Yvonne Blake

CEIP Yvonne Blake is a public school in Fuenlabrada that offers Early Childhood Education and Primary Education, with 14 units and 259 students. In Early Childhood, there are two groups for each age of 3, 4, and 5 years; in Primary, two groups per grade from 1st to 4th. The faculty includes six Early Childhood teachers (one with bilingual certification), one bilingual Early Childhood support teacher, eight Primary teachers, four Primary specialists, one Music Education specialist, and another Primary teacher with bilingual certification, five Foreign Language specialists with bilingual certification, one Physical Education specialist, and one Catholic Religion teacher.

The support team consists of a specialist in Therapeutic Pedagogy, one in Audition and Language, the TEA classroom staff (one Therapeutic Pedagogy specialist and one Social Integration Technician), a reinforcement teacher in linguistic competence for regular enrollment students, a counselor who visits once a week, and a nurse. As complementary services, the center has a cook and a kitchen assistant, ten dining monitors, two playroom monitors, and one Open Patios monitor, in addition to a municipal janitor. The facilities include an Early Childhood module and another Primary module for the first cycle, where there are six Early Childhood classrooms and six Primary classrooms, the Magic classroom, two support classrooms, three multipurpose classrooms, a nurse's office, Psychopedagogical Guidance service, Early Childhood library, dining room, own kitchen, offices for Secretariat, Head of Studies, and Management, janitor's office, Early Childhood playground, indoor porch with climbing wall, Primary playground with mini-basketball court, and school garden. The last phase of the center is under construction, which will expand the facilities with 12 Primary classrooms, 4 split and support classrooms, specific classrooms, library, gym, sports field, and athletics track.

The educational project is based on attention to individual differences, practical and experiential learning, the development of learning-to-learn skills, and active methodologies with manipulative material. It is inspired by the pedagogies of María Montessori, the objectives of the 2030 Agenda, Education 5.0, and the STEM approach, and it addresses the emotional development and autonomy of the students. The center participates in the Digital Center Plan, DigiCraft, and the TGD project.