The Secondary School curriculum of Villa Devoto School aims to develop creative, inquiring and community- engaged young citizens with the ability not only to take a critical stance towards their immediate reality but also to identify opportunities to apply their acquired disciplinary knowledge and strategies for the service of society.
VDS endeavours to promote honesty, autonomy and solidarity as the core tenets of its Values Education programme which strives to engender respect for diversity and to foster personal and social responsibility in students.
Content-area departments, the Guidance Teacher and the Youth Service Learning programmes plus the Psychopedagogical Department are just but a few resources which exemplify the scaffolding structure which effectively supports the learning processes of students in order to achieve the goals at each level.
Villa Devoto School also offers a specially devised school curriculum which meets the requirements of both national and international qualification frameworks. Just as the national statutory guidance documents outline, there is a foundation stage which comprises the first three years of Secondary School education. At the end of Senior III, VDS students have the chance to obtain the first international qualification: the International General Certificates for Secondary Education (IGCSE) issued by the University of Cambridge.
The second international qualification VDS offers is the International Baccalaureate Bilingual Diploma issued by the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) located in Switzerland. It crowns a challenging two-year course of studies which successfully acquaints the students with the academic demands of universities both at home and overseas.
The enhancement of language proficiency is also a goal of paramount importance since the level of development and refinement of the students’ skills in both Spanish as a mother tongue and English as a second language should be aligned with the aforementioned academic pursuits.
There is also a five-year French acquisition programme which enables students to use this language in everyday social exchanges and situations. Once again students at VDS may measure their progress by sitting the DELF exams at the Alliance Française in Buenos Aires.
Since Villa Devoto School is committed to a broadly-based education, students frequently participate in various artistic and scientific events which nurture their preparation for life beyond school.
As regards sporting activities, students take part in interschool tournaments in national and international venues. They have the chance to show their athletic abilities in football, hockey, volleyball and rugby events in teenage-friendly environments and in compliance with the principles of fair play.
VDSchool poses its Secondary School curriculum at the interface between tradition and innovation and considers collaborative work, ongoing professional development and values as the fundamental constituents of quality education.
