It is, thus, our belief, as educators and assistants responsible for this educational project, to orientate our intervention according to the following basic beginnings:

1. Educating is guiding in the development of a strong human personality, capable of confronting numerous challenges from our contemporary society. We are fully aware that this isn’t possible if the School limits itself merely to the instructive aspects, thus, forming integrally implies transmitting values which allow a human being to critically evaluate his own and others’ actions in daily life;
2. Parents are the main ones responsible for their children’s education and may carry, as countless research world-wide has shown, a very important role in the scholastic success of their children. But in this invaluable vocation, families receive less and less support, and their mission is not easy nowadays. Recognising the priorities of family in this area, the school does not wish to substitute the family, but aspires to be able to help, sharing, sincerely, their worries; the school shall be a privileged place to educate positive and basic values, remembering that the educational effectiveness depends on the responsible involvement of the families and society.
3. Aware of the challenge placed on families, on one hand, and insisting on considering them as educational partners, on the other, it is the School’s intention not to neglect the parents formation, in matters of recognised actuality and pertinence, such as basic ethics, the importance of giving their children a good family environment and of respecting them as free people with their own will, the necessity to transmit defence attitudes and intervene against certain problems of the actual society, as well as in natural cognitive themes, namely the question of multiple/various intelligences; the School is to facilitate the building to the parents for activities for integrated in the educational project of the School.
4. This School has come to fill the educational gap in the geographical area it provides for, presenting itself as an International School with Portuguese and English as the guiding languages, the British Educational System as a base model and covering all age levels from pre-school (3-4 years) until entering university.

In short, conscience that, since the beginning of school, children spend most of their day at school and facing, as mentioned previously, families as educational partners, the School cannot nor wants to work without the full co-operation of the parents and commits itself to assuming responsibility for the following basic functions in educational matters:

1. PERSONAL: offering a personalised and complete education that develops in the child competence such as discipline, perseverance, self confidence, the spirit of truth, the spirit of strength, the spirit of service, the ability to decide freely with righteousness, justice and a sense of responsibility;
2. SOCIAL: encouraging the respect for difference, the understanding of cultural diversity and fellowship with the socially and economically deprived; investing in values such as: tolerance, respect for one another, in the availability to serve society. On the other hand, all attitudes of rejection and segregation towards the community are discouraged;
3. CIVIL: privileging strategies which form pupils to exercise citizenship, aware that society presently demands, each time more, the capacity to socialise with different ways of life, without opening a gap in the individual project of life: the unity beyond divisions;
4. PROFESSIONAL: the growing cultural globalisation which we are presently facing, the internationalisation of Portugal, especially following the integration of Portugal into the European Community, it is more and more necessary to be geographically mobile for those wanting to follow a professional career, and naturally for ones family, creating new educational necessities, whether pupils already live in this region, or arrive here from other countries;
5. CULTURAL: respecting the spiritual and cultural essence of education that families have chosen for their children;
6. SUPPLEMENTARY FAMILY: proposing to parents a programme of free time occupation with extra curricular activities that, complementing the formal curriculum, promote a balanced development of the children.