Happy New Year! We hope you have had a wonderful holiday with your loved ones. We begin 2025 with great enthusiasm, hoping it will be an unforgettable year for all of you and, of course, for your children. This term has a special significance for our school. At last we will be able to inaugurate our new facilities, playgrounds and classrooms, the fruit of months of hard work and dedication.

We can’t wait to see the faces of our students when they discover these renovated spaces, designed to enrich their learning experience. We are sure that it will have been worth the wait and we thank you for your patience and support in this process. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank you for the trust you place in us to accompany your children in their development. We strive every day to practice an education based on empathy, respect and positive discipline, making each student feels valued and listened to, not just another name, but as the unique person they are, with their emotions, ideas and experiences. We wish you a 2025 full of great moments, unforgettable learning and the opportunity to continue building together an educational environment that inspires humanity, values and personal growth.

Happy 2025 to all of you!

Kind regards,

Iciar Garcia

We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for all your contributions during the volunteer weeks, thanks to which we have been able to support the following associations: Corazones Malagueños, Madre Coraje, Bancosol, Alcer Málaga, and different associations that help affected families in Valencia, of which we have remembered so much during these holidays.

The students have been able to see how together we can achieve more.

THANK YOU!

The Cambridge Mocks or Primary school will start on Monday 13th of January and the Goethe and Alliance Française Mocks for MYP and DP on the 27th of January. These tests are a simulation of the official exams and will allow us to determine which Cambridge exam we recommend for each student.

The Mocks are designed to recreate the conditions of the final exams, offering students a valuable opportunity to practice and familiarise themselves with the format, rigour and time management required in the official assessments.

This simulation not only reinforces their academic knowledge and skills, but also allows them to experience an environment similar to that of the final exams, helping them to build confidence and reduce stress in the face of future challenges. Cambridge Mocks results will be available on 31 January and Goethe and Alliance Française results on 21 February in Alexia app, in reports.

We are pleased to announce that next January 22nd at 15h we will be holding an information meeting for PYP8 families at our Co-Working to present all the details of the upcoming PYPx Expo, a key milestone in your child’s learning. At this meeting, we will explore in depth what you can expect from this event, how students will participate and how you can support them from home during this exciting process.

For those of you who are unable to join us in person, we will share a link to the online presentation afterwards.

We look forward to your participation!

On the 23rd of January, the students of our school houses will meet for a meeting dedicated to the active participation and continuous improvement of our educational community. This meeting represents an opportunity for students to express their ideas and proposals on various aspects of school life. During this meeting, the students will have the opportunity to present their suggestions for improvement directly to the School House Ambassadors, who play a key role as spokespersons for their peers. The ambassadors will then take these proposals to the Student Council, the body responsible for evaluating and implementing these initiatives.

This activity reinforces fundamental values such as cooperation, leadership and responsibility, as well as fostering a culture of dialogue and engagement among students. We are confident that innovative proposals will emerge that will contribute to further building a more inclusive and enriching school community.

We look forward to hearing the bright ideas that will emerge from this meeting!

We are pleased to inform you that the first report card of the secondary school year will be available on the 24th of January, followed by the Baccalaureate on the 30th of January. This report provides a detailed overview of your child’s academic progress during the first term, highlighting their achievements and areas for improvement.

The report card will be available via Alexia. We encourage you to review it in detail and take the opportunity to reflect with your child on their learning and future goals. If you have any questions or queries, please do not hesitate to contact the tutors.

We are very proud to announce that our students will be representing the school in the 2nd CICAE Debating League Tournament, which will be held on the 24th and 25th January at Salliver School in Fuengirola. This event brings together teams of students from different schools, highlighting their argumentation skills, critical thinking and teamwork.

Having the tournament so close makes this occasion even more special, as we are playing at home, and we have the support of our community to cheer on our students. During the event, they will debate relevant and topical issues, demonstrating the skills they have acquired through their training and preparation, and we wish them the best of luck!

We are pleased to announce that we will soon be holding our Open Days, a unique opportunity to share learning moments with your children in their school environment. During these days, that will take place from 27th of January to 7th of February, you will be able to attend class with them and experience first-hand how they learn through enquiry, critical thinking and collaborative work.

In addition, you will have the opportunity to observe the positive atmosphere that characterises our school: the interactions between peers, the learning habits and the climate of respect and collaboration that we cultivate every day.

We will soon be informing you how to register to participate and we look forward to seeing you there.

We would like to share with you the excellent opportunity offered to us by the Positive Discipline Association to organise a workshop at CIT for the official certification of families and after listening to your requests. After the training and certification that the CIT teaching team obtained last September, we consider it essential to work together as a school and families to generate a real positive impact on the education of your children, and therefore we continue to promote initiatives that allow us to achieve this together.

The workshop will take place at the CIT facilities on the 29th and 30th of March 2025, and will be given by Marisa Moya, a teacher specialising in Human Sciences and Early Childhood Education, with a degree in Psychology and certified as a Neuropsychoeducator and Positive Discipline trainer by the Positive Discipline Association, which runs the host educational centre for Positive Discipline in Spain in Madrid.

The Association is offering a special price of €350 per registered member of the CIT community, instead of the usual price of €449. You can find more information about the characteristics of the workshop at this link. To book your place, please fill in this form before 31 January, and we will contact you in the coming weeks.

Thank you very much!