Core Qualities

The school’s mission is to stimulate students to discover and develop their talents. We prepare them for further education and for a rapidly changing society, so that they can and want to make a sustainable contribution to our society as responsible global citizens now and in the future. By learning to respect each other, the child will be open to others in the future. We are always vigilant to discrimination and bullying and are continuously working to prevent it.

Dutch society has a great diversity of beliefs and many people with different cultural backgrounds. At our school, with so many nationalities, this is even more evident. Working together, we must shape that society and prepare children for the role they will play in it.

Development-orientedness, transparency, safety, respect and intercultural behaviour are our core qualities. In mutual coherence, they reflect what we stand for as a school, what we are constantly working on and what sets us apart. The development of the student is central. In order to optimally support the students in this, all those who work at the ISE are continuously developing themselves. We are a learning organisation. Transparency, safety and respect are important conditions for development orientation. The small-scale team structure ensures transparency, so that students, parents and employees know where they belong and know who they can turn to. We also achieve transparency through the way we communicate and make choices: in collaboration with all those involved in and around the school.

The small-scale team structure of the school offers students and employees a safe environment. Together they are responsible for an atmosphere of mutual trust and respectful treatment of each other. We see the international and cultural variety at our school as an added value because it encourages students and employees to look beyond their own culture and national borders and, in the light of further study and work, demonstrate intercultural behaviour.