Academics and Human Excellence
Educational Project
A rigorous academic program that fosters intellectual growth, critical thinking, and personal development, preparing students for excellence in all aspects of life.
“Educating is renewing the world. Change the person and change the world.”
— The First Jesuits
A New Humanism for Education
Rooted in the 500-year Jesuit educational tradition, Gonzaga Campus embraces a new humanism: less anthropocentric than the Renaissance version, it focuses on care, relationships, integral ecology, and the encounter with the digital world. The goal is to rediscover and cultivate what is truly human within today's complex challenges, building a future of justice and peace.
The Magis
In the Jesuit tradition, the magis means encouraging each student to express the best of their potential in service of others. Academic excellence is understood only within the broader context of human excellence: living a full, conscious, authentic life.
Integral Formation
Attention to all dimensions of the person (personal, social, spiritual) expressed through a holistic educational proposal. The curriculum encompasses spiritual, formative, cultural and didactic choices that together shape the integral formation of the person.
Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm
Since the 1500s, Jesuit pedagogy has embraced active and interactive teaching. The PPI places the student at the centre: engaging through experience, deepening through reflection, applying through action, and growing through evaluation.
Campus School
The campus model updates the original Jesuit college concept: an environment open from morning to evening, designed around students, integrating academics, sport, arts, music, theatre, spiritual formation and service into one unified experience.
Five Dimensions of Growth
Holistic education nurtures five constitutive dimensions of the person, each given dedicated time and intentional pedagogical attention.
Cognitive
Critical thinking, curiosity and love for knowledge through active and interdisciplinary learning.
Emotional
Emotional awareness, empathy and self-regulation in a safe and caring environment.
Relational
Collaboration, communication and community through cooperative learning.
Physical
Wellbeing, body awareness and healthy habits through sport, movement and play.
Spiritual
Interiority, questions of meaning, gratitude and openness to transcendence.
Academic Challenges, Human Answers
The Gonzaga Campus reads today's educational challenges as opportunities to renew methods and accompany every student towards integral growth.
Depth vs. Breadth
Many big questions face humanity's future but risk remaining outside classroom walls. A school that prepares for life must bring the great questions of the present and future into the classroom, connecting academic rigour with real-world relevance.
Gonzaga Campus structures its curriculum around Areas of Responsibility: transversal educational domains (environment, health, interculture, spirituality, ethics, rights) that connect disciplines to themes of human, social and cultural significance.
Interdisciplinary learning organised around areas of knowledge, not isolated subjects
Areas of Responsibility promote critical thinking and care for the world
Authentic tasks connect classroom learning to real situations
The curriculum is vertically continuous from Infanzia through Licei
University preparation integrated into the school day (for Licei students)
Key Characteristics
The defining features of Gonzaga Campus academic and human formation across all school levels.
Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm
A time-tested active learning methodology: Experience, Reflection, Action, Evaluation. Students are protagonists of their own learning journey, not passive recipients.
Competency-Based Curriculum
Learning organised by areas of knowledge (linguistic-expressive, logical-mathematical, cura personalis) with interdisciplinary connections that mirror real-world complexity.
Integral Formation
Every aspect of the campus experience contributes to the development of the whole person: mind, heart, body and spirit woven into a coherent educational project.
Areas of Responsibility
Transversal educational domains (environment, health, interculture, spirituality, ethics, human rights) that connect academic content to formation of global citizens.
Formative Assessment
Assessment as a tool for growth, not classification. Transparent criteria, constructive feedback, guided self-evaluation, and the educational use of error as a learning opportunity.
University Preparation
For Licei students, structured preparation for university entrance exams during school hours, Cambridge certifications from primary school, and IB Diploma recognition worldwide.
Across Every School Level
Academic and human excellence takes different forms at each stage of the educational journey, but the foundational commitment to integral growth remains constant.
Infanzia
6 months - 5 yearsLearning through play, exploration and relationships. The foundations of emotional intelligence, social skills and curiosity are established in a safe, nurturing environment.
Key Features
Play-based learning across fields of experience
Bilingual immersion (Italian + English)
Outdoor education and nature connection
Emotional literacy and social development
Primaria
6 - 10 yearsFull-time integrated curriculum (8:00-16:00) with active methodologies, 315 hours of English per year, sports, arts and guided study within school hours.
Key Features
40 lessons/week across three learning areas
Ignatian pedagogy: experience-reflection-action
Cambridge Flyers (A2) certification by Grade 5
Theatre, music and sport as educational dimensions
Medie
11 - 13 yearsDepartmental organisation with guided study during school hours. Students develop academic autonomy, critical thinking and personal responsibility.
Key Features
7 hours/day with study-free afternoons
Departmental blocks: humanistic, scientific, linguistic
Tutoria and orientation for personal growth
International exchanges and language certifications
Licei
14 - 18 yearsFive distinct pathways united by Jesuit identity. University preparation, symposia, and the culmination of the integral formation journey.
Key Features
5 tracks: Classico, Scienze Umane, Scientifico, STEAM, Sportivo
Symposia: immersive interdisciplinary weeks
University entrance preparation during school hours
Service learning and community engagement
ISP
2 - 18 yearsThe only IB-accredited school in Southern Italy. Three IB programmes (PYP, MYP, DP) delivered in English by native-speaker teachers.
Key Features
Full IB continuum: PYP, MYP, Diploma Programme
100% English instruction by native speakers
Inquiry-based and student-centred methodology
IB Diploma recognised by top universities worldwide