The curricular organisation of Kindergarten in the Brazilian Curriculum Framework is structured in five experience fields, within which the learning and development objectives are defined. The experience fields constitute a curricular arrangement that welcomes the concrete situations and experiences of the children’s daily lives and their knowledge, intertwining them with the knowledge that is part of the cultural heritage. The definition and denomination of the experience fields are related to the fundamental knowledge and the knowledge to be provided to children.
Elementary School is one of the pillars for the other stages of Basic Education. During this period, the child’s development is expanded academically, personally and socially. The child learns to read and to write, and mathematical and scientific principles, as well as the notion of space and time, are developed, in addition to the development of other languages, such as aesthetic, musical, technological, body, and verbal language, including German and English.
Middle School continues the organic and progressive set of essential learning experienced by students. This is where the work progression aimed at developing general skills in our young people, including abstraction and cognitive flexibility, begins. This process, combined with the deepening of the work done with the socioemotional skills of self-knowledge, self-care, an empathetic look at diversity, flexibility and resilience, guided by the development of a systemic view, integrates the content worked on in this stage of Basic Education.
High School is the final stage of Basic Education when our students improve and deepen their knowledge and start to outline their future paths by choosing the area of knowledge that is most attractive to them. Besides the General Basic Education, which is the same for all our students, High School offers elective learning advancement programmes and the opportunity to choose between English or German as the primary learning focus.
By choosing an Education Advancement Pathway, the students can prepare a theme project that will lead them to further studies and research in line with global perspectives, employing technological resources. In each project, the students will have, in addition to their teachers’ support, that of companies or universities offering mentoring programmes to help them develop their ideas innovatively. The Exhibition of Entrepreneurial Projects marks the project’s completion with presentations in different languages, covering research and innovation proposals and economically, socially, and environmentally relevant projects.
Choosing between English or German as the primary learning focus allows the students to tailor their education according to their preferences, goals and personal interests, making them ready for their academic and professional lives in a world that grows more interconnected and globalised by the day.