2.1. Institut Joan Solà (Torrefarrera)

  • We are a rural school of 480 pupils, ranging from 12-18, coming from 3 different towns nearby, covering all GCSE offer. Our staff consists of 56 teachers and 5 administrative members. 

    At present, our school is working on different programmes: we are involved in the GEP programme (Experimental Group on Plurilingualism), by applying methods and receiving teachers training on CLIL in the context of multilingual learning. We are also in ILEC (Impulse on Reading), an official programme which develops actions to promote pupils and teachers reading and training in our educational community (now on its 3rd year). Our school was acknowledged by our Government as Green School (EscolaVerda) in 2013. According to this programme, our main aims are waste minimization and recycling, ecological garden and healthy food, taking advantage of our surroundings and sustainable transport. Concurrently, since 2012 we have taken part in the Basic Skills Net (Xarxa CB), a work team coordinated by our Education Department, which involves several schools that aim to innovate in teaching methods, mainly using collaborative work and project-based learning, which we apply in our classes. On the other hand, we have been working in eTwinning since 2014 and we have received eTwinning and European Quality Labels for our projects in 2016, 2017 and 2018.