Spain

=IES Juan López Morillas= “Juan López Morillas” Secondary School and Sixth Form College are located in a rural area called Mágina, fifty kilometres away from the capital city of the province, Jaén. This area is somehow quite isolated and close to Sierra Mágina mountain range. The whole area is devoted to agriculture, most specifically to the production of olive oil. This only crop monopolizes the economic activity in the area. Therefore, it is a poor and depressed area where the rent per capita is very low with a soaring unemployment rate. In most cases, both parents must work in order to raise their children. Taking into account their jobs, most of the population has to migrate to northern Spain or southern France in order to make a living. Family structures are highly homogeneous with little presence of citizens from other countries. Thus, a typical family in Jódar can be profiled as locals who have been living in Jódar over the generations and who have to migrate for economic reasons. There are also a great number of immigrants that come to the area in order to harvest the olive crop every winter. IES Juan López Morillas is also a comprehensive school which caters for students taking the equivalent of GCSE and AS/A2 levels students. Pupils learn two foreign languages; English as compulsory for all of them and French as their second option on a voluntary basis. Students are divided into 4 levels in secondary school, from 1st to 4th year. Their ages range from 13 to 16. We also teach AS/A2 level students in their 1st and 2nd year, as non-compulsory education. In addition, 77 teachers work at IES Juan López Morillas Secondary School. Regarding our students, we have a cohort of them with SEN (Special Education Needs). We can point out that they attend specific classes where the minimum objectives established in the syllabus can be attained. These classes are mainly on Maths or Spanish Language where the pupils can reinforce learning skills not sufficiently consolidated in regular classes with the rest or their peers. When it comes to behaviour, we can say that two centres merged into a big one last year, resulting in our current school. This process brought some issues pertaining to discipline and behaviour since we now host up to 916 students. Therefore, our school is now trying to cope with disciplinary matters by launching a coexistence and conflict-solving program. Juan López Morillas High School is also a bilingual school which follows the CLIL approach. = =