Spain

Our school is located in Valdepeñas, a small city in the centre of Spain. The city has a population of 31.000. Our School is in the city centre, it is a small school run by nuns. We have around 300 students range from 3 to 16 years old and most of them live in upper middle class families. We have some inmigrants from South America, Romania, and China however there are not at risk of social exclusion.

We have participated in a Science Comenius Project with differents countries(Turkey, Romania, and Poland) because we are very interested in Science and English subjects. Teachers and students prepare a Science Week every year, now we are going to celebrate the 5th Sience Week and it will be about "Science in the kitchen". We have some international contacts with English and French schools and our students work with their european partners in differents subjects. Our students have a great respect to environment because our school has a big garden where students play and learn about nature. So, this is a wonderful project in order to learn and to respect our environment 

Our city is close to a National Park named Tablas de Daimiel and a Nature Reserve namedLagunas de Ruidera.

Tablas de Daimiel National Park  is a nature reserve in south-central Spain on La Mancha plain in the province of Ciudad Real. It is a wetland in an arid part of Spain. Tablas de Daimiel (TDNP) is the smallest of Spain's fourteen national parks. It covers an area of 19.28 km². As well as having national park status, it enjoys international recognition, being:

- a wetland on the list of the Ramsar Convention

- the core of the Biosphere reserve Mancha Húmeda

- a Special Protection Area for birds

TDNP is a floodplain wetland created where the Gigüela river joins the Guadiana river. It is home to many bird species, some year-round residents, some migratory.