OUR SCHOOL

OUR SCHOOL IS CALLED 'PEDRO CERRADA' SECONDARY SCHOOL

BUT WE ARE A GROUP OF BACHILLERATO STUDENTS.

BACHILLERATO IS WHAT WE DO AFTER SECONDARY SCHOOL IN ORDER TO PREPARE FOR UNIVERSITY. WE ARE 15 STUDENTS SPECIALIZING IN ANCIENT CULTURE. AND WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ON 'DEMOCRACY AT OUR SCHOOL':

** Our main means to do a complain or a suggestion… at school is choosing a representant who is called ‘Delegate’. This student can talk straight away to the Head teacher in our name or attend a Meeting suggested by the director. However, every week there is a period dedicated to talk to our tutor in order to show up our problems or worries or incidents with different teachers .... as every class has a ‘tutor’ who can intercede in favour of his/her pupils. (Amaya & Juan)

** The organization chart would be: Delegate& Subdelegate – Tutor- Head teachers – Director- Education Commission- School Council – Unions- Education autorities- Autonomous Region Government – State Governament. ( Miriam & Cristina G.A. )

** All the Departments have a chief and these chief teachers have a month meeting with the Headteachers (3) and the Director of the school, in order to summarise all the different suggestions but, have no power of decision because at every school the decisions are taken in the ‘School Council’. Here, there are some teachers, some pupils, some parents, people from the local Council and one person representing the non-education workers as the receptionists, secretary room, cleaning..... (Natalia & Berta)

** Of course, the Directors of every school take up all the problems to the Education authorities called ‘ inspectors’. ( Leticia & Cristina G.H.)

** The teachers have lots of different union who support their suggestions and take them to the Region Government in a political democratic way. But also the sudents have a ‘student Union’ although it is not an ordinary thing to happen. Some of us don’t even know that it exists. They are not worried about Politics. But We think that there should be somebody in every school from this Union in order to inform the pupils about whatever they consider interesting for us to know like scholarships, new laws, rights and duties, summer camps, extracurricular activities and we lack that in this school. So if we need any information we just go to the ‘Orientation Department’ where we have also a psychologist who can help on requirement. ( Ainhoa & Ainara)

** Recently, because of continuous problems of bullying, racism and violence, in some schools, it has been created a group of mediating or dealing, formed by students and teachers in order to help whenever there is a conflict or incident as I said before, and it may work quicker and more efficiently than following the ordinary process or investigation. ( M.A. Gayoso)

** Every region or as we call them ‘Autonomous Community’ like Aragon, Andalucia, Basque country... woeks differently, following of course the mail Laws of Education but they have certain autonomy to decide the way in which they want to carry out the law in the schools. And then, every public school has some decision too, in things like to have a cafeteria or not inside the school, to have one break or two smaller ones....
( Virginia & Elena)