THE VILLAGE GROWS UP

Years have passed and the town has grown up and along with it the school has grown up too through the work of the community and the planning qand efforts of the Director and his team of teachers and staff. The goal is that over time the school infrastucture will develop into a better resource for the education of the children of the village.

However, there are many more things to do as there are more children with new needs. These needs evolve side by side with new developments in education which are unfortunately not typically met in rural schools.

In addition to the increase in the number of children, in the last 3 years this school has doubled the number of classrooms and has added teachers in new areas such as special education, speech therapy, psychology and computer based learning.

Much of this development has occured through improvements in the national Costa Rican education system as well as through support from a very special benefactor that "adopted" the school a few years ago - Fundacion Educar. This foundation is based in the US with an office locally in Alajuela and provides specific resources to raise the level of certain schools in poor neighborhoods.

Our school has a mission to involve the neighborhood in the process of helping develop the future of the community through the children.

THE SCHOOL PHILOSOPHY

As an integral individual, a human being will want to develop him or herself in his totally.
Necesitamos la conexion!
Facilitating this process it is the Tuetal Sur school's philosophy that in parallel with the academic improvement we need to stimulate the development of the human comprehension and the complete development of her or his personality. Eventually this will create an environment conducive to mental, moral and physical health, and thus the awakening in the children of a recognition and esteem for ethics, aesthetics and religious values. Ultimately we hope for men and women with a sense of responsibility, who love to work and are respectful for all humanity.

VISION

Be the best educational institution of PROMECUM, where a quality education is offered and it is propitiated the integral development of the student community.

HISTORY OF THE SCHOOL

The town starts to develop_____with the school. This little town is located 2Km of the center of Alajuela city and near to the International Airport Juan Santamaria. The road in this town is an alternating route between the center of Alajuela and the communities of the west.

The history of the school starts with the efforts of a man called Otto Clotti, who was trying to buy the ground for the school since 1978. It was until 1983 that finally the field was bought.
The road to the school


This little town is located 2Km of the center of Alajuela city and near to the International Airport Juan Santamaria. The road in this town is an alternating route between the center of Alajuela and the communities of the west. The history of the school starts with the efforts of a man called Otto Clotti, who was trying to buy the ground for the school since 1978. It was until 1983 that finally the field was bought.

Before the school was established in 1989, under the government of Oscar Arias Sanchez, Premio Nobel de la Paz, the ground was used to other things like the construction of a church, a public hall and the police booth. The school's name is the same as the name of the community, which comes from a little tree called Tuete that used to be very common in the zone.



LA ESCUELA TODAY

After 15 years of efforts, the school has become to have an adequate structure
The Church, Tuetal Sur
for the development of the students. This happened thanks to the EDUCAR Foundation and managements of the principal mister Soto. Also, the school is the center to do recreating activities in the community. This, because there isn't infrastructure like football fields, pools or other places where to recreate. Nowadays, there are clear objectives to try to help the youth to have successful in their lives, because most of the kids come from poor and extremely poor families, and most of them will obtain only the primary, that's why the school has to be excellent.

OBJECTIVES

1. Improve the performance of the students developing a system that permits to reach the objectives in accordance with their academic, cultural and socioeconomic potentialities.

2. Encourage to the children the respect to their rights and duties, the civic, morals, aesthetics, religious, social, cultural and ecological values.
The Tuete comes to life


3. Encourage to the children in order to participate in the sporting and cultural activities.

4. Integrate the support organizations, students, parents, teaching and administrative staff and the community in general, to find the solutions to the problems that affect the institution.

5. Create a computer laboratory with the support of the EDUCAR foundation, to offer to the students a technology tool in agreement with the needs.

6. Strengthen with the EDUCAR support, to introduce the English as a second language.

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