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Colegio Urdaneta
Colegio Urdaneta
Colegio Urdaneta
Etorkizuna Ikastola Etorkizuna Ikastola IES Elorrio BHI
Ondarroako Zaldupe Herri Ikastetcea Ondarroako Zaldupe Herri Ikastetcea Kurtzebarri BHI
  Zubi Zahar Ikastola Zubi Zahar Ikastola
  Otxandio Herri ikastexea Arizmendi Ikastola 
  urretxu-zumarraga ikastola urretxu-zumarraga ikastola
San Benito Ikastola San Benito Ikastola
San Benito Ikastola
Axular Lizeoa Axular Lizeoa Axular Lizeoa
Aranzadi Ikastola Aranzadi Ikastola Aranzadi Ikastola
Usabalgo Laskorain Ikastola Usabalgo Laskorain Ikastola Usabalgo Laskorain Ikastola
    Txingudi Ikastola



Colegio Urdaneta


 
Contact person Rosa Maria Mugarza
E-mail intercambios@colegiourdaneta.com
Website www.colegiourdaneta.com
Total number of teachers 130
Total number of pupils 1800
Languages taught as a subject Spanish, English, French
Languages of instruction Basque, Spanish
Languages used outside formal lessons Spanish and some Basque
Skills trained in the minority language reading, listening, speaking, writing, mediation
Availability of the teaching material Reasonable; we could have more.
Quality of the teaching material Reasonable
Developers of the teaching material Teachers in the school or colleagues, publishing houses
Remarks
We have started working on eTwinning and we’ve got some projects going on and contacts.

Main problem regarding minority language education:
Some teachers are not ready or just don’t want to.

Possible solutions:
Go step by step.

 

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Etorkizuna Ikastola

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Contact person Begoña Garaizar
E-mail email address
Website www.etorkizunaikastola.org
Total number of teachers 18
Total number of pupils 175 
Languages of instruction Basque, Spanish, English
Teaching material The quality of learning materials is good
Remarks
The main problem in our zone is how to encourage our pupils to use the Basque language outside of the curriculum, for example in the playground, extracurricular activities, sports etc. In our town most people are Spanish speakers.

 

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Ondarroako Zaldupe Herri Ikastetcea

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Contact person Ainhoa Onaindia
E-mail email address
Website www.ondarruep.net
Total number of teachers 32
Total number of pupils  
Languages of instruction Basque, Spanish
Teaching material Availability and quality of teaching material is good.
Remarks  

 

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Zubi Zahar Ikastola

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Contact person Idoia Barinaga or Tere Larreina
E-mail email address
Website www.zubizahar.net
Total number of teachers 26
Total number of pupils 310 
Languages of instruction Basque, Spanish
Teaching material The availability and quality of teaching material is good.
Remarks Although Basque is a minority language our school is located in an area where 90% of the population are native speakers of Basque. There is influence of Spanish but it is not so great as to present a problem. Most pupils come from Basque speaking families. However, in our area most families speak a dialect of Basque and we teach the standard Basque which is what institutions accept as official. This, sometimes is a problem for students and parents.

 

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Arizmendi Ikastola



Contact person Josebe Muruamendiaraz or Amaia Antero
E-mail aantero@arizmendi.ikastola.net
Website www.zubizahar.net
Total number of teachers 263
Total number of pupils 3052
Languages taught as a subject Basque, Spanish, English, French, German
Languages of instruction Basque
Languages used outside formal lessons Spanish
Skills trained in the minority language reading, listening, speaking, writing, mediation
Availability of the teaching material Good 
Quality of the teaching material Good; we have our own teaching materials prepared by the Confederation of Ikastolas (schools teaching in Basque.

Check www.ikastola.net for teaching materials.
Developers of the teaching material Teachers in the school or colleagues 

 

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IES Elorrio BHI

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Contact person Zorione Fundazuri
E-mail email address
Website www.elorrioinstitutua.org
Total number of teachers 29
Total number of pupils 173
Languages of instruction Basque, Spanish, English, French
Teaching material The quality and availability of Basque teaching material is good.
Remarks The main problem with the Basque language is the use of Basque outside of the school.

 

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Kurtzebarri BHI

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Contact person Ibone Amorrortu
E-mail email address
Website www.goieskola.net/kurtzebarribhi
Total number of teachers 26
Total number of pupils 144
Languages of instruction Basque, Spanish, English, French
Teaching material The quality and availability of Basque teaching material is reasonable.
Remarks Although Basque is compulsory for our students , their level of proficiency in this language is not very good on average. Besides, they tend to use the minority language only for academic purposes and use Spanish for informal communication. We have just started a project called "Minority Languages in Europe" and are exchanging letters with an Italian school in Croatia, a Sardinian school and a Kurdish one.

 

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urretxu-zumarraga ikastola


 
Contact person Jose Inazio Zamorano / Jose Zabala
E-mail urretxu@ikastola.net
Website www.uzikastola.net
Total number of teachers 70
Total number of pupils 800
Languages taught as a subject English (3 hrs), Spanish (4 hrs), Basque (rest)
Languages of instruction Basque
Languages used outside formal lessons Spanish
Skills trained in the minority language reading, listening, speaking, writing, mediation
Availability of the teaching material The availability of teaching material is good
Quality of the teaching material The quality of teaching material is good
Developers of the teaching material Teachers, colleagues, publishing houses
Remarks
The main problem is that we are surrounded by powerful Spanish culture.

 

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San Benito Ikastola


 
Contact person Iñaki Amundarain
E-mail adress contact person
iamundarain@sanbenito.ikastola.net
Website www.sanbenitoikastola.net
Total number of teachers 73
Total number of pupils 923
Languages taught as a subject Basque (40%), English (25%), Spanish (20%), French (5%)
Languages of instruction Basque (97%), English (3%)
Languages used outside formal lessons Basque (85%), Spanish (15%)
Skills trained in the minority language reading, listening, speaking, writing, mediation
Availability of the teaching material The availability of teaching material is good. We have all the teaching materials required in Basque. The variety of additional materials, information... is not always so complete
Quality of the teaching material The quality of teaching material is good; it is similar to the standards of any other language
Developers of the teaching material Publishing houses
Remarks
Basque is the teaching language. We start with Spanish at the age of 8 years, and we teach it as a subject. English is taught since the age of 4 (4 hours a week), and when the students are 14, they start also studying social sciences in English. French is not compulsory: the students start with it when they are 12, with 2 hours per week.

We would be interested in knowing, in having exchanges, with other schools, with students of 16-17 (multiculturalism, languages, identity...)

 

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Axular Lizeoa


 
Contact person Maria Jose Alonso or Inma Berasategi
E-mail adress contact person
mjalonso@axular.ikastola.net  /  iberasategi@axular.ikastola.net
Website www.axular.net
Total number of teachers 50
Total number of pupils 800
Languages taught as a subject Basque (80%), English (11%), Spanish (6%), French (optional, 2,3%)
Languages of instruction Basque, English (Geography and History are taught in English to 14-16 year-old students, 3 hours a week)
Languages used outside formal lessons Basque, Spanish
Skills trained in the minority language reading, listening, speaking, writing, mediation
Availability of the teaching material Good; the network of Basque schools (ikastolas) creates the teaching materials we use.
Quality of the teaching material Good; the materials are tested in class and then revised
Developers of the teaching material Teachers, colleagues, publishing houses
Remarks
Projects, as well as materials, come from the network of Basque schools.

Spanish is the majority language, so speaking Basque is not fashionable for our students. Therefore we have to make them aware of the importance of supporting and using Basque, so that our language and culture will survive.

 

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Aranzadi Ikastola


 
Contact person Ane Barruso
E-mail adress contact person
abarruso@bergara.ikastola.net
Website www.aranzadiikastola.org
Total number of teachers 72
Total number of pupils 683
Languages taught as a subject Spanish, French, English
Languages of instruction Basque
Languages used outside formal lessons Basque
Skills trained in the minority language reading, listening, speaking, writing, mediation
Availability of the teaching material Good
Quality of the teaching material Good
Developers of the teaching material Publishing houses
Remarks

 

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Usabalgo Laskorain Ikastola

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Contact person Helena Larrañaga
E-mail adress contact person
elarranaga@laskorainikastola.net
Website www.laskorainikastola.net
Total number of teachers 105
Total number of pupils 1400
Languages taught as a subject Basque (3,5 hrs), Spanish (3,5 hrs), English (3,5 hrs), French (2 hrs)
Languages of instruction Basque
Languages used outside formal lessons Basque mainly, a bit Spanish
Skills trained in the minority language reading, listening, speaking, writing, mediation
Availability of the teaching material Good; we've got 40 years of experience teaching in Basque
Quality of the teaching material Good
Developers of the teaching material Teachers in the school or colleagues;
Publishing houses
Remarks
www.ikastola.net is the website of the federation of ikastolas (schools that teach in Basque). They've got a team who works in developing materials for teachers.

We have a school exchange project with Diwan school in Bretagne.

We would like to contact schools which would be interested in developing school exchanges with secondary students.

 

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Txingudi Ikastola

students at Txingudi Ikastola
 
Contact person Ana Aguirre Conde
E-mail adress contact person
lola_aguirre@hotmail.com
Website http://txingudibhi.net
Total number of teachers 62
Total number of pupils 496
Languages taught as a subject English, Spanish and French
Languages of instruction Basque
Languages used outside formal lessons Basque and Spanish
Skills trained in the minority language reading, listening, speaking, writing, mediation
Availability of the teaching material Good; the importance of the Basque language has increased in the last years, so the creation of educational materials in Basque is increasing and improving as well in the same way.
Quality of the teaching material Good; publishers are fighting to increase and share good quality materials among the schools to fill up all the necessities in different subjects and fields.
Developers of teaching material teachers in the school or colleagues, publishing houses
Main problem regarding minority language education: You have to organize your exchanges among the schools of your community if you want to develop the Basque language.
Possible solutions: To contact schools of different countries but having English as the communicative language . This is what we do, in that way our students learn English and therefore they share the minority language of each country. They are getting in contact with three languages at the same time.
Remarks
Most of the projects developed in our school are concerned to English and Basque. We are part of the Comenius projects and of the European projects that we develop every year. Apart of these ones, the Basque department carries out different exchange projects among some Basque Schools of different provinces.

We have different topics but the ones we develop most are: 1) History, Geography and Language 2) Sports 3) Gastronomy 4) Folklore. music and dances 5) Feasts
Sometimes we change one of them by the topic of art, it depends on the needs and desires of the other school of the exchange.

Although we have as minority language the Basque language we are interested in exchanges with English as communicative language.

 

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