Institutional Activities
School SEK Chile
INTERSCHOOL ACTIVITIES
The SEK International Institution, aware of the need to offer students experiences that allow them to have a broad and complete human and cultural formation, year after year and alternately, organizes the Sports or Cultural InterSEK.
Delegations from the schools that make up the Institution attend these large events. Each year, the venue is a different country.
On the other hand, every two years, students also have the chance to participate in Green Week, an activity that takes place in Costa Rica. This recreational and cultural activity is aimed at students from 7th grade onwards (12 years of age). It takes place during the month of March and includes a complete program where protected areas of the Costa Rican jungle are visited.
Short courses are offered at St John’s, Devon, England, for boys and girls aged 9-16. Students stay at school for a minimum of half a term and take part in all aspects of the school’s academic and extra-curricular programmes. St John’s also offers a Summer Camp over a four-week period in July and August. Pupils aged 7-16 are able to attend for 1,2,3 or 4 weeks. Each week day involves three hours of English lessons followed by a full range of sporting and cultural activities.
For more details please see the school’s website.
This program, which has been in operation over ten years, offers students of the Institution SEK International, aged between thirteen and sixteen years the possibility of continuing their usual studies at the school through the medium of English.
Boca Prep International School is a fully accredited US School. The program usually last for three months, but can be extended up to one year.
For more information, please contact the Director of International Programs at the school or visit the school’s website.
An annual event that brings together students of all IES and SEK schools in the world to practice a range of winter sports. This Week, in Chile, takes place in the south of the country in the month of August.
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The White Week is part of the annual planning of the Physical Education subject. This allows students to practice skiing and snowboarding and share with their peers, moments that promote healthy coexistence and cultural exchange.
This program takes place in the month of August in renowned ski resorts in Chile.
A truly global experience
InterSEK is a global sports and cultural competition that takes place every year in one of the SEK or IES schools. In 2022 a sports InterSEK was held in Valencia, Spain. In 2021 this activity was of a cultural virtual nature and took place in La Coruña, Spain. The aim of InterSEK is to create a unique experience based on respect between the different SEK/IES communities and, at the same time, foster a healthy learning environment, cultural exchange and, of course, competition.
For more details please see the website.
Green Week introduces young people aged 13 and above to a range of enviromental issues in the context of Costa Rica’s extraordinary natural resources. Students visit some of the most exciting wild areas of this amazing country Green Week is based at the SEK INternational Institution’s school and is supported by staff who are bilingual in English and Spanish.
For more information, please contact the Director of International Programs at the school or see the website.
