High Quality Teaching & Learning
High-quality learning is an engaging and challenging process stemming from our natural curiosity. It builds on the learners’ prior knowledge and experiences in order to transport them from the known to the new. It occurs in a safe and supportive environment that facilitates academic, social and emotional growth, stimulating and empowering learners to become active participants in their own learning. It is a transdisciplinary journey that requires differentiation and ownership while allowing all stakeholders to develop a greater level of skill, knowledge and understanding.
What makes us different ?
Emotional Intelligence
To understand and manage emotions, our students are immersed in social- emotional learning programs and curricula throughout their studies. Social-emotional learning enhances one’s self-awareness,
self-management, decision-making and resilience from Early Childhood to Lower & Upper Elementary School and to Middle & High School.
Low Student – Teacher Ratio
Verita classes have an impressively low student-teacher ratio of 1:9. Small class size and our inspiring and highly qualified teaching faculty ensure that students get independent attention and tailor-made differentiated support from Nursery, Kindergarten, and up to Primary & Secondary.
Service Learning Projects
Verita students must participate in meaningful community service which exposes them to active engagement within communities or environments in need. Using curriculum objectives and innovative approaches our students work on real-world problems.
Inquiry-Based Learning
A teaching approach that builds on the idea that educators and students both share responsibility for learning. Students’ questions, ideas and observations are at the centre of the learning experience. Inquiry methodologies require students to engage in evidence-based reasoning, learning by doing and creative problem-solving.
Well-Being
Verita actively builds internal programs that promote student and staff wellbeing. We ensure a space where students feel physically and emotionally safe with a caring adult looking after the progress and acting as an advocate for each child. Most importantly, we ensure that kindness is the centre of everything we do.
Student Agency
It boils down to creating skills in students where they build their own self-directed learning abilities and strategies which allow them to develop a higher degree of autonomy and self-mastery. Student agency is ‘The ability of students to act independently within a given environment and assume an amount of control and empowerment”
Curriculum, Accreditation & Memberships
Verita is an International Kindergarten & School in Bucharest, Romania fully accredited CIS, IBDP and COBIS. We use the National Curriculum of England & Wales as the core curriculum and educational foundation for our students. Through Fieldwork Frameworks of Inquiry (IEYC, IPC, and IMYC) and the Social-Emotional curriculum (SEE), we are not only enhancing learning, but we bring the curriculum to life. Our High School educational program is accredited for IGCSE and IB Diploma Program. Our membership networks enhance our teaching and learning by making us part of a global community of schools committed to educating learners.
COBIS Patron’s Accredited Member
The Council of British International Schools (COBIS) is a membership association that represents more than 450 schools and organisations, globally. Read more here.
International Baccalaureate
Verita International School is an authorized IB World School for the Diploma Programme. The IB DP programme is offered to students around the world aged 16 to 18. Read more here.
EDEXCEL – IGCSE
As the UK’s largest examination board, Edexcel is best placed to provide academic qualifications that are recognised as being closely aligned to the British educational system. Read more here.
CIS-Accredited School
Verita has achieved high standards of professional performance in international education and has a commitment to continuous improvement.
SEE Learning
SEE Learning is an innovative K-12 education program developed by Emory University. It provides educators with the tools they need to foster the development of emotional, social, and ethical intelligence for students and themselves. Read more here.
ARACIP
Verita is authorised by the Romanian Ministry of National Education – National Agency for Quality Assurance in Pre-University Education – ARACIP recognises Verita as a foreign school teaching the National English curricula in Romania.
International Curriculum Association
Verita has fully implemented the IEYC, IPC & IMYC comprehensive inquiry-based programmes which provide and promote robust academic learning through clear processes of teaching and with specific learning goals. Read more here.
MAP Testing
MAP Growth is the most trusted and innovative assessment for measuring achievement and growth in K–12 math, reading, language usage, and science. Read more here.
MoE - MANTLE OF THE EXPERT
Mantle of the Expert is an education approach that uses imaginary contexts to generate purposeful and engaging activities for learning. Read more here.
White Rose Math
The School follows the White Rose Maths schemes of work. The White Rose Maths Hub provides term by term overviews for the National Curriculum with the aim of supporting primary schools, and teachers. Read more here.
Road Map
Three Stages, One School
At Verita International School, students move seamlessly through three stages of discovery, from Early Years to a Secondary School diploma. Many parents and students have aspirations of admissions to overseas universities, so we have selected curriculums with preuniversity international programmes that are widely recognised globally: IGCSE Accreditation for Year 10 & 11 and IB School accredited for the Diploma Program for Years 12 & 13.
Our well-rounded, globally benchmarked curriculum is designed to inspire mastery and excellence. By challenging and equipping students with deep knowledge, skills, and understanding we’re helping them become more confident in their intellectual abilities. Ultimately, the VIS course of study prepares students to be participants, not spectators, in the dynamic, exciting, and unpredictable world of the 21st century.
LEARNING TAPESTRY
THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION
Join us for a conference on educating the heart and mind
5-6 June 2024, Bucharest
This event is designed for change-makers to engage in a series of experiences that will provide them with the tools they need to create personal and systemic transformation. Participants will engage in a series of meaningful conversations with cutting-edge educators, international experts, researchers, storytellers, neuroscientists, and renowned authors.
We partner with Emory University’s Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics. Their programs under the Compassion Shift initiative – CBCT® (Cognitively Based Compassion Training) and SEE Learning® – provide tools for developing greater awareness, managing emotions, building resilience, harnessing compassion, and enhancing well-being.
Urania is a mother, parenting expert and author of books and online programs for parents, including the unique All About Parenting method.
Andreea is a child and family psychologist, expert in psychological assessment and therapeutic intervention with these age groups.
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