IES CASTELL D'ESTELA
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The IES Castell d'Estela is a High School in Amer, a village of the region of La Selva in Catalonia. The school is not very big. We are about 300 pupils and 30 teachers. IES means School of Secondary Education. When the pupils finish the Primary School at 12 and then they have to study in the High School for 4 years. We call this type of studies ESO, Compulsory High Education. In IES Castell d'Estela we study ESO and also, when they are 16 it is possible to study for two more years. We call this two years studies Batxillerat. There are four different Batxillerats related to four different areas: Social and Human Sciences - Natural Sciences - Technology - Arts. In Our school there are the four Batxillerats. The Batxillerat is a two year course (first and second).

In the school there is a main building and two other smaller buildings. The school is surrounded by houses. The buildings are not new. The smaller ones were the buildings of an old Primary School. The main building was built in 1969.


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We want to tell which type of subjects we study in the Batxillerat. There are Common Subjects and specific subject for each Batxillerat. For example in Arts Batxillerat we study:

COMMON SUBJECTS ARTS SUBJECTS
Catalan Artistic Drawing
Spanish Technical Drawing
English Media
P.E. 3d Form
History Design
Philosophy Art History

The classes are taught in Catalan because everybody speaks in Catalan, but we also learn Spanish because in Catalonia (Catalunya) both, Catalan and Spanish are official languages.


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