International School of Milan - Baranzate, Città metropolitana di Milano

Cristina de Micheli

Ho avuto la possibilità di visitare questa scuola ieri, dove si svolgeva, come ogni inizio di anno scolastico, un piccolo rinfresco, per genitori, professori e Preside. È una scuola grande, moderna, piena di luce, dotata di ampi spazi super organizzati. I ragazzi, che arrivano da ogni parte del mondo, ricevono un'istruzione di stampo inglese. Sono molto esigenti e tengono tantissimo al buon comportamento dell'alunno, il quale è seguito anche da un "tutor" personale che lo aiuta nel suo cammino. Ho potuto ammirare una piscina davvero splendida, idem un campo da calcio, una sala/mensa davvero grande, ben organizzata e pulita, dove a detta degli alunni, si pranza bene, abbondante e variato. È appena arrivato dalla stessa Scuola di Hong Kong un nuovo Preside, che ha rivolto il suo benvenuto a tutti i genitori presenti, elencando a grandi linee lo spirito della Scuola.
"Chapeau" si dice...in francese, degna di una città internazionale quale è Milano!
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Eri C. (Ecchan)

La scuola è molto bella e le infrastrutture moderne. Un bel posto dove mandare i propri figli!

Garage Molinari

Ottima struttura
Ottimi progetti
Non per tutte le tasche

Tehseen Ullah (Hafa)

Nice school, well oriented, huge building, nice class rooms and loyal staff.

Dmitry Tarasov

Best school ever we’ve to dream for our kids, grazie mille!!!⚡️⚡️

Olga Zakharovskaya

Мои дети учились в этой школе два года.

Плюсы:
Школа обладает прекрасной инфраструктурой: бассейн, большой спортзал, футбольные площадки на крыше, просторная столовая, сцена и т.д. Неподалеку есть просторная парковка.

Минусы:
Качество еды в столовой - оставляет желать лучшего. Сменить поставщика - по факту невозможно. Приносить свою еду - нельзя. Как результат - дети жаловались на боли в животе и мало что если.

Что касается непосредственно самого образовательного процесса:

Плюсы:
У нас были неплохие программы PYP и MYP, удобные приложения SeeSaw для PYP учеников и ManageBac для MYP, в которых можно видеть весь процесс обучения. Подробно описанная система оценивания. Быстрая обратная связь от администрации и учителей.

Минусы:
Большие классы. Большая текучка учителей, постоянные замены (но надо отдать должное, мы попали на период COVIDа). Если ученик что-то не понял на уроке - это его проблемы. Складывается ощущение, что ни учителя, ни школа совершенно не заинтересованны в академическом результате своих учеников. Чтобы начать получать хорошие результаты, нам пришлось дополнительно нанимать репетиторов и детям занять активную позицию в школе - самим подходить и спрашивать, просить объяснить непонятое, писать письма и т.д.
Отдельным минусом выделю текучку учеников. Это означает трудность для детей завязывать дружеские отношения, постоянно новые лица.

Как итог: в целом, если приспособиться, учиться можно.

Lucia Affaticati

Eternally grateful for my English lit teacher, who inspired me to pursue a career in academia. As for the rest.... the education could be improved. Over the three years I was enrolled here, I met too many incompetent and/or lazy teachers (e.g.: teachers teaching how to dance during math class, teachers stopping their teaching two weeks before the end of classes, teaching directly not teaching at all) for them to just have been exceptions.
A lot of other teachers are competent and most importantly know the IB inside out, which is a real pro, since they managed to make it way less intense than it is advertised, whilst still leading to very good results and a very fair university preparation. However, considering the incredibly high fee, there should be more attention to the quality of the teaching overall. I graduated a few years ago, so I hope the education is better now (but back then, it was not completely satisfactory).
Also, and most of all, the school should do something about the bullying. There was an incredibly elevated number of students in my year and beyond who lamented being outrighted disrespected. I had to endure a share of that as well, and am really gutted that no one ever did anything about it, considering how ubiquitous it was (it was pretty out into the open as well).
I can't believe the school staff was so powerless as to not follow up on students patently humiliating and isolating other students. It was really disgusting, considering the school's alleged understanding of and striving for diversity/intercultural communication/what have you. Alternatively, the school could admit more scholarship students and less Milanese privileged élites. I sincerely hope that the Baranzate setting has inspired a reconsideration of what diversity and understanding actually are.
I really want to believe this school is doing better now than it was when I was attending it.

Adam Barcak

An absolutely awful, overpriced, disorganized, and utterly mismanaged school. Does not live up to its price or international standards. Forget the international part of its name; this is an Italian school, just taught in English. If you are an expat, you will have a very hard time with this school as most of the communication between the school and the parents is in Italian, and occasionally badly translated to English. If you are looking for a truly international, high quality, and worthwhile private education, do not go here.