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Funchal, Portugal · Private
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A small Cambridge school in Funchal taking children from 3.5 to 12. Its year groups carry English names: Prep One and Prep Two, then Primary One to Four and a Primary Five and Six class; the Prep year runs from September to July and the Primary year from September to June. The school names no language of instruction outright, but its pages for parents, its year group names and its fee list are written in English and the curriculum itself is Cambridge, so lessons run in English. Beyond lessons the school runs a Homework Club for all ages. Tuition is low by the standards of the country's international schools: from 2700 to 3300 euros a year. The school is not the only one in Funchal: International Sharing School - Madeira works nearby at Rua de Santa Luzia 2, and that is a different school, with a different site, different ages and different programmes.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $3 137–3 834 a year
2 700–3 300 EUR
Programmes
Cambridge · Primary
Admits from
3.5 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
English
About the fees A year costs 2750 euros in Prep One and Prep Two, 2700 euros in Primary One, 2900 in Primary Two, 3100 in Primary Three and 3300 in Primary Four. The Primary Five and Six class is counted differently, at 200 euros a month. The Homework Club for all ages costs 500 euros. Prep fees can be paid in three termly or eleven monthly instalments, Primary fees in three termly or ten monthly instalments.
Stages and year groups Grades Prep One, Prep Two, Primary One - Primary Four, Primary Five and Six. Prep One is 3.5-4 years, Prep Two 5 years, Primary One 6 years, Primary Two 7 years, Primary Three 8 years, Primary Four 9 years, and Primary Five and Six 10-12 years. The Prep year runs from September to July and the Primary year from September to June.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · Primary · 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. At this school: Primary (ages 5-11). Primary is the primary stage, ages 5 to 11: English, mathematics and science to Cambridge syllabuses. At the end of the stage a school may run the optional Checkpoint test, which is marked in Cambridge.
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Facilities
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Teaching staff
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Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
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Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)72 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 data61 "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 8 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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