The document discusses a child's experience in school from their first day of primary school through high school. It notes that the first environment outside the home where children learn is in school. It asks the reader to remember their first day of primary school, which was likely new and frightening, meeting classmates and teachers for the first time. As the years pass in primary school, children learn how to get along with others. The transition to high school marks another important step, where children not only learn lessons but how to behave and their rights and responsibilities. Participating in student government bodies like the school council provides good experience for understanding civic participation.

1. SCHOOL CENTRE
First environment, in which children stay out of
the family circle, is the school centre, where they start
their studies seeking a degree. Do you remember your
first day at school? I suppose a relative (mother, father,
grandmother or grandfather) stayed with you until you
get into the class with your group, everything was new!,
classmates but also adults, your teachers, of whom you
were probably afraid.
You don’t even know it, but from that very first
moment you are learning how to live in harmony with
others. Six years after, you are on the verge of the
puberty, plenty of new values and knowledge that will let
you continue with your studies.
The beginning of the High School is another big and important step, in which
you don not only learn lessons but also how to behave well, what are your rights and
your duties. Sooner or later you will have to participate in the adult’s life, by voting for
example, a fundamental right for every single citizen.
A good training for understanding this participation in life is by participating in
your school, and how? You can represent your group by being delegate, or you can be
elected to represent the students of the school in the School Council, what we called
“Consejo Escolar”.
Educación para la ciudadanía, Ed. Bruño (Reelaborado y traducido por Almudena Corrales
Marbán)
1. Read the photocopies the teacher has given to you: LOE preamble (Preámbulo o introducción de
la Ley Orgánica de Educación de 2006) and Composición del Consejo Escolar, and do the exercises.
2. Do you remember your first day at the High School? How was it?