My fist impression of the school El Punto was: “It is amazingly big!” In Austria I am used to small primary schools with a few teachers and maybe 4-8 classes with around 16-26 children in each class. This school next to the city Huelva has 13 primary school classes and 28 teachers. That is really a lot in my opinion! Also the kindergarten is included in the school building complex with 5 additional classes.
Some schools in Spain have a school uniform. In Bellavista it is not obligatory to wear such a uniform, but if the children want to, they are allowed to. The primary school in Austria lasts four years, form the age of 6 until the age of 10. In Spain there is another system for primary school education. The primary school lasts six years from the age of 6 until the age of 12. It was really interesting for me to work with children of various ages and to see the progress they do from year to year.
In my opinion the teaching methodology is different to what we practice in Austria. In Spain there is more traditional frontal teaching methodology. In my home country we try to make the children work more my themselves. The teacher should stay in the background, he is supposed to support the children if they need some help. I can see that there is also a new way of thinking coming up in Spain, but like it was in Austria it will take lots of years until this new style of teaching will reach the public schools.
During our practicum days we were allowed to visit five teachers: Ramón, Fernando, Juani, Teresa and Juana. We got the timetable from all these teachers and we could decide ourselves where to go and which subject to attend. I loved it, because we were able to see many different teaching situations in various classes. We were also free to decide the days when to do our practicum. So we had the opportunity to see a lot of subjects and to join many teachers.
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