On Saturday, March 18th, a group of Primary 6 and Secondary 2 pupils participated for the first time in the 21st THALES Maths Olympiad held at the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Seville. This year there were 72 groups, representing 20 different schools in Seville. One of our groups got an excellent 15th […]
On Friday, March 24th, a group of pupils from the Yago School attended the ETSI Assembly Hall to participate in a conference on scientific and technological dissemination, given by Dr. José Antonio Rodríguez Manfredi, Head of the Department of Space Instrumentation of the Centre for Astrobiology INTA-CSIC associated with NASA, on Expeditions and Life Outside […]
On March 27, we welcomed thirteen new Chinese children visiting from our sister school in England. They spent the next 15 days staying with the families of some of our pupils between Primary 5 and Secondary 2, and sharing experiences and activities in our classrooms. We spoke with them to get their first impressions about […]
Without a doubt the key to the success of Yago School is the human and professional quality of its team of teachers. Aware of the evolution that education is undergoing in Spain our staff takes advantage of any course they find to continue wit their training and thus be able to offer the best of themselves […]
On Wednesday, March 8th, the children from Infant 3, Infant 4 and Infant 5, accompanied by all their teachers, made an excursion to the CUNA Farm School, in the municipality of Espartinas. LA CUNA is a pioneering farm, set up with the intention of educating through fun activities and contact with the natural environment. They […]
At Yago School we have spent years researching how children learn, studying the gurus and experts of education, and applying some of the pedagogical methodologies they propose. Traditionally, Spanish pupils fail in PISA reports. It seems that the Spanish system carries many shortcomings caused by constant political changes. For us the key is methodological change. […]
As you know, each month we work on different values and during the month of March we focused on the values of sincerity and humility. Sincerity is a quality developed by the person who, by nature, tends to live in society in an affable, stable and balanced way. It is a question of each child […]
The educational community of Yago School, through The Yago Foundation, will participate in The Race Against Hunger 2017, an international, pedagogical, sporting project that allows our pupils to gather around the same project of support and the same one aim: no child in the world should starve. The race is organized by Action Against International […]
At Yago School children learn differently thanks to Practical Learning! In Maths they learn following the methodological guidelines of cooperative learning and Inquiry Based Learning: open questions and small stimuli enhance the logical-mathematical reasoning of our pupils, who lead their own learning through cooperation and teamwork. In Physics and Chemistry they learn the Periodic Table […]
Yago School pupils, thanks to the activity promoted by The Yago Foundation, took part once again helping the Seville delegation of he Banco de Alimentos in the campaign of aid to the needy that we organised between 20th February and 3rd March. As usual, pupils responded enthusiastically to the call of the Foundation, contributing more […]
