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Sant Pere de Ribes, Spain · est. 2013 · Private
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Richmond International School is a private British school in Sant Pere de Ribes, a few minutes from Sitges, south of Barcelona. It opened in September 2013, in April 2017 it was authorised to teach children from Early Years at 3 to Year 11, and it then opened Year 12 and 13 with the A Level programme; the building was built in stages and finished in 2017. In the school's words it has 163 pupils, from Nursery to Year 13, with an average class of about 15. The school is a NABSS member and is authorised by the Ministry of Education to give British education to children of all nationalities; leavers can obtain recognition of Spanish certificates. The main language of lessons is English, all pupils learn Spanish and Catalan, and French, German or Chinese for an extra fee. There are many nationalities, mostly European: British, French, Spanish, Lithuanian, Russian, Polish, Latvian, Ukrainian, Dutch, as well as pupils from China, the USA and South America; Catalans make up about 45 percent. The school day runs from 9:00 to 16:00, early care from 8:30 for an extra fee, lunch at 12:00 is compulsory, after-school club from 16:00 to 19:30. The school plans IGCSE, GCSE, A Level and the Cambridge English exams from KET to CPE. In 2021 it received the Premios Cataluña award of the newspaper La Razón for academic achievement and methodology. The head is N. French.
Key facts
Programmes
Pearson Edexcel
Admits from
3 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
English
Languages taught
Spanish, Catalan, French, German, Chinese
Admissions The school is authorised to give British education to children of all nationalities, and foreigners make up more than half of its pupils. Admission has five steps: a visit to the school, an interview with the family and the child, an English assessment (not held in Nursery or for those with a certificate from an official body or an international school), an application, and enrolment after confirmation. From everyone except Nursery the school requires age-appropriate English, spoken and written. According to the FAQ page, children without English are admitted from 3 to 6 years, from 6 to 9 there is a limited number of places for beginners of proven academic ability, and from 9 a high level of English or the EFL programme is required. Places each year are few, and the school advises applying early.
Stages and year groups Grades Nursery (3 years) - Year 13. Early Years from 3, primary and secondary on the English National Curriculum, Year 12 and 13 with the A Level programme. A maximum of 24 pupils per class, about 15 on average; in Early Years one adult per 13 children including assistants. Homework in primary on Fridays, in secondary daily. After A Level leavers can enter British and Spanish universities without the Spanish PAU entrance exam.
Address Rambla del Garraf 14-16, 08812 Sant Pere de Ribes (Barcelona)
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Pearson · authorised programmeNABSS · school is part of the networkschool 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
PearsonPearson Edexcel, a British exam board
It gives a school approved centre status: that means Pearson exams can be sat in the school itself. What is checked is the premises, the equipment, the secure storage of papers and the presence of trained invigilators.
What the badge means for this school. The school can run Pearson exams on its own premises. The status says nothing about teaching, about results or about the school itself: any school able to run an exam securely holds it. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. Which Pearson qualifications this school is approved for is not stated here.
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NABSS (National Association of British Schools in Spain) is not an owner of schools but an association of British schools in Spain, founded in 1978 by a group of leading British schools in the country. According to the association, it has more than 80 member schools, which educate more than 49,000 children and employ more than 5,000 teachers. Only schools officially authorised by the Spanish authorities as foreign schools teaching the British education system and certified by the British Council after inspections can be members; new schools that are still developing are not admitted straight away. The association represents the schools' common interests, encourages collaboration between them and holds an annual conference; its school finder places member schools in Madrid, Catalonia, the Valencian Community, Andalusia, the Balearic and Canary Islands, Murcia and other regions. The association's site is nabss.org.
What this means for this school. The network owns or operates the school. Its accreditation and programme authorisation the school obtains separately, in its own name.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
Where leavers go: MGIMO · University of Groningen · Universitat Pompeu Fabra · Esade · LCI Barcelona · Utrecht University · Universitat de Barcelona · Rubika Montreal · Universitat Internacional de Catalunya · Universitat Ramon Llull
The school publishes the universities of its 2021-2022 leavers: international business and finance at MGIMO, artificial intelligence at Groningen, medicine at Pompeu Fabra (two pupils) and in Madrid, business at Esade and Utrecht, fashion design at LCI Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, animation at Rubika Montreal, architecture at UIC and telecommunications engineering at Ramon Llull.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Art studio
Campus: A building on Rambla del Garraf in Sant Pere de Ribes: about 30 percent was ready in 2013, and in 2017 an iMac computer room, an art room, a laboratory and a cafeteria were completed. Classrooms are bright and open, and there is a library, a cinema room, a cafeteria and common areas, laboratories, drawing and music rooms; garden classrooms are being created in primary. Pupils swim at the Aqua Sports club in Vilanova.
Clubs and activities: Chinese · Taekwondo · Aerobics · Yoga and Pilates · Zumba · Drama · Musical theatre · Photography · Decorative arts and crafts · YouTube and school journalism · Ski trips · Swimming · Sailing
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 sizein the key facts above
The school does not give the number of teachers. The English curriculum is taught by English-speaking teachers, French, Spanish and Catalan by native speakers; the staff includes both general class teachers and subject specialists. The school says it selects teachers by education, experience and personal qualities.
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
·Counsellornot stated on the website
✓Child protection policy
✓Staff training
✓Anti-bullying policy
The school publishes a child protection policy based on the British guidance Keeping Children Safe in Education: the designated safeguarding lead is S. French, the deputy M. Hidalgo; all staff and volunteers receive training on appointment and refresher training every year. On recruitment the school checks identity, qualifications, references with a phone call to the referee and employment history, and requires an enhanced DBS check; check results are kept in a single central record. Policies on behaviour, anti-bullying, complaints, photographing children and school trips are named separately.
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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 data70 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data70 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data75 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 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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