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Chile, Concepcion
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Promotes an education oriented toward developing competencies—knowledge, skills, and values—to prepare students for present and future life. Strengthens an ethical humanistic formation that guides personal, social, and professional commitment, contributing to full humanization. Develops high-quality thinking—critical, creative, and metacognitive—that enables transferring academic competencies to life outside school. Fosters decision-making that supports better insertion into the labor market, social environment, family, and academics. English is taught as a second language.
Elective programs include Music, Theatre, Visual Arts, Art and Crafts, Orchestra, Computing, and Indoor Games for Junior levels. Senior levels offer electives such as Música, Teatro, Artes Visuales, Deportes Varones, Ajedrez, Ciencia, and English and Mathematics reinforcement. The program supports creativity through both performing and visual arts and related interdisciplinary activities.
English is taught as a second language, with English reinforcement included in the elective program. The school conducts international study experiences, including an England study tour to broaden language and cultural understanding. Graduates are expected to communicate effectively in English and Spanish.
The Wessex School offers varied learning experiences beyond the classroom, including clubs, assemblies, electives, academic reinforcement, guidance, personal development days, assertive discipline, study trips, and a range of social, work, and monographic projects.
The school emphasizes social responsibility and community involvement. Graduates develop social commitment and participate in social projects, and education includes research with scientific rigor and collaboration with solidarity and tolerance. They learn to communicate effectively in English and Spanish.
The school aims to form capable and happy citizens through a mission that emphasizes knowledge, values, and service. It emphasizes lifelong learning, knowledge construction, and a qualitative approach to assessment. Graduates transfer learned competencies to their life beyond school, collaborate with solidarity and tolerance, make autonomous and honest decisions, and communicate effectively in English and Spanish.
Infant education uses the Montessori method in a prepared environment. The school's motto is Duty, Truth and Honor, and its aim is to form citizens capable and happy. The curriculum includes physical education and sports as part of the elective offerings.
Located in Concepción and Chillán, The Wessex School is a private bilingual day school offering Montessori Curriculum and an English–Spanish curriculum from preschool through secondary years. The Chillán campus is bilingual and serves as an Oxford University Press language testing center, with instruction in English for early years and primary and Spanish for upper secondary subjects, alongside groups focused on English for international exams. The integrated, competency-based program centers on four pillars—Learn to be, Learn to know, Learn to live together, and Learn to transfer— and emphasises holistic development through clubs, assemblies, electives, study tours, social projects and integrated projects. Graduates transfer learning to real life, collaborate with solidarity and tolerance, and communicate effectively in both English and Spanish. Facilities include an on-site infirmary, a dining facility with vegetarian options, uniforms, and transport; sports facilities feature a gym and a large multicancha, with rugby highlighted in school events and festivals.
