Castelli International School is one of the most exciting and stimulating green bilingual schools in Europe. Founded in 1977, the school is beautifully situated on a hilltop overlooking Rome, surrounded by vineyards and olive groves on the slopes of the Alban hills.CIS is the only fully integrated bilingual private day school in Italy catering to children from grades one through eight. CIS bases its educational philosophy on a Chinese proverb: When I hear I forget. When I see I remember. When I do I understand.
The school's primary objective is to provide a stimulating educational environment for international families living south of Rome and in the Castelli Romani area. CIS believes that the children, being naturally curious, are eager to learn, and that they learn best through inquiry, experience, and trial and error.
The healthy country-side atmosphere allows children to experience the joy of learning and the excitement of discovery in a happy, caring and supportive environment. Our international curriculum integrated with the bilingual program offers a broad and enriching learning experience where children participate in the diversity of cultures and mother tongue languages, learn from each other and acquire the skills needed to relate to the world around them.Graduation 2009
"C.I.S. is a magical corner of the world where no experiment is too zany to try - Shakespeare productions in 10 hours? Why not! Prehistoric Pots? Absolutely! The walls need rebuilding? Let's go. Tolstoy? Definitely. We throw ourselves in until we drop, and yet somehow, fun runs through everything we do."