A school must empower learners to participate purposefully and eagerly in their own education. Experience tells us that children learn best when their interests guide their activities and discoveries, and that parents have the right and ability to educate their children. We believe that learning begins with curiosity.

Clonlara sees the world as a boundless classroom and considers the learning environment integral to the learning process. Academic teaching and mastery of skills are not limited to a space or location. At home, at school, and beyond, there is fertile ground for learning.

We believe that a school should allow students to participate in the design and implementation of their curriculum. When students’ personal interests drive their educational activities, their motivation grows, and their learning is deeper and longer lasting. Every aspect of a student’s development deserves attention: physical, spiritual, mental, and psychological.

Our approach to education leads to a lifelong love of learning.

Learning at Clonlara is personalized, and it begins with the student. Our campus teachers meet with students and their families to discover their strengths and interests, then help them plan their learning using our Full Circle Learning process. With a plan in place, students direct their own learning with support from teachers and mentors, working together to create authentic, relevant, and personally challenging learning experiences.

At Clonlara School, students are grouped according to their age:

Youngers (grades 1 to 5 – 6 to 11 years); Middles (grades 6 to 8 – 11 to 14 years old); Olders (grades 9 to 12 – 14 to 18 years old).

In addition to the fundamental role of families in the development of children, the families of students at Clonlara School – Idanha have the opportunity to get involved in the educational community not only by participating in activities, study visits or field trips, but also by supporting the dynamics of the day-to-day school.

The Clonlara team has been working to open a school in Portugal for some years now.

In January 2022, Associação Clonlara Portugal established a partnership with the municipality of Idanha-a-Nova for the new building. Since then, we have been working closely with the Ministry of Education and other entities to be ready to receive our first students and families at our new campus as soon as possible.

Clonlara’s team is fully committed to this project.

Enrollments are related to the licensing process and can only start after the approval of the national authorities.

However, we are currently collecting names and contact information for interested families so that you can be the first to receive enrollment updates. If you’d like to join this list, please let us know at info.idanha@clonlara.org.

Clonlara School Idanha will initially open to students in grades 1 through 5, with plans to expand its services through grade 12 in the near future.

Clonlara School is proud to be accredited by the following organizations: Accreditation International (Ai), Middle States Association of Colleges and School (MSA-CESS), and the National Council for Private School Accreditation (NCPSA).

The process of getting the operating license for the new Campus is running with Ministry of Education in Portugal.

Yes. In Coimbra, Colégio de São José works as an affiliate with Clonlara in its international section. For more information, consult:

https://www.colegiosjose.pt/pt/international-program-clonlara/

Clonlara School Idanha is made up of a creative and dynamic team of experts with experience in different areas such as education, psychology, special education, pedagogy, and community projects, among others. They share an enormous desire to build a school oriented toward today’s children, through an innovative and contemporary vision of education.

The team is also supported by a global community of around 90 collaborators from all over the world, with the most diverse cultural and academic backgrounds, who work closely in the various projects that Clonlara develops.

Clonlara is privileged to be a truly global learning community.