Expanding Each Student’s Knowledge

The extracurricular activity offering must be divided into several groups or areas: Art programs, Athletic programs, Language programs, Robotics programs, and Guidance and Academic Reinforcement programs.

Student’s Knowledge

In the different art programs students can learn to play an instrument in a didactic yet fun way, stimulating their coordination, logical and cognitive reasoning and self-confidence through music. In these programs, students can learn how to play the piano, violin, guitar, drums, and more. In addition to playing an instrument, students can also develop their vocal skills through singing lessons, furthermore providing them with the possibility of joining their school choir. Another form of artistic expression that is promoted in these art programs is painting, which offers students the possibility to improve their visual observation abilities as well as their creative skills. Through these activities, students are able to learn elementary painting techniques, such as composition, form and color. In these painting classes, students learn how to create works using water color, tempera, acrylic, and oil or pastel techniques.

Extracurricular athletic programs reinforce the idea that playing a sport helps promote students’ personal development, social relationships, companionship and physical endurance. Our schools need to offer many different athletic options such as football, indoor soccer, basketball, padel, fencing, swimming, figure skating and rhythmic gymnastics. Students begin learning each athletic discipline from the very foundation and throughout the school year are able to learn the fundamental tactics and techniques of the sport they have chosen. In some cases, teams must be formed to participate in internal competitions as well as municipal or regional leagues.

The language programs need to focus on the learning of one or several foreign languages. The aim is to provide each student with the tools they need to express themselves in another language in the most fluent way possible. This can be done by strengthening the areas of grammatical, oral, and written comprehension and expression.

Students who participate in robotics programs are able to carry out individual and group experiments that utilize innovative robot design and programming activities that involve working with mobility and sensor communication. In addition, these courses focus on the relationship between software and hardware that facilitates the operation of robots.

Guidance and Academic Reinforcement programs allow students to review the topics they are learning throughout the school year as well as answer any questions they may have regarding the material they learned in class. A mental development course, which is aimed at children from five to thirteen years old, which enhances students’ intelligence through an educational program that involves calculation activities using an abacus, mental arithmetic and didactic games, benefits the students in a bigger way.