that they act out of conviction rather than simply because a rule has been imposed on them.

In this way pupils come to understand the meaning and importance of respecting and following the rules, and how this builds a good school community.

Our pupils take part in social projects that develop their awareness of other people’s needs, so that they grow into young people committed to transforming society.

Through sport, pupils get to know themselves, learn to overcome challenges, build willpower, the value of effort and strength of character, and develop physically, emotionally, socially and intellectually.

At our private primary school in La Moraleja, “Highlands School: El Encinar”, pupils have four PE lessons a week. To support their all-round development, we also offer sports programmes and activities such as:

• Padel, basketball, volleyball and football tournaments
• Charity cross-country run
• Friendship Tournament (Torneo de la Amistad)

Our school aims to develop digital skills gradually, so that pupils can use technology effectively and efficiently. Technology is used as a tool to increase productivity, develop creativity and communicate ideas, without losing sight of the social and ethical responsibility that its use entails.

We foster logical thinking and creativity through the Lego Robótix programme. Pupils learn through experience, solving problems by building and programming robots. This approach encourages collaboration and creativity, preparing pupils to solve everyday problems.