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About Us

John and John Academy

John and John Academy
 

John and John Academy is a small independent school, where students and teachers learn from one another and work closely with one another.
 

We offer plenty of opportunities beyond lectures and textbooks to get the experience you need to succeed , challenge and prepare students for success in school and beyond with inquiry, curiosity and wonder.

 

We are aiming to work with  children to make them go from the bottom of the ladder, step by step, to the top, mastering English as a foreign language

 

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Philosophy
 

Both Johns believe strongly that language is to be used in practice and that students should have the ability to speak English as well as read and write. To this end they place a great deal of emphasis on the spoken word in class, probably more than any other teachers in Banyoles.
 

As a private teachers the Johns work in small groups of between three and six for children and four to ten for adults. This way they can give individualised teaching and address themselves to the needs of the individual rather than in a big language school where the individual has to follow the needs of the school. Both Johns teach grammar in their own way and with more than fifty years combined experience  have a system of explaining a practical grammar to the Catalan student that gives the student guidelines for both written and spoken English. But they believe that the real test of the language is spoken and that most of the practice in class will be oral.

John Duran

John is from Newcastle in England where he grew up. On his mother’s side he is of Scottish descent and on his father’s Catalan and English which explains his surname. He studied as a history teacher and also spent time as an Infantry Officer with the British Army where he practised teaching soldiers many and varied things.
 
He came to Catalonia in 1986 for a holiday and met his future partner, and decided to come to live in 1987. At first he worked in Girona for a language school for five years, and then in schools in Banyoles for three years before setting up on his own in 1994.
 
Since then he has taught independently at all levels from little ones to retired people, and is now an experienced language teacher.
 
He likes rugby and football and still follows Newcastle United when he can, but he is now a convinced ‘Cule’ and watches Barça as often as possible. When he can he likes to do sport and can often be seen running the paths around Banyoles or in the Club.

John Allen

John is from Madrid, where he spent part of his childhood. He studied Primaria in Nashville, Michigan, in the USA, where he learnt and got fluent in English. He came back to study ESO in Huesca but he loved Michigan and English so much that he went back to study Batxillerat there.


John loves music and art. He plays the handpan or “hang” (a convex steel drum played with the hands and tuned with multiple notes). He also studied acupuncture and makes jewelry, and loves to do Phytomedicine with medical plants.

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