Colegio Tarbut

Colegio Tarbut (Hebrew: בית ספר תרבות‎) is a Jewish private school founded in 1961 in the city of Olivos, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Pedagogy

Colegio Tarbut is named after the Tarbut movement of humanistic Jewish education, and has much in common with that movement's curricular philosophy. It teaches at the kindergarten, primary, and secondary levels, and is a trilingual school in that Hebrew, English and Spanish are taught.

The school takes pride in what it views as excellent academics, although this comes at a price: financially in September 2005 it was identified as among Buenos Aires's most expensive schools while, as part of its curricular approach, pupils who fail are asked to leave the school rather than repeat a grade.^[1] The focus on academics has, however, ensured that 100 percent of its recent graduates have pursued university studies, and no other Jewish school in Argentina -- and few others in the Americas -- offers its pupils the opportunity to obtain the diploma programme (DP) of the International Baccalaureate Organization.

Notable traditions

Yom Sport

Each year during the last months of the school year, usually October or November, a Yom Sport (Hebrew for "Sports Day") is held. In this event students compete in individual and group disciplines. Individual disciplines are Sprint, Shot Put, Long and High Jump. Group disciplines are soccer and handball. Students are divided into four teams (Red, Green, Yellow and Blue) and stay in the same team every year. Competitions in the group disciplines are done according to the teams. Records in athletics are kept between years.

Some weeks after the Yom Sport another event is held in which winners in the individual events are announced. The ranking among the teams (color) is also published. The ranking is computed according to the performance of the team members in the individual and group disciplines.

Religious services

During the Jewish High Holidays, religious services are held in the school, and are usually attended by students, their families and alumni.

References

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External links

• Official page
• IBO program page
• Aerial Photography of Colegio Tarbut in Google Local