2.  Many children start the preschool with 4
months and end it with 3 years.
 This school step is not mandatory, the
children only go to kindergarten if their
parents want to.

4.  There are two types of schools: public and
private.
 At the Jacint Verdaguer school, the students
begin the school with 3 years old and end it at
the age of 12.
 There’s eight courses with 2 or 3 classrooms per
course. There are specialized rooms like the
music room, IT class, canteen…
 The classes are from 9am to 12:30am and from
15pm to 16:30pm.
 The pupils study maths, english, catalan,
spanish, arts, PE and music among other
subjects.

6.  The students begin the high school with 12 years old
and they finish it with 16.
 At the IE Jacint Verdaguer high school, the classes
start at 8:30am everday and in the afternoon,
sometimes there’re no classes.
 There are 4 courses in the high school and it has two
classrooms per course, there are many multi-purpose
rooms and specialized rooms like the technology
room, the lab, the music room, IT class and arts class.
 The basic lessons (english, catalan, spanish and
maths) are divided by three levels for example:
Students that understand everything easily go to in a
group and the students that have difficulties to
understand the lessons go in another group.

7.  The first three years the students, study the
compulsory subjects, languages (catalan,
spanish, english), maths, PE, natural
science... In 1st of ESO they study music, in
2nd arts and in 3rd they study both.
 In 4th of eso, the last course of compulsory
education, you have to chose a route.
Depending on the route you choose, there
are 7 different subjects you can choose to
study at the beginning of the course.

8.  At the scientific itinerary you can practice
chemistry, biology and technology.
 At the humanistic itinerary you can practice
arts, Latin and music.
 Finally, at the degree itinerary you can
practice IT (information technology),
technology and arts.
 Spanish students practice the compulsory
subjects as well, like English, Spanish, Maths,
history and georaphy, religion, ethics and
PE.

9.  When they finish the classes at 11:30am
they go to the playground and they eat
their snack until 12.00pm.
 If they don’t bring anything for the break,
there’s a canteen service that sells snacks.
 They go back to classes until 2:00pm.
 At the noon, they go home to eat or they
eat at the school. The catering brings a
ready-made food to the school and the
monitors serve it at the canteen.

10.  At 3.30am they begin the afternoon
classes. They don’t go every afternoon to
the school, they finish at different hours.
 On Monday and Wednesday they go
home at 5.30pm.
 On Tuesday at 4.30pm and on Thursday
and Friday they don’t go to school in the
afternoon and they finish at 2.00pm.

12.  When you finish the high school you can
continue studying or work.
 At the age of 16 you can do a degree of
4 years and if you want you can enter in
the university and do a career.