The results obtained throughout all year groups are highly satisfactory and our students have achieved important awards both here on the island and further afield. However, we are most proud of having achieved official certification as an IB school, in the academic year 2016-2017, for all three of the IB programmes: PYP, MYP and Diploma. Currently, there are only 13 schools in Spain that are certified to teach all three programmes.
As a result of their hard work and dedication, our students have been the recipients of important local, regional and national awards. Most notably, they won 1st and 2nd prize in the Regional Competition for Chinese Calligraphy; a student from Primary Year 6 was a finalist, both in the Canary Islands and at national level, in the competition “¿Qué es un Rey para ti?”; four Primary students were finalists in the Toyota Drawing Competition; two students were finalists in the 130th Anniversary of the Canary Island Tomato Competition.
Asimismo, los alumnos de 6º de Primaria y 4º ESO se presentaron a pruebas internacionales en inglés ISA, cosechando nuevamente excelentes resultados en comprensión lectora y Matemáticas, aspectos valorados por un programa de evaluación diseñado para estudiantes de escuelas internacionales, basado en estándares de la OCDE para la Evaluación Internacional de Estudiantes y evaluado por International Schools Assesment.
Furthermore, students in year six of Primary and year 4 of Secondary Education sat the international ISA exams and once again obtained excellent results in reading comprehension and mathematics.
These exams are taken in English and are designed to evaluate students from international schools, based on the standards set out by the OECD for International Student Assessment and evaluated by the International Schools Assessment.
In the academic year 2016-17, 100% of our Baccalaureate students who sat the EBAU exams passed (in the exams in June and July) and the average result was 8.1. In the exams for the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, our students’ results were above the world average for Mathematics, History, Physics and Biology.
During the school year, 221 Primary students and 210 Secondary students have taken external language assessments in English, French, German and Mandarin Chinese. The results for the younger Primary students and for the external exams taken by older Primary , Secondary and Baccalaureate students have been very positive:
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