International School of Toulouse where over 500 children from Pre-Kindergarten to Grade 12 enjoy an education of the highest quality. Our curriculum offers the challenge of high expectations and the excitement of engaging learning experiences. We are a passionate learning community with technology at the forefront and a team of talented and dedicated faculty members. We actively seek to inspire and encourage students to maximize their abilities, develop open-mindedness and prepare them for the challenges of an increasingly mobile and interdependent world.
As an International School, we aim to create a friendly, safe, and supportive environment for our students whether benefiting from an IST education for one year or fifteen. We recognize the importance of maintaining a quality staff at IST and are committed to providing ongoing opportunities for development and creativity allowing us all to make the best use of our modern facilities and outstanding resources. As a team, we provide an inspiring, balanced, and innovative curriculum ensuring that each student achieves to the maximum of their ability. As a community, we celebrate and value our cultural diversity and we actively promote international-mindedness. Together we will enable our students to flourish as open-minded, confident, and independent young people with a lifelong desire to learn and the will to have a positive impact on the world around them.
As members of an IB World School, we strive to be Inquirers: We nurture our curiosity, developing skills for inquiry and research. We know how to learn independently and with others. We learn with enthusiasm and sustain our love of learning throughout life. Knowledgeable: We develop and use conceptual understanding, exploring knowledge across a range of disciplines. We engage with issues and ideas that have local and global significance. Thinkers: We use critical and creative thinking skills to analyze and take responsible action on complex problems. We exercise initiative in making reasoned, ethical decisions.
Communicators: We express ourselves confidently and creatively in more than one language and many ways. We collaborate effectively, listening carefully to the perspectives of other individuals and groups. Principled: We act with integrity and honesty, with a strong sense of fairness and justice, and with respect for the dignity and rights of people everywhere. We take responsibility for our actions and their consequences. Open-minded: We critically appreciate our own cultures and personal histories, as well as the values and traditions of others. We seek and evaluate a range of points of view, and we are willing to grow from the experience.
Caring: We show empathy, compassion, and respect. We commit to service, and we act to make a positive difference in the lives of others and the world around us. Risk-takers: We approach uncertainty with forethought and determination we work independently and cooperatively to explore new ideas and innovative strategies. We are resourceful and resilient in the face of challenges and change. Balanced: We understand the importance of balancing different aspects of our lives – intellectual, physical, and emotional – to achieve well-being for ourselves and others. We recognize our interdependence with other people and with the world in which we live. Reflective: We thoughtfully consider the world and our ideas and experience. We work to understand our strengths and weaknesses to support our learning and personal development.
As members of the IST community, we also strive to be Creative: We are open to the opinions and ideas of others and are not afraid to put forward our own. We make inventive connections between diverse sources with a keen desire to understand, use and build on the ideas we encounter. When faced with unexpected or challenging problems we use our imagination, intuition, and reason to question further and think deeper, pushing ourselves to reach new conclusions or solutions.
Resilient: We value perseverance and self-motivation. We are mindful and recognize the need for self-knowledge and self-awareness to help us face emotional, intellectual, and physical challenges. We know that to succeed we may first have to overcome a difficulty or even failure. This awareness is a positive source of motivation for us and we are eager to learn from our mistakes thereby improving our understanding, and furthering our skills and our knowledge.
