Our school’s name is Cristòfor Mestre and is located in Vilafranca del Penedès. There are around 500 pupils distributed in 25-27 per class.

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Vilafranca del Penedès has a population of almost 40.000 people and it is divided in several neighborhoods. Our school is located in Poble Nou district, that is around 20% of Vilafranca population. It is a modern neighborhood, with a middle mid-high socioeconomic level. The streets are wide and there are not many cars, so most children come alone to the school every day.

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If we talk about the mother language: 45% of pupils speak catalan, 18% spanish, 19% both and 17% other languages (arabic, chinese, polish, russian, english...). Most of the families have a middle socioeconomic level, but every year there are more families with some difficulties in economic and social terms due to the 2008 crisis.

There are 33 (+ covid supports) teachers at school and every year there are more professionals who are able to communicate in English, so it is a great opportunity to improve some working language projects and start new ones. The point is to achieve to look at English language like almost as normal as our official languages in our daily lives.