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ABOUT US<\/h2>\n

Anticipate the future<\/b>: this is the formula that characterises our teaching method. A serious school open to innovation with strong roots in our cultural tradition, that is attentive to the problems of everyone and ready to <\/span>listen<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

We are a Catholic-oriented secular school that wishes to offer its students a mixed environment, as they will encounter in the social context.<\/p>\n

We are convinced that the independence <\/b>of educational institutes is a necessary condition for the effective exercise of freedom, pluralism of education and schooling as established by the Constitution. We strive to ensure that the application of independence offers the students a valid service based on the primacy of the person <\/b>and at the same time provides them with a civic education so that they become free, mature, honest and responsible citizens,<\/b> with their own critical capacity.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Our history<\/h2>\n

Our school has a history and experience of 70 years. It was founded in 1947<\/strong> in Milan and immediately became an influential point of reference in view of the educational proposals that anticipated the needs of modern culture<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Between 1970 and 1990<\/strong> the school organised the educational offer establishing the bilingual Italian\/English <\/strong>elementary school, middle school with two foreign languages and the innovative European High School<\/strong>. In 2000 it became a State recognised private school with ISO 9001 quality certification and opened a second school in via Arena<\/strong> for kindergarten and first and second grades of primary.<\/p>\n

From 2010<\/strong> the school began the process of internationalisation<\/strong> of the European High School, the teaching of English from kindergarten, the international acknowledgement and certification starting with the Cambridge International Examinations.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In addition, we ensure information technology updates for all studies as well as the possibility of attaining the ECDL certificate.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

TEACHING METHOD<\/h2>\n

The objectives that our school pursues are based on the fundamental principles of a civil society in continuous evolution, characterised by the need to:<\/p>\n