ABOUT US
IES Cap de Llevant
is located in Menorca, one of the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea.
With a population of approximately 95000 inhabitants, the island is known for
its collection of megalithic stone monuments (navetes, taules and talaiots) and
it was designated by UNESCO as a Biosphere Reserve in 1993 because of its
biological diversity and its balanced approach to conservation and human use of
the natural environment.
Founded in 1995,
IES Cap de Llevant is the youngest secondary school in Maó, and yet it has
experienced the highest demand growth among families and students over the last
years because our Bilingual Programs in Secondary Education both in post
compulsory education, where a few electives are taught in English, and in the
compulsory secondary education levels where the school holds an agreement since
1998 with the British Council Program, reinforcing their English level by using
CLIL methodology and teaching one third of our curriculum in this language. As
part of this project we have also established a yearly school exchange with high
schools in the UK (Salisbury) and during this last year we have also participated
in the first exchange with a German school.
Our school offers
both general and vocational education and with more than 950 students enrolled
and 103 teachers (21 specialized in VET) IES Cap de Llevant offers:
Compulsory
secondary education (523 including 204 students that participate in the British
Council Endorsement Program in these compulsory secondary education levels)
Post-compulsory
education (148)
Vocational
training courses (Expert and Advanced Expert) (283)
We also offer an
introduction program for those students under 18 who arrive with no knowledge
of Catalan or Spanish and need to achieve a basic level before they can totally
adjust to a national program and special secondary education for students with
physical or mental needs.
Our VET courses
Focusing on our
VET courses, the school offers full and part-time study programs and courses
within the four following areas:
IMP- Personal
Image
Technician in
Hairdressing and Hair Cosmetics
2) SAN - Health
Expert in Auxiliary
Nursery Care
3) SSC -
Sociocultural & Community Services
Expert in
Assistance to People in Need of Care
Advanced Expert in
Pre-Primary Education
4) AFD – Physical
& Sporting Activities
Expert in the
conduct of physical and sport activities in a natural environment
Advanced Expert in
Animation of physical and sports activities
Our center also
organizes, since its creation, continuing training actions mostly for
self-workers or private sector workers that may have very specific necessities.
These tailor made trainings are adapted to the needs of the group company or
public organization that asks for it and usually are coordinated by the
Ministry of Labor.
IES Cap de Llevant
is focused on creating the best educational programmes possible for students to
match the skills and personal competences required nowadays in the different
sectors. The school tries its best to keep the staff up to date in their
professional and pedagogical skills by encouraging more extended use ICT tools,
language learning and new pedagogical techniques in our lessons.
Non-discrimination
Our center
encourages the integration and self-respect to all our students, from whatever
gender or origin and so is established in our coexistence rules. We ensure
equal. Access and opportunities to mobile participants from all backgrounds.
We have a mediation
team that helps solving possible problems. The center can also help students
with a precarious economical situation at home, helping them to accomplish the
same activities as the rest of their partners.
Foreign students
that do not speak our language get a special help to integrate as soon as
possible into our activities.
Goals
Our priority is to
provide students with theoretical and practical knowledge and experience in
accordance with the needs of society and labor market creating a suitable
environment for the students to acquire the necessary knowledge, skills and
ethical principles required for the personal and professional growth.
Currently our main
goal considering the projects is to encourage cooperation with international
partners to implement students and teachers exchanges.
We want to have
stronger bonds and more cooperation with labor market to ensure that our VET students learn the
latest skills, transit easier and faster to working life and also finish their
studies in time.
It is with pride
we do our utmost to offer to all our students the possibility to take part in
different international projects i.e. student mobility, work placement abroad,
hosting students from other partner schools or by studying any international or
intercultural aspect and perspective “at home” as part of our curriculum.
