School Francisco de Goya

The school stands out particularly for its dynamic management of subjects, reflected in the many outings organised at most levels throughout the academic year: exchanges, visits to museums and cultural centres, trips to the snow and cultural routes. This is what persuaded us to take part, with our pupils, in the project “Artists in Residence at Barcelona Secondary Schools”. The eighteen pupils taking the optional subject Visual and Fine Art Education in the fourth year of ESO compulsory education are directly engaged in this project, whilst the thirty pupils in the fourth year of ESO A, who record the work of their companions and draft publications for the blog, also take part, though devoting fewer hours to the initiative.

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Institut Francisco de Goya is a secondary school established in 1995. The centre opened following the closure of the primary school of the same name. Its activities began at the time of the entry into force of the reforms established in the LOGSE law governing the general reorganisation of the education system. Institut Francisco de Goya is located in the Guinardó neighbourhood in northeast Barcelona, in the heights of the area, bordering on the area known as Els Tres Turons (“The Three Hills”) and Guinardó Park.

Since it first opened, in successive waves, the centre has gradually reached its full capacity, enjoying great success in attracting pupils: twelve compulsory secondary education groups and four baccalaureate groups. The teaching staff is formed by forty-six teachers, most of them with permanent tenure at the school. The seven primary schools currently assigned to the centre are Àngels Garriga, Arc Iris, El Mar, Font d’en Fargas, Parc del Guinardó, Pit-roig and Torrent d’en Melis, three municipal schools and two from the former Collective of Schools for the Catalan Public School (CEPEC).

Institut Francisco de Goya focuses on developing personalised education in close contact with both pupils and families. In this respect, the guidance tutorship system, under which each teacher is tutor to ten or twelve pupils, and the organisation of stable teaching teams at each level, enable such close relationships to be established. sThe school has launched a strategic plan for autonomy aimed at improving educational results and social cohesion at the centre. Some of the current concerns at Institut Francisco de Goya include improving care for pupils with difficulties, coordinating the teaching staff at each different level, working on everything that has to do with reading and reading comprehension, the participation of pupils and parents in school life and management and the adaptation of tutorial activities with pupils.

Presentation written in 2010