Sol De Portocarrero

IES Sol de Portocarrero – La Laboral is a public secondary school, high school, and vocational training institute located in La Cañada de San Urbano, in the municipality of Almería. It offers Compulsory Secondary Education, with bilingual instruction in English, and High School in the General, Science and Technology, and Humanities and Social Sciences modalities.

In Vocational Training, it provides Basic Vocational Training, Intermediate Degree, and Higher Degree, as well as dual modalities. In Basic Vocational Training, it teaches Agro-gardening and Floral Arrangements. In Intermediate Degree, it offers Physical-Sport Activities in the Natural Environment, Gardening and Floristry, and Electromechanical Maintenance. In Higher Degree, it provides Teaching and Socio-sport Animation, Physical Conditioning, and Industrial Mechatronics. In Intermediate Dual Vocational Training, it teaches Agroecological Production, and in Higher Dual Vocational Training, Landscape and Rural Environment.

The center develops a Bilingual Program that includes the English and music departments, with activities such as pedagogical concerts in English, and participates in innovation projects in applied digitalization and knowledge innovation and transfer in the Vocational Training system. Among the plans and programs included in its project are school libraries, occupational health and safety, opening plan, gender equality plan, Forma Joven, educational compensation, school coexistence, and special education. It also organizes a Christmas solidarity market, an internal futsal league, and B2 level certification tests for High School, and its class schedule extends from 8:15 to 14:45, with a break from 11:15 to 11:45.