WELCOME TO PALACIO DE GRANDA

I am delighted to be leading LAUDE Palacio de Granda school. Our aim at PdG is for every student to experience a first class education where they can achieve their highest potential, experience amazing learning and be ready for a 21st century world.

I am passionate about the value of all through education. I remain convinced of the positive impact it can have on our students. The strong values of our school and our unrelenting focus on inspirational teaching ensures our students are happy, confident learners who make exceptional progress. At the heart of our approach is our ability to understand precisely where each student is on his or her learning journey so we can plan and set the right amount of academic challenge, targeting and differentiating areas of the curriculum where your child, our students excels.

It is this tailored approach which allows the majority of our students to achieve results above and beyond their expectations.

Welcome to PdG!

Ricardo Díaz – Principal

Why Choose Palacio de Granda?

Palacio de Granda is a non-denominational private school with a strong commitment to high-quality education and high expectations for all our pupils.

Our school has a unique set of characteristics that make it a special place for your children:

• Individualisation and adaptation to the needs and potential of each student.
• Committed professionals who are lifelong learners themselves.
• Multi-lingual education: a bilingual Spanish-English focus, with a third language, French or German.
• Excellent academic standards: a broad curriculum with enriching activities and learning support.
• Well-rounded education: development of creativity, critical thinking, team work and technological proficiency, in addition to emotional intelligence and personal and professional development.
• A strong sense of family and community.
• We are an Eco-School and privileged to have an amazing location that is surrounded by nature.
• Student boarding facilities: A home away from home.

Google Reference School

Palacio de Granda has been certified as a Google for Education Reference School, being one of the first schools in Spain to have achieved this important recognition, granted for the successful implementation and exemplary use of the new technologies and innovative use of Google applications, in all areas of its activity.

This distinction rewards the work carried out by our team over the last few years, with our aim of incorporating digital solutions that allow us to improve our teaching practices, including the daily use of tools, such as Google Classroom, in subjects in Primary and Secondary, generating a positive impact on student learning. It also recognizes the degree of competence of our teaching team in the use of these applications, with 39% of teachers certified as level 1 and 12.5% ​​as level 2 Google Educators. We also have an officially accredited Google Trainer on our staff.

We consider that joining the prestigious global network of Google Reference Schools, is an important milestone in our educational project, as it means having the endorsement of one of the most important technology companies in the world, characterized by continuous innovation, team work and is also the source of inspiration and change for more than 80 million students and teachers around the world.

We are one of the first educational centers in Spain to achieve this accolade and the first of the ISP chain in Europe to be recognized at this level of digital competency for the development of our educational project.

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