Chess
Monday 16:00 to 17:00 for Primary students and children born in 2018
Children benefit from chess by gaining valuable skills such as problem solving, spatial awareness, planning and foresight, reading, and math skills. With over 500 students in 25 schools throughout Valencia, La Escuela De Ajedrez Pensamiento Audaz (EDAPA), is dedicated to teaching chess classes to primary and secondary school children of all levels. EDAPA has created their own workbooks, puzzles, playing cards, games etc. that are used in class along with the traditional chess games. These materials make the class highly social, dynamic, and engaging. At the school chess has proven to be extremely successful with children at all levels from beginners to regional champions.
Monthly Fee: €28
Drawing and painting
Tuesday 16:00 to 17:15 for Primary students
The drawing and painting class seeks to empower children to communicate, explore the world around them, represent and express themselves, work individually and in groups, stimulate their imagination and help their integral development.
Throughout the course, the children will draw, paint, construct, and deconstruct, using various materials (colored pencils, watercolor pencils, cardboard, markers, felt …) but, above all they are going to have fun playing/experimenting and enhancing their creativity through art.
Primary school children are at the ideal age to delve more deeply into their artistic abilities. This class will help them find and generate alternative ideas to challenging creative problems, while finding ways to tolerate frustration better in their day-to-day lives.
Our teacher, Julia Muñoz has a degree in Fine Arts and has dedicated her career to professional graphic design and illustration, working for private companies and as a freelancer. Currently, she teaches drawing and painting to children, and teaches/works on artistic projects with students with disabilities.
Materials Fee (one time payment): €30 (non-refundable)
Monthly Fee: €38
Robotics for children
Wednesday 16:00 to 17:30 for Primary Students and children born in 2018
“Robótica para Niños” ( https://xn--roboticaparanios-kub.com/ ) for more than 7 years has been teaching robotics and programming to children in public and private schools throughout Valencia.
Robotic education is rooted in the STEM methodology (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). It integrates learning through various scientific disciplines, primarily through problem solving.
Students will learn the principles of programming by playing and experimenting. In each class, theoretical concepts are presented and later applied in the construction and programming of robot models from kits such as Lego WeDo, and Lego Mindstorms.
Monthly Fee (minimum 7 students to start the activity) €43
Theater and Puppetry
Wednesday 16:00-17:15 for Primary students
This mostly outdoor workshop aims to develop a wide range of communication skills through theater and its various forms, with a special emphasis on visual theater (puppets, shadow theater, theater with objects and materials) due to its universality in language and its ability to delve into the innate poetics and imagination of girls and boys.
The approach of this workshop is to guide the students as if they were embarking on a magical journey, where play serves as the primary tool and wellspring of inspiration. In this way, students will not only grasp theatrical concepts but also enhance both individual and collective self-esteem, fostering group cohesion and confidence. As well, diverse ways of conveying ideas and emotions will be explored, all while having fun. These experiences directly and positively influence students’ emotional management abilities and set the stage for healthy relationships with their environment, attentive listening, and respect.
Theater promotes multiple values and helps us understand ourselves, but it also allows us to work with multiple disciplines such as costumes, music, writing, the creation of sets or lighting, uncovering hidden talents. Similarly, puppets take on a vital role as a teaching tool, helping to simplify even the trickiest concepts and break down barriers that once seemed impossible to overcome. The manual and artistic elements involved in crafting puppets cultivate motor skills and concentration, simultaneously nurturing the symbolic universe within each participant. Though play remains the central goal, it will contribute to the creation of small projects that families can enjoy together.
The class is led by Nelo Sebastián, a versatile artist who wears many hats: actor, director, puppet maker, musician, and poet. He’s the driving force behind Vudú Teatro, his own theater company, and regularly collaborates with others throughout Europe. With a rich background, Nelo has always been keen on sharing his knowledge. He’s crafted an engaging path through various workshops and projects like “mitología de barrio,” “tras la sombra del objeto,” and “tu universo poético.” These workshops have unfolded in schools, associations, and a range of NGOs. Notably, his work has gained recognition from esteemed institutions like the University of Valencia and UNIMA International. His website is: www.vuduteatro.com
CONDITIONS:
Minimum: 6 children to start the activity
Clothing: Clothing for being outside
Rainy days: Indoor/covered spaces can be used
Materials Fee: €35 (non-refundable)
Monthly price: €42
Music
‘Music by Cordes’
Thursdays from 16:00-16:50 for Primary students and children born in 2018
Music is a universal language with which we are all capable of communicating and expressing ourselves. It is an art that combines several dimensions: body, mind, emotions and spirituality. It helps us connect with the present moment, discover our voice and body (as the first instrument we make sound with), improve memory, motor coordination, self-control, sensitivity as well as helping us to feel belonging to a group and express emotions and feelings.
Cordes Espai Educatiu has been providing music education to children from toddlers to adolescents (along with their families) for more than 10 years. In Alboraya, just north of Valencia, they offer many different classes: CORDES Babies workshop (0-3 years old), individual and group violin, viola, cello and piano classes using the Suzuki Method (from 4 years onwards), string orchestra, chamber music and solfege/musical language. The directors of this project are Elena Roig Martínez and Sergio Gil Gomes.
Description:
A weekly 45-minute workshop to explore and experience the five musical building blocks of children’s music education:
1) Auditory Education: Listen and recognize
● They experience in first person their own capacity to listen, to pay
attention and to be amazed at the phenomenon of sound.
● Awaken and develop their listening, concentration and attention skills.
● Acquire the ability to distinguish large and small contrasts of sound:
duration, intensity, timbre and height.
● Develop their ear and musical memory through songs…
● Gain an open attitude to everything that sounds.
2) Vocal Education: Speak and sing
● They will get to know and develop their own internal instrument…their
voice. They will learn the importance of breathing as well as the emotionality and expression associated with songs.
● Experiment and develop all the possibilities of the voice through: song, sound games and breathing exercises, articulation, improvisation,
relaxation and dramatization.
3) Rhythmic Education: Rhythm y movement
● They will experience their own quintessential percussion instrument…the
body. With free movement and dance, children will express their impulses and emotions.
● Developing their natural rhythmic sense through postural and movement
exercises: ordered rhythmic games, free rhythms, and dances.
● Learn and develop coordination and awareness of one’s own body.
● Develop spatial sense and orientation.
4) Instrumental games:
● They explore and experiment with different percussion instruments and
materials to create sounds. Everything that surrounds us can be an instrument through which we can express ourselves.
● Integrate new rhythms with body instruments and percussion.
5) Reading Music: Beginning musical staff reading and recognition of basic rhythms.
● Experiment and assimilate basic musical concepts: measures, rhythms,
pulse, musical figures (notes and rests), qualities of sound, note orderings,
major scales, major/minor mode, wide range of songs and intervals.
● Basic learning of musical writing: Beginning staff reading and understanding of the notes related to height, duration, timbre and intensity.
Recognition, reading and writing of:
● Notes of C Major in Treble Clef (introduced step by step)
● Quarter notes, 2 eighth notes, half notes etc…and their rests.
● Time signature of 2/4, 3⁄4 and 4/4.
● Understanding musical scores adapted to their reading level.
● “Musicogram” reading…
● Basic rhythmic, melodic and melodic-rhythmic dictations.
*DOSSIER provided by the teacher. Each student will have a notebook with plastic covers in music class that will be filled in class by class.
Method:
Presented through CURIOSITY and DIRECTED PLAY, the development of new skills happens through LISTENING, IMITATION, REPETITION and EXPERIMENTATION. The integration of new skills happens thanks to MOTIVATION (extrinsic at the beginning and then intrinsic later on). It is vital to share a PARTICIPATORY, COLLABORATIVE and DYNAMIC ATTITUDE during classes.
Elena Roig Martínez has been teaching early childhood music education workshops for more than 20 years in elementary, private and semi-private schools.
She connects very well with children aiming to awaken their curiosity and amazement at the sound of music in a natural way and as a game. She encourages the children to develop new skills by helping them discover their own tools and talents that allows them to express themselves from a standpoint of mutual respect and caring.
She also has a Diploma in Music Education Teaching, a Violin Degree and a Suzuki Level 5 Violin and Level 2 Viola Teacher.
Conditions:
Minimum: 6 children to start the activity, Maximum: ~10
Clothing: Comfortable clothing and non-slip socks.
Materials and Registration Fee: €35 (non-refundable)
Monthly price: €42
Tennis
Friday 16:00 to 17:00 for Primary students
Tennis is a great sport for children and is one that can be played throughout all stages of life. Not only does it benefit them physically, increasing fitness and hand-eye coordination, but it helps them psychologically by developing a good working attitude, sportsmanship, and cooperation with their peers.
Fran Caballer, our tennis pro, has over 20 years of experience teaching in the main tennis centers in Valencia, such as the Club Español de Tenis, Polideportivo de Rocafort, and Polideportivo de Godella. Additionally, Fran speaks French, Italian,
English, and Spanish.
Fran adapts the class to the level of the students and can work with up to 10 students per class. Children will develop their general fitness, tennis strokes, and combinations as they progress through various exercises and games.
All materials are provided for use during class such as tennis rackets, balls, cones, hoops etc.
Monthly Fee: €38
Activities open to the public
Tennis Classes for Children and Adults
Tennis for Children
Tennis is a great sport for children and is one that can be played throughout all stages of life. Not only does it benefit them physically, increasing fitness and hand-eye coordination, but it helps them psychologically by developing a good working attitude, sportsmanship, and cooperation with their peers.
Tennis is a great sport for children and is one that can be played throughout all stages of life. Not only does it benefit them physically, increasing fitness and hand-eye coordination, but it helps them psychologically by developing a good working attitude, sportsmanship, and cooperation with their peers.
Classes are adapted to the level of the children (up to 10 per class). Children will develop their general fitness, tennis strokes, and combinations as they progress through various exercises and games.
Tennis for Adults
Private classes with our tennis pro, Fran Caballer, upon request.
Private classes with our tennis pro, Fran Caballer, upon request.
Schedule:
Friday
Nivel Base: 17:00 to 18:00 (children from ~6 to 9 years old)
Nivel Intermedio: 18:00 to 19:00 (children from ~10 to 13 years old)
Friday
Nivel Base: 17:00 to 18:00 (children from ~6 to 9 years old)
Nivel Intermedio: 18:00 to 19:00 (children from ~10 to 13 years old)
Saturday
Private Classes and Groups upon request from 9:00 to 1:00 p.m.
Private Classes and Groups upon request from 9:00 to 1:00 p.m.
Prices:
Nivel Base and Intermedio: €35 and €40 per month (minimum 4 people)
Private Classes: €36 per hour (up to 3 people)
Private Group Classes: €40 per month (minimum 4 people)
Nivel Base and Intermedio: €35 and €40 per month (minimum 4 people)
Private Classes: €36 per hour (up to 3 people)
Private Group Classes: €40 per month (minimum 4 people)
Teacher:
Fran Caballer, our tennis pro, has over 20 years of experience teaching in the main tennis centers in Valencia, such as the Club Español de Tenis, Polideportivo de Rocafort, and Polideportivo de Godella. Additionally, Fran speaks French, Italian, English, and Spanish.
Fran Caballer, our tennis pro, has over 20 years of experience teaching in the main tennis centers in Valencia, such as the Club Español de Tenis, Polideportivo de Rocafort, and Polideportivo de Godella. Additionally, Fran speaks French, Italian, English, and Spanish.
