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Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO) spans four years, organised around subjects and areas of study, covering ages 12 to 16. The fourth year has an advisory character, guiding pupils towards post-compulsory studies in Sixth Form or Vocational Training.
We offer an integral, harmonious and coherent education. The content of our moral guidelines is defined by the Magisterium of the Catholic Church.
To encourage, develop and achieve across all year groups:
Personal learning and cooperative work is an approach that aims to organise classroom activities so that they become both a social and an academic learning experience.
Students work in groups to complete tasks collectively, progressing gradually in the development of cooperative working skills.
We alternate between traditional learning methods — reinforcing reading, writing, summarising, note-taking and oral presentations — and new technologies.
El Pinar teaches Technology, IT and Robotics at Secondary level, with the aim of familiarising pupils with the new digital environment in which we live. We also develop digital skills through assignments involving Excel spreadsheets and word processing. We teach pupils to cross-reference information, to use technology responsibly and to identify reliable sources.
The Synthesis Project in Secondary is carried out in English. A topic of interest to Secondary pupils is chosen, and a dossier of related activities is completed.
At this stage, in addition to the areas and subjects established by the LOMLOE, El Pinar offers the following optional subjects:
Young Architects
Robotics and Programming I
Laboratory Techniques
French
"Say It or Tell It" (communication and expression)
Everyday Economics
Robotics and Programming II
Biology Laboratory Techniques
French
Public Speaking
Entrepreneurship
3D Printing
French
Classical Culture
The optional subjects in this year are oriented towards introducing the Scientific-Technological and Humanities pathways of Sixth Form and intermediate-level Vocational Training courses.
Our school offers Secondary pupils the opportunity to study for the Dual Diploma, a programme that enables them to obtain both the Spanish Bachillerato and the American High School Diploma simultaneously.
This international programme, developed by Academica, combines in-person studies with online subjects from the American education system, offering innovative, future-oriented learning.
Through the Dual Diploma, pupils:
The programme can begin from Year 8 (2nd year of Secondary) onwards and develops progressively. Pupils study 6 online credits from the American curriculum, requiring approximately 3 to 5 hours per week, delivered through:
FIRST Lego League Spain - Robotics competition