3. ABOUT US
• Students: 924
• Teachers : 67
• Administrative team: 11
• Classroom ratio: 1,7
•Families:
68% Surrounding districts
28% City of Barcelona
4% Around Barcelona
• Semi-private school
• Two classes per year-group
7. VIROLAI’S VISION
Achieving excellence in the process
of helping the students’ education,
and collaborating with their families.
Establishing interpersonal
relationships based on affection and
consideration for other people.
8. BASIC PRINCIPLES
Family–school collaboration
Personal development
• The importance of effort
• Educational satisfactoriness
Caring environment
Values of education
• Learning to live
• Learning to live with others
Teaching innovation and creativity
20. Team’s Task
Student
s
Educators: Family and
school
Knowledge of aptitudes and
interests
Acceptance of themselves
and of others
Personal
Education in effort
developmen
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Valuation of
Selfprogress
evaluation
Personal
Plan
Project
“Enthusiasm”
Educational
satisfactorines
s
21. Team’s Task
• Knowledge of their
aptitudes, their
difficulties and their
interests
• Acceptance of
themselves and of
others
• Personal development
Personal Plan
• The team’s task: Communication in order to know their aptitudes
• The difficulties are challenges that can be improved with effort
• Acceptance of children as they are, not as we want them to be
22. Student – family – school relationship
Tutor interviews with
students
23. Student – family – school relations
Tutor interviews with students
25. VIROLAI’S METHODOLOGICAL STYLE
Key role of the student: MORE LEARNING
THAN TEACHING
Definition and organisation of their crosscurricular skills, consolidating basic
processes
Significant, constructive and experiential
learning
28. EDUCATION
• Thematic values of the course:
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Creativity
Resilience
Empathy
Ambition for the future
Perseverance
Learning to coexist and mediate
Education in social skills
Shaping habits
Student participation: Student Council
29. EDUCATION
Commitment to the environment:
Sustainability
Solidarity
Citizens’ responsibilities
Entrepreneurial Projects
Entrepreneurs Foundation
Junior Achievement
Infonomia: Fundació Impulsa
30. ATTENTION TO DIVERSITY
Individualised attention and dedication to students
with special needs. Differentiation of each class
group
Individualised plans for students who need them
Specific plans for improvement
• Organisation of elective materials
• Support inside and outside the classroom
• Resources
Responsible for attention to diversity
Psychological support
Support of teachers and classroom assistants
31. EMPOWERMENT OF TALENTS
First Lego League
European Parliaments
Conferences and activities
Scholarships and
competitions
38. 6th Competencias Básicas (Skill-based exam)
Català 6è 2012-2013
100%
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%
Escola Virolai 12-13
Catalunya 12.13
Nivell alt
29,15%
23,80%
Nivell mitjà alt
41,80%
37,50%
Nivell mitjà baix
21,80%
23,50%
Nivell baix
7,30%
15,20%
42. 4th ESO Competencias Básicas (Skill-based exam)
Between 80% and 98% of
students in the highest
band
43. PAU RESULTS (pre-university exams)
Estadístiques notes PAU Batxillerat. Curs 2012-2013
Centre
Pendents
Virolai
Catalunya
NOTA
EXPEDIENT
7,3
7,2
NOTA MITJA
PAU
6,4
6,3
NOTA MITJA DESVIACIÓ NOTA PAU/
FINAL
EXPEDIENT
7
0,9
6,8
0,9
Estadístiques notes PAU Batxillerat. Curs 2012-2013
CENTRE
VIROLAI
CATALUNYA
SUPEREN CURS
96%
66%
SUPEREN PAAU/
94%
95%
SUPEREN CURS I PAAU/
90%
62,7%
44. CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
1.Evaluation and personal
improvement
2.External contrast
3.Information for improvement
4.Internal evaluation
5.Plans for improvement
6.QCI (continuous quality
assessment)
47. Team of Educators
Educators:
• 360º professional evaluation and personal plan of
education and improvement: 11 courses
• Average of 74,5 hours/ teaching - year 2012-2013
• 26 papers or articles. Year 2012-2013
• 5 projects with universities. Year 2012-2013
• Participation in pedagogical investigation groups and the
creation of curricular and pedagogical materials
• 72% teachers competent in English
• 85% use IT resourses
• Assessments of other schools
• Attendance at more than 135 events
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49. CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
• Application of continued
improvement
• Resolution and response to
complaints and incidents…
• Collection of information and
indicators for improvement…
• Agile and frequent
communication…
50. CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
• Resolution of complaints: 100% response in 24h
• Plans for Improvement when a problem arises:
Kitchen service
Transport service
Communication with families
• Evaluation of new families’ capacity for
communication and response to Virolai
Way of
obtaining
l’EFQM +500
(quality
evaluation)!!
61. PERCEIVED QUALITY
Your teaching methods and human quality rise
above any technological aid used in your school.
Order, education, commitment, and
method are some of the virtues you can
see. Express extensively my satisfaction to your
colleagues. I would like to be able to show your
centre to parents and colleagues who want to
make qualitative leaps in their educational
programmes and don’t know how.
General Director of Toshiba España
67. CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
• We learn from our errors, continuously learning
from what doesn’t work. And it is the attitude of
seeing challenges as opportunities to learn that
helps us advance in the process of continuous
improvement, on the road to excellence.
Roser Salavert
72. Innovation projects
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School associated with UNESCO
Agenda 21
Green schools
Comenius Projects
European Parliament of Young People
Educative project 1x1 a ESO and Baccalaureate
Co-existence and Mediation Team
PELE projects – Experimental foreign languages plan in Primary
and Secondary
Puntedu library project
Active Language Learning project
Education for health project
Audiencia Pública – Participation project at City Hall
Solidarity: Senegal/ Sahara, Posa’t la gorra (cancer charity),
Retirement home
Escuelas viajeras,….
80. Plan for the Improvement of English
• Language assistant
• Oral immersion in the
classroom
• Exchanges-13
• Skill-based exams and
PAU
• Certifications exams
• Volunteering
• Game show: Fish and chips
Garden Montessori
school in Arizona –USA-
82. IT PLAN
• Plan for the renovation
of our apparatus
• Laptops in Infants and
Primary
• Excellent results for IT
skills in 4th of ESO
• Consorcio IT Award
• Work on designing
APP’s
• Robotics: Lego League
• Programming
• Blogs designed by
83. STIMULATING TALENT
Student participation in different
proposals and projects:
San Patricio Foundation
Young People and Science
Impulsa Forum
Robotics Workshops
Voluntary projects
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Maximising all
the talents of all
our students!!
87. EDUCATION OF VALUES
Reinforcing the education of essential values
•Creativity: Thinking outside the box
•Resilience: Being strengthened by difficulties
•Empathy: Knowledge, understanding, sharing
•Hope and enthusiasm for the future: We are the
future
•Perseverence: Learning from failure, learning to try
again after failure...
• All of this based on a culture of effort
and of self-improvement
