Itxaropena Ikastola
Our Educational OfferPre School
Our Pre-School project, ‘Bizipen Proiektua’, puts the focus on the students. We work trying to respond to their interests and needs, so that we help them achieve the skills they will later require for their daily lives: this way, the teacher is not a mere transmitter of information, but a guide so that they manage to find answers to their interests on their own, taking every chance they have to learn from the surroundings, through manipulation and experimentation.
Also giving playing the importance it deserves, children between the ages of 0 and 6 are educated in a familiar environment in the school, getting a significant emphasis on the development of their civic and social values.
Primary School
In Primary school, pupils are given more responsibilities, so that they can continue developing the skills they have acquired. Using ‘Kimu’ and ‘Eki’ methods, as well as other additions, our daily objective is to keep their desire to learn alive, so that, little by little, they have more information about the world surrounding them, while also gaining tools to adapt to society.
At the same time we try to promote a good coexistence, so that they also learn to work in groups and act as such. In addition to this, half hour reading classes are held every day. The goals are twofold: firstly, to make them enjoy reading; and secondly, to ensure that a better understanding of all types of texts helps them improve their general skills, which will then be used to improve their learning in each subject.
Secondary School
In secondary school we have two main goals: the good use of the digital technologies that students have at hand, and their citizenship education, so that they develop civic values, empathy, a critical sense and, above all, learn to live together in a diverse society and learn to value it as something that enriches us all.
The citizenship projects that were started in Primary School continue, with the intention of creating group spirit as one of the main goals, while each student builds his or her own “me” as a person. They are at an ideal age to interact with the world outside them, learning to do so in a respectful way, and pulling their ideas and thoughts, being part of it and doing their bit to make it a better place for all.