WELCOME TO COLÉGIO DO VALE
It is with great joy that I welcome you to the Colégio do Vale website—a space designed to reflect the identity, energy, and ambition of our educational project.
I take on the role of General Director of Colégio do Vale with a deep sense of responsibility and enthusiasm, certain that we are part of a vibrant, demanding, and inspiring community. Here, we believe that education is about close relationships, stimulating challenges, and unique opportunities for growth—and that is exactly what we want to continue to offer each student and each family.
I invite you to explore this new digital space, which will also be an open door to the life of the school, the projects that motivate us, and the achievements we celebrate together.
Count on me for this new cycle. The best is truly beginning.
The Direction
Part of the Forfar Education Group
Since its founding in 1992, Colégio do Vale has established itself for its pedagogical quality and, in the summer of 2024, became part of the prestigious Forfar Education group.
Forfar Education, founded in 2019 by CEO John Forsyth, is a leading British education group, owner of 11 excellent schools and nurseries in the United Kingdom and Portugal.
At the heart of Forfar Education is an experienced and passionate team who understand exactly what a school needs to thrive, innovate, and succeed in a constantly changing world.
The mission is simple yet ambitious: to create truly inspiring schools, where self-confidence flourishes and academic excellence is the foundation of every achievement.
The pillars that guide us
At Colégio do Vale, we believe that every challenge is an opportunity and every learning experience a new skill for the future. We want to be recognized as a nationally renowned school, characterized by innovation, educational excellence, and a commitment to the comprehensive development of our students. We aspire to be the first choice for families in the Setúbal District, inspiring confidence and building successful careers.
The pillars that guide us
Colégio do Vale has always pursued an ideal that it seeks to make compatible with life in society and therefore promotes education for difference, education for change and globalising education. Colégio do Vale's educational practices are always intended to be comprehensive, diversified and integrative and seek to be the result of interactions between all those involved, within each centre and also between different centres.
Colégio do Vale's raison d'être is to promote the full development of the student throughout the various stages of their life, and so its mission is to provide children and young people with the opportunity to experiment and discover paths safely and autonomously, in order to train competent, responsible, motivated, autonomous, synergistic, proactive, supportive and above all happy students!
The pillars that guide us
All the children, young people and adults who are part of the Colégio do Vale community are encouraged to develop and put into practice the values/points of culture that are considered fundamental and are the DNA of Colégio do Vale.
These are: Commitment; Responsibility; Safety; Integrity; Excellence and Innovation; Communication; Success; Education; Teamwork; Balance; Fun; Autonomy and Freedom; Consistency; and Gratitude.
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Educational Project
We believe in an education based on close relationships, challenges and opportunities for growth.
Since its founding on September 21, 1992, Colégio do Vale has operated as an integrated school serving children and students from kindergarten through 9th grade.
As a school that defines itself as a social organization where everyone interacts and has the responsibility to play an active role, all of Colégio do Vale’s activities are based on the following guiding principles:
- The Student as a Knowledge-Building Subject
- Curricular Autonomy and Flexibility
- Diverse Learning Experiences
- Education for Citizenship
- Equal Educational Opportunities
- Inclusive Education
- Active Family Participation
- Responsible Participation of All
Our Educational Project must be an effective response in building a collective consciousness more focused on the world, on others, and on the preservation of historical, cultural, and environmental heritage.
Colégio do Vale, through its Educational Project, expresses itself as a social organization that builds knowledge that is both individual and collective. Through the interactions of its internal structure, while also transcending borders, it provides meaningful learning experiences to educate intellectually and morally prepared citizens, capable of operating in a competitive world, yet also cooperative, tolerant, and supportive.
The curricula encompass the essential and structuring learning to be developed by the STUDENTS, with reference to the Curriculum Guidelines, the essential principles of the MEM - Modern School Movement, in the Nursery and Kindergarten, the Profile of the Student on leaving Compulsory Schooling, the Social Security Guidelines and the Ministry of Education's Programmes, the Pedagogical and Curricular Matrices, the Competences to be developed in the 21st century and the local and specific characteristics of Colégio do Vale, with the aim of adapting them to its context as a school designed and assumed as an organisation with its own identity, pedagogical autonomy and decision-making power.
Colégio do Vale is committed to the future projection of its students and aims to ensure that, by the end of primary school, they have developed the Competence Areas listed below, which aggregate competences understood as complex combinations of knowledge, skills and attitudes that enable effective human action in diverse contexts:
- Language and texts
- Information and Communication
- Reasoning and Problem Solving
- Critical thinking and creative thinking
- Interpersonal relationships
- Personal Development and Autonomy
- Well-being, Health and Environment
- Aesthetic and Artistic Sensitivity
- Scientific, Technical and Technological Knowledge
- Body Awareness and Mastery
We want an Educational Community that generates conscious, responsible, supportive, participative, critical, educated and healthy citizens who collaborate with the various players in the educational process, who are responsible and aware, and who collaborate in mobilising efforts so that everyone has a human and/or professional space that is compatible with the functions they perform.
The Educational Community's direct stakeholders in the educational process are the Students, Parents and/or Guardians, Teachers and Non-Teaching Staff of Colégio do Vale and it is important that everyone is aware of and participates in the daily construction of our project, in accordance with the inherent responsibilities and competences of each one.
The full version of the Education Project is available to parents and guardians on the Inovar consultation platform.
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Our team
Want to be a part of it?
Send your CV to recrutamento@colegiodovale.com
John Forsyth
CEO
Andreia Jardim
Pedagogical Director
Daycare and Kindergarten
Cristina Raposo
Pedagogical Director
1st, 2 st and 3 st Cycles
João Antunes
Administrative and Financial Director
Daniel Gonçalves
Human Resources Director
Patrícia Almeida
Coordinator
1st Cycle
Vânia Barbosa
Coordinator
1st Cycle
Sónia Costa
Coordinator
2 st and 3 st Cycles
Cristina Ruivo
Coordinator
Administrative and Transport Area
Ana Pádua
Coordinator
Surveillance area
Manuela Ferreira
Coordinator
Food area
Marta Bentes
Coordinator
Dual Diploma Language School
Teresa Azevedo
Coordinator
Extracurricular activities
News
Pedagogical Protocols
The College considers it essential to maintain regular communication with the community and the outside world, and has therefore always established educational/training protocols.
In this regard, the College is recognized by the following educational institutions:
Internship Center of the following Higher Education Institutions and Universities
Internship Center of the following Secondary Schools and Vocational Training Centers
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