Colegio Tarbut
Jewish private school in Argentina
Colegio Tarbut (Hebrew: בית ספר תרבות) is a Jewish mixed-sex private school founded in 1961 in the city of Olivos, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It offers early childhood, primary, and secondary education.
The institution comprises a school in Olivos and two kindergartens in Belgrano and Tigre. Colegio Tarbut finished building a new secondary school in the Buenos Aires neighbourhood of Núñez, which opened in 2016.
Pedagogy
Colegio Tarbut is named after the Tarbut movement of humanistic Jewish education and has much in common with that movement's curricular philosophy. The school offers a trilingual education in which Hebrew, English, and Spanish are taught.
The focus on academics has ensured that the majority of the graduated students pursue university studies. The school offers their pupils the opportunity to obtain the IB Diploma Programme (IBDP) of the International Baccalaureate foundation, the PET (Preliminary English Test) examination and the IGCSE examination, both from Cambridge University.
In tenth grade, in secondary school, you can choose an orientation in order to give an IGCSE examination on that subject. The orientations include Visual Arts, Business Studies, Social Studies and since 2015, Science.
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