Phone +34 945 01 19 63 | Province Álava | |
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Address Lasarte errepidea, z/g, 01007 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Álava, Spain Similar EGIBIDE, Colegio Presenta de María, Colegio CEU Virgen Ni, Niño Jesús ikastetxea, Colegio Hogar San José | ||
Olabide ikastola is a Basque school located in the Basque Country, in the province of Álava. Its address is: Lasarte road, 01007 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Alava. The official educational language is Basque. Every class, starting from kindergarten, are taught in this language. The students are separated into four classes from the beginning. primarily based on the child’s mother tongue. In this way, they create a group of classmates which have Basque as their first language. This division is done because, when they first go to school, some children don’t even know how to speak Spanish, while the others do. This would create lots of difficulties at the time of socializing so they intend to prevent it through these measures. This school is a parental cooperative.
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Origin
The cooperative set up in 1963. That year, few families decided to offer their children another totally different educational system. They wanted to have the opportunity for their sons or daughters to be taught in Basque. At that moment Spain was living Franco's dictatorship. As one of his aims was to make disappear all the languages that were not the official one (Spanish), anyone who spoke Basque had to be punished. For this reason, many families got scared and decided to stop using it. However, not all of them decided the same so they continue speaking Basque not on the streets but at least at home. Although the Basque was living a hard situation, in which its speakers where decreasing more and more, Izaskun Arrue decided to set up a school where children could be educated in Basque. She was the first teacher of Olabide Ikastola. The class started with just 14 students. The children took their lessons in the teacher's house. That's why the school wasn't official at that time. As a result, it didn't receive any financial aids from the government, naturally. As time passed, more and more people were interested in this new system and consequently, the demand started to increase. In 1966-67 there were 34 students, whereas in 1967-68 85 students formed this school. The amount of teachers raised as well; that year 3 girls took it as their occupations.
Development
Franco's dicatorship created lots of difficulties. They had to do it on a discreet way, otherwise the authorities could torture them, as what they were doings was illegal. therefore, They needed to organize lots of tricks. Nowadays, those students who have already grown, remember the abilities they developed in order not to be caught. For example, they did not go all of them at the same hours to class because otherwise 85 children going to the same place at the same time would have been very suspicious. In 1968 the ministry of education begin to consider it as Padre Raimundo Olabide school. This new status helped to improve this project so they stepped up the teacher's and facilities quantity. By 1972, 496 were the registered students. As the number of students rose, the number of buildings increased. They moved to the street "Estibalizko ama" with the aim of getting bigger and bigger. In 1973 they established their education project. In that year's January 24 the ministry of works accepted to create a cooperative. its name is Aita Raimundo Olabide, in which more than 360 families belong to. At the moment the cooperative was formed they started to take many decisions. They bought 20,000 square meters of land in Lasarte. They began to construct the installation, which nowadays is the school's main building where departments such as the office and the sickbay are located. They inaugurated it on 19 April 1972. Nowadays it is the biggest school in Alava. Afterwards, cultural and sports clubs were set up. They intend to encourage after school activities. In 1983 they inaugurated the new installation named Zelaia in order to attend to all their demand. They decided that name because Juan Zelaia was one of the men who contributed more to this project.
Symbol
The school's symbol represents the school's system. Easy to read, awesome and with plenty of meaning. On the one hand, the tree reflects the knowledge and the science. This tree contains two wide branches, which means that it is a bilingual school. On the other hand, there is a circle even if it is not drawn. That's where our imagination comes. During many centuries, the circle has meant equality, relative treatment and connection among different ideas. So, this is a way to transmit the school's dedication to teaching. At the bottom the name appears written on modern typography.
Festivals
Olabide Eguna (meaning Olabide's day) is celebrated on the first Sunday of June. The participants of the sports and culture clubs are responsible for it. They organize a wide range of activities. On that day, there is an option for everybody who wants to have lunch at school.
Awards
On the year 2010, Olabide Ikastola school has received the EFQM Excellence Model award from the European Foundation for Quality Management. Olabide has been a school which has increased on education and forming since it was created and that why Olabide school has won the excellence model award.