9 Sep, 2022 @ 13:12
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One year on and Shackleton International School in Valencia is ready for a new intake of students

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IT’s been a year since Shackleton International School opened in Valencia and it just keeps on growing.

The Burjassot school is an offshoot of Superfriends English nursery that has provided early learning for youngsters up to the age of six for the last decade. The school – five years in the planning – was a big step to take, and it has paid off handsomely, explained Shackleton School Head of Communications, Zhandra Zuleta.

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“We got off to a good start with 110 students, and we currently have almost 300.” She said, “This shows how more and more families are choosing our school, although our goal is not to become a big school with too many students, which wouldn’t allow us to give the personalised education we want to offer.”

Shackleton is currently starting the new school year with Year 7 and Year 8 students.

With an eye for the future of their students, the school has chosen to follow the IGCSE’s and International Baccalaureate systems.

Zhandra explained: “This will allow our students to continue their college/university studies wherever they choose to live.”

At the heart of the school’s success and expansion is the highly professional team.

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Zhandra continued: “We are especially proud of our staff, formed by highly qualified teachers and dedicated specialists. This year we are adding more professionals with the same high standard, and we are looking forward to working together with our families to turn our students into highly qualified, empathetic and independent citizens in the future.”

The school is named in honour of the celebrated explorer, Ernest Shackleton, who with a combination of integrity, leadership and determination is viewed as a historical role model.

The school philosophy is about inspiring youngsters with confidence through encouraging creative thinking and talent; speaking a language besides Spanish, and using the latest teaching methods based on the British education system.

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Shackleton School’s Principal, Celeste Cutter explained: “We believe in giving youngsters an education based on values, which goes beyond just subjects and the curriculum. We want all the pupils to develop values like effort, curiosity, companionship, adaptability, and respect through strengthening their inner-self and through their social interactions.”

In Shackleton they apply the high British standards to all the lessons which are taught innovatively.

“Every student gets the necessary tools to develop their skills and enhance what they learn with the freedom to be creative.” Celeste said.

More details are available via the website, shackletonschool.com, or via their Facebook page, Shackleton International School. 

Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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