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WELCOME TO MADRID

COMUNIDAD DE MADRID

Dear Language Assistants,

 First of all, I would like to give you a warm welcome to the Region of Madrid.

For the next ten months you will be working in schools located in this region, and many of you will be part of the Bilingual Programme which I, as the Regional Minister of Education, am extremely proud of. The Region of Madrid is deeply committed to the Bilingual Project in our primary and secondary schools, and we have become a point of reference, not only for the rest of the regions in Spain, but for Europe, as well.                                             

The European Union, within the framework of the Lisbon Strategy, has established that one of the most important aims for 2010 should be to make education and vocational training accessible worldwide. Consequently, promoting the learning of foreign languages, increasing mobility, exchanges and reinforcing European cooperation is a now a priority.

The Region of Madrid is fully aware of this, as well as of the importance of knowing other languages used in the work force and professional world, and in response, proceeded to implement this Programme in 2004. Our experience over the last six years has proven to us that the Language Assistants are an essential part of the Programme. Your work and your presence in the classrooms of our schools make it possible for the children and the young people of Madrid to learn your language in a personal and direct way. Furthermore, it allows them to learn about your culture, your traditions and your lifestyles. This experience enriches us all; you, the teachers and the school community as a whole.

The number of Language Assistants in the Region of Madrid increases every year, mainly because there are now, at the beginning of the 2011-2012 school year, more than 276 schools taking part in the Programme

This school year bilingual education will also be implemented in 36 Secondary Schools.

In the Region of Madrid there are already more than 1000 young people from the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland, Great Britain, New Zealand, France, Belgium, Germany, Austria and Italy working in our Public Infant, Primary and Secondary Schools.

This Language Assistants Guide is intended to be a source of information to you. It is essential that you have a document which provides you with information about how the Language Assistant Programme works, and which will help the Language Assistants, as well as their schools. I wish you all a great school year in which you are surely going to give the best of yourselves, while enjoying our region and the city of Madrid, too.

Thank you very much,

Lucía Figar de Lacalle

Regional Minister of the Region of Madrid

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