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What is Bell-lloc?
Bell-lloc is run as a state-assisted private school at all of its educational stages: nursery school, primary, secondary and pre-university (Baccalaureate) levels.

Bell-lloc was founded in 1965 by a group of families who sought to make a contribution to the educational environment of Girona, through the creation of a college that offered academic excellence, in additional to individual character and an education based on Christian principles.

Mission
Bell-lloc seeks to educate and form well-rounded people who have a profound Christian sense of life, an education that develops all their intellectual capacities and an upbringing that allows them to forge a sense of self-determination, so facilitating the achievement of their own objectives, while aiming to help others, for the good of society as a whole.

In order to carry out this mission, Bell-lloc strives to offer its students a well-founded academic, human and spiritual training programme, one based on individualised attention and on the improvement of personal virtues. Bell-lloc is also characterised by the promotion of fluid communication with the parents of its pupils and with all those former students who have, at one time or another, passed through the school.

A Christian and Human Education
Bell-lloc offers its pupils an education inspired in a deeply-held sense of Christian life. This Christian ideal impregnates all facets of life at school and is experienced freely and naturally. From its creation, the families who founded Bell-lloc entrusted spiritual education at the school to the Prelature of Opus Dei. This relationship of the school with Opus Dei centres on appointing the teaching staff responsible for the subject of Religion and offering chaplaincy services to parents, pupils and teachers alike. The school chaplaincy service comprises priests from the prelature of Opus Dei, and offers spiritual attention to people who freely request it. The pastoral activity of the school priests is a contribution to the evangelization process of the Diocese of Girona. One of the priests at the school celebrates the Eucharist every day in the school chapel. Attendance at Mass is voluntary. To find out more about Opus Dei http://opusdei.uk/en-uk/

Personalised Education
At Bell-lloc we are aware that each student is unique. The school offers a comprehensive education that adapts to the talents and individual characteristics of each student. At Bell-lloc, after having obtained parental approval, we assign a personal tutor (known as a preceptor) to each student in order to help each pupil with their own needs. This figure is one of the student’s own teachers, who is chosen to meet the needs of the pupil’s educational stage. The personal tutor is the main communication link between the parents and the school. Pupil-preceptor meetings take place at least once a month, and parents may request an interview with him whenever they need to. As a general rule, interviews between personal tutors and parents take place on a quarterly basis.

The Bell-lloc Parents’ Association
The main functions of the AMPA parents’ association are:​ To support parents, teachers and students, and also the governing bodies of the centre in everything that contributes to improving the quality of the education that our children receive. To organize and manage the reserve fund of books and uniforms. To promote and organize fund-raising activities for charities. To defend the co-financed school model. To manage and administrate those resources provided by the partners.

Facilities
Bell-lloc has the right classroom/facilities to meet the needs of every educational stage. In addition, the school spacious areas designed for use in outdoor sports, as well as an Indoor Multi-Sport Pavilion, Laboratories, Computer and Robotics classrooms, a Library, an Oratory, a Conference Hall and an Aula Magna. The school also has its own kitchen service, which daily provides meals for all the students.