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🍁✨ Linking Autumn adventures with Catalan traditions!

🍎 Our Reception students from BSB Castelldefels spent a wonderful day at Can Mas, connecting with nature, meeting farm animals, and discovering where our food comes from.

🌰 The children made panellets — traditional Catalan sweets made with marzipan and nuts — visited the farm animals, collected chestnuts, and even visited the Castanyera in her home. This experience links us to Catalan autumn traditions and helps children understand the changing seasons.

💛 Hands-on activities like these give children the chance to explore, play, and grow — developing curiosity, confidence, and a deeper understanding of the world around them.

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🏰 Exploring history and culture! Year 3 at BSB Castelldefels spent a memorable day at Catalunya en Miniatura, discovering Catalonia’s famous landmarks in miniature while learning about the region’s history and heritage.

✨ Students engaged in hands-on activities, sparked their curiosity, and connected classroom lessons with real-world experiences — making learning both fun and meaningful.

🌿 Trips like these create lasting memories, strengthen social skills, and help students see the world from new perspectives, while fostering a love for discovery and culture.

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🗣️As part of our Enrichment Programme, we recently launched this year’s Language Assistants programme. Entitled ‘Sharing to Learn’, this is an opportunity for our students to volunteer as English assistants at our neighbouring schools Edumar and Garigot in Castelldefels.

💡 By practising speaking, listening, and cultural nuances in English, children gain extra support that complements classroom learning, helping them grow in confidence, become more fluent, and ready for future global opportunities.

🌟Our Pre-University students have been taking part in this programme since 2012 and it’s rewarding to see how, year after year, they have valued their participation in this programme as a life-changing experience.

📚 The opening ceremony was led by Mr Mark Woodward, Head of Secondary and Pre-University, and Mr Ramón Rius Santamaría, teacher and coordinator of the programme at BSB. Thank you to our distinguished guests Mr Eduard Carbonell, inspector of education from the Generalitat de Catalunya, and Mr Toni Alberich, coordinator of foreign language programmes at ST Baix Llobregat, for joining us, alongside local school representatives.

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🌟 Last week, Adrian Massen, Head of School Improvement at Cognita, visited all our BSB campuses, joining Headteachers on learning walks, speaking with student leaders, and seeing lessons in action.

📖 Here’s a glimpse of one of Adrian Massen’s visit at BSB Castelldefels, where he spent time with Judy Dean, Head of Early Years and Primary, in Nursery, exploring phonics lessons and discovering our little learners’ ‘All About Me’ books — a wonderful example of the curiosity and creativity that fills our classrooms every day.

✨ Visits like these are a chance to celebrate our students’ achievements, share best practices, and keep improving together as a community.

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