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Dos Hermanas, Spain · est. 2023 · Private
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The Canadian International School of Sevilla is a private international school in Montequinto, a district of Dos Hermanas outside Seville, opened in 2023 and the first school on the Canadian model in Andalusia. There is a family story behind it: the Mantecón López family emigrated to Canada in 1957, Victoria Mantecón returned to Andalusia and together with Pedro Díaz Pérez de Obanos founded the Canadian group in 1985, which in 2001 became the first private centre in Europe to work with the TPR and TPRS methodologies and in 2012 registered its own Natural Fluency teaching system. The family had meant to open the school for more than twenty years. It is built without being tied to a single method: the Canadian model as a reference point, and inside it Montessori, Reggio Emilia and project-based learning. The school's official language is English, Chinese runs from the age of six, and German is offered too. It takes children from the age of one and carries them to eighteen: Nest and three early childhood levels from one to six, primary Year 1-6 from six to twelve, secondary and baccalaureate Year 7-12 from twelve to eighteen. The groups are small - fourteen children, and up to the age of nine one teacher for every seven - the rooms are done in a Nordic style, the school sets no homework and talks a great deal about emotional intelligence and working together. The main thing a parent needs to know: the school is very young, and only two pages of its site open - no fees, no admission terms, no pupil numbers and no clubs are to be found there. And separately about the address: the school is building a second building at Av. 28 de Febrero 46 in Alcalá de Guadaíra and promises to open it in September 2027.
Key facts
Languages of instruction
English
Languages taught
Chinese, German
Admissions The school sets out admission in five steps: first contact through the form, phone, WhatsApp or email, a personal meeting with a school tour and a presentation of the project, a pre-enrolment application, allocation of places and, if there are none, a waiting list. The school promises an answer to the application within 48 hours at most. It names a separate intake for children aged 15 to 24 months and for the first year of early childhood, at 3-4. The school names no entrance tests, no language requirements and no special procedure for children from abroad.
Stages and year groups Grades Nest from age 1 - Year 12, up to age 18. The stages run right through from the age of one to eighteen. Early childhood is Nest and the levels up to Early 3, from one to six years of age. Primary is Year 1-6, from six to twelve. Secondary and the baccalaureate are Year 7-12, from twelve to eighteen. The school keeps groups of fourteen children and, up to the age of nine, one teacher for every seven. It sets no homework.
Address C/ Cerro del Marchal 13
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
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MSAMiddle States Association of Colleges and Schools
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Canadian Group is a family-run education group from Seville; on its school's site it says it was founded in 1985, when Victoria Mantecón and her husband Pedro Díaz Pérez de Obanos opened the English academy Canadian Language Institute and the vocational training school Formación y Medios. We did not find a separate site for the group: it describes itself on the site of Canadian International School of Sevilla. Since 2018 the group has been led by Alain Díaz, of the third generation of the Mantecón López family. The group began work on the school in 2023 and calls it the first international school in Andalusia inspired by the Canadian educational model. The school takes children from 1 to 18 years old in Montequinto (Dos Hermanas, Seville), and the opening of a building in Alcalá de Guadaíra is announced for September 2027. The site is colegiocanadiansevilla.es.
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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 from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
·Librarynot stated on the website
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: The kindergarten stands at C/ Cerro del Marchal 13 in Montequinto. The school describes its rooms as Nordic-designed learning spaces and speaks of small groups, but gives no inventory of facilities - library, laboratories, gymnasium, canteen - on the pages read. It is building a second building at Av. 28 de Febrero 46 in Alcalá de Guadaíra and promises to open it in September 2027.
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 states the size of its groups and the density of adults: fourteen children in a group, and up to the age of nine one teacher for every seven. Of names it publishes its leadership: the group's founders Victoria Mantecón and Pedro Díaz Pérez de Obanos and the chief executive Alain Díaz, appointed in 2018; Victoria Mantecón trained in problem-based learning at McMaster University in Canada. The school states neither teacher numbers nor their qualifications.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school says nothing on its website about security, medical care or pupil support.
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