The IES Pobra do Caramiñal is a center of secondary education located in Galicia, in a coastal city of nearly ten thousand inhabitants.Account with around 440 students and 60 teachers, teaching ESO and secondary education as well as vocational.
The IES Pobra do Caramiñal is committed to the improvement of the quality of education, participating in multiple projects for training and innovation: PLAMBE, project COMBAS, sections bilingual (CLIL), program ABALAR, program CUALE, European project Comenius (now Erasmus), Plan of teachers training.
Our school, of course, seeks to improve the quality of teaching, study and learning, as well as optimize the organization of the work at the center and classroom level, in order to obtain results in line with what is expected of the current school. We also want to achieve a higher level of basic general skills, and the technological implantation in particular, as well as to promote multilingualism.
Participation in transnational projects is an aspect of our school which gives great importance, and that allows us to expand the European dimension and co-operation with other schools, getting contact with innovative educational practices and organizational methods in different countries.
In recent years our center has participated in four European projects Comenius, both bilateral and multilateral, which have been a screening of the school both domestically and at the social level.
IES Pobra do Caramiñal is committed to the improvement of the quality of education, which focuses on participation in multiple projects for training and innovation:
-Training plan for teachers
-PLAMBE: Plan of improvement of school libraries, which aims to update the funds and improvements equipment and services provided by the school library.
-Program ABALAR, comprehensive project of introduction of ICT in Galicia
– Program CUALE: qualification in foreign languages for students (French)
– Comenius projects (now Erasmus+). Participation in four projects, bilateral one (Adolescence and communication), and three multilateral (Preroman Europe, Let´s History, We eat aren´t Problematic) in the past 10 years, having worked with other 14 schools. In the current schoolyear 11 teachers from our school are involved in KA1 programs, participating in teacher training programs.
– Europeans-bilingual sections (CLIL). Our Centre is developing a CLIL programme in the areas of biology and geology, physics and chemistry and music.
Each one of the projects has it´s own coordinator at school, and teachers and students are involved in the activities planned in each one.