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We have started celebrating the bicentenary of May 25th 1810!

On May 25th 2010 Argentina is celebrating the first 200 years of the revolution that paved the way to its independence. During the whole year there will be activities at school to commemorate such an important date.

Buenos Aires, 22 February 2010

Students, heads, teachers and parents:

As we move towards the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the May revolution we start the new academic year with the firm intention of educating our children in the values which inspired the ideals of our founding fathers and which contributed to the development of their personalities.

For this reason it is our intention

• to contribute to the education of the whole person in our students;
• to share with them the principles of truth not only in words but also in our own attitudes and comportment;
• to ensure that they acquire the commitment of working with others, seeking the common good above group interests which can even become so self-centred that they frustrate any possibility of working together;
• to opt for reason, patience, security and humility in the face of arrogance and imposition;
• to experience the courage which comes from perseverance and the on-going learning process which is stronger in patience than in impatience, and stronger in humility than in arrogance;
• to develop the strength which allows us to live with the truth, knowing that this is stronger than falsehood, and to live with the development of our chosen profession holding firmly to our values when the environment runs counter to them and leads us to question our choice;
• to glean from our calling the urgent need for life-long education, an on-going self-improvement which we accept as a must for better service.

We also know that we educate for what is rather than what is said or done and for this reason our words are not just mere additional adjectives but characteristic of people rich in values.

We are also convinced that we are not a mere functional presence but a personalizing human influence and for this reason our profession is a vital vocation which leads us to prudent conscious self-denial so that our students can live a life rich in fundamental values.

We would like these intentions of the first day of class to be shared by our families so that our students can move forward in harmony with the school.

I wish also to refer today to the efforts made by those in charge of building improvements at International Schools from 19th December; this allows us to present a school today in ideal conditions with those necessary improvements and others linked to the fulfillment of the values already mentioned.

As we begin our school activity I express the hope that with the grace of God this educational option chosen by students, parents and educators will complete a year full of successful achievement in which hard work and permanent commitment will be the unceasing motors of our educational activity.

Estela M Irrera de Pallaro
Director General