International School in Telde

Our students discover programming language, robotics, design through professional video editing and 3D Printing with the help of numerous tools such as Swift, Arduino or Final Cut Pro X.

Brains schools belong to the ADS network (Apple Distinguished Schools), a special recognition by Apple for our ongoing innovation in learning and teaching, as well as in our school facilities, offering our students the latest technology from an early age. In Secondary, we mainly work with two programmes:

• Programme 1:1 (One iPad per student) where each student works with their own iPad from Primary 5 to Secondary 4.
• BYOM Programme (Bring your own Mac) in Baccalaureate where students work with their own MacBook.

Our school is distinguished as an AATCe (Apple Authorised Training Centre for Education), which allows us to certify our students and teaching staff in professional Apple tools linked to creativity and programming.

In the debate club, we promote critical thinking, communication and research skills among our students. During the year, students will participate in different activities where they will learn debating techniques and debate about different topics learnt throughout the year, encouraging cooperative and interdisciplinary work.

Our language lessons are eminently practical and focus on communication skills, promoting the language fluency and communication skills that learning a foreign language requires. In Secondary, students can choose between both languages and continue with this learning process until they achieve the DELF (Alliance Française) or FIT (Goethe Institute) certificates.

The programme’s main objective is to reduce bullying in school in three different ways:

• Using different strategies, practical tools and methodology to train the teaching staff to take action in any bullying situation.
• Helping students to recognise their own feelings and their partners’, reinforcing their value system to confront bullying.
• Providing families with information on bullying, offering them tips on how to identify it and play a more active role in the family-school communication.