Kensington School – Barcelona

After consultation from the education authority of Barcelona, such school has no permit to admit the students who obtain the Spanish nationality, of which is very rare for one so called international school even can’t admit the local student, it’s the first time for me to meet such strange school. But while I and my husband were talking with the staff of the school about the admission of my daughter, no one told us that policy, it’s one school hasn’t the enough credit to let the parents feel unworried , because we almost violate the local related regulations to let my child study in Kensington , the personnel of the education authority told us that as the parents of Spanish should know the law and let their children to study at one school that has the permission to receive the Spanish students. So dangerous to touch Kensington school that almost let us be involved with the admissions ilegal, the worst experience here .

We really doubt whether the administrative teachers for their Junior ( early yeas pupils management) could be professional and responsible enough to maintain every pupils secure in the school.My son had studied at this school for almost two years for primary study, the early years pupils study is named junior there, in fact for the teachers who are in charge of teaching are attentive to the kids, though their age are a little bit elder .But for the teachers who are in charge of administration of Junior , I don’t think they are enough responsible for the pupils, because recently there were three unhappy incidents continuously happened to my son by the same boy , according to the related definitions of education department, if some unkind incidents continuously and repeatedly happened during period, it could be defined as school bullying, in addition, as the comments of the teaching teacher of my son’s class , that boy in one day by the morning and afternoon had created two very unkind behaviour towards my son , after that we tried to communicate with those administrator of junior , but they reply us as these were “minor conflicts “, so ridiculous that in one school even there were two absolutely opposite judges to one thing, possibly those administrators teachers always think everything could be ignored if only every pupils could be “happy” actually stable in their school.Please allow me say that if they truly want to make the kids healthy study and grow up in their school, they should facing the problem seriously and seek more effective communication between different parties instead of always intend to obstruct the communication.Finally under they so called “responsible management “ , at the same day by the morning that administrative teacher reply me “ everything are resolved “ but ridiculously by the afternoon, my son’s head was pushed over and bumped his head on the hard ground, and even no one phone call notification, we just know he was hurt the head after class from the mouth of my son.Above was the real experience of our family in this school , the indifferent attitude of their administrative teachers is very desfavorable to their management qualities and sometimes it would increase the risk to the kids , the only way for us to stop the continuing “accidents “ is changing the school for my son !

This is the international school that should be the worst one I have met in Barcelona, at least for the level of administration for Junior pupils . My grandson was studying in their junior school, and this term that administrative teacher of Junior required all the early years pupils who were only 6-7years old to change their uniforms frequently in one day , it meant that the kids must bring at least two o three suits of uniforms to school and must change them during the one same day two o three times , even in the cold winter . Their reason for this requirement was help the kids to develop the responsibility earlier. The problems began to appear, firstly they asked the children to change uniforms but there weren’t enough facilities to them, because the school is so small that absolutely there aren’t the formal changing rooms for the kids, what’s more, there weren’t enough teachers arranged to monitor and help the kids to change their clothes securely. As result of these , one day while my grandson was changing his uniform in that small room , one of his classmates tricked him as the form of turning off the light of room and close the door, my grandson was blocked in the darkness for almost 5-6 minutes without any help, after that my grandson told me that he was very scary and even cried in darkness because without help in the so-called changing room. If there are not enough facilities, why do let the kids to make this unnecessary changing in one same day? If there are not sufficient teachers to manage , why let the kids to be closed in the darkness? I think the answer only known by that junior administrative teacher who I think is absolutely amateur to work as his position to administer the early years kids.

Had seen the related comments about the problem of headlice, my friends’ child also studied at Kensington, they also found their kids had the serios problem of itching, according to mail of school , there are the lice eggs o lice in the kids’ hair , at that moment I also felt very shocked that even there was one school with such bad sanitary condition .

Studied here in 90s. Greeting to all my classmates and teaches. Special greeting to Mr. Paul Edward Giles from student who still remember his jokes after more than 20 years passed.

Extremely competent teachers and rich in diversity. The best international school in Barcelona.

Quite simply the best international school in Barcelona.

Muy buenos profesores y con nivel bueno de los estudiantes aunque la escuela es pequeña.