Our mission and vision

Our mission

We provide a positive, meaningful, and challenging learning environment. Children are encouraged to use imagination and creativity to explore the rapidly changing world. We create a safe environment that enables the children to become responsible learners, communicators, collaborators, and respectful global citizens.

Children feel free to explore their academic and personal identities in an environment that respects and values our diversity, multiculturalism and multilingualism.

Our vision and key values

WE HAVE AN INQUISITIVE MIND

We use imagination and creativity to explore our world, accept challenges and take risks. We search for a wide variety of learning opportunities. We choose how we demonstrate our learning in a varied manner, such as group work, art activities, role play, multimedia, projects and much more.

WE ARE COMMUNICATIVE AND COLLABORATIVE LEARNERS

Our communicative skills illustrate our abilities, interests and opinions and are an integral part of our curricula. We discuss our skills, knowledge and understanding. We ask questions and give feedback to inspire, share and support each other.

WE ARE INTERNATIONALLY MINDED CITIZENS

We come from different countries and celebrate our identities and are one optimistic community. In every class we value each other’s beliefs and cultures, customs, and multilingualism.

We accomplish this by:

• Offering the International Primary Curriculum (IPC) with a focus on not only academic goals but also personal goals and international mindedness
• Offering learning strategies, inquiry-based classroom practises and self-reflection to promote student engagement, critical thinking and student ownership
• Providing differentiated education, where the individual needs of each student are considered to ensure that each student’s learning is unimpeded and all are challenged
• Offering the use of homelanguages. As a certified Language Friendly School our students can use all their (home) languages, so they can fully express themselves, and to accelerate and deepen the understanding and acquisition of other languages such as English, our main language of instruction. We offer additional support in English for students who are not fluent in English yet as well as Dutch language and culture.
• Offering a positive learning environment within which safety, honesty, structure and creativity play a leading role, whilst encouraging cooperation between children, teachers and parents
• Celebrating diversity through the respect and appreciation of the various cultures represented in the school