Care for Individuality
Educational Project
Recognising and nurturing each student's unique talents, interests, and learning styles to help them reach their full potential and develop their authentic selves.
“At Gonzaga we are not numbers: we feel seen as people.”
— Gonzaga Campus Students
Cura Personalis: The Heart of Jesuit Education
In the Jesuit tradition, personalisation is not an accessory adaptation but a foundational choice: the cura personalis. It means recognising that every child is unique and must be accompanied to find their own voice, rhythm and originality within a path of integral growth. Wellbeing and personalisation are inseparable: wellbeing creates the conditions for learning, and personalisation makes learning meaningful for everyone.
Cura Personalis
The teacher's fundamental attention to each student's unique journey: welcoming, encouraging, accompanying according to their rhythms, finding appropriate strategies for their needs and personal talents.
Wellbeing First
Promoting holistic wellbeing (body, mind, emotions, relationships) as the essential condition for serene growth. Emotional safety, trust and a sense of belonging are prerequisites for meaningful learning.
The Magis
Excellence not as competitive performance but as personal progress: responsibility, perseverance, trust and the joy of improving. Each student is encouraged to discover and give the best of themselves, in their own way.
Inclusive Community
Inclusion means a culture of welcome and educational competence: not only fostering socialisation but growing empathy, responsibility and reciprocity. An environment where everyone can participate fully and meaningfully.
Challenges of Personalisation
Meeting the unique needs of every student requires systemic commitment, professional expertise and a community that values diversity.
Personalisation vs. Standardisation
Every child brings a unique story, with different rhythms, languages, interests and learning styles. The challenge is to avoid standardising models and to support competence and self-esteem without reducing the school experience to a performance race.
The school assumes accompaniment as its educational style: an attentive and competent gaze that reads each student's story, recognises talents and struggles, and proposes steps for improvement. Flexible planning, differentiated activities, and diverse expressive channels ensure each child finds their path.
Flexible planning: differentiated activities, extended time, diverse expressive channels
Systematic observation and accompaniment within the teaching team
Guided reflection and interiorisation appropriate to each age
Constructive feedback oriented toward growth, not ranking
The magis: personal progress as the measure of success
How We Care for Each Student
The structures, practices and professionals dedicated to ensuring every student is seen, supported and empowered to grow.
Tutoria System
A distinctive feature of Ignatian education: systematic attention to each student's journey through weekly circle time, guided reflection, shared observation within teaching teams, and regular dialogue with families.
School Psychology Service
Bio-psycho-social wellbeing promotion through classroom observations, family consultations, teacher coordination, monitoring of metacognitive and emotional variables, and support for developmental transitions.
Inclusion Framework
Institutional guidelines, Working Group for Inclusion (GLI), inclusion coordinators, personalised plans (PEI/PDP), and inclusive classroom practices ensuring every child can participate fully.
Formative Assessment
Continuous, growth-oriented assessment: systematic observation, timely constructive feedback, educational use of error, and gradual self-evaluation practices that build awareness and confidence.
Personalised Pathways
Differentiated teaching, diverse expressive channels (verbal, graphic, physical, musical), compensatory tools and dispensatory measures, recovery and enrichment programmes tailored to individual needs.
Family Alliance
Structural partnership with families: clear communication, individual meetings, educational co-responsibility, school-family workshops, and adult formation opportunities on child development topics.
Care at Every Age
The cura personalis adapts its expression at each developmental stage while maintaining the same foundational commitment to seeing and supporting each student.
Infanzia
6 months - 5 yearsBuilding emotional foundations: secure attachment, early identification of needs, play-based social learning and the first experiences of being known and valued in a community.
Key Features
Small group attention with dedicated educators
Early identification of developmental needs
Family partnership from the very first days
Emotional literacy through stories, play and routine
Primaria
6 - 10 yearsTwo prevalent teachers per class, school psychology service, specialist inclusion support, and structured tutoria. Wellbeing, personalisation and belonging woven into every school day.
Key Features
Two prevalent teachers ensuring continuous observation
School psychology service for wellbeing and development
Personalised plans (PEI/PDP) with family collaboration
Formative assessment: feedback, self-evaluation, growth
Medie
11 - 13 yearsClass and individual tutoria for all students. Orientation and guidance for personal choices. Support through the particular challenges of early adolescence.
Key Features
Class tutoria and individual accompaniment
Orientation education and choice-making support
Psychology service adapted to adolescent needs
Peer support and cooperative learning structures
Licei
14 - 18 yearsDeep personalisation through curriculum choice (5 Liceo tracks). Individual tutoria, spiritual accompaniment, university orientation and preparation for adult autonomy.
Key Features
5 distinct Liceo pathways matching individual interests
Individual tutoria and spiritual direction
University orientation and career guidance
Service learning developing empathy and responsibility
ISP
2 - 18 yearsIB Learner Profile development focusing on the whole student. Multicultural environment naturally fostering empathy, open-mindedness and intercultural competence.
Key Features
IB Learner Profile: caring, principled, open-minded
Differentiated instruction within inquiry-based framework
Multicultural community building intercultural empathy
Individual support for multilingual learners