The Holy Mary Catholic School is based in Madrid near the Santiago Bernabeu football stadium. It was roughly a 10min walk from the santiago bernabeu metro stop.
The placement was an interesting experience, this school was a private catholic school. There are two aspects to the school, we were based in the Key Stage 1 we these was our preference. The teachers were very useful and they provided us with all the relavant information we required.
Below is the website we used to book our accomodation in 'Plaza De Castilla' which took 15 minutes to get to the placment Via Metro.
https://www.airbnb.co.uk/
The main method of transport used in Madrid was the Metro (cheapest), we brought a weekly ticket for 34 euro's
Whenever you go somwhere, make sure it is always in a group as there is alot of pick-pocketting especially on the Metro. Also ensure your bag is always in sight.
Things to do, things not to do
- Visit the Santiago Bernabeu football stadium
- Tour Bus
- Retiro Park
- Las Rozas Village (You need to get the bus from Moncloa metro stop, yellow line then get the bus to the village)
- La-latina market (every sunday)
- The Centro Cultural Islámico (Morrocan resturant inside the mosque)
-Holy Mary Catholic School
Condes del Val nº 12
Madrid 28036
Tel: 91 458 59 09
-Cheryl Young (point of contact)
- Travel FX- secure website we used to convert money into Euro's http://travelfx.co.uk/
- Insure&Go- insurance website we used , £19 per person (Silver package) http://www.insureandgo.com/
- Make duplicate copies of passport, insurance documents, flights, transfers and accomodation.
- Download English to Spanish convertor and dictionary (Limited english spoken in Madrid)
- Sun Transfers- http://www.suntransfers.com/ - used to book transfers from aiport to the apartment and back. (£23 pe person return)
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