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Vega Escuela Activa

Colmenar de Oreja, Spain · Private

Illustration · Colmenar de Oreja

A small private school in Colmenar de Oreja, in a natural setting in the south of the Community of Madrid, ten minutes from Aranjuez. It runs three stages: second-cycle early years (ages 3-6), primary school and ESO secondary school. The school calls itself a centre of active pedagogy: projects, group work, research and experiment, continuous formative assessment, emotional education and respect for each child's pace; it describes its setting, after Reggio Emilia, as the "third educator". Once a week the early years and the younger primary classes go out for a day in nature near the school, the older primary classes once every two weeks. The school writes that it is authorised by the Community of Madrid as a foreign centre (centre code 28078079) and accredited by NEASC. The school does not name the language of lessons directly: all pages of the site, including the description of the stages and the contacts for parents, are written only in Spanish, and nothing is said about teaching in another language, so the language of instruction is given as Spanish. There are no fees, no pupil numbers, no teachers, no clubs and no admission conditions on the site; the school invites families to ask about open days by email.