Spain, Madrid
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The school promotes physical, emotional, and social wellbeing. It accompanies each student, challenging them to grow and believing in their potential. Sports, the arts, and service-learning are essential parts of daily life, enhancing creativity, emotional expression, teamwork, and social awareness. Multilingualism is a tool to communicate, understand others, and broaden horizons. The school is a safe space for belonging and learning, with families as partners in the educational community.
The school attends to diversity and ensures equal opportunities for all students, including those with specific educational needs. It coordinates a tutorial action plan and attention to diversity to promote inclusion and improved convivencia. An orientador provides guidance to prevent and intervene in behavioral problems and to tailor action plans for individual students. The center remains committed to supporting inclusive education and equal opportunities for every student.
The CRC teaches in a bilingual English environment and, from early childhood, students are immersed in a language-learning program that also includes Chinese, French, and German from an early age.
The school emphasizes the wellbeing of students, including physical, emotional, and social aspects, as part of its holistic education.
The school operates a Plan de Convivencia that establishes rules to maintain a safe school climate, prevent violence and harassment, and outlines responsibilities of the director, jefe de estudios, orientador and other staff. It also involves families in safeguarding efforts and includes attention to diversity, with measures for action to improve convivencia and to address safety and discipline.
Located in central Madrid's Arturo Soria district, Colegios Ramón y Cajal serves learners from 0 to 18 across Infantil, Primaria, ESO and Bachillerato. The school blends a French Curriculum with IB programs (PYP, MYP and DP). Language learning starts in the early years, with English, Chinese, French and German, and students can study abroad in the USA, Ireland, France and Germany. The Infantils foster curiosity through play; Primaria uses interdisciplinary projects to develop cognitive, social and emotional skills; ESO emphasises creativity and critical thinking to prepare for Bachillerato, which provides university access and career guidance. The campus comprises a renovated main building for Primary to Bachillerato, with separate Infant School facilities nearby, plus new active learning spaces and a sustainable My First CRC learning area. The school offers a broad spectrum of clubs, arts and sports, and participates in Inspired's international exchange framework. The school also emphasises inclusion and wellbeing.