2. S C H O O L R A N G E S
• In our high school there are
students of E.S.O
(Compulsory Secondary
Education) from 12 to 16
years old.
• Bachillerato (Non-
compulsory Higher
Secondary Education) from
16 to 18.
• Vocational Training for
students of any age.
• We are in 4th ESO (Year 11 /
Grade 10th)
3. S T U D E N T S A N D
T E A C H E R S
• There are about 100 teachers
and 700 students.
• There are 25 students per
class (20 in Foreign Language
lessons) and usually 1 teacher
for each subject.
• In Bachillerato there can be
30 students.
4. T I M E S
• Lessons start at 8:30, we leave
at 14:30 and have lunch at
home.
• We have 6 lessons, 55
minutes long.
• We only have 1 break that is
30 minutes long after the first
3 lessons.
• During breaks, we normally
have a snack in the canteen,
play or speak.
• In this school and all over the
country, we have lessons from
Monday to Friday,
5. S C H O O L H O L I D AY S
• The first ones we have are Christmas
holidays. They last about two weeks,
from Christmas Eve to two days after
The Three Wise Mens’ Day (January
6th)
• We also have the Holy Week in March or
April, it lasts a week.
• The school year finishes the last week
of June (around 24th), and we have
summer holidays from that date to the
second week of September, (around
12th)
• In Asturias we also have some days off
for Carnival, around November 1st and
two local festivities.
• National festivities: December 6th and
8th and May 1st
6. A F T E R N O O N
C L U B S / L E S S O N S
• The school is open until 19:00.
• We don't have lessons after 14:30, but some
clubs, for example of handball, speed skating,
basketball or indoor football, train in the sports
facilities of our school.
• Sometimes there are some workshops for
students or families.
7. S C H O O L F A C I L I T I E S
The high school has different facilities
such as laboratories, an assembly hall, an
art classroom, a music classroom, a
technology classroom and a workshop, a
library, a canteen, an inner and an
outer pitch, a vocational training building,
computer rooms, some vocational training
labs for Chemistry, Laboratory,
Administration and Food Industry and
general classrooms.
8. S C H O O L A S S E S M E N T
There are three assessment sessions
in the school year, although we take
exams and carry out works during the
whole school year.
When we get the mark reports, we
get:
‘Insuficiente’: Unsatisfactory (0 to 4)
‘Suficiente’: Satisfactory (5)
‘Bien’:Well (6)
‘Notable’: Remarkable (7 – 8)
‘Sobresaliente’: Outstanding (9-10)
