PAE of the Catalunya La Pedrera Foundation

Educational Mentoring Programme (PAE)

We contribute to the educational equity of children and adolescents by offering them the chance to access extracurricular support that enables them to achieve academic and personal success. As they acquire study and learning strategies, we also facilitate their emotional development and creativity by including dynamics in the activities that stimulate their innate curiosity, experimentation, expression of emotions, asking good questions and solving problems... These skills and competences promote their autonomy and prepare them for their future as adults.

We promote the educational success of children and adolescents by stimulating their emotional and creative skills.

We adapt to the changing scenario to continue helping children and adolescents in two ways

Face-to-face PAE for Primary and Secondary students

Activity carried out in various Social Spaces of the Foundation.

We provide time and space out of school or high school to do homework with the support of an educational team.

PAE face-to-face

Online PAE for ESO students

We emotionally support young people and help them optimize their distance study time, through telephone communication, video conferencing and email.

PAE online

The PAE's twofold commitment

We are committed to working with families and schools to help children and adolescents achieve educational success from a twofold perspective:

Academic or school success, by particularly focusing on learning the core competences: languages (Catalan, Spanish and English) and mathematics.

Personal and social success, by developing children's and adolescents’ talent and capacity for autonomy and personal initiative and helping them acquire emotional management and creative problem-solving skills.

What does the PAE offer?

Study support

We help students do their homework in small groups with the supervision of educators. We particularly reinforce the core competences (maths and languages), and we help them learn basic study skills and gradually gain more autonomy in learning how to learn.

Emotional education

We create a climate of interaction and trust among children and adolescents, and between them and educators, which enables us to help them learn personal competences like emotional self-regulation, self-confidence, motivation, empathy, positive conflict resolution and assertiveness.

PAE Emotional Education Guide

Creativity

We stimulate the curious, innovative spirit of children and adolescents through fun, motivating dynamics that help them learn to make new and original associations and connections, ask good questions and inquire, observe and experiment, all of this as they learn how to work together cooperatively.

Educational innovation

Educational mentoring programme (PAE) - Gamification

Gamification and educational games

We use play and create our own fun resources so that students and adolescents find learning an exciting, motivating and stimulating experience. The games and gamified activities allow a range of academic contents to be presented in a fun, appealing way and help students internalise study or healthy eating habits.

Mindfulness

We include mindfulness dynamics and exercises to improve students’ attention and concentration and foster emotional management. Regularly practising mindfulness contributes to lowering stress and improves children's and adolescents’ capacity for concentration and attention, and consequently their academic performance.

PAE Mindfulness Guide