Westminster International School is an IB World School that offers the IB Primary Years Programme for students from 3 to 12 years of age near Lucca and Florence, Italy. IB World Schools share a common philosophy about the nature of international education, which is expressed in the IB’s Mission statement and Westminster International School’s mission statement. Our community understands the important potential role of cultivating international-mindedness and intercultural awareness.
The small classes, assessment for learning, and reporting processes offered at Westminster ensure that our staff understand and regularly report the capabilities and needs of each student within a caring and outwardly focused international learning community. We offer you:
- Education in a community committed to developing the whole person: the mind, body, and spirit.
- A quality education taught in classes of no more than 14 students by qualified staff.
- An opportunity to maximize your child’s academic potential.
Westminster encourages the commitment of our community to build a strong and safe learning environment. Westminster gives students the opportunity and responsibility to challenge themselves, to seek and find answers, and to be accountable for excellent social and academic outcomes. Westminster aims to establish a personal set of values by learning experiences that relate to young people’s lives in school, home, and the outside world to help create a more peaceful and sustainable future for our planet and its inhabitants.
Westminster aims to meet the diverse needs of students by encouraging creative and critical thinking with challenging and stimulated assessment for learning given with the opportunities offered in the Primary Years Programme. Each student has the opportunity to excel. Westminster ethos values:
- The individual talents and worth of each student.
- Thinking and learning as life long capacities.
- The pursuit of academic excellence.
- Participation, striving and the achievement of one’s personal best in all endeavors.
- Openness and creativity.
- The emotional and social well-being of everyone in its community.
- Human and cultural diversity.
- An outward-looking perspective, both nationally and internationally.
- Being a safe and well-managed school.
