School Outings

We see our school as part of an educational continuum encompassing the family and the wider society. We want children to learn outside school as much as inside it, and to encourage our community to be involved in the life of the school. That's why we place great value on outings, on workshops by visiting experts and parents, and anything that enables us to relate learning to the real world around us.

The Outdoors

Nature provides children with an ideal setting in which to expand their creativity, resilience, and self-confidence. Moreover, it is through regular experiences in nature that children develop a lifelong attachment with the natural world. And this, as many studies show, is the basis for a caring and responsible attitude towards the environment.

Being in nature is physically and psychologically restorative, helps relieve children (and adults) from directed-attention fatigue and contributes to a receptive attitude to learning by stimulating all the senses and integrating informal play with formal learning. Studies have revealed that using nature to teach the curriculum can boost marks in science, languages, social studies and math, and that children who are allowed to play outside every day in a nature-rich school playground have better motor coordination and more ability to concentrate, and are less at risk from anxiety and depression.

At Kaleide International School, the gardens are an invitation to explore and learn about nature and environmentally sustainable practices such as organic gardening, recycling and reusing. Every week, the children are offered the chance to spend a day outdoors in a nearby forest (Mesa Mota). These are all invaluable opportunities to learn about local flora and fauna, biology and chemistry, geology, environmental pollution, energy, the physics of weather and the changing seasons, geography, the effect of gravity on the tides, ecology, biodiversity and the interdependence of all forms of life on the planet... and so many other related topics that acquire new meaning and widen children's perspectives when they can be experienced, observed and interacted with.

Sports

We are just a few minutes' walk away from the local stadium Estadio Francisco Peraza ("La Manzanilla"), from Parque de la Vega and Complejo Deportivo San Benito, and want to take advantage of all the facilities that our children can benefit from, and which include a rock-climbing wall, skate park, table tennis, football field and basketball court.

Cultural outings

Kaleide is located in a quiet neighbourhood and only ten minutes away from the town centre. We would like to make regular visits to art exhibitions, the local library and museums like the History Museum (Casa Lercaro) and the Museum of Science and the Cosmos.

The experience of walking to all these places in town helps children develop road awareness as well as a sense of autonomy and responsibility.