Curriculum enrichment activities

SEK-Les Alpes offers a different dimension to the teaching and learning process:

  • Consolidation of an international mindset
  • Importance of a balanced lifestyle while taking part in outdoor and adventure sports and activities
  • Developing 21st century skills
  • The boarding experience
  • We ensure seamless continuation of their academic studies with their SEK schools of origin through personalised teaching monitoring

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Physical activities help students deepen their knowledge on health and professional athletic ethics, while reflecting on the environment, its challenges and solutions.

Skiing is the main sport at our school, it takes place in the 2nd term, 3 days a week, at the best ski resorts and students receive classes taught by instructors from the French Ski School.

  • Canyoning
  • Visit to Chamonix and ascent to l’Aiguille du MIdi
  • Rafting on the Isère.
  • Paintball in Megève.
  • Caving in Sassenage.
  • Skiing in Tignes.
  • Skating in Megève.
  • Skiing in Courchevel, Val Thorans and Les Saisies.
  • Fort de Tamié Adventure Park.
  • Water skiing.
  • De la Rosière Via Ferrata.
  • Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme. Expedition I and II.

Skiing is the main sport.It takes place in the best ski resorts and pupils receive classes taught by instructors from the French Ski School.

As part of our education programme, year 3 ESO students take the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Bronze Award, it is an internationally recognised programme designed to encourage young students to develop skills and adopt healthy lifestyles.

The programme is a personal challenge fully tailored to the interests and abilities of each student.

Participants must overcome four sections:

  • Skill
  • Volunteering
  • Physical activity
  • Adventure expedition

The DofE Award is a prestigious scheme founded in 1956, implemented in 180 countries and over 1 million international students have taken part.

It has great international prestige, young people who have taken part in the scheme are highly valued by the most reputable universities from around the world and major multinational companies.

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The International Dimension:

In daily life, in the school and on visits to other, neighbouring areas, both in France and in Switzerland and Italy, pupils come to appreciate the similarities and differences between the different cultures, along with the different ways in which they are expressed: arts, music, theatre, dance.

Living in harmony:

Life in the residence, where everyone is responsible for welfare and harmony, includes:

  • Dealing with social and emotional intelligence both as an individual and as a group.
  • Recognition of diversity.
  • Acceptance and mutual respect.

We help consolidate students’ international mentality by working on their French language skills in a space that allows them to participate in real-life use of the language, either at school or in the geographical contexts where the different activities take place

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The learning experiences which, with the collaboration of teachers from Camilo Jose Cela University, are included across the curriculum.

They provide the opportunity to be exposed to situations which allow them to consider themselves as future leaders, entrepreneurs, creative artists or young scientists.