Amigos School
Encyclopedia
The Amigos School is a dual-language bilingual
primary school in Cambridge, Massachusetts
, United States
. The Spanish-immersion
program began in 1986 at the Maynard School and became an autonomous school within the Cambridge Public School District in 2001.
The program became an autonomous school within the Kennedy School building in 2001 by a vote of the Cambridge School Committee. Marla Pérez-Selles, assistant director of the Cambridge Public School District's bilingual program, was appointed the first principal of the school.
Bilingual students housed at the Longfellow School were incorporated with Amigos in 2002 and in the 2003-04 academic year, as a result of the School Consolidation Plan passed by the Cambridge School Committee, the Amigos School moved to the King School building.
The school enjoys a high level of community involvement in day-to-day activities at the school, such as "reading buddies" that visit the school weekly to read aloud to students.
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Bilingual education
Bilingual education involves teaching academic content in two languages, in a native and secondary language with varying amounts of each language used in accordance with the program model.-Bilingual education program models:...
primary school in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...
, United States
United States
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. The Spanish-immersion
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
program began in 1986 at the Maynard School and became an autonomous school within the Cambridge Public School District in 2001.
History
The Amigos School began as a Spanish immersion program in 1986 at the Maynard School. During the 1990s it outgrew its allotted space at the Maynard building, housing its K-3 students at Maynard and grades 4-8 at the Robert F. Kennedy School building until the grades were consolidated at Kennedy.The program became an autonomous school within the Kennedy School building in 2001 by a vote of the Cambridge School Committee. Marla Pérez-Selles, assistant director of the Cambridge Public School District's bilingual program, was appointed the first principal of the school.
Bilingual students housed at the Longfellow School were incorporated with Amigos in 2002 and in the 2003-04 academic year, as a result of the School Consolidation Plan passed by the Cambridge School Committee, the Amigos School moved to the King School building.
Curriculum
The Amigos School uses a dual-language immersion model, which gives students half of their instruction in one language and half in another language.The school enjoys a high level of community involvement in day-to-day activities at the school, such as "reading buddies" that visit the school weekly to read aloud to students.
Extracurricular activities
After school programs offered to the community and students of the Amigos and King Schools include Artes Por Las Tardes, Science Club for Girls, and classes sponsored by the Cambridge Performance Project. The school also has a CitySproutsCitySprouts
CitySprouts is a 501 nonprofit organization based in Cambridge, Massachusetts that partners with public school teachers and other school staff to develop outdoor classrooms and gardens in local school yards...
garden.