VDS fosters work, study and perseverance as fundamental to succeed in the teaching-learning process.
We are deeply convinced that success is achieved by constant work in the classrooms. Our school policy of permanent professional training in innovative education methodologies together with adequate resources and the latest technology enables our highly qualified teaching staff to stimulate pupils and promote their interest for the outside world.
Our school facilities provide pupils with state-of-the-art tools. Each classroom is equipped with a computer, a screen and a digital projector. Children have free and wide access to a library, which has a collection of titles both in English and in Spanish and a range of didactic materials. The I.T. Lab and interactive whiteboards also enrich the learning process. Our school also provides advisory support by a Psychopedagogical Department
The school environment nurtures individual development, autonomy, critical thinking and sportsmanship and strives for the continual improvement in the quality of teaching and learning. We offer a first class bilingual education, whilst paying special attention to the formation and development of children´s characters through sports such as athletics, swimming, hockey and rugby. Our rigorous education seeks to instill strong social and ethical values and character integrity to bring out the full potential of each one of our pupils and foster an integral development that allows them to grow and become part of the community as responsible global citizens.
To this end, our school delivers a curriculum of high standards. The Spanish curriculum is particularly aimed at fostering reading habits in our pupils. Classwork promotes the development of curriculum in the different areas: Language, Maths, Science, Music, Art and Technology (Lego Project). The English curriculum is designed so that our pupils not only become proficient users of the language, but also acquire academic knowledge in the field of Science, Computing, Literature, History and Literacy. Having proficient and avid bilingual readers is one of our goals. The exposure to quality reading material provides children with an invaluable opportunity to enrich their vocabulary, as well as being exposed to different literary styles. As from 3rd form they have Drama as a yearly special subject at the end of which an Annual Concert is held. Music also helps to enhance their vocabulary, fluency and mastery of the language.
The integrated curriculum we have developed fulfills the requirements of the Argentine system and adds the rigor of the London University and Cambridge University International Exams.
We combine a respect for tradition with a forward looking approach to education, offering the necessary framework that meets children´s several needs, in line with an integral education, in our mission to contribute towards a better world to embrace different cultures.
