BSB Castelldefels Campus
Location
The British School of Barcelona Castelldefels campus is located near the Olympic Canal in Castelldefels.
BSB Castelldefels currently operate different bus routes serving most areas where students live and travel to school on a regular basis. Please refer to our School Transport to learn more about the bus routes available.
Curriculum
| Ages Taught | 3 – 16 years old |
| Year Groups Taught | Nursery to Year 11 |
| Curriculum Taught | English National Curriculum Additional Enrichment Programme International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) Validation of Spanish Educación Secundaria Obligatoria (ESO) |
Our education offer is special to The British School of Barcelona.
Based on our values, it is designed to provide pupils with a balance of great learning experiences and key skills. It contains significant elements of the English National Curriculum as well as key emphasis on proficiently learning languages: English, Spanish and Catalan.
Learn more about our enriched curriculum at each educational stage:
The British School of Barcelona is an all-through school. This means that our educational offer also covers post-Secondary education.
Please visit our Pre-University campus, BSB Nexus, for more information:
Facilities
The BSB Castelldefels is divided into three distinct areas for Early Years, Primary and Secondary. Each part of the school has its own entrance and its own distinct and age-appropriate learning and play and social spaces.
In Early Years this includes classrooms with direct access to outside play spaces where the Continuous Provision framework can be further developed.
In Primary, learning takes place in well-equipped classrooms and support and specialist rooms. The Primary school also has a well-shaded play area with enhanced playground facilities.
In Secondary, there are faculty areas with dedicated rooms for all subjects, including IT; nine modern science laboratories; a purpose-built art block; a large, purpose-built music department with a main teaching room and five practise rooms, and a large two-storey newly-designed Learning Resource Centre.
There are also some shared facilities across The British School, including:
- A 376-seat theatre
- Purpose-built dining rooms
- A medical room
- A new study garden
- Sports areas: an indoor gymnasium, three outdoor multi-sports courts and a multi-game artificial turf pitch
Adjacent Sports Stadium
In September 2019, The British School of Barcelona has a new state-of-the art 9,000 m2 rugby and football stadium adjacent to the BSB Castelldefels campus, which has been certified by World Rugby and is committed to social environmental responsibility by using sustainable materials and renewable energies in its design and maintenance.
Staff
The BSB Castelldefels campus employs over 200 staff. This includes 170 fully-qualified teachers, specialist subject and language teachers, heads of subjects and directors of learning, as well as specialist extra curricular teachers, assistants and exam invigilators.
It also employs 41 support staff in the areas of administration, IT, maintenance and services, as well as 3 temporary staff (teaching and non-teaching).
Please refer to the About BSB page to learn more about our Senior Leadership Team.
