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Lleida, Spain · Private
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Montessori Lleida International School is a private Montessori school in Lleida, in the Cappont quarter next to the municipal market. It grew not out of a school but out of a project: in 2014, in a small unit in the same quarter and under the name Mamilatte, its founders advised and trained families, children and other centres in Montessori principles, and in time the project became a school with a name of its own. The school is authorised by the Generalitat of Catalonia and, according to its home page, runs stages from nought to twelve years, that is from the first months of life to the end of primary school; the "Què fem?" page, however, lists only three groups - Niu from six months to one year, Comunitat infantil from one to three and Casa d'infants from three to six - and that page appears to be older than the home page. The school calls itself the first centre in Lleida to be one hundred per cent Montessori. The day is long and convenient for a working family: from 8:00 to 17:15, with morning and afternoon care, and at Christmas, Easter week and over the summer the school runs estades, day sessions for those who need to combine work and the holidays. The centre is led by a psychologist specialising in childhood and education, who also provides the psycho-pedagogical support; besides Montessori the school draws on Pikler pedagogy - free movement - and on positive discipline, and the whole team is Pikler Lóczy certified. The project is self-managed: decisions are taken by the whole team. Two things are missing from the site entirely - the fees and the languages of instruction - and the school names neither anywhere.
Key facts
Admissions The school does not set out an admission procedure, deadlines, documents or conditions on its site: its home page has only a form through which a family leaves its own and the child's details to receive information about the school or an invitation to open days. The school says nothing about foreigners or about language as a condition of entry.
Stages and year groups Grades Niu from 6 months - end of primary school, up to age 12. The home page speaks of stages from nought to twelve years: the school accompanies a child from the first months of life to the end of primary school. The "Què fem?" page meanwhile lists only three age groups - Niu from six months to one year, Comunitat infantil from one to three and Casa d'infants from three to six - and says nothing about a Taller stage (6-12), even though the centre's director is described as a Montessori assistant for exactly that Taller. The discrepancy is resolved in favour of the home page: it is newer and names the end of primary school outright. The school day runs from 8:00 to 17:15, with morning and afternoon care.
Address Avinguda València 27, Lleida
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MSAMiddle States Association of Colleges and Schools
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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.
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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
The school does not describe its premises on its website.
Summer camp: the school runs its own camp; whether it takes children from outside is not stated on the website
The school runs estades - day sessions at Christmas, in Easter week and over the summer - and says plainly that they exist to make it easier for families to combine work and the holidays. It publishes no dates, no price and no ages for them.
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 its teachers as such, but its team page introduces eight people by name. The head of the centre is a psychologist specialising in childhood and education, a Montessori Casa d'infants guide and an AMI assistant for the Taller stage, with a Pikler Lóczy certificate in free movement and training in positive discipline; she also provides psycho-pedagogical support. Then come a Casa d'infants guide with an AMI 0-6 guide diploma, a Casa d'infants assistant with AMI certification, a Comunitat infantil guide with Montessori 0-3 guide training, an assistant for the 0-3 group, a Taller guide with degrees in early years and primary education, a music specialist - a violinist trained in Dalcroze pedagogy - and an English teacher with degrees in primary and early years education who studied on the bilingual track. The school names no adult-child ratio and no group size.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
·Security staffnot stated on the website
·Access controlnot stated on the website
·Nurse or medical roomnot stated on the website
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·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The centre's director is a psychologist specialising in childhood and education, and she also provides the school's psycho-pedagogical support. The school names neither a medical room, nor security staff, nor a separate child protection policy.
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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 data60 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 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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