1. Greetings
2. Educational approach
3. History

Welcome

From Marianao High School, a public educational centre, I welcome and invite you to see for yourselves the different educational and formative opportunities this centre has to offer. We define ourselves as an open, committed and supportive centre. As you can see, our educational approach is the result of the following foundations:

Open, due to our formative offer, which ranges from compulsory and post-compulsory education to vocational training, with specific facilities and specialized professors. Committed to health and sustainability through our following programs: Green school, Healthy School and Scholar Sport Promotion. We are also committed to Europe through the Comenius and NETINVET projects, through the foreign exchange program with European countries such as Germany, United Kingdom and France, as well as with transnational courses. Evidently, we are also committed to a quality public school system and improvement plans. Therefore, we are currently participating in the “Continuous improvement and quality Programme”, with annual audits and certifications since the 2005-06 school year with the UNE-EN-ISO 9001:2015 and the ISO 14001:2015. This centre is also in possession of the Excellence diploma, according to the E2MODEL since 2010. The centre is also supportive with our students' professional future and their employability and labour insertion. Therefore, we have night time schedules for the Vocational training courses, a job notice board and occupational courses.

Kind regards and thank you for your visit.

Josefina Garcia Pérez
Headmistress

Educational approach

The MISSION of Marianao High School is to train our students in the abilities and competences of the different educative stages, to educate in the attitudes that show respect for all people, in the social values of prevention and sustainability and in professional training.

Marianao High School aims to improve the quality of those courses imparted in it and its integration in its surroundings.

The POLICY OF QUALITY of MARIANAO High School consists on increasing the satisfaction of the client in order to prevent and reduce incidents and accidents at the workplace and the environmental impacts generated through the implementation of an educative approach based on the following facts:

• Laicism: The MARIANAOHigh School is a secular centre that is governed by democratic pluralism and respect for all the options that represent it (ideological, religious ...).
• Comprehensive training: The main objective of Marianao High School is the comprehensive training of our students in the values inherent to a free, plural and democratic society, as well as concerned about health, safety and environment prevention. In the area of environmental management, we are committed to work to reduce and prevent the environmental impact of our activities and services, by constantly improving the environmental activities that are conducted in the centre. In the field of prevention, we teach to achieve a preventive comprehensive culture in the fields of health, safety, ergonomics and hygiene.
• Catalan: Catalan is the language used in the centre as a vehicular language. Once students finish their studies, they will be able to correctly express themselves in both Spanish and Catalan.
• Regulatory compliance and other requirements: Complying with the applicable law, so that it is reviewed and assured in the fields of quality, safety, health and environment, as well as other voluntary commitments.
• Constant improvement: Commitment to an integrated management system of quality, environment, safety and health at work. Providing safe and healthy conditions, meeting customer requirements based on the principles of prevention and continuous improvement.
• Commitment to workers’ participation and enquiry: guarantee the enquiry and participation of the whole educational community in the development of an integral safety and health system management at the workplace.

STUDIES

• EDUCATIVE LEVELS: Secondary Compulsory Education, baccalaureate and Vocational Training.
• Lines: three for ESO, two for Baccalaureate and three Vocational Training professional groups.

After school activities

Ski and ice skating trips, visits to museums and exhibitions and outings to the Olympic Channel.
Different workshops are conductedduring non-teaching hours.
4th of ESO end-of-year trips.
Family-School relationship, implemented through both Parents Associations and Tutorial Action.

History

FOUNDATION OF THE CENTER

The origin of our High School goes back to 1973 with the installation of the first VET workshops in the Marianao Palace, which the following year were expanded to Can Massalleras. That is until the 1980-81 school year, when the equipment was moved to the newly built Camps Blancs IFP. During the next school year (1982-83), the electrical and delineation specialties were relocated again to Marianao Castle, as a section of the Camps Blancs IFP. It was then, during the 1983-84 academic year, that the new MarianaoHigh School was officially created. The following year, the specialties of Hairdressing and Aesthetics were added, and later on, so was the baccalaureate.

The first professors that were in our High School were the following:

    Drawing: Andreu Mesas and Lluís García.
    Organization and manufacturing project: Leopoldo Cerdà.
    Delineation practices: Enric Doñate.
    Electricity practices: Javier Biel, Paco Orfila, Joan Aromíi and Joan Corominas.
    Social-Humanistic: Mari Creu Pascual.
    Mathematics: Jhoan Watemberg Lubinsky.
    English: Marisa López.

THE CURRENT BUILDING

In 1987-1988 MarianaoIFP left the Castle and moved to the current building, which had just been built. Then, the specialties of hairdressing and aesthetics disappeared. Later, in the 1995-1996 academic year, ESO was introduced. In 1998 the old Vocational Training disappeared and the new Vocational training coursesbegan. Electricity also disappeared, delineation was transformed into Mechanical Project Development (mechanical manufacturing professional group) and the Vocational training courses of Commerce and Marketing and Computer Science were implemented.

HEADMASTERS AND HEADMISTRESSES

Throughout these years, our center has had several directors. The following were: Andreu Mesas, Lluís García, Albert Salvador, Ferran Joan, Andreu Mesas, Anna Martí, Miguel Ruiz, Joan Vives, Catalina Muñoz and Josefina Garcia Pérez the current headmistress.