2. WHERE IS IT LOCATED
● The Pías Gandia school is located in the municipality of Gandía, in the
region of La Safor, in the province of Valencia (Spain,Valencia,Gandia)
3. HISTORY ABOUT THE SCHOOL
● At the beginning it was a university founded by Francisco de Borja in
1549, but then in 1767 they expelled the Jesuits and that caused the
disappearance of the university, which they tryed to use as a house of
misericordia, for poor families, but then at the end It was not used. In
the end, they started using it for various teaching activities.
4. NOWADAYS
● Nowadays is a school that they tried to alleviate this lack by insisting on
communicative competence and recording students explaining something in
class.
● Since childhood children are trained to lose the shame.
● The School was transformed by adapting this type of alternative
methodology four courses ago.At the beginning,it was difficult for teachers
to enter the changes,which require more work.
5. INTERESTING FACTS
● It is the oldest school in Spain
● The Pias Schools of Gandía was the Napoleon barracks, a prison in the Civil
War and a firing wall in the Franco regime.
● their students study with collaborative learning, 'gamification', 'escape
rooms' and 'flippedclassroom'.
Gamification:the application of typical elements of game playing
Escape room: is a game in which a team of players cooperatively discover clues,
solve puzzles, and The goal is often to escape from the site of the game.
Flippedclassroom:transfers certain learning processes outside the classroom and
uses class time to facilitate and enhance knowledge within the classroom.
