Private secondary education in Madrid

At Highlands Los Fresnos: private secondary school in MadridWe are expanding our national curriculum with the Cambridge International Lower & Upper Secondary (*) programme to provide our students with excellent international training with standards endorsed by the University of Cambridge that are applied in their continuous assessment.

At this stage 50% of the subjects are taught in English:

• Music
• Art & Design *
• Technology
• History
• Geography
• Economics
• Global Perspectives *
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• Bilingual Science *

All our students begin learning French or German in the 6th year of primary school and continue their acquisition until the 2nd year of high school. Our aim is to reach an independent level of competence (B1/B2). Students who wish to do so will have the opportunity to take external tests.

We have study abroad programs,for a term, school year or Summer Camp in:

• OAK ACADEMIES (USA, Ireland and Switzerland)
• American High Schools Partner with our OAK Academies
• Short-term stays with families in the United Kingdom

We offer our students a comprehensive Vocational Guidance program to support them in their search for their vocation and their Life Project.

Our students develop skills that will allow them to achieve maximum academic performance, in addition to training as responsible and committed leaders. Interdisciplinarity and experiential learning.

Our students develop their skills in interdisciplinary projects. They learn to reflect through experiential learning, relating concepts from different areas, thereby expanding their own knowledge.

• HSLF Newspaper and Radio
• Music / Arts / Technology Project

In Secondary School, the work started in Primary School continues through the subject of “Entrepreneurship” and the “Learn to Undertake” program, where they actively participate in projects with ethical components of economic and social development.

Mastering basic financial skills is an important element to ensure well-being and quality of life. By participating in the “Your Finances, Your Future” program, our students learn to take responsibility for their own finances and acquire basic tools to initiate them in the management of their finances and financial decision-making.

Through specific challenges, our students develop autonomy, decision-making and teamwork, fostering critical thinking and creative skills. The program promotes new technologies, innovation and industrial prototyping, encouraging multidisciplinary groups to create novel solutions based on previous experiences.

Debating and public speaking provide more confidence, critical thinking, leadership skills and a clear basis for defending your ideas and convictions.

Our students work on and develop public speaking techniques in English and Spanish. In the Debate Club they reinforce the strategies and techniques that they will then put into practice in the annual Debate Tournament that we hold at the school.

Through a personalized tutoring action plan, at the private secondary school in Madrid, Highlands School Los Fresnos, we accompany each student to guide and help them develop their own personal project, through individualized treatment and appropriate monitoring, always respecting their freedom and personal pace. The figure of the tutor assumes the responsibility of helping and guiding the student in collaboration with the families.

We help students recognize their gifts and opportunities, providing them with keys to their future.

We awaken our students’ vocation with a program that helps them discover their gifts and explore the needs of their environment, providing them with tools to plan their future. From Secondary school, students explore various academic disciplines and, in 3rd year of ESO, they follow a specific program to identify their personal development preferences.

Our culture of support encourages all members of the educational community to get involved in this task. For this reason, we have a peer tutoring program through which students support each other with a specific methodology. The values ​​of respect, empathy and commitment are encouraged.

Our experience in personalized support and a multidisciplinary team made up of academic coordination, physical education teachers and an orientation department ensure the compatibility of the academic field of high-performance sports students and their success in both fields.

Through formative discipline, our educators work to ensure that children discover the values ​​that the rules give rise to on a daily basis, so that they act out of self-conviction and not because of the mere imposition of a regulation. In this way, students come to understand the meaning and importance of respecting and complying with the rules for building good school coexistence.

Students participate in social projects that foster their sensitivity to the needs of others and allow them to live the transformative experience of serving the most disadvantaged in our society. Mano Amiga Project, Altius Foundation, Charity Tournament Organization.

The Office 365 educational suite turns the classroom into a secure, agile, intuitive and resource-rich collaborative learning environment. It provides a more personalized, creative and autonomous way of teaching.
When students use Microsoft Office 365, they are developing the skills and competencies they will need in their future.

Each student uses an individual device that personalizes learning, encourages autonomy, and improves mobility. The Microsoft Office 365 digital ecosystem optimizes workflows, assessments, and electronic portfolios, facilitates communication and supervision between parents, students, and teachers, and allows daily monitoring of progress and problems.

Our classrooms are equipped with state-of-the-art digital projectors, smartboards, as well as webcams for permanent online connections.