SEK-Catalunya School Campus

Studying at our SEK-Catalunya private school campus is much more than just going to school. It is a learning experience that fosters the development of students’ intellectual, personal, emotional and social skills and affords them an international perspective.

Located in the Els Tremolencs residential estate in La Garriga, Barcelona, an ideal environment for learning, encouraging students to play a leading role in their own education through discovery, inquiry, experiencing and acquiring knowledge with the expert mediation of teachers.

 

 

 

Legend

1. Early Childhood Building

2. Primary School Building / Dining Hall

3. Main School Building / Boarding / Library

4. Forest School

5. Indoor Pool

6. Multi-purpose Sports Hall

7. Basketball courts

8. 7-aside official football pitch

9. Paddel Courts

10. Coach and Car Park

11. Main Entrance

 

Learning spaces

SEK International School Catalunya is located in La Garriga, in the Valles Oriental region, just 30 minutes from Barcelona and at the foot of the Montseny Nature Park:

  • Situated in quiet and secure residential surroundings.
  • The buildings for the various educational age groups (which occupy an area of 30,000m2) are distributed over an area covering 100,000m2.
  • At the rear of the grounds is a woodland area containing pine trees, oak trees and ferns: used as a extension to the classroom.

 

At SEK-Catalunya every space is at the service of the learning objectives set for each activity:

 

Learning Spaces Highlights

We have learning spaces of the highest quality in order to provide a quality education:

  • Intelligent classrooms, equipped with the latest technology and with a wide variety of teaching resources.
  • An entire floor dedicated to the sciences:
    • Two physics, chemistry and natural sciences laboratories.
    • Two classrooms
    • A specialist library
    • A central space for use as an exhibition area.
  • MakerSpace: a place in which students have the opportunity to explore, create and complete their own creations, under the supervision of their teachers in the various areas.
  • Robotics classrooms: students make use of their creativity whilst learning through experimentation, practising their skills in groups or acquiring programming knowledge.
  • Library:
    • For Nursery, Preschool and Primary Education students.
    • For Secondary Education and Baccalaureate students.

Our woodland is a great platform for sports and academic activities.

It allows students to come into contact with the natural world so that they learn to respect it and to take the environment into account.

  • It is the epicentre of outdoor sporting activities.
  • It is an extension of the classroom
  • A location for carrying out interdisciplinary activities where students put into practice the skills and knowledge that they have acquired.

The learning spaces on campus include virtual environments that enrich the students’ educational process.

We make available to Nursery, Preschool and Primary Education students all the equipment necessary to facilitate their learning: iPads, netbooks, 3D printer.

From Primary Education year 6 onward, the school offers the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) system with lockers equipped with electrical chargers to store and charge their personal computers, and a portal with applications for helping students with their activities.

SEK-Catalunya has links with Trinity College London in order to provide this world-renowned institution’s Primary Musical Programme.

In order to run our Music School well, an entire floor is allocated to it, equipped with various classrooms for learning instruments along with a concert hall.

The art classroom is located on this same floor, where students work on and experiment with the visual arts.

SEK-Catalunya has a full range of sports facilities on campus:

  • Heated, covered swimming pool
  • Sports centre with multi-sports court: basketball, indoor football, artistic skating, hockey on skates and climbing wall
  • Open air sports pitches and courts: basketball, handball, hockey on skates, football, padel and volleyball
  • Covered facilities: taekwondo, ballet, modern dance, fitness and psychomotor activity
  • Woodland with various facilities for outdoor activities such as hiking, cross country, slackline, orienteering, abseiling, lateral climbing or bouldering, zipwires and rope bridges