IES Gómez-MorenoA bilingual school in Madrid (Spain)

Spain

• Population: 46,704,314 (2013)• Currency: euro• Government: Parliamentary Monarchy• Official languages: Spanish, Galician, Catalan,

Basque• Immigration: 5.7 million foreign residents in

Spain (2011), or 12.2% of the total population

MADRID: a fun city

• Spain’s capital city• Population: 3,233,527 (2012)

• Spain’s largest city• Located on Manzanares River• Mediterranean climate (cold winters and warm

and dry summers)• The European city with the highest number of

trees and green surface per inhabitant

“From Madrid to Heaven”• History, Art, Culture,

Tradition• A city of great

monuments• Welcoming, modern,

multicultural, vivacious, lively

• www.madrid.es

Gómez-Moreno High School

• Secondary Education and • Bachillerato (junior and senior years)• 608 students (13-18 years old)• 50 Spanish teachers• 4 English language assistants• 1 French language assistant

• Our school’s Bilingual Project:– Bilingual Section classes

• 5 hours of English language and literature• Different content subjects in English (Science, History,

Geography, Art, Technology, Music, PE)

– Bilingual Program classes• 5 hours of English• Optional content subjects in English (Art, Technology, Music

and PE)

• Special Program for deaf students:

– Sheltered classes to address these students’ necessities

– 2 signs language interpreters to help regularteachers

• Global Classrooms: UN model program– 3rd year of secondary education students (15-

16 years old) in several bilingual schools in Madrid

– Defense of different countries and topics imitating the UN delegates

– Final Bonus: visiting the UN headquarters in NYC

“Culture Beyond Borders”– Exchange program with three European

schools (in France, Denmark and Poland)– Financed by EU – 2 years– Trips to the different countries– Use of the English language

Let’s

Gómez-Moreno School is more than happy to

have you here