WHO WE ARE
DIRECTOR'S GREETING
As head director of “La Inmaculada” School of Alcorcón – Jesus Secular Missionaries Institute – I welcome you to invite to know our school through this website. Our website aims to be a virtual window from which you can access our facilities, our educational-pastoral project and our pedagogical model.
Our center makes an educational proposal, deeply Christian, focused on the student and his learning. We want this learning to be integral, using all the pedagogical tools at our disposal. Accompaniment, follow-up and collaboration with families are distinctive signs of our school.
All those who are part of the educational community and those who, by chance or interest, have come to our “house” are invited to this web page. We hope you all find what you were looking for.
OUR IDENTITY
Colegio La Inmaculada is a Catholic, state-funded, privately-owned school which serves boys and girls from 3 to 18 years old, from Kindergarten through Secondary Education. The ethos of the school corresponds to its charisma, understanding that the main purpose of its mission is life in all its plenitude.
The mission at Colegio La Inmaculada is to prepare students to be competent in 21st century society, through the values offered by a Christian formation with its own unique identity that is developed through an educational philosophy based on:
- The development of the whole person.
- A strong focus on ethics.
- A sense of the transcendental experience, making possible the encounter with Christ.
- The social dimension cemented in Christian commitment.
OUR EDUCATIONAL PROJECT
Our identity is realized through an educational project that:
- Develops Gospel and human values with a quality education, based on direct and personalized contact with each one of our students and their families.
- Focuses on the integral education of students in all areas of life.
- Embraces diversity and uses engaging methodologies that facilitate learning.
- Encourages creative abilities and a critical spirit.
- Is based on respect and coexistence.
OUR ORIGINS: Father Simón and the missionaires
Father Simon López Sanz (1902-1980)
Father Simon was the founder of the “Misioneras Seculares de Jesús Obrero (MSJO)” Institute in 1955.
If something defines Father Simón’s life, it is his unconditional dedication to the evangelizing mission and the kindness with which he carried out his priestly ministry. It was at all times the charity of Christ that drove his apostolic action leading him to focus on the poorest in his mission and be concerned with their material and spiritual needs. To those who came to him, he was a great spiritual guide who offered creative solutions, albeit risky at that time, to meet the needs of his city and its people.
Father Simón stood out because of his intellectual prowess, obtaining several doctoral degrees. From the very beginning, however, he brought his pastoral ministry to the most poor and humble. After twenty years in the priesthood, he was named Pastor of San José in Barakaldo. It was there where he saw up close the life of the working class, its material and spiritual needs as well as its virtues of dedication, work and sacrifice. From that experience, he focused his life on service to the disadvantaged.
He was aware of the changes of the time and realized the fundamental value of the lay population in an ever changing world in danger of growing secularization. For that reason he worked as a spiritual guide, for lay people to have an evangelizing role in daily life. In response to the needs of the poor, he organized the “Misioneras Seculares de Jesús Obrero (MSJO)” Institute for the purpose of evangelizing them.
He was innovative in adapting the message of the Gospel to the new times, especially to the working environment, and he made sure that the message and the joy of the Gospel would be communicated to the people through the most modern means of communication: radio, newspapers and cinema.
Such dedication to his work weakened his heart and he eventually died of a heart attack in 1980.
The “Misioneras Seculares de Jesús Obrero”
The “Misioneras Seculares de Jesús Obrero (MSJO)” is a secular institute founded by Father Simón López Sanz, which intends to transform the world from within through the strength of the Beatitudes. The charismatic personality of Father Simón is expressed in the motto “The charity of Jesus Christ compels us to evangelize the most disadvantaged”, understanding poverty in all of its dimensions, whether material, spiritual or intellectual.
Colegio La Inmaculada is a Catholic, state-funded, privately-owned school which serves boys and girls from 3 to 18 years old, from Kindergarten through Secondary Education. The ethos of the school corresponds to its charisma, understanding that the main purpose of its mission is life in all its plenitude.
Our school, Colegio La Inmaculada, started its educational work in the neighborhood of San José de Valderas (Alcorcón) in 1964.
