Our Schools

In our schools Open Learning, each child is a unique individual and should be treated as such. We are not interested in conventional school standards of age, grade, or gender. What matters to us are the child’s interests, needs, and discovering and encouraging their aptitudes and potential, always respecting history and culture.

Here, learning is done together, in the exchange of experiences, ideas, tastes, and dreams.

More important than learning, is how to learn.

Open Learning Manifest

Our Schools in Portugal

“Knowledge is power, Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.”

- Kofi Annan

Learning with projects

Learning takes place through projects of interest to the children. Those who like music can literally build and play a flute. This way, they will learn math, physics, geometry, and even English!

A study plan is developed together with the tutor, who closely follows and guides the learning evolution, not limiting it to the contents required by the International Curriculum.

Your children will face unlimited learning opportunities. This way, they develop much faster, in an easy, interesting and motivating way. They develop enthusiastically and, above all, happily.

“Education does not change the world. Education changes people. People transform the world.” – Paulo Freire

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Our objectives

In today’s world, having access to information is easy. What is difficult is being able to filter it. Our main goal is that children learn how to learn and feel motivated to pursue knowledge with initiative, creativity, and responsibility. Without putting chains on learning, we want everyone to feel free to discover their potential and develop the best version of themselves.

Operation

In our open learning model, there is no formal class structure or division into grades and classes. Knowledge is generated individually or in groups, using varied resources such as books, grammar books, videos, computers, and much more!

The International Curriculum is the learning reference, but each student builds his or her own study plan based on interests and needs. Every day, the children reflect together with the tutors on what they have assimilated and receive new guidelines for the continuity of the learning process.

Evaluation System

Performance evaluation at Open Learning is continuous. Here, everything that the child produces – reports, research, assignments – is part of the evaluation process. It is conducted by the tutor, who accompanies, guides, and examines everyday activities.

For us, what matters is the consistency of learning, to understand how each child evolves in the multiple dimensions of their educational experience: in affectivity, socialization, self-knowledge, creativity, ethics, and autonomy.

In Open Learning, everything counts.