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INSTITUTIONAL PROJECTS
United within Difference
United within Difference is one of our banner projects, which seeks to strengthen positive relations amongst students and to create strategies to prevent situations of bullying from happening. It has been the laboratory in which young students can experience insight to transform behaviors. This project emerged from a reflection about the painful experience of the Holocaust, and paying homage to the life of Anne Frank, a young girl whose life ended because of anti-semitism. This project has had a meaningful impact on students of this school and others. In 2012, this project won second place in Colombia in the XVIII Premio Santillana.
The Happier School Program
Interdisciplinary educational program whose purpose seeks to help the entire school community achieve higher levels of happiness. In today's world, students need to learn more than reading, writing and arithmetic. No less important is that they learn to find a sense of purpose, take care of their physical well-being, learn to grow from failure and adversity, foster healthy relationships, as well as deal with painful emotions and cultivate pleasurable ones. These skills and abilities will contribute to the overall psychological well-being of students, making them happier and playing a preventive role, decreasing the likelihood of mental health problems both in the present and in the future. Additionally, students will perform better academically and, later, professionally.
Math's Contest
The Emmy Amalie Noether math competition emerged from the idea of instituting some math olympics in a more familiar setting. Its intention has been proposing exercises for students from 4th to 12th grades, grouped by levels. This contest has also had the presence of students from other institutions
Family day
Family day - Iom Tzedaká (a day of social justice to help others.): This is an annual event in which all of our families are gathered for a full day of activities that aim at strengthening the relations within the educational community. The money raised that day is used to fund particular school projects.
Internationalization
Leads the processes of international certification and/or accreditation, promoting actions focused on the international positioning of the school. Additionally, manages and advises on international projects (trips, international university fairs, partnerships, among others).
JEWISH AREA
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Our calendar and school life are guided by the principles of Jewish culture, which offer a broad look at the world. This includes the celebration of festivities, knowledge of values and practices like debate, analysis or inquiry. These elements have been fundamental aspects of Judaism for over two thousand years, and added to them, we also use a variety of artistic expressions, seen from local and global perspectives.
Tu Bishvat
Tu Bishvat: This festivity is known as the New year of trees. We eat fruit, plant trees and reflect on our relationship with nature and how we need to protect it.
Purim
Purim: A woman called Ester is the main protagonist of this festivity, in which the Jewish community commemorates the salvation from the slaughter that their community were being subjected to under the rule of king Ajashverosh. It is a day of parades, costumes, joy, performances by the students, contests, food, presents to friends and to those in need.
Pesaj
Pésaj: A day of remembrance. A commemoration of the moment the Jewish people escaped from Egypt with the guidance of Moses. Some typical foods of this celebration are the matzá, grape juice, eaten in a seder (a meal with a specific order) in which we speak about freedom, we sing songs and read important texts from scripture.
Iom Hashoa
The students of sixth grade, and the ones from middle and high school, take part in a solemn act in which 6 torches are lit up to honor the memory of six million people (Jewish and people of other creeds) who died during the holocaust. As part of this commemoration, we read meaningful texts, testimonies and reflections on the importance of respect for difference.
Yom Hazikaron
The students of sixth grade, and the ones from middle and high school, take part in an act in which we pay homage to more than 23.800 soldiers who have fallen in wars in Israel, and to more than 3.000 victims of terrorism.
Iom Haatzmaut
All the students and staff celebrate the anniversary of the Independence of Israel, and the contributions of this country to humanity. We take this as a chance to remember the relations between Colombia and Israel.
Lag Baomer
We celebrate this festivity with bonfires, hikes, colorful shirts that resemble fire, and reflections about Shimon Bar Yohai. (a wise man remembered on this occasion)
Shavuot
We commemorate the Torá and the weeks since Pésaj with a special breakfast based on dairy products, which reminds us of the abundance in the land of Israel and our own rural areas.
Rosh Hashana
On this date we celebrate the creation of the world and the years since. We analyze the actions of the previous year, we ask for forgiveness from those we have wronged. We eat a seder (a meal in a specific order) with foods that symbolize abundance, leadership and well-being.
Yom Kippur
In the days before this solemn occasion, in which we do not attend school, we remember the importance of our actions, the importance of tzedaká (giving to others), repentment and the possibility to renew ourselves.
Kristallnacht
On 9th november, 1938, many stores, homes, synagogues and gathering places of the Jewish community were attacked in Europe.Since that day, the persecution intensified and the Holocaust took shape. That dark night is remembered with a tribute to books, in which our students present handcrafted books of their creation.
Hanukkah
In the Jewish culture classes, the teachers discuss with students the bravery of a few to defend their beliefs and traditions. This festivity may be held at our school, depending on the date in which it occurs every year.
SOCIAL STUDIES
School Government
It is the way in which we organize and establish relations within our educational community. In accordance with article 142 of Law 115 of 1994, and the articles 19 through 25 of decree number 1860 of 1994, it facilitates participation and democracy in the environment of a school.
Let's Be Leaders
This is an activity in which preschool children, with the guidance of their teachers and teacher assistants, get in touch with the possibility of electing a school government.
Mini ONU
This is a model of the United Nations, and serves as a space of reflection in which students become agents of change by analyzing problems that have national and international consequences. Then they come up with solutions that may have a positive impact on them.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Macabeadas Infantiles
A sporting event in which all the groups of elementary school participate in sports like football, basketball, swimming and track. For the elementary school Macabiadas, we also invite some guest schools to compete against our students. The event is held in our campus.
CTH Cup
A sports event in which all the groups of Middle and High school participate, in sports like football, basketball, volleyball, table tennis. At the CTH cup we have some guest schools that also play against our students.
After School Activities
Seeking a balance between being and knowing, children and young people develop their childhood and adolescence with joy and responsibility through activities that take place after classes. Some of them include soccer, basketball, volleyball, table tennis, chess, music, dance, theater, and visual art.
Sports and Cultural Club
Sports and recreational activities are a fundamental part of education. The uniqueness of each player and the ultimate unity of all form teams that showcase their skills with passion and heart. Some of the training modalities include: Baby sports, cooking, table tennis, cheerleading, artistic gymnastics, soccer, robotics, basketball, and volleyball.
Interclasses
A sports integration tournament that highlights physical skills, unity, and healthy competition.
MUSIC AREA
Theodoro Festival
Theodoro Festival: musical contest and institutional program in which there is a display of musical skills of children and students of Preschool, elementary and high school.
Musical
At the end of the school year, we produce a musical in which the students of all of our sections sing songs and perform choreographies, inspired on a theme, and guided by the Areas of Arts and Music. They offer families a show filled with color, different languages and fun.
SPANISH LANGUAGE
Today's story
It is a project that seeks to enhance the artistic and intellectual talents of students through the narration of a story and its staging. In this activity they exhibit their potential in body and voice management, and motivate their classmates to get to know staged works.
Craft Book
It is a writing program that fosters narrative and poetic creativity and divergent thinking. It also promotes graphic design and the use of hand-crafting skills to create books that are showcased at the end of Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass.