Maria Ossó Sitges

Maria Ossó Sitges is a public preschool and primary school where we work in a constant process of renewal to adapt to the needs of today’s society. The educational project of Maria Ossó School is based on the incorporation of the English language in mathematics and science and the development of the multiple intelligences of our children. We work daily to build a learning environment with the utmost delicacy, love and responsibility.

There’s a fun video of Carnival being celebrated at the school here:

https://mariaosso.cat/carnaval-2018-a-lescola/

Here is a video of a typical day in the pre-school:

More about the School:

Our Approach:

We understand our school as a living community and space for coexistence where we integrate all its members and observe them, respect and recognize their differences. This is a pillar that sustains peace in our community.

We are a center where we reason, discuss and work with the will to train competent people for life.

We start from a comprehensive look at the child and accompany him in the development of all his intelligences. We encourage metacognition, or in other words self-reflection and awareness of one’s own learning processes, starting from reflecting on what, how and why we learn.

Deploying our identity and establishing good connections, we guarantee learning as a dynamic process focused on the future.

We are open to all family and cultural contexts as well as to the technological and scientific changes that occur in our society. We promote critical thinking based on analysis, reflection and debate in relation to these changes.

We want our students to acquire a broad and deep knowledge of themselves, with the ability to make appropriate decisions, to solve problems and work in a team. However, let them be aware of their emotional states and their fears, their abilities and limitations, as well as their achievements. We emphasize that they should become committed social beings.

Our Approach to Families

We wish to create a sense of educational community with families, creating a positive family-school connection. We provide opportunities for meaningful community participation. We also guide the family on our educational process in order to collaborate more meaningfully in the student’s educational process.

Our Approach to the English Language:

Today, we live in a fully globalized world where we are all connected. That is why learning languages ​​is a great tool when it comes to progressing as a student and professional. Learning other languages ​​allows you to enrich your life, experience new ideas, exercise your mind and benefit from the world’s cultural diversity. However, it also provides benefits for the health of our brain, among them, the improvement of cognitive functions, intelligence, perception and memory.

Maria Ossó school has participated in several European projects (Comenius, Da Vinci and Erasmus), and we have been selected on two occasions to carry out Foreign Language Experimental Plans (PELE). We have obtained scholarships so that our 6th grade students have been the beneficiaries of Language Stays granted by the Ministry of Education, we have hosted conversation assistants, we have received the visits of several foreign schools that are pioneers in CLIL in their countries of origin (Finland and Romania), and we have had the privilege of receiving a personal visit from the pioneering CLIL expert David Marsh to our school.

At the school we work in the area of ​​ENGLISH LANGUAGE in Infant and Primary Education, giving this foreign language a functional, useful and meaningful use without forgetting to apply the principles of motivation, globality and attention to diversity. Our aim is for the students to acquire knowledge in the functioning of English in terms of its aspects of grammar, phonetics and vocabulary in order to be able to establish communication in this language.

However, at Escola Maria Ossó we go further in the use of the English language and have established the teaching of different curricular contents in Primary Education where we work using the CLIL or AICLE (Integrated Learning of Content and Foreign Language) methodology. Therefore, part of the Science and Mathematics curriculum is taught in English, from 1st to 6th Primary, in small groups and with teachers trained by the Department of Education in the CLIL methodology, a pedagogical approach that emphasizes cooperative work. In addition, and as a special innovation, we incorporate the Science of 1st and 2nd Primary in the Learning Environments methodology.

Among the complementary activities that we carry out every year in the English language throughout Infant and Primary are attendance at plays in English, workshops of traditional Scottish dances, conferences by volunteer relatives who give talks in English at Cicle Superior, exchange of handwritten letters with a foreign school, learning a song in English for the Christmas concert, participation in the interschool activity organized by the CRP del Garraf “LET’S MAKE A STORY FOR St. JORDI” in its English section, preparation of a literary text in English for the annual St.Jordi workshops at school, work in English in certain interlevel workshops of Europe Day, and other day-to-day activities, such as the collaboration of the boys and girls from the last years of school who voluntarily tell stories and songs to the younger boys and girls.