Educational innovation

STEAM Education

We are committed to STEAM education, as a means to reach the personal development of each individual, seeing innovation with the perspective of the uniqueness of each student. In 2020, The Department of Education of the Basque Government has recognised Gaztelueta with the STEAM Euskad seal.i, rewarding the best practices among more than 100 schools. The robotics project developed in the infant stage has also been awarded by Siena Education with the V Prize of the Revista Escuela Infantil Magazine, recognising the project to work on analytical skills and logical-mathematical thinking through STEAM competences and robotics.

Cooperative work

Collaborative learning is taken into account in all the projects and is worked on in a cross-cutting manner from the second cycle of infant education onwards.

Project-based learning

At Gaztelueta we are committed to a methodology based on projects and workshops which helps students to be the true protagonists of their own learning and which in turn favours learning by competencies.

Arts and Humanities

At Gaztelueta we also highlight the relevance and importance of the arts and humanities, which are fundamental for good personal development and are also of great support for scientific development. Theatre, painting, music and the use of libraries to encourage a taste for reading are of great help. From an early age, we work on different projects to develop the aesthetic and creative capacity of the pupils through the plastic arts department.

Workshops

Bearing in mind that at the infant stage, we are in a period of a key moment in which pupils are building the foundations of the personality on which their future learning will be based.Our project facilitates a good personal development through a methodology based on workshop work.

Our workshops encourage the acquisition of learning through the progressive acquisition of autonomy and basic social habits. The different workshops are carried out in the vehicular languages mentioned (English, Basque and Spanish) and are adapted according to the age of the pupils.

Workshops in English

Artist's studio

Thanks to art education, pupils can get to know themselves better, express their inner world and give expression to their imagination and creativity. There is an atelier where different techniques are used. Each term we work with different authors, look at works of art and work on colours, mixtures and the organisation of graphic space.

The youngest children aged 1 and 2 years have opportunities in these workshops to explore and manipulate different materials, often unknown to them, thus favouring a rich sensory experimentation. Research and exploration are fundamental, awakening in them the motivation to learn about the environment around them.

Logic-Mathematics Workshop

We work on mathematical reasoning through the "Active Mathematics" project. The children experience mathematics, discovering basic concepts through play, experimentation and manipulative work. We seek to develop logical thinking by making pupils aware of what they learn and how they learn it. The first step is always to awaken their curiosity and wonder.

Programming and Robotics Workshop

From the age of 3, children begin to work on programming language in English. The Bee Bots are fun and friendly robotic bees with which our Infants learn to program. They form part of the classroom and are a new and motivating resource for the little ones that has been awarded by Siena Education with the V Prize of the Revista Escuela Infantil Magazine, recognising the project to work on analytical skills and logical-mathematical thinking through the use of the STEAM competences and robotics.

Emotional workshop

We educate from emotions by talking about different real or hypothetical situations with which students are familiar at home or in the classroom.

Speaking Corner

In small groups, with native teachers, and through stories and games, pupils from the second cycle of Infant Education acquire the necessary basis for mastering English in the future.

Jolly Phonics

A fun and engaging complete literacy method in which children learn to use the basic alphabetic code to begin reading and writing in English. This methodology, endorsed by the British Ministry of Education, is the official methodology in the United Kingdom for learning English as a first language.

Workshops in Basque

Psychomotricity

In the Neuromotor Programme with different circuits and exercises according to the age of the youngest children, we put into practice a wide variety of exercises based on movement, to harmonise psychomotor development and brain development.

Music

In this workshop they develop their artistic skills, dance, sing, meet great composers and improve their rhythmic ability.

Experimentation, creative thinking and research workshop

Through this workshop, children are introduced to the world of science by carrying out different experiments where they manipulate, observe and play with objects.

Workshops in Spanish

Christian values

We promote an education based on personal, social and civic values, which help pupils to reach maturity. Companionship, teamwork, generosity, joy and order are aspects that are dealt with throughout the course.

Reading and writing workshop

We have a creative reading and writing programme aimed at the neurological development of children from 3 to 6 years of age. It values language as an instrument of oral and written communication, representation and understanding of reality, construction of knowledge and self-regulation of thought, emotions and behaviour. Cooperative learning takes centre stage.

Public speaking workshop

This project is aimed at encouraging oral expression in students in a fun and motivating way, helping them to lose their fear of speaking in public from an early age.

Educational innovation