SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMME REWARDED BY THE BRITISH SCHOOL OF VALENCIA.

Since our beginnings, our philosophy has been to offer our students both the opportunity to study in English from a very young age in a unique environment and to ensure a personal and caring education of the highest order.  It is obvious that for the latter to succeed it is very important and even crucial the cooperation and commitment of the students themselves, especially in the later stages of their education.  For many years now we have wanted to find a way to recognise and reward this effort, commitment and high academic level that many of out students display.  Now that we have the information from our previous graduating classes we are now able to put a reward system into practice.

There are many different and varied forms of programme these days and we have decided to join many other centres and universities, both private and public, national and international, in setting up a scholarship which publicly recognises the hard work of students and at the same time rewards an economic aid in the form of a grant for their continued studies.

For the first time, this year the British School of Valencia, with put into practice a Scholarship for Academic Excellence for our students to recognise the effort, continuous work and academic results demonstrated throughout the school year.  This programme it designed for the students in years 11 and 12.

This award consists of, on one hand the recognition of the student’s academic merit both in school and in the wider community through the web page, and on the other hand a prize consisting of a reduction of 50% of the tuition fees for the student for the academic year in question.  This will be applied monthly to the school fees from September to June in the school year after the prize is awarded.

The winners of the scholarship will be made known during the last week of August and the first week of September when the results of the IGCSE and GCE have been received.

The British School of Valencia will award one scholarship for academic excellence in Year 11 and another in Year 12, and he/she will be chosen for the highest academic attainment of the students who fulfil the requisites of the prize.  These requisites are as follows:

1. The candidate should have studied for the first time one of the year groups eligible for the award, Year 11 or Year 12.
2. Should have passed all subject areas in both the British Curriculum and the Spanish curriculum taken in the relevant year group 11 or 12.  The accreditation of the British subjects will be subject to the results obtained in the official exams from the subsequent examination boards (University of Cambridge, EDEXCEL y AQA).
3. Must have obtained a minimum of five A or A* grades in IGCSE (Year 11) or two A grades at AS or AL (GCE/Year 12).
4. In the case of Year 11, the candidate must have obtained the International Certificate of  Education (ICE) awarded by the University of Cambridge (all of our students are eligible) with the grade of distinction.
5. The candidate must have obtained an overall grade corresponding to or above (in the case of Year 11)  an 8.5.  This will be calculated using the results from the British Curriculum subjects and the results of the Spanish subject areas.  This process and calculation is done using the conversion tables from the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), the official organisation for the calculation of overall grades for students studying in international schools in Spain.  In the case of Year 12, the students must have obtained a minimum of 300 UCAS points in the GCE exams taken at the end of this year.
6. A student who has received the scholarship in Year 11 and is also eligible for the award in Year 12 may receive a special award similar to the one already received but allowing the school to continue awarding the scholarship to the student with the second highest academic results in Year 12.