With the start of the new school year, Belgrano Day School shares the pedagogical and philosophical guidelines that will steer its institutional project during 2025 in Kinder, Primary, and Middle & Senior. From an integral and collaborative perspective, the focus will be on supporting each student’s development as the protagonist of their own learning process, within a community open to the world that learns, innovates, and grows together.
Kinder: play, empathy, and meaningful learning
In Early Years, 2025 began with an ambitious undertaking: the implementation of the Cambridge Early Years (CEY) Programme, centered on play as the core of learning, with a holistic curriculum that promotes independence, decision-making, confidence, and self-esteem within a bilingual framework.
“This year we aim to continue honoring BDS traditions while focusing on innovation in our teaching practices. ‘Play the game,’ says our motto Fac Recte, and this time we are embarking on a proposal that brings us more of what we already do well, to do it even better,” explained Estela Fothy, Head of Kinder.
The focus will also be on social skills as the foundation for building strong bonds and empathetic relationships, as set out in CEY’s Key Principle No. 10, which holds that social learning is essential to a child’s development. In this sense, the value of the “meaningful connections” that arise from everyday interaction with peers, teachers, and families is highlighted.
In turn, the new curricular design for the 4- and 5-year-old classrooms will also set the direction, with an emphasis on skills such as communication, critical and reflective thinking, collaboration, and play as the central cultural practice of learning.
Primary: active learning, identity, and community
In Primary, the year began with the challenge of deepening increasingly active learning, where students are the protagonists, critical thinkers, and builders of meaning.
“Our mission, more than teaching, is to encourage our students to discover, investigate, create, and take ownership of their own development. Foundational learning — communication and logical-mathematical thinking — is a priority, but so are the skills for learning how to learn,” said Andrea Pelliccia, Head of Primary.
Innovation is a fundamental part of BDS’s DNA, and artificial intelligence is already a reality in Primary through various student projects. But the focus is on how it is taught: from a perspective that trusts students’ ability to think for themselves and recognize their own place in their learning process.
In addition, the social-emotional and school wellbeing area remains a cross-cutting focus. Building community, creating spaces of respect and collaboration with families, and fostering a safe and caring school environment are central goals of our approach. The ideals and traditions that frame our institutional project remain present, and we revisit them to adapt them to 2025.
Middle & Senior: autonomy, leadership, and a global outlook
In Secondary School, 2025 brings important developments, among them the start of the authorization process to become part of the International Baccalaureate Organisation (IBO), a step that reaffirms the global outlook of BDS’s educational model.
“This year we are beginning the authorization process to become part of the International Baccalaureate Organisation in 2026. We are very pleased, as this is a step that allows us to keep advancing our commitment to a global education centered on students as the protagonists of their own learning,” said Enzo Speranza, Head of Middle & Senior.
The year will also be marked by strengthening the Learner Centered model, which aims to place students at the center of their own learning. In addition, the Cambridge International curriculum will continue to be deepened, with a growing number of candidates, better results, and improvements to dedicated spaces such as Cambridge Time in Senior 6 and the Autonomous Learning Period in Middle 1.
Work will also continue on consolidating BDS’s institutional values, promoting teamwork, consistency in institutional guidelines, and strengthening the IDEALS of Round Square.
Belgrano Day School is thus committing to a 2025 where innovation, identity, and the school community come together to shape people who are engaged with their surroundings and prepared for a world in constant transformation.
