WHY Leonardo? Different is great!

We are committed to make your child happy by learning, using innovative teaching methods.

Here is how:
* We work on the perspective of the gifted, not the system.The children are the vectors, and the teachers are facilitators because we follow the perspective of the children. So children are fully involved in the learning process.
* Human Intensive. 4+ learning specialists assigned to work with a group of 15 kids because they need constant feedback and learn at different speed
* Enrichment and Kinest Enrichment gives your child the chance to experiment exactly what he wants to explore in one place; 3 sessions of Kinest every day; this will balance brain hemispheres and develop body intelligence. Kinest is an assigned school teacher to work body intelligence so that your kid integrates his mind to his body

* We work in nature  so that your kid at 5 o’clock has taken the weather in his life and made enough movement to come home and get the necessary rest with you

* An Individual Educational Plan per child is closely followed by the Director of Education and the parents because every child is responsilble to learn at the minimum every subject, but he can easily out-perform in several fields of interest. Parents and children are all aware and negociate these objectives, which simply suit real needs. Here in the picture you see a child with a paper where there are written out her specific competencies she worked on and were acquired in a year. We do not teach for exams, we facilitate children’s learning to become consciously competent of their strong and weak areas from an early age and develop intensively their interests and passions. So that later they can become adults with a sense of ownership of what they want to do with their own life.

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What Do Children Achieve?

Even one week in our environment could change the life of your child! So it would be a tremendous opportunity for a gifted to work in a differentiated environment every day, without interruptions, with peers.

Improved EQ

• how to take decisions and negociate
  
• team work & more

Use at true value their IQ

• how to think outside the box (De Bono‘s lessons)
• how to evaluate their own performance and develop a flexibile self-reflexive mind
• how to learn as they usually do not have effective learning techniques
• divergent thinking (generate creative ideas by exploration) & more

Long term

• Autonomy in the learning process
• Increased self-esteem 

School Transfer and What’s next

• Children learning in our environment are resilient to go and pursue state schools or private schools / universities later
• Children can come to our organization for more, like volunteering, internships and specialized programs for gifted like bootcamps when they grow
• Cambridge Pathway tests, Cambridge IGCSE, or GCSE 2 A-level gives them access to school equivalence
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School Timeline

16 September: school starts
Ongoing – applications are open (6 stages of selection) for Leonardo Gifted School for the new headquarters in the middle of the city, near Unirii – Alba Iulia.

Admission Process

6 Steps Selection

Step 1: IQ test, WISC IV / SON-R
Step 2: Behavioural Evaluation with Psychologist Commission
Step 3: Interview of the Parents with the Psychologist and Counsellor

(click to see all steps)