Values & philosophy

Vision

Create lifelong learners through quality education that is globally minded within the local community.

Mission

ISB is committed to providing quality international and bilingual education to Hungarian and international students. Building on over 25 years of educational experience, we remain a supportive and motivated community environment, which empowers our students to develop as truly responsible individuals and lifelong learners. With our focus on the local, national and global community we have created a unique educational environment. Doing so allows students to learn about diverse cultures and perspectives within the framework of both an international and bilingual Hungarian curriculum. We achieve this by providing high-quality, child-centric teaching, and maintaining an engaged community.

Values

The International School of Budapest is a values-based institution that puts an emphasis on the education of the whole person. This means that we place our values at the heart of all of our activities. We believe that emphasis on these helps us to foster the approaches and mindsets that allow members of our community to cooperate and achieve. Furthermore, as an educational institution we believe that we have a key role in guiding our students to become engaged and open global citizens.

Members of our community are:

Inquiring – We are curious and have a deep desire to find out about the world around us. We seek not just to discover new knowledge and understanding, but to learn analytically and reflectively. Our love of learning allows us to both find out new things and develop the skills that we need to do so.

Respectful – We place respectful behaviour at the centre of all that we do. We always act in a respectful manner as we believe in the value of modelling respectful behaviour to others. We acknowledge the importance of diversity and aim to create an equitable, inclusive environment where all can express themselves freely.

Motivated – We care about the world we live in and are passionate about doing our share to create positive change. We look at education not only as a process of learning facts but also about applying our knowledge and understanding to innovate and find solutions to problems.

Community-minded – We are a community of learners who support one another as well as the local, national and global community. Through active cooperation and reflection, we foster a “we” rather than “me” mindset that inspires us to contribute.

Responsible – We stay true to our values and act with integrity when we feel that something is not right. We are responsible for one another, our community, our actions and the environment.