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Colegio San Isidoro --- St. Isidor´s School ---. MEET GRANADA Spain. Location of Granada.
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Colegio San Isidoro --- St. Isidor´sSchool --- MEET GRANADA Spain
Location of Granada The city of Granada is located in the south-east of Spain, just at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, at the confluence of three rivers, Beiro, Darro and Genil, at an elevation of 738 metres above sea level yet only one hour from the Mediterrean coast, the Costa Tropical.
Districts of Granada The Realejo: Realejo was the Jewish district at the time of the Nasride Granada. It is today a district made up of many Andalusian villas, with gardens opening onto the streets, called Los Carmenes.
Districts of Granada The Cartuja: In this district also, many buildings were created with the extension of the University of Granada
Districts of Granada Bib-Rambla: Nowadays, Bib-Rambla is a high point for gastronomy, especially in its terraces of restaurants, open on beautiful days. The most important here is the Arabbazaar (Alcaicería), whichendsintotheCathedral.
Districts of Granada The Sacromonte: Itis characterized by cave houses, which are dug into the hillside. The area has a reputation as a major center of flamenco song and dance. The population here arenormally gipsys.
Districts of Granada The Albayzín: Albayzín (also written as Albaicín), located on a hill on the right bank of the river Darro, is the ancient Moorish quarter of the city and transports the visitor to a unique world: the site of the ancient city of Elvira, so-called before the ZiridMoors renamed it Granada.
Districts of Granada The Zaidin: This blue collar neighborhood houses 100,000 residents of Granada, making it the largest neighborhood or 'barrio‘.
Monuments There are a lot of monuments in Granada, but we are going to refer the most important one: The Alhambra and Generalife, the most visited monument of Spain. Other important thing we have is The Sierra Nevada, meaning "snowy range" in Spanish, is a mountain range in the region of Andalusia in Spain. It contains the highest point of continental Spain, Mulhacén at 3,478 metres (11,411 ft). The Alhambra with a beautifulsight of Sierra Nevada in thenight
AbouttheSchool • Situated in theCenter zoneof Granada. • Instalationsabout16000 m2. • KinderGarden: 3 classrooms – 75 pupils • PrimarySchool: 6 classrooms – 150 pupils • SecondarySchoool: 8 classrooms – 240 pupils • High School: 6 classrooms – 180 pupils • TOTAL: 645 pupils.
AbouttheSchool • We are theOLDERSchool of Granada. Itwasfounded in 1887. So thiswaythecouncilgaveus a PLATE GRANADE wichcertificatethis. • Itis a FAMILIAR SCHOOL, wich Managers are brothers. • We are a PRIVATE/CONCERTEDinstitution. Itmeansthatwehavepublic and privatelearning. Kindergarden and High School are private, so studentspaytaxesmonthly. Primary and Secondaryispaidthrowthegovern. • We are 38 persons in Staff, divided in 30 teachers, 1 secretary, 1 contability, 2 cleaning personal, 3 dinner staff and 1 maintenance.
AbouttheSchool • OurSchoolisdifferenttheothersfrom Granada. • Theway of being a familiar oneableustomakesomechangeswethink are positive fortheacademicdevelopment. • Wehave 5 anual evaluations (othersonly 3). • Weinformparentsmonthlyaboutacademicresults. • Diarymeetingswithparents. • Uniformforallthestudents.
AbouttheSchool We recently have been labeled by the governmente, obteining the denomination of I+E from the Junta de Andalucía (Investigation(Research) and Education). This is the first year we are going to work throw computers.
AbouttheSchool We are more than 12 years associated with the CECE and we are just working in a new online platform, still in process of development. You can visit us in www.cisidoro.com. The CECE (Spanish federation of centers of education) is the most important Association in Spain about Learning. We are about 5000 associatesallover Spain.
AbouttheSchool Definitively, we worry about pupil´s social formation and how do they have to involve themselves in the diary situations, maintening reunions with parents to include everything that pupils need to develop mentally, learning to study and to obtain positive results for them, which nowadays in our School approaches 87 % success in the access to career. At theend, we want to say to you that we are very glad of being able to take part in this project with all of you and especially, we would like to learn everything what we prune to improve in ours day after day of dedication to the children. Thank you for the opportunity and I will try to make a nice job for all of you.