School

General description

Now 135 years old, Ascham is a school known for its outstanding academic results as well as being an inclusive, warm, inspiring environment for day and boarding students. The School provides each girl with the means to become an independent learner and develop into a self-reliant, confident, compassionate young woman with a sense of purpose in the world.

Located in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs, Ascham educates girls from Preschool to Year 12 and is independent of any religious affiliation. It actively promotes ties with universities and other schools overseas. Days at Ascham are filled with interactive and challenging learning, together with a wide range of co-curricular activities, including a broad choice of Sports, Music, Drama, Debating, Public Speaking, The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award program, and much more. From International Student Exchange programs and tours, school-based leadership and support programs, to Houses and Sisters networks and community projects, an Ascham girl’s resilience will build as the School helps her develop the confidence to extend herself and give her the security to make mistakes and learn from them.

Boarding has been an integral part of Ascham since 1887 and girls continue to forge lifelong friendships within a very special community. The Boarding Houses are places where girls become confident learners, independent thinkers and caring individuals. The majority of Ascham boarders come from country NSW, with some from Sydney suburbs, interstate and overseas. They live in a number of spacious former homes, providing a family atmosphere, and they enjoy a supervised academic program as well as a comprehensive weekend activity program. Through its long Boarding history, the School maintains very strong links with rural communities.

Andrew Powell
Head of School

office@ascham.nsw.edu.au

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Ascham is the only school in Australia to use the Dalton Plan and it sits at the heart of our teaching and learning. This unique Plan provides girls with an extraordinary skill set, not only for school but also in preparing them for life beyond the school gates. Ascham is a school known for outstanding academic results as well as providing an inclusive, warm, inspiring environment for day and boarding students who benefit from so much on offer, not least an exceptional academic program. This environment provides each girl with every means to become an independent learner and develop into a self-reliant, confident, compassionate young woman with a sense of purpose in the world. Through the Dalton Plan and with the encouragement of teachers, her learning will be enriched, new passions discovered, she will be challenged and supported.

Ascham has 1,222 students including 113 boarders, with 170 teachers working with them from Preschool through to Year 12 (the final year of high school in Australia).

Since 2001, Ascham has been a member of, and maintained a close relationship with, Dalton International. The School has welcomed visitors from Dalton International and hosted students studying the Dalton method. Ascham teachers and executive have also been hosted by Dutch schools and attended Dalton International conferences. Ascham kindly invites visitors to observe our Dalton practice; requests should be made through Dalton International as well as Ascham School.

In 2022 Ascham School will be celebrating its 100th anniversary of being a Dalton School.

General description

Chalabalova School started to implement elements of Dalton education in the past decade of the last century. In cooperation with several other Brno schools (Husova, Horacke namesti, Kridlovicka and Masarova) and the City of Brno helped to established The Czech Dalton Association in 1996 (now Czech Dalton). In the following years many international conferences, workshops and active meetings abroad organized by the association in cooperation with the Dalton International and kind professional help of Roel Roehner hugely influenced the school programmes of tens Czech schools. Since 2000 Chalabalova Dalton school has worked intensively with partner Dalton schools especially in Holland, Austria, Germany, Hungary, Poland and also progressive schools in Spain, Norway, N.Ireland, England ... Evolution of Brno Dalton schools influenced also contacts with educators from New York Dalton School and Ascham Sydney.

Andrew Powell
Head of School

The kye elements of Dalton education always seemed to me to overcross the field of education.

Words like cooperation, responsibility and freedom have strong - almost eternal - values in our everyday life.

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Mixture of humanistic classic ideas (e.g. Komensky) and new and modern international approaches (including Dalton) help our friendly team of Brno Chalabalova School to form our teaching philosophy.

Also cooperation with several universities and foreign partner schools create open school world in which we try to follow rules like respect, cooperation, responsibility and freedom.

General description

De Maten is a Christian Dalton Primary School in the village of Den Ham. Since 2009 we are officially a Dalton school. The five Dalton core values: responsibility, independence, collaboration, effectiveness and reflection form the foundation of our Dalton education.

At the school there is a remarkably good pedagogical climate, in which everyone feels safe.

The school has 192 students divided into 9 groups. A total of 17 teachers work at 'De Maten', including teaching assistant, internal supervisor and director

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Andrew Powell
Head of School

Together we are responsible for the quality of education at 'De Maten'. We are a professional learning community and work from learning teams on the quality of our Dalton education.

Since 2012 we are a member of Dalton International and we regularly receive guests from the Netherlands and abroad.

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Our promise to the students is: Every child is unique, including unique Dalton education.

We provide contemporary education that suits the student and challenges them in cooperation with other students. Students become co-owners of their own development by working from learning lines and goals. They follow their own development with the help of a digital portfolio. The students acquire knowledge and learn skills in line with their development on the way to independent and responsible citizens in society. Good communication with parents and students is important to us. By having triangular conversations (pupil, parent(s), teacher(s), we work together with confidence to develop cognitively, socially, creatively and motorly.

Genereal description

Dalton College is not simply a school with classrooms. The school has been designed according to the laboratory system. Each teacher has their own classroom and students travel to different laboratories according to their lessons.

Alongside the labs, there are many other facilities including a swimming pool, gymnasium, conference room, library, park, garden and even a mini animal zoo.

The school first opened its doors for the 2018 – 2019 school year and has a student capacity of 800 ranging from 4 – 18 years old.

Andrew Powell
Head of School

I am pleased to announce we became a Dalton İnternational School in April 2020.

Our aim as a Dalton school in Turkey is to give an education suitable to each and every child. We aim to find children’s talents both academically and socially, we want to prepare our student’s for a world where they will be independent, responsible and become international citizens.

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Dalton College İzmir (Özel İzmir Bin Dokuz Yüz On Dokuz Okulları) was founded in 2018. The school offers education from kindergarten to high school level.

Dalton College implements the Dalton Model from age 4 upwards, with an emphasis on our students becoming responsible learners, independent thinkers and co-operative workers.

Alongside the Dalton Plan is a strong language programme, where student learn both English and German.

Dalton College’s mission is to find each and every student’s talent. This can be academical, sport, music or the arts.

General description

A pleasant Dalton school for children and parents where good education is provided by enthusiastic dalton teachers. Daltonschool De Leeuwerik wants every child to understand their environment as well as possible and that he / she will deal with it positively. We guide children in their development towards an independent, responsible and creative personality.

We are an enthusiastic team of 34 teachers who have been trained as Dalton teachers. We encourage the children to get the best out of themselves. We teach them to work together and to approach others with respect. Our school has about 430 students

Daltonschool De Leeuwerik has been in possession of the Dalton predicate since May 2010.

Andrew Powell
Head of School

“Dalton is a way of living”

My relation with Dalton International started about 20 years ago.  I was the webmaster of Dalton International. Many times I have attended the International Dalton Conferences in Brno (Czech Republic) and Austria. And we had one goal: discovering how Dalton education was executed in the world and how we could benefit from the relation with each other, creating a new Dalton network.

INTERNATIONAL DALTON SCHOOL since 2010

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The school has a beautiful building where good Dalton education can be provided.
In addition to group rooms, there are large learning squares where children can work.
The school has a beautiful theatre where the groups perform

Pupils already receive English lessons from 4 years old.

In recent years, Daltonschool De Leeuwerik has received many international guests. Children of the oldest groups then provide the tour for the international guests.

General description

The ‘Delftse Dalton School’ is a primary school: the world in miniature. It is a place where children learn together and respect each other. We welcome all children as pupils at our school.

The ‘Delftse Dalton School’ works along the core principles of the Dalton system: responsibility, co-operation, effectiveness, independence and introspection.

We have designed our education method based on the needs of children. We look at what they need to be able to have pleasure in learning. We involve the parents in the development of their child and keep them up to date with their progress. We have a:

• school support team;
• system to monitor the progress of each pupil;
• a communication platform for the parents.

Andrew Powell
Head of School

We are one of the first ‘Members of Dalton International’ and we are always happy to have foreign guests. Since 2009 we’ve got the status of “INTERNATIONAL DALTON SCHOOL”.

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We are proud to be a Dalton School, and therefore we decorated our school building with the main Dalton premises.

Please have a short visit to our school and click on:

English Brochure about Delftse Dalton

General description

International Dalton School with a focus on computer science

• Dalton School since 2012
• Number of Students:  310
• Number of Teachers: 40

Andrew Powell
Head of School

“A master is not the one who teaches, but the one who inspires the student to give the best of himself to find out what he already knows.” Paul Coleho

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We offer

• a smile in the morning
• a committed and highly motivated team of teachersup-to-date teaching methods and materials as well as teachers who are familiar and experienced with them
• integration classes for children with special needs
• personal commitment of the teachers in school and private matters
• all-day care including lunch, specialist learning, homework and free time lessons
• Focus on IT (business, design and mechatronics)

General description

 The school is located in the Moravian metropolis Brno's historical centre and consists of a kindergarten, a primary and lower-secondary school. We are currently educating 580 children at the age of 3 to 16. The pedagogical staff comprises about 40 teachers + another 20 members of support staff (support and specialist teachers, teacher assistants, educators etc.)

We began implementing the elements of the Dalton Plan in the 1990s. In 1996, in cooperation with other schools in Brno, we witnessed the birth of the Association of Czech Dalton Schools (today's Czech Dalton). Our school organizes educational conferences for the supporters of Dalton and innovative education every year.

Andrew Powell
Head of School

Dalton principles such as independence, freedom, responsibility and cooperation have become part of our school’s curriculum and daily life.

We are a proud part of the international network of Dalton schools, and we have been certified “INTERNATIONAL DALTON SCHOOL” since 2008.

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We have been cooperating with Masaryk University in Brno for a long time in preparing student teachers.

We organize exchanges of students and teachers together with several foreign partner schools.

We are a model school participating in the project “Helping Schools Succeed”, and we try to fulfil the project vision in everyday school practice so that every pupil at our school could learn with joy and get the most out of it.

General description

Primary school Masarova is an urban settlement school that has been offering education to pupils of elementary and secondary stage since the year 1982. Every year there are about 700 pupils. The school works according to its own educational programme "Opportunity for everyone“ and tries to realize following priorities: language communication and foreign language education, project and Dalton education, personal and social education, leisure activities. Our school is a member of the Czech Dalton and cooperates with Dalton International. In our School Pedagogical Centre the school psychologist, special pedagogue, methodist of prevention and educational and career consultant work. Skilled assistants work with pupils with special educational needs and we also provide individual care to pupils with learning disabilities. Our school pays attention to working with the class teams during the special lessons called "little houses“. Various activities focus on improving relationships between the pupils and the teacher and among the pupils themselves. Also social-pathological appearance prevention takes part here once a week. Pupils are also allowed to present their suggestions and ideas in the School Pupils Parliament that sits regularly once a month.

Andrew Powell
Head of School

Elementary principles of Dalton pedagogy are suitable not only for the teaching-learning process but also for my life.

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Motto of our school:

„We don't make mistakes because we learn. We make mistakes, thus we learn.“

Motto of our school programme:

„You are forgiven if you cannot do it, but not if you don't want to do it.“

H. Ibsen

General description

Shenzhen Dalton Xinhua School is one of special featured project of educational development Nanshan district, Shenzhen city. It is founded by Table Tennis World Champion Mr. Xinhua Chen. Mr. Liansheng Mei ,Top-ten Principal in Shenzhen City, Deputy to Shenzhen People’s Congress, Shenzhen City Educational Inspector, Former Principal - The Affiliated School of Peking University, Shenzhen Nanshan Campus took the first position of school principal.

Andrew Powell
Head of School

Mr. Liansheng Mei
Honorary Principal of Shenzhen Dalton Xinhua School
Initiator of the first International Dalton School in China

Mrs. Li Zhang
Executive principal of Shenzhen Dalton Xinhua School

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Shenzhen Dalton Xinhua School, the only school in China so far which has got the authorization of International Assessment and Certificate of Dalton International, is located in Shenzhen, Xili University town. It is next to the Southern University of Science and Technology and Nanshan Park. Shenzhen Dalton Xinhua School comprises a primary school (grades 1 to 6), middle school (grades 7 to 9), and high school (grades 10 to 12), with a total of 48 classes and 20 students per class. 

Our school’s mission is to establish an outstanding, internationalized, and extraordinary school to meet high quality people children’s education need.

General description

• Zertifiziert durch Dalton-International 2012
• Ausbildungsschule für LehramtsanwärterInnen
• 180 Kinder lernen an unserer Schule.
• Es unterrichten und begleiten ein multiproffessionelles Team:
  • 11 Lehrer8 Erzieher
  • 1 Schulsozialarbeiterin
  • 1 Förderschullehrerin
  • 1 Lehramtsanwärter
  • 1 Hausmeister
  • 1 Sekretärin

Andrew Powell
Head of School

Unser Leitbild: "Wir lernen den Kindern das Lernen“

Alle 2 Jahre wird ein TEACHERSTRAINING durch „Dalton-International“ durchgeführt. 2019 fand bei uns die Internationale Daltonkonferenz statt. Ein wahrer Höhepunkt unserer Entwicklung.

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• Schulhund „NIKE“
• Individuelle Lerntagebücher
• Schulkleidung mit LOGO in 4 Farben
• Zertifikat: „Haus der kleinen Forscher“
• Schulsozialarbeiterin
• Wir unterstützen Familien: Tägliche Öffnung von 6.30 – 17.00 UHR

General description

Sternschule is a private school with public status for kids from grade 1 to 8. Classes are held on the principles of the Dalton Plan by Helen Parkhurst.

Self-responsibility, individuality, social competency and time-management are the main premises of the pedagogy in Sternschule. The goal of our educational work is to support the development of the children into shining personalities with belief in their self-efficacy.

Since 2013 Sternschule is a certified “International Dalton School”!

At the moment 81 children from the age of 6 to 14 attend the school and are taught by 12 teachers (not all in full time).

Andrew Powell
Head of School

We are very proud that Sternschule became a certified Dalton International School in autumn 2013. We believe that Helen Parkhurst`s Dalton Plan is the pedagogy that fits perfectly into the 21^st century. With Dalton International, we are able to bring the Dalton pedagogy into focus, so it can receive a greater value in Austria.

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• The basic philosophy of the Sternschule includes the understanding of differences in development between students and the acceptance of these as the basis of the educational work.
• Independent work in a system of freedom and security.
• Friendly, familiar environment: working in small groups with individual support
• Talent promotion: Findings from talent research are integrated into everyday school life.
• The educators see themselves as advising, coordinating and helping companions for the students.
• Strengthening social skills by accepting every single child in their individuality and treating them with respect in everyday school life.
• Certified ‘Ecology School’ and ‘Happiness School’

General description

Wenzhou Dalton Elementary School, founded in September 2017 by LIKEDA Education Technology Co. Ltd, is a full-time private school, operating under direct supervision of Wenzhou Education Bureau. The school covers fourteen thousand square meters and has a capacity of thirty-six classes with twenty-five students in each. It has 877 students and 125 teachers currently.

The school combines the “Dalton Plan”, one of the four important education theories for elementary education, with the local “Study-Lab Program”. By embracing the values of “Freedom, Cooperation, Self-discipline and Responsibility”, Wenzhou Dalton Elementary School is committed to providing a comfortable and caring learning environment. Pupils here will be prepared for a globalized world and future, striving for excellence while enjoying an experience which they will cherish for a lifetime.

Andrew Powell
Head of School

Wenzhou Dalton Elementary School invited Ms. Bai Lili, the special-graded teacher at provincial level and the education expert in Wenzhou, to be the principal. Principal Bai Lili is a professor-level senior teacher of middle school, meritorious teacher of Zhejiang Province and national model teacher who enjoys special bonus from the State Council. For more than 30 years engaging in teaching, she has been embracing the idea “all for children” and has been devoted to exploring how to create the education suitable for the development of each child.

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In Wenzhou Dalton, no bell-rings can be heard. Study is organized into groups and individual work and learning takes place in diverse elective and small classes. At Wenzhou Dalton Elementary school, the daily schedule consists of planned classes, snack sharing time, recess time, self-directed lunch time and Dalton Study Lab. An integration of mixed-ability classes and streamed classes, personalized time-tables, theme activities, leisure time, community services as well as global study programs enables students to learn and grow at their own pace, while teachers serve as facilitators and guides for the learning process. Students at Wenzhou Dalton not only acquire knowledge in class but also develop their abilities in study lab. Here they are taught to summarize and sort out what they have learned in a day according to a list of tasks, including tidying up books and stationary, reviewing and reflecting on study skills, organizing resources and assessing learning outcomes. The goal is to develop their competence in independent study and self-control, and mold them into confident and self-disciplined learners.

General description

Our school is located in Brno. Over 800 pupils attend our school, and they are cared for by 55 teachers, 28 teaching assistants and 9 tutors. Dalton Principles has been part of our teaching since 1997. The school has been a member of Dalton International since 2007. Dalton education significantly impacts the atmosphere of the whole school and also the relations between teachers and pupils. We are trying to share our experiences with future teachers during our collaboration with Masaryk University. Our teachers regularly attend Dalton education conferences, not only as participants but also as lecturers.

Andrew Powell
Head of School

I have been accompanied by Dalton education and its principles most of my teaching practice. Cooperation, responsibility, and autonomy should be a part of everyone's daily life, just as the ability to enjoy each day.

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The principles of Dalton education resonate with our school's philosophy: "To be a place where we all feel safe and evolve ourselves."