Caxton College: A Step Ahead

On its 35th anniversary, this school continues to lead the way in enabling its students to accept the challenges facing humanity whilst remaining faithful to its family origins.

This British school has forged a pioneering path through its educational environment that both stimulates students and permits them to progress in their intelligence and personal development from a young age. Its innovative educational system educates students through a creative curriculum that is adapted to individual needs, combining cognitive and emotional learning.

To create this educational context, it is essential to invest in a qualified team of staff who can research, identify and develop the best possible learning journey for students. Regarding this, the school Principal, Amparo Gil, said, ‘In addition to having qualified teachers who are accustomed to the demands of the 21^st century classroom, for several decades we have had a technical team of academic coordinators, free of teaching responsibilities, whose objective is to support classroom teachers in their professional development. This team studies emerging educational tendencies and how to implement them, proposes training opportunities to place teaching staff at the forefront of changes in education and carries out continuous evaluation of pupils’ results to ensure they are progressing successfully. In summary, it is a group of experts who oversee effective curriculum delivery and ensure it is positive and motivating in order to address constant educational challenges’.

On this topic, the school’s Vice Principal Marta Gil, said, ‘Not all children process information following the same pattern or respond to it the same way on an emotional level. These individualities require us to pay close attention and continually adjust teaching methods to find solutions to concrete problems and be able to offer the best possible result. In a rapidly changing world, teaching methods must be flexible and dynamic, as well as adapted to real conditions. This is why having additional teams of teachers who can continually bring new ideas to our curriculum is an added value allowing us to offer a comprehensive education that will prepare our students to lead exemplary lives’.

The aim of this approach is to interpret and respond to each student’s stimuli to understand where their individual talents lie. This motivating and personalised learning results in an innovative educational experience that emphasises the role of the teacher as its most significant characteristic.

The school’s approach has gained it, on two consecutive occasions, the most important international assurance of quality that a British school can hold worldwide through the British School Overseas inspection. The Department for Education in the UK therefore considers Caxton College a school of reference outside of England that represents the essence of a quality British education, one of the most prestigious educational systems on an international level.

The school’s Principal, Amparo Gil, concluded with, ‘Our investment in time, effort, teaching resources and our team of dedicated professionals helps us to recognise each student as a unique endeavour’.