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Sevilla, Spain · est. 2019 · Private
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Sevilla Reggio Emilia School is a private international school in the centre of Seville, on Calle Torneo by the Barqueta bridge, between the Alameda de Hércules and the Isla de la Cartuja. It grew out of the El Castillo Mágico nursery, opened in 2019 as an alternative to the conventional Spanish school: at first it was an early childhood centre for children from nought to three, then three to six were added, then elementary and secondary school - and the families went along with the founders, because, as the school writes, after a nursery like that another is hard to find. The stages now run from nought to sixteen. The pedagogy is the Reggio Emilia approach, and the school calls itself the first bilingual school to base its entire educational and care programme on the arts: artist-educators work in the team alongside the other specialists, and music stands apart as a non-verbal language that speaks directly to the emotions. Everything is arranged around two ideas. The first is space as a third educator: rooms are not divided into classrooms, laboratories, a gym and a dining hall, they all get plenty of natural light so that a child can see the weather and the seasons change, and the layout follows the principles of the architect Rosan Bosch - a "mountaintop" for addressing a group, a "cave" for solitary concentration, a "circle" for small-group work, a "spring" for chance meetings in the circulation areas, "hands-on" for linking theory to practice, and "up!" for movement in any area. The second is open doors: a family may enter the school at any moment of the school day without prior permission, through an accreditation and access control system, and the school explains plainly why: so that a child is never left behind a gate, cut off from their own people, and so that the family can see everything that happens. Lessons are in the mornings only - the afternoon the school gives back to its pupils; that is also when the clubs run - music with instruments, dance, stories with drawing, immersion in English and German - and children from outside the school are admitted to them too. English is taught by native speakers who prepare pupils for the Trinity examinations by level, and a foreign pupil who does not yet speak Spanish is given simultaneous translation in class and materials in English until they can study in Spanish. The kitchen is the school's own, and lunch is cooked on site every day. Alongside English the school teaches German: there is a German teacher on the staff, and children from four to seven have German immersion classes. What is worth knowing in advance: the school does not yet hold MSA accreditation - the page devoted to it begins with the words "in the process of being accredited" - and it does not publish its fees.
Key facts
Admits from
a few months · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Spanish, English
Admissions The school's admissions page holds an information request form with a reply within one to five working days, and the school sets out no steps, dates or tests on it. The school admits foreign pupils and writes about them itself: it has a separate page for American families moving to Seville, and a pupil who does not yet speak Spanish gets simultaneous translation in Spanish-language lessons and materials in English until they can study fully in Spanish, plus extra Spanish classes for an additional charge.
Stages and year groups Grades nursery and pre-school from age 0 - Secondary School, up to age 16. Three stages: nursery and pre-school from nought to six, Elementary School from six to twelve and Secondary School from twelve to sixteen. The school ends at sixteen; a leaver finishes the upper stage at another institution. Lessons are in the mornings only: the afternoon, as the school writes, belongs to the pupils.
Address Calle Torneo 21, 41002 Sevilla
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
MSA · candidateschool 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
MSAMiddle States Association of Colleges and Schools
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What this means for this school. This does not mean the teaching is poor: it means the content can be judged only from the school's own account of it. What to look at here is something else - the accreditation of the school as a whole, and the outside exams its leavers sit.
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
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: A well-preserved historic building in the centre of Seville, at 21 Calle Torneo by the Barqueta bridge - in the part of the city that opened up after the wall along Torneo was demolished in 1990 and that looks across to the Isla de la Cartuja. The premises follow the principle of space as a third educator: there is no customary division into classrooms, laboratories, a gym, a dining hall and recreation areas, all the rooms get plenty of natural light, and the layout follows the principles of the architect Rosan Bosch - "mountaintop", "cave", "circle", "spring", "hands-on" and "up!". The aesthetic is built around nature, to keep the setting calm. The kitchen is the school's own, with industrial equipment, and lunch is home-cooked every day: the school writes outright that food, too, is a language for it.
Clubs and activities: Stories, rhymes and painting · Instrument lessons (piano, ukulele, guitar, flute, saxophone) · Family music (for toddlers with parents) · Music and movement · Introduction to music · Introduction to dance (ballet and flamenco) · Academic support · English immersion · German immersion
Summer camp: the school runs its own camp; whether it takes children from outside is not stated on the website
The school runs Holiday Camps and names them among its complementary activities. It publishes no dates, no price and no ages.
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 publishes its staff by name: the head of the educational project, a coordinator, the head of studies, three accompanying educators, five accompanying teachers, four of them bilingual and two of them educational psychologists, one of whom also handles international affairs, a specialist teacher of performing arts and swimming, teachers of mathematics and natural sciences and of Spanish language and literature, a native-speaker teacher who prepares pupils for the Trinity examinations, and a German teacher. According to the school, most of its teachers are certified bilingual teachers, and English language and literature are taught by native speakers. The school calls its groups small and mixed in age, but gives neither a pupil-teacher ratio nor a class size in figures.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
·Security staffnot stated on the website
✓Access control
·Nurse or medical roomnot stated on the website
·Counsellornot stated on the website
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The school has an open-door policy: a family may enter at any moment of the school day without prior permission, and for safety an accreditation and access control system is in place. Two teachers on the staff are qualified educational psychologists; the school names no separate psychological service, no medical room, no security staff and no child protection policy text, and it writes about emotional support as a pedagogical approach.
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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%)65 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data65 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 Value for money (6%) scored at the median84 "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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