(Alicante) A new school which opened in 2002 providing Nursery and Primary education with the new Secondary department due to open in September 2003. pupils can be enroled into one of for language sections for their education, either English, Spanish, French or German.
The European Schools are official educational establishments controlled jointly by the governments of the Member States of the European Union. In all these countries they are legally regarded as public institutions.
They are governed by an intergovernmental Protocol incorporating the "Statute of the European School", signed by the six original Member States in Luxembourg on 12 April 1957. This Statute was ratified by the national authorities of the signatory countries. Their task is to provide a multicultural, multilingual and multidenominational education for nursery, primary and secondary level pupils. There are currently twelve Schools (Alicante, Uccle, Woluwé, Ixelles, Mol, Bergen, Frankfurt-am-Main, Karlsruhe, Munich, Varese, Culham & Luxembourg), in seven countries (Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, Spain and Luxembourg), with a total of over 16,000 pupils.
Primary and secondary education in the fifteen Union countries lasts for twelve or thirteen years, whereas nursery education is variable. The governments therefore agreed that the nursery classes at the European school would cover two years, the primary course would span five years and the secondary school seven years. From the moment of enrolment in the nursery class, the schools attach great importance to physical, psychological, social, affective and creative development which are essential for the well-being of all children and for school success.
The seven classes of secondary education are organized in the following way: for the first three classes, pupils follow a common course, known as the observation cycle. Most subjects are taught in the mother tongue, although in the second class all must begin a second foreign language, and in the third class all begin to study history and geography in their "working language" (L II). Latin is offered as an option in the third class.
Avenida Locutor Vicente Hipólito s/n, 03450 Playa de San Juan - Alicante, Spain
Tel: (+34) 965 155610 ; Fax:(+34) 965 156424
Email: vlpr@eursc.org
Web site: http://www.eursc.org/
