International School of Catalunya, Barcelona

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The parent delegates arranged a surprise for the end of term for all the children. A puppet show was organised on the patio and everyone had a great time.

ISCAT, a British International School in Barcelona, The English National Curriculum. Native English speaking teachers with U.K. experience, small classes, with Catalan and Spanish Integrated in the Programme.

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The whole school participated in "The Moon Thieves", a musical. The parents provided the costumes and the make-up.

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The whole school participated in the annual Sports Day. Children competed in teams Red, Blue, Green and White.

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Children were joined by their parents to decorate the street in La Garriga. They made a carpet of flowers which celebrated the painting style of the artist Fornells Pla.

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To complete their Unit of Work on Food, Nursery and Reception made a visit to Can Julià (Sant Esteve Sesrovires) where they made yogurt and cakes.

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The Primary classes visited The Gallecs nature reserve to begin their Unit of Work on Habitats.

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Upper Primary concluded their Unit of Work on transport with a dramatisation, in Catalan, of the story of Narciso Monturiol. He invented a submarine and launched it in Barcelona.

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It was a surprise Friday morning assembly. Jazz musicians played for all the school. Soon everyone was dancing!

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During Book Week all the children in the Primary Classes found someone in the Nursery and Reception classes and read them a story.

Book Week 2010 is from the 19th. to 23rd. April. There will be visiting actors, grandparents come to tell stories, we celebrate stories from around the world, we make books and on St. George´s Day, 23rd. April, we will have a book swap and be able to buy books.

Upper Primary visited the Chocolate Museum because they are working on the Unit of Work entitled Chocolate. For this they have studied design, chocolate harvesting, manufacture, fair trade and cooking.

ISCAT, a British International School in Barcelona, The English National Curriculum. Native English speaking teachers with U.K. experience, small classes, with Catalan and Spanish Integrated in the Programme.

"Let´s Pretend" is the Unit of Work for Nursery and Reception and so they went to the Circus School.

ISCAT, a British International School in Barcelona, The English National Curriculum. Native English speaking teachers with U.K. experience, small classes, with Catalan and Spanish Integrated in the Programme.

Lower Primary came to school in the nighttime to look through telescopes at the moon. They are studying "Day and Night as their "Unit of Work".

ISCAT, a British International School in Barcelona, The English National Curriculum. Native English speaking teachers with U.K. experience, small classes, with Catalan and Spanish Integrated in the Programme.

All the children in the school took part in the telling of the story of the Great Baobab Tree, which long ago grew beside the River Zambezi. The parents made the costumes for the numerous animals.

ISCAT, a British International School in Barcelona, The English National Curriculum. Native English speaking teachers with U.K. experience, small classes, with Catalan and Spanish Integrated in the Programme.

ISCAT, a British International School in Barcelona, The English
National Curriculum. Native English speaking teachers with U.K.
experience, small classes, with Catalan and Spanish integrated in the
Programme. 

Lower Primary have been studying Houses and Homes for their IPC (International Primary Curriculum), Unit of Work and to support this they visited Coves de Toll where they saw ancient dwellings from stoneage times to neolithic houses made from local materials.

 ISCAT, a British International School in Barcelona, The English
National Curriculum. Native English speaking teachers with U.K.
experience, small classes, with Catalan and Spanish integrated in the
Programme.

The Fashion Museum allowed the children to see the way people had dressed from 1910 until the present and this they related to their Unit of Work entitled "Inventions". People have been inventing and creating new fashions throughout history.

 ISCAT, a British International School in Barcelona, The English
National Curriculum. Native English speaking teachers with U.K.
experience, small classes, with Catalan and Spanish integrated in the
Programme.

For their Unit of Work for The International Primary Curriculum (IPC),  Called "Going Places", children from Nursery went to St. Mateu de Bages to see all sorts of ways of traveling.

 ISCAT, a British International School in Barcelona, The English
National Curriculum. Native English speaking teachers with U.K.
experience, small classes, with Catalan and Spanish integrated in the
Programme.

Children and parents helped build the carpet of flowers which the children had designed.

The parents organised a morning of fun for all the children to welcome the families new to ISCAT in the coming September term.

All the children in the school competed in Sports Day and the Yellow team won the competition.

Children went to Vilassar del Mar to pick flowers which they will use to make the Corpus Christi streets design. 

The school has moved to its prestigious site at Passeig number 9, known as Can Fages, in La Garriga. The first day of the second term, Thursday 8th January was the day the school opened in its new building.

The four story "modernist" building was built in the  early 20th century and has over 1000 square metres of floor space. In addition there is a large, hundred year old garden of 1000 square metres.

The original architect of Can Fages was Manel Joaquim Raspall i Mallol (1877-1937) who was responsible for many of the now famous ‘modernista’ buildings of La Garriga built in the same period.