This is the presentation of Maestra Placida school

1. We are the CEIP “Maestra Plácida Herranz”, an European school from Spain. We are a
public institution of Pre-school and Primary school dependent on the Ministry of Education, Culture
and Sport of the Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha.
The institution is located on the suburbs of Azuqueca de Henares, locality of 35,000
inhabitants in the industrial and logistics area of the Henares’corridor, within Guadalajara province.
The town is placed in the border of Madrid and Guadalajara provinces.
In the centre we impart teaching to students from 3 to 12 years old. In the current school
year it has 30 units and 750 students. The workforce ascends to 46 teachers.
The centre’s schedule spans from 7:30 AM to 6:30 PM. A first section is dedicated to
breakfast activities (until 9:00 AM); the second section includes the obligatory academic activities
(until 2:00 PM); the third section is reserved to dining room activities, where 300 diners eat daily
(until 4:00 PM); and a fourth section embraces the extracurricular activities organised by the
Association of Mothersand Fathers.
We are an innovative centre, heterodox and very dynamic, with leading programs and
projects in our effort of founding solutions to the problems of the nowadays education. Our main
goal is to provide tools and skills for our students to take part in the present society and build the
future society. This will only be carried out if we develop their competences of autonomy, know-
how and learning to learn. This way we ease and contribute to they can reach high levels of
happiness and welfare as European and world citizens.
Among our projects, stand out the programmes of French and English, Coexistence and
Attention to Diversity, Playgrounds and times and shared areas, Music and Attention, Mindfulness,
Radio, annual thematic core or STEAM. And, of course, the most important project: ERASMUS.
Thanks to it, we share with you the extraordinary adventure of building a common future, in peace
and harmony.
MAESTRA PLÁCIDA HERRANZ