The English Montessori School

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We are a happy and vibrant private co-educational school based in Madrid, offering a tailor-made, holistic education for boys and girls, aged 3 to 18. The English Montessori School is a private co-educational British School in Spain, which caters to the educational needs of students of the Spanish and International communities in Madrid. The school is recognized by both the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture as a foreign British center and by Great Britain as a British School in Spain.

Children from the age of three to eighteen years of age are admitted to a complete and highly successful educational experience. Though the majority of students are Spanish, numerous nationalities are represented in the student population. Traditionally TEMS students rank among the best of the students throughout the Spanish and International schools in Madrid, on external exams taken by those students. Accordingly, all graduates of the senior school go on to higher education.

• Nurture a caring community, where respect for one another and our environment is tangible.
• Foster a passion for learning by encouraging exploration and curiosity.
• Develop positive relationships both locally and globally based on empathy, collaboration, and trust.
• Encourage independent thinkers who feel confident in making mistakes and learning from them.
• Build our children’s self-confidence through practical skills to equip them to face a rapidly changing future.

TEMS was founded as an infant school in 1973. The first school was located in a small house in Avenida Alfonso XIII in the center of the city. The Montessori philosophy has always remained paramount to Milagros’ approach to education. The school was a pioneer in Spain for this child-centered type of education. The English school of Madrid is one of the pioneers as a charter member of the “National Association of British Schools in Spain” (N.A.B.S.S.).The “English Montessori School” SA is is a proud member of the Cognita global family of schools since 2016.

As the children grew and since parents were so pleased with the program the school needed larger facilities. It has moved several times to accommodate this growth and is now permanently located in the residential community of Aravaca (Madrid). This purpose-built school has, recently, added new facilities to accommodate the population growth, enhance the already excellent academic and extra-curricular program and meet the demands of the constantly changing educational needs of today’s students.

When they leave us in Year 13, pupils are ready to attend their first-choice university at home or abroad having a high level of skill in three languages as well as a global outlook, encouraged by the ethos of our parent company Cognita which operates over 70 schools around the world. We are always thrilled to hear of their success in the world outside TEMS, as many of our alumni are now successful across a range of fields and their careers take them around the globe using their English-speaking prowess to excellent effect. Others stay closer, either in Madrid or across Spain, and return with their children full of stories about the influence TEMS has had on them. They speak of how happy they were as pupils and that sense of happiness continues to be tangible in the classrooms and playgrounds of TEMS as it is today. The future is changing, even as we write, and we believe we prepare our children extremely well here for that fact by sustaining our focus on respect, tolerance, friendship through the development of character and excellent academics.

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