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A bilingual school in Madrid A bilingual school in Madrid (Spain)(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

• 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

MADRID: a fun city

“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• 2 British teacher assistants• 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

• Our Interantional Class– 25 students in 2nd year of secondary

education (13-14 years old)– Bilingual Section and Bilingual

Program students– Four immigrant students from Latin

American countries

Let’s

Gómez-Moreno School is looking forward to hosting you in 2014