Educating well-rounded individuals with knowledge and values
At La Salle, they firmly believe that the home, as well as the school, is a learning space where children, families, and teachers cultivate together the foundations of the future.
Choosing a school for your son or daughter's education is not an easy task, but a great shared responsibility. The African proverb says that it takes a village to raise a child, and that's absolutely true. Education begins with love, security, protection, trust, respect, tolerance, empathy, responsibility... everything we need to be good people with life skills. At school and at home, we all share the same goal: for our children to be happy, to stimulate their abilities to the fullest so they learn exponentially, and to become well-rounded individuals with strong values.
Five Pedagogical Principles
At La Salle, we have always had precisely these objectives, which we share with families. We work with dedication to be a leading institution that champions five pedagogical principles:
- The pedagogical principle of interiority, also understood as the care and well-being of students and the management of emotions, is very important for the natural development of all children's knowledge.
- Pedagogical principle of self-regulated behavior and activity. We work on autonomy and self-management, giving each student the tools to develop actions and tasks within a certain range, at their own pace, and taking into account their developmental process.
- MCM Pedagogical Principle (Mind, Body and Movement) adapting the didactic proposals to neuroeducation and respecting how the brain learns.
- Pedagogical principle of the construction of thought and metacognition, involving students in their own knowledge, as well as understanding mistakes as a learning opportunity, fostering curiosity, working from the scientific method and stimulating critical thinking, reasoning and the ability to transfer knowledge.
- Pedagogical principle of the social dimension of learning. We do cooperative work, in pairs, in teams, and also individually to foster positive interdependence (we need individual work to accomplish teamwork). We do cross-level activities so that students learn from each other, convinced that the teacher learns as much as the student.
Attention to diversity and adaptation period
The mission of La Salle is the education of children and young people with special sensitivity towards those most in need. This preference stems from our own character, the Lasallian charism. The educational community is responsible for offering the most appropriate creative responses to the needs of our students, whether due to deficiencies or to talents and high abilities. The adaptation to school is a crucial period, however, taking into account respect for the children, who need to be seen, establish a connection, and gain security with the spaces and the people who accompany them in this process.
Families, a key element
Understanding our students is very important to us. This understanding begins with the interviews we conduct with families before the start of the school year. It also begins with the relationships we establish with preschools: we build this bond of trust between professionals by organizing meetings, opening the school for initial contact, holding shared discussions, and making personalized visits, since, in our view, the 0-6 age group is highly interconnected.
Our families say that La Salle is their second home, that they find a very family-like atmosphere, and that there is a very close relationship, especially one of listening, to achieve a win-winIt's also a great school with many opportunities to develop talent and hobbiesOur school addresses the needs and challenges of the 21st century, such as multilingual learning and a dynamic, ever-evolving educational project called NCA (New Learning Context). All our students appreciate the wide range of extracurricular activities and the opportunity to enjoy exceptional facilities, rich in stimuli and designed to enhance the learning environment. Therefore, what is important to us and to the families is that children feel a sense of belonging to the school, like a second home. One of our priorities is the well-being of the children, and we have a dedicated and committed faculty, which is reflected in the positive school atmosphere and the consistent success we achieve year after year.
