Private, multilingual secondary school in Valencia

Academic excellence is at the heart of our educational model. We encourage our pupils to keep pushing themselves, nurturing their desire to excel both academically and personally, and we foster a genuine commitment to excellence.

We develop our pupils’ skills in research, reasoning, critical thinking, speaking and working together, building their intellectual and communication skills in both English and Spanish. Debating and public speaking give them greater confidence, sharper critical thinking, leadership skills and a firm basis from which to defend their ideas and convictions. We offer public speaking as a subject, along with philosophy discussion groups, a Debating School and workshops on effective presentations.

Our specific programmes give pupils the chance to develop each of their talents without limits.

• Literary competition
• Recitation contest and poetry anthology
• The Cumbres School magazine
• Literary discussion groups
• Debating and public speaking competition
• Science Day
• Maths Olympiad
• Summer courses at university schools for high-achieving pupils
• Taking part in external projects and competitions:
• Technovation Girls CV, Educaixa, European Youth Parliament…

Our pupils build their skills through interdisciplinary projects, learning to reflect through experiential learning that connects ideas from different areas (science, technology and communication) and so broadens their own knowledge.

We help each pupil to recognise their gifts and give them the tools to plan their future. We offer activities that build gradually, matched to their maturity and stage of school, to guide them along their vocational and professional path. From the start of Secondary, pupils explore different academic disciplines and, in 3º de ESO, they follow a specific programme to identify their preferences for personal development.

• The “La Uni en el cole” programme, which brings the university to school
• Visits from Alumni who are university students and working professionals

We also want to offer parents a space to learn, through our Family Fridays: a chance to meet and reflect together as a community on the job you do in bringing up your children, and a new way of supporting your commitment in the face of everyday challenges.

Together is always better.

At Cumbres School, our private secondary school in Moncada, we extend the Spanish national curriculum with the Cambridge International Lower and Upper Secondary programme (*), giving our pupils an excellent international education with standards endorsed by the University of Cambridge and applied in their continuous assessment.

At this stage, 40% of subjects are taught in English:

• Music
• Technology
• History
• Geography
• Business Studies
• Global English
• Bilingual Science

As part of our international education, our pupils are taught by staff with wide international experience, supported by language assistants and by internationalisation initiatives inside and outside the classroom, such as taking part in the European Youth Parliament each year.