NETWORK OF RESPONSIBLE EDUCATION CENTRES
RESPONSIBLE EDUCATION PROGRAM
Since 2016, our centre received news of a truly interesting educational programme offered by the Botín Foundation. We quickly set to work to try and access this great opportunity, sending our application, in which we had to introduce our centre through a letter and a video.
It was truly exciting to discover that we had been selected along with only 14 other chosen centres across the country (each year only 15 schools in total can access this programme).
From the very beginning, they saw us for who we are: a unique centre, a meeting point for cultures, open to diversity, and full of opportunities for enrichment. Here is the video we made together that led the programme members to select us:
Currently, after four years in the programme, we have graduated, but what exactly is Responsible Education?
A programme that seeks to foster EMOTIONAL, SOCIAL, and CREATIVE development in children from ages 3 to 16 through educational resources.
Here is what each one involves: ReflejArte. An educational resource that links the visual arts with emotional, social, and creativity education. It proposes a body of work divided into three interrelated and consecutive stages structured around a session (either in-person or virtual) in an exhibition hall. During the course, our artists create a joint work that will be exhibited at the end of the school year at the Botín Foundation headquarters (families are informed through our social media so they can enjoy what we do).
ReflejArt
Educational resource that links the visual arts with emotional, social, and creativity education. It proposes a body of work divided into three interrelated and consecutive stages structured around a session (in-person or virtual) in an exhibition hall. During the course, our artists create a collaborative work that will be exhibited at the end of the school year at the Botín Foundation headquarters (families are informed through our social media so they can enjoy what we do).
Toolbox of tools
It offers us the opportunity to work on emotional and social education in the classroom through three elements: proposals for the promotion of well-being and the integral development of children, audiovisual supports, and teamwork techniques. This resource helps us foster such essential skills as empathy, self-esteem, self-control, and decision-making…
Reading and emotions
The objective of this resource is for children to find in books a source of support for their emotional, cognitive, and social growth, and to integrate them naturally into their everyday world. We are especially proud of the project carried out by our Early Years pupils, who, year after year, are thrilled with the idea of meeting the “Word Wizard”!
Literature, emotions, and creativity.
Resource linked to the previous one, but on this occasion, for Primary Education students, including one more variable here: the development of creativity.
The Chorus of Emotions
A fully artistic resource that seeks emotional expression through music. It aims for emotional, social, and creative growth in a playful way through choral singing.
Below is the link to the Foundation’s website in case you want to know more about this programme that has us all so excited!
