Organisation

Management Board

The Management Board is the organism that governs, manages and represents the Cooperative Society. It is made up of mothers and fathers and meets periodically to deal with all matters related to the operation of the school according to the competencies attributed in the Social Statutes.

Management Team

This is made up of the Pedagogical Director, the Administrative Director and the Director of Studies. The Management Team act in accordance with the Management Board to design and direct the policies, methods and strategies of management of the centre and its personnel.

Teaching Staff

The teaching staff is made up of 30 teachers, qualified in accordance with the present legal requirements, who, as teachers, tutors or coordinators of each area try to give our educative work the maximum coherency and professionalism.

Language Departments

• English Department: 14 teachers
• Basque Department: 8 teachers
• Castilian Department: 6 teachers
• Special Education classroom: 2 teachers

In addition to the teachers that make up the teaching staff, many professionals work directly with the pupils in music, sports and language reinforcement activities.

Psycho-pedagogical Team

A psychologist, two psycho-pedagogues and a speech therapist form the Centre’s Psycho-pedagogical Team. Among the tasks they carry out, the following are of particular importance:

• Direct attention to the pupils
• Diagnosis and therapy
• Training and consultancy for the teachers
• Assistance and consultancy for the families
• Conferences directed at the parents and teachers

Support Classroom

In the school we have a Support Classroom for Primary and Secondary Education where the centre’s psycho-pedagogues work with all pupils that show special educational needs. Their main functions include:

• Creation of individual development programmes necessary to correctly assist the pupil, as well as follow up of these programmes.
• Creation of the specific aspects of the programmes that require individualised or small group attention.
• Guidance of the pupil’s teachers to enable treatment of the specific educational need.
• Creation of the necessary didactic material.
• Collaboration with the tutor with regard to guidance of the pupils’ parents.
• Basic speech therapy treatment.
• Development of stimulation, attention, memory, etc. programmes.
• Treatment of specific problems (dyslexia, psychometric problems, etc.).
• Development of specific programmes in essential areas (language and mathematics).

Statutes

Social statutes in PDF format, in Spanish.

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