School Infanta Isabel d’Aragó

In the year 2009-2010, the school has about 800 students in morning and evening lessons. There are four class groups for junior high school (developed in four years, including children aged 12 to 16), and three morning groups and two evening groups for senior high school (developed in two years, with children aged 16 to 18). High-school studies cover all disciplines, including plastic arts and design, both in the morning and evening shift.

By the end of last year, this school was invited to host an “artist iN RESiDENCE in high schools in Barcelona”. The project consists of having an artist unconnected to the syllabus and organization of this centre, but being in coordination with it, as well as teachers’ interdisciplinary and cross-curricular involvement. This was a new, promising idea. Transmitting education through arts is not only enriching for students, but it also provides them with essential intellectual capacities for any field of knowledge. This was the school project and it involved 15 and 16 year-old students who chose the optional subject of visual and plastic arts. Cross-curricular subjects were social sciences, English language, Catala.

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The Infanta Isabel d'Aragó began its trajectory in 1962 to educate the boys and girls of the working-class families who had settled in the neighbourhood, which had been cut off in the urban expansion of Barcelona towards the Besòs River. According to the pedagogue and scientist Angeleta Ferrer (Barcelona, 1904 - 1992), teacher and director of the centre in its first years of operation, the Infanta Isabel "has always been an internally vibrant centre, constantly renewing itself and with an unsurpassable desire to improve".