IES PRAIA BARRAÑA

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We come from Boiro a town in Galicia

We come from Boiro , a townin Galicia

Galicia is located in the northwestof Spain

Spain

Boiro

Galicia is at the end of

Saint James ’ Way

Boiro is located in the South-West of

A Coruña province

Boiro is locatedin Galicia’s biggestpeninsula, the

Peninsula of

Barbanza

The BARBANZA RANGE is a granitemassif that occupies most of the

Peninsula of Barbanza.

THE BARBANZA RANGE

THE PALEOLITHIC

THE NEOLITHIC

Menhir and Rock art

Galicia inhabitantsused to livein hill-fortsbefore theRomansarrived

THE IRON AGE

THE ROMAN PERIOD

�The Romans named

our land Gallaecia.

�In the third centurythey created a newprovince of the Empirein this region.

Roman Walls of Lugo (Galicia)

MIDDLE AGES

�In the fifth centuryGermanic peoplescame from the Balticcoasts and foundedan independentkingdom that lastedfor 170 years.

Church from the Middle Ageswith anthropomorphic

sarfophagus

� In the Middle Ages peoplefrom all over Europe were

heading for Jacobusland.

� Galicia is the land of

Santiago.

Galicia is Jacobusland

MIDDLE AGES

Saint James’ Wayends in Galicia’s capital city:

Santiago de Compostela

Galicia is Jacobusland

The Cathedralof Santiago de Compostela

GALICIA

Galician nationalism arose in the 19th century.In the 20th century Galicia became one of the seventeen

autonomous communities that form Spain.

GALICIAN IS THE LANGUAGE OF GALICIA, WHERE IT IS CO -OFFICIAL WITH SPANISH

Boiro geographic coordinates�Latitude: 42.65 º North�Longitude: 8.90 º West

�Height above sea level: 65 m

Our school, IES PRAIA BARRA ÑA, is located opposite Barraña beach, next to a marsh at the mouth of Boiro’s largest river, theCoroño.

COROÑO RIVER MARSH

The marsh is inhabited byherons, mallards, kingfishers, egrets, sandpipers, cormorants, magpies and whitewagtails.

The beach is the kingdom of yellow-legged gulls and black-headed gulls. We also receive the visit of orioles

and hoopoes, terns and oystercatchers.

Oriole

Hoopoe

SandwichTernMallard

Heron Sandpiper

Black headedgull

Kingfisher

Oystercatcher

Yellow legged gullCormorant

Magpie

Boiro Town Hall

Boiro has around 20000 inhabitants with middle economicaland sociocultural level, 50 Km away from Santiago de

Compostela

The populationmakes theirliving off the

fishing industryand tourism

OUR SCHOOL

The main features of our school

� We have approximately 400 students aged12 up to 18 years old.

� We offer three different levels of education:• Secondary education• Advanced Level (A-Level) education• Introductory vocational education

OUR SCHOOL

A-Level education is dividedinto three curriculum strands

� Humanities and social sciences� Arts� Science and technology

OUR SCHOOL

IES Praia Barraña