Magno follows the Spanish national curriculum. As a school with an international student body, our students develop a truly global outlook and see no limit to their future possibilities.
At Magno International School, our students enjoy an exceptional primary education from the age of 6 to 11. This is a vital stage in their development, so in addition to teaching them core academic knowledge, we focus on helping them build self-esteem, cultivate friendships, and encourage them to participate in extracurricular activities. These include outdoor activities and team sports.
During this period of their academic life, our students have access to a wide range of subjects, activities, and academic challenges. This allows us to discover and nurture their interests and talents. They also delve deeply into various subjects, fostering a lifelong curiosity and desire for new experiences and continuous learning.
We recognise that every child requires individualised attention to reach their full potential, both academically, socially, and emotionally. Through cooperative learning—one of the cornerstones of our students' acquisition of key competencies—and the incorporation of the Theory of Multiple Intelligences into the learning process, our native and highly qualified teachers provide personalised guidance to each student.
Specific skills we develop in Primary
The ratio of students per class is reduced in Primary, facilitating a more personalised education that allows us to meet the specific needs of each student.
We develop our students’ skills in fundamental subjects such as reading, writing, arithmetic, science, logic, analysis, and languages. We complement these core subjects with a diverse range of other subjects and activities for a well-rounded education.
Our Primary programme includes basic areas of this educational stage, such as oral and written expression and comprehension, and mathematics, following a Finnish methodology. It also provides a solid education in values and other disciplines that foster creativity and physical and mental health among our students.
In Magno’s Primary curriculum, alongside core subjects, students benefit from an enriched learning experience through sports, languages, and chess, promoting their physical, linguistic, and strategic development.
Our wonderful facilities include outdoor sports courts, a sports hall, and a fantastic heated swimming pool. Our primary students use these facilities to learn key life skills, such as swimming, while also developing their psychomotor skills, spatial awareness, and even concentration abilities.
At Magno, we make physical activity fun and a form of self-expression, ensuring that our students enjoy staying fit and healthy. Physical activities like dance are used as a means of self-expression, boosting confidence and self-esteem. Incredibly, the skills we teach our primary students through the art of dance are reflected later in secondary school, when we focus on public speaking and debating.The aim is to give students the opportunity to grow not only academically but also physically by participating in local competitions, connecting with peers who share similar interests, and promoting healthy competition.
At this age, our students are fully immersed in English, both spoken and written. They speak English with their peers and our native teachers. Many core subjects, such as Science, Art, and Music, are taught in English.
English occupies 55% of their school timetable. In Years 1 and 2, students will also study French and German, and from Year 3 onwards, they will choose one of the two languages to further refine their proficiency.
The methodology in Primary is active and participatory, ensuring that children enjoy speaking and practising English through the use of texts, games, songs, films, and role plays.
All language exams are conducted on-site, as we are an official exam centre for Cambridge, Goethe, and Delf.
In a dedicated classroom, our students practise chess, as it greatly contributes to children's intellectual development. Due to the nature of the activity, they acquire and strengthen skills such as perception, attention, reasoning, creativity, and imagination. Through chess, students also develop important abilities that they will apply to their academic work, such as analytical and synthetic thinking, calculation, and visual memory.
