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Colegio San Isidoro

---St. Isidor´s

School---

Location of Granada

The city of Granada is located in the south-east of Spain, just at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, at the confluence of three rivers, Beiro, Darro and Genil, at an elevation of 738 metres above sea level yet only one hour from the Mediterrean coast, the Costa Tropical.

Country Spain

Autonomous Community Andalusia

Province Granada

Comarca Vega de Granada

Mayor José Torres Hurtado (PP)

Geography

Land Area 88 km²

Altitude 738 m AMSL

Population

Population centre - province 265,879 (2009) - About 480,000

Density 2,803 hab./km² (2009)

General information

Native name Granada (Spanish)

Spanish name Granada

Time zone CET (GMT +1)

- summer CEST (GMT +2)

Postal code 18000

Website www.granada.org

General Information

The Realejo: Realejo was the Jewish district at the time of the Nasride Granada. It is today a district made up of many Andalusian villas, with gardens opening onto the streets, called Los Carmenes.

Districts of Granada

The Cartuja: In this district also, many buildings were created with the extension of the University of Granada

Districts of Granada

Bib-Rambla: Nowadays, Bib-Rambla is a high point for gastronomy, especially in its terraces of restaurants, open on beautiful days. The most important here is the Arab bazaar (Alcaicería), which ends into the Cathedral.

Districts of Granada

The Sacromonte: It is characterized by cave houses, which are dug into the hillside. The area has a reputation as a major center of flamenco song and dance. The population here are normally gipsys.

Districts of Granada

The Albayzín: Albayzín (also written as Albaicín), located on a hill on the right bank of the river Darro, is the ancient Moorish quarter of the city and transports the visitor to a unique world: the site of the ancient city of Elvira, so-called before the Zirid Moors renamed it Granada.

Districts of Granada

The Zaidin: This blue collar neighborhood houses 100,000 residents of Granada, making it the largest neighborhood or 'barrio‘.

Districts of Granada

There are a lot of monuments in Granada, but we are going to refer the most important one: The Alhambra and Generalife, the most visited monument of Spain.

Monuments

Other important thing we have is The Sierra Nevada, meaning "snowy range" in Spanish, is a mountain range in the region of Andalusia in Spain. It contains the highest point of continental Spain, Mulhacén at 3,478 metres (11,411 ft).

The Alhambra with a beautiful sight of Sierra Nevada in the night

About the School

• Situated in the Center zone of Granada.

• Instalations about 16000 m2.• KinderGarden: 3 classrooms – 75 pupils• Primary School: 6 classrooms – 150 pupils• Secondary Schoool: 8 classrooms – 240 pupils• High School: 6 classrooms – 180 pupils

TOTAL: 645 pupils.

About the School

• We are the OLDER School of Granada. It was founded in 1887. So this way the council gave us a PLATE GRANADE wich certificate this.

•It is a FAMILIAR SCHOOL, wich Managers are brothers.

•We are a PRIVATE/CONCERTED institution. It means that we have public and private learning. Kindergarden and High School are private, so students pay taxes monthly. Primary and Secondary is paid throw the govern.

•We are 38 persons in Staff, divided in 30 teachers, 1 secretary, 1 contability, 2 cleaning personal, 3 dinner staff and 1 maintenance.

About the School

• Our School is different the others from Granada.

• The way of being a familiar one able us to make some changes we think are positive for the academic development.

•We have 5 anual evaluations (others only 3).

•We inform parents monthly about academic results.

•Diary meetings with parents.

•Uniform for all the students.

About the School

We recently have been labeled by the governmente, obteining the denomination of I+E from the Junta de Andalucía (Investigation(Research) and Education). This is the first year we are going to work throw computers.

About the School

We are more than 12 years associated with the CECE and we are just working in a new online platform, still in process of development.You can visit us in www.cisidoro.com.

The CECE (Spanish federation of centers of education) is the most important Association in Spain about Learning.

We are about 5000 associates all over Spain.

About the School

Definitively, we worry about pupil´s social formation and how do they have to involve themselves in the diary situations, maintening reunions with parents to include everything that pupils need to develop mentally, learning to study and to obtain positive results for them, which nowadays in our School approaches 87 % success in the access to career.

At the end, we want to say to you that we are very glad of being able to take part in this project with all of you and especially, we would like to learn everything what we prune to improve in ours day after day of dedication to the children.

Thank you for the opportunity and I will try to make a nice job for all of you.