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Tahíche, Spain · Private
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The British School of Lanzarote (BSL) is a private British school in Tahíche on Lanzarote. In its words, it has been providing British and international education for 40 years and teaches children from 2 to 18: Pre-Nursery, Foundation Stage, primary (Key Stage 1-2), secondary (Key Stage 3) with IGCSE courses in Key Stage 4, and a Sixth Form with A Level. The school describes its programme as a combination of British, Spanish and international curricula and aims to raise confident bilingual global citizens. Pupils start Spanish in Key Stage 1 and German in Key Stage 2, and many take one or both languages at IGCSE. Pupils are divided into four houses named after landmarks of the island (Jameos, Janubio, Papagayo, Timanfaya), with points for effort and achievement and an overall competition. The school is open Monday to Friday from 8:20 to 15:20 and closed in July and August. On Saturdays the school runs Saturday School - English classes for children aged 7-18 from state schools. The head is Mrs Rees.
Key facts
Admits from
2 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
English
Languages taught
Spanish, German
Admissions To visit the school or obtain an application form, the family phones the school to arrange an appointment. The school does not describe admission conditions, entrance assessments or requirements on citizenship or language on its website.
Stages and year groups Grades Pre-Nursery (2 years) - Year 13 (18 years). Pre-Nursery for children of 2-3, Foundation Stage F1 and F2 (ages 3-5), Key Stage 1 (Year 1-2, ages 5-7), Key Stage 2 (Year 3-6, ages 7-11), Key Stage 3 (Year 7-9, ages 11-14), Key Stage 4 (Year 10-11, ages 14-16) with IGCSE in English literature and language, mathematics, science, Spanish, German, business, history, travel and tourism and art, plus PE and PSHE. The Sixth Form (Year 12-13, ages 16-18) offers A Level in psychology, biology, travel and tourism, business, English language and mathematics; Sixth Formers must be in school all day, from 8:40 to 14:50, and spend time free from lessons in the study room. The school does not give class sizes.
Address Juan de Echevarría 10, 35507 Tahíche, Lanzarote (Islas Canarias)
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · authorised programmeschool is in an official registryconfirmed by a school document, by membership or by taking part in a networkclaimed by the school, no confirmation, not counted in the scoreGuide to all organisations → What stands behind each entry
CambridgeCambridge International Education
Part of the University of Cambridge. It allows a school to teach the Cambridge programmes and to enter pupils for the exams. There are four stages and they are authorised separately: primary, lower secondary, IGCSE and A Level. If the stages are known they are named in the line below; if that line is missing, the school does not publish them, and the Cambridge registry does not show stages either - it gives only the name of the centre, the country and whether private candidates are accepted. Cambridge calls what it does registration rather than accreditation, and the network holds about ten thousand schools.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run this programme and to award its certificate. This is a confirmation of the programme, not a judgement on the school as a whole. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. Which stages - from the early years programme for three-year-olds up to A-Level - this school is approved for is not stated here.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →Exams and destinations from the school's official website
The school publishes nothing about where its leavers go: no share going on to university, no exam results, no list of universities.
Facilities
The school does not describe its premises on its website.
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
The school does not give the number of teachers. In its words, it employs experienced teachers, teaching assistants and support staff; teachers hold recognised Spanish and international qualifications, include native-level English speakers, and the team is multinational. The head is Mrs Rees.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school says nothing on its website about security, medical care or pupil support.
Reviews
No reviews yet. The community rating counts towards the score once a school has five verified reviews - until then we do not show a zero, so as not to mislead.
Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)60 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data64 Value for money (6%) scored at the median74 "Scored on disclosed data" stands where we count only what the school has written about itself on its own site: exams and destinations, safety and wellbeing, teaching staff, facilities, clubs and activities. A low score here means the school does not write about this, not that the school does not have it: a school with good security and a sparse site will score low. A school can fill in its profile, and the score will be counted again.
The score is counted from 7 of the 9 criteria.Only those with checkable data count: programmes and accreditations from official registers, the fee from a published price list. Where it says "scored on the median", the school has no data and the middle of the list is put in its place, so that a gap gives no advantage. Admissions, teaching staff and reviews come in as their data arrives.
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