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Alcalá de Guadaíra, Spain · est. 2009 · Private
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Criança Montessori School is a private school in Alcalá de Guadaíra near Seville, at Calle Pinsapo 32, beside the Oromana park. Its legal standing is unusual for a Spanish school: it calls itself a "centro docente privado extranjero homologado por la Junta de Andalucía" - a foreign private school recognised by the government of Andalusia - and it has the centre code 41023788. In the directory of MSA, an American accreditation of the institution as a whole, the school stands with a live entry. Children are taken from the age of three, and the stages run right through: Casa de Niños from three to six, Taller I and II from six to twelve, and Secundaria from twelve to fourteen. Teaching is bilingual - Spanish and English. The school builds its pedagogy from several sources: the Montessori method as the base, plus active and systemic pedagogy, Aucouturier psychomotor practice and non-violent communication. Of its premises it names an outdoor yard, a sandpit and a psychomotor room, and next door the Oromana park, where the school takes the children. The main thing a parent needs to know: the school ends at fourteen, that is in the second year of ESO, and the upper stage is finished at another school.
Key facts
Languages of instruction
Spanish, English
Admissions The school sets out admission in four steps: a first call or email, after which the admissions coordinator sends an information pack; a visit to the school during school hours; an observation morning, when the family watches a class at work without stepping in; and a conversation with the tutor of the group the child will join, by phone or video. To reserve a place the family asks the office for a form, signs the contract and pays half of the enrolment fee, with the rest due in September, or all at once when joining mid-year. Siblings of pupils have priority: in February families renew their enrolment for the following year, and places for new families open in March, subject to availability. For a child with special needs the school first holds a meeting with the family and an observation period and only then confirms the reservation. The admission page says nothing about foreigners, citizenship or language as a condition.
Stages and year groups Grades Casa de Niños from age 3 - Secundaria, up to age 14. Three stages run one after another: Casa de Niños from three to six, Taller I and Taller II from six to twelve, Secundaria from twelve to fourteen. The school ends at fourteen: it has no baccalaureate, and a leaver finishes the upper stage at another school.
Address Calle Pinsapo 32, Alcalá de Guadaíra, Sevilla
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
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MSAMiddle States Association of Colleges and Schools
One of the oldest American accreditations, working since 1887 in more than a hundred countries and linked to the Office of Overseas Schools of the US State Department. It judges the school as an institution across twelve areas, including finances, governance, premises and student support.
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The pedagogy of Maria Montessori: a child chooses the activity, works at their own pace with special materials, and mixed-age groups are arranged so that older children teach the younger ones. It is used most often in the nursery and primary stages.
What this means for this school. The name Montessori belongs to nobody: any school may call itself a Montessori school, and there is no single body that checks this. There are associations that train teachers and recognise schools, but membership of them is voluntary, and our entry means exactly that the school describes itself this way. This pedagogy has no leaving certificate, so what to look at is what the school finishes with.
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: An outdoor yard with a sandpit and a psychomotor room; next to the school is the Oromana park, where it takes the children.
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
On its team page the school names nine people: the head, the pedagogical director, a member of the management, two guides of the Taller elementary stage, a Casa de Niños guide and three members of the pedagogical team. Three guides are listed with Montessori guide diplomas, the Casa de Niños guide for ages three to six; the team also cites training in non-violent communication, systemic pedagogy and Aucouturier psychomotor practice. The school names no adult-child ratio and no group size.
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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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 data60 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data55 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.
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