SCHOOL DESCRIPTION
CEIP Cruceiro de Canido is a public school for Infants and Primary schools strategically located between two neighbourhoods in Ferrol. An entrance places us in the Canido neighbourhoods in Ferrol. An entrance places us in the Canido neighbourdhood and the main entrance gives us access to the Magdalena neighbourhood, in the centre of the city.
It is a public school with students from 3 to 12 years ( nursery from 3 to 6 and then primary from 3 to 12).
Attached to our school we have a reception centre for children whose supervision is provided by the Xunta de Galicia ( Autonomic comminity) and a day-care center of the Provincial Council for families with few resources.
The staff is formed by 31 teachers : eight of nursery education, thirteen who are tutors ( that is, they are practically all morning with the students and teach the subjects of Science, Maths and Language), two physical education teachers,one music teacher, two English teachers, one catholic religion teacher, a counsellor, a hearing and Language specialist and two therapeutic pedagogical teachers. Due to we also teach children with special educational needs ( in Spain these students are integrated in normal schools) the school has two caretakers.
As non- teaching staff we have an English language conversation assistant, an administrator an da janitor.
The city Council offers us a chess program so a a chess teacher teaches half an hour classes one day a week from nursery to 3th grade.
We hsve a bilingual English section of arts in the first grade. Being within the Autonomous Comunnity of Galician in primary school there is the Galician Language subject and the Natural Sciences, Social Sciences and Music subjects are taught in Galician language.
The day of the centrde is from 9:00 a.m. to 14:00 p.m. We have a school canteen with breakfast service from 7:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. and luch from 14:00 p.m. to 16:00 p.m. Teachers have to go also on Tuesdays afternoons to celebrate our meetings.
The school is formed by a big building in which there are classrooms, another one where is the library, the canteen and an Assembly Hall. In a litlle house s the counsellor department. And a pavillion and two playgrounds ( one for nursery and the other one for Primary).