ST. PHILIP SCHOOL ROME 
Open Day 2026
28 November
From 10:00 to 13:00 Via Don Orione 8, 00183 Rome
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ST. PHILIP SCHOOL ROME
WHAT CAN YOU DO DURING THE OPEN DAY?
You can visit us, you’ll have the chance to get to know our bilingual school and explore all our school levels (Preschool, Primary and Lower Secondary) as well as the educational method we use.
During the school tour, you will be accompanied by an Italian teacher, an English teacher, and a member of the administrative staff. You’ll visit the three active school levels, their classrooms, and the various laboratories.
WHY JOIN US?
You’ll have the opportunity to visit the school, meet part of our teaching staff, and ask questions directly to our academic and administrative team.
The visit will allow you to get familiar with our spaces, our community, and our teaching approach. At the end, you’ll receive informative brochures to take home.
To take part, simply book your visit here and let us know which school level you are interested in.
PRIVATE TOURS
If you can’t attend the Open Day, please contact us.
You can schedule a personalized appointment at a time that suits you best,
and visit the school privately with our Headmistress, Roberta Wunderle.
PROGRAMME
10:00 – WELCOME (Sala Vallesi)
10:15 – OPENING SESSION – Presentation of the school
11:00 – WORKSHOPS & ACTIVITIES
THE FOLLOWING WORKSHOPS MAY BE SUBJECT TO MINOR CHANGES. THE FINAL PROGRAMME WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON.
GROUND FLOOR – PRESCHOOL:
MULTIPURPOSE ROOM – Educational Orientation
CLASSROOM 1 – Collage Workshop
CLASSROOM 2 – Painting Workshop
CLASSROOM 3 – Hands-on Activities
GYM – Psychomotor and Circus Movement Activities
FIRST FLOOR – PRIMARY SCHOOL:
HEAD OFFICE – Coordinator Roberta Wunderle – Meeting with families
CLASSROOM 1 – Educational Orientation for FIRST GRADE
CLASSROOM 2 – Chalk Drawing Workshop
CLASSROOM 3 – English Workshop
CLASSROOM 7 – Chess Workshop
ART ROOM – Watercolour Workshop
MULTIPURPOSE ROOM – Drama Workshop
GYM – Physical Education Activities (Primary and Lower Secondary)
SECOND FLOOR – LOWER SECONDARY SCHOOL:
HEAD OFFICE – Principal Raffaella Massacesi – Meeting with families
CLASSROOM 1 – Educational Orientation for FIRST GRADE – Cambridge Corner
SCIENCE LAB – Microscopy Activities
ART LAB – With former lower secondary students
MUSIC ROOM – Presentation of musical instruments from Preschool, Primary, and Lower Secondary
Take a minute to get to know us
WHY CHOOSE
ST. PHILIP SCHOOL
CAREFULLY SELECTED TEACHERS
All of our 40 teaching staff members have been rigorously vetted and selected for their engagement and dedication both on a personal and professional level, as well as their didactical and pedagogical expertise.
CURRICULUM
Our Curriculum is built around each pupil’s needs, as they embark on an exciting personal journey. Academic success and personal growth are aided by the wealth of teaching resources, including interactive whiteboards, tablets, Art lab, ITC lab, Science lab.
UP TO 30 HOURS OF ENGLISH
EVERY WEEK
PRESCHOOL: 3 year olds 20 hours, 4 and 5 year olds 30 hours
PRIMARY: Grades 1 and 2 27 hours, Grades 3 and 4 23 hours, Grade 5 21 hours
LOWER SECONDARY: up to 12 hours
Teaching Methods
Ours is a school where theory meets practice. Our pupils learn Italian and English through a blend of the Direct and Communicative Learning approach alongside the Cognitive Code Approach.
BUILDING SUCCESS
Our pupils naturally learn to speak, read and write in two languages.
LEARNING MODE
Specific teaching method based on "know-how"
97%
Family Satisfaction Rate
1 School
5.000 sqm, 15 Classrooms, 6 Labs, 5 Sports Grounds, 1 Theatre.
600+
Families have already chosen us
St Philip School is a bilingual school at the heart of Rome’s centre. We are a bilingual school in that all teaching activities are performed either in Italian or in English (up to 30 hours each week). Our school offers a preschool-to-secondary educational path specifically designed to ensure our children achieve native-like fluency in both
English and Italian.
Our innovative teaching method hinges on the continuous post-graduate training of our Italian
and native/mother tongue English teachers, as well as constant cooperation with leading institutions in pedagogical and teaching practices.
Our pupils are constantly supervised during school hours (8-18). From noon onwards, while playing, having lunch, during classes, their native/mother tongue English teacher is always with them; after playtime, the afternoon schedule is a harmonious blend which features music classes and psychomotricity hours. All our grades offer a 40-hour timetable.
Fill in the form in this page to receive info: we will get back to you as soon as possible to arrange an appointment and/or to provide, either via telephone or email, all the information you require. Requesting information entails no obligation or commitments.
Click on the Educational Stage you are interested in and find out more.
Preschool (3 to 5 y/o)
PRE-SCHOOL
St Philip Preschool focuses on arts-and-crafts-based learning activities and learning through doing.
The Italian school system is beset ‒on the one hand‒ by teaching steeped in excessive abstractness and ‒ on the other hand‒ teaching methods which are not informed by adequate theoretical expertise; most schools can be categorized accordingly. Inevitably, abstractness and superficial memorizing of data and notions result in bored students, dissatisfied by their learning experience.
Our school is a crucible where “learn through doing” meets “theoretical expertise”. In our bilingual preschool, competent educators foster the growth of our children in an educational environment shaped by psychomotricity, music, arts and crafts, where all activities are specifically designed better to prepare our children for later education. Our preschool curriculum: 25 hours per week, several in English.
The Italian school system is beset ‒on the one hand‒ by teaching steeped in excessive abstractness and ‒ on the other hand‒ teaching methods which are not informed by adequate theoretical expertise; most schools can be categorized accordingly. Inevitably, abstractness and superficial memorizing of data and notions result in bored students, dissatisfied by their learning experience.
Our school is a crucible where “learn through doing” meets “theoretical expertise”. In our bilingual preschool, competent educators foster the growth of our children in an educational environment shaped by psychomotricity, music, arts and crafts, where all activities are specifically designed better to prepare our children for later education. Our preschool curriculum: 25 hours per week, several in English.
School Hours
08.00 - 18.00
Classes in English
Up to 30
School Labs
4
Extracurricular Activities
10+
Primary School (6 to 10 y/o)
PRIMARY SCHOOL
St Philip Primary is a state-licensed bilingual school where “learn through doing” meets “theoretical expertise”, a teaching-learning setting where our children thrive and spontaneously learn English owing to their everyday activities in class.
Our Primary School (6 to 10 years) fosters and promotes our children’s direct engagement in acquiring literacy, numeracy, foundational education at the heart of Italian culture, in the context of an ever-broadening cultural horizon, safe-internet and new-media skills.
It is a social and cultural education which encompasses the fundamentals tools of learning (literacy, numeracy) and enriches each student’s educational experience with multidisciplinary knowledge and trans-disciplinary themes and concepts.
Cultural and social education mainly relies on multilingual and intercultural education. Native languages, languages of schooling, foreign languages taught in school, ‒ as languages through which education is attained ‒ promote and foster a child’s individual right to the full development of their identity while in contact with linguistic and cultural otherness.
Multilingual and intercultural education is key to fostering diversity and academic success; it is fundamental in promoting social inclusion and democratic participation.
Our bilingual primary school pursues each student’s constitutional right to the acquisition of foundational education. Our students pursue the development of their cognitive, emotional, social, corporeal, ethical and religious dimensions, alongside the acquisition of fundamental and indispensable knowledge. Ours is a bilingual primary in which:
a broad set of multidisciplinary resources are utilized to promote and develop each individual’s critical thinking;
all cognitive styles of learning are recognized and valued, a wide variety of teaching styles are valued and implemented;
confident students acquire and develop skills to become competent citizens at both a national and international level. Primary School Curriculum: 24h, several in English.
Our Primary School (6 to 10 years) fosters and promotes our children’s direct engagement in acquiring literacy, numeracy, foundational education at the heart of Italian culture, in the context of an ever-broadening cultural horizon, safe-internet and new-media skills.
It is a social and cultural education which encompasses the fundamentals tools of learning (literacy, numeracy) and enriches each student’s educational experience with multidisciplinary knowledge and trans-disciplinary themes and concepts.
Cultural and social education mainly relies on multilingual and intercultural education. Native languages, languages of schooling, foreign languages taught in school, ‒ as languages through which education is attained ‒ promote and foster a child’s individual right to the full development of their identity while in contact with linguistic and cultural otherness.
Multilingual and intercultural education is key to fostering diversity and academic success; it is fundamental in promoting social inclusion and democratic participation.
Our bilingual primary school pursues each student’s constitutional right to the acquisition of foundational education. Our students pursue the development of their cognitive, emotional, social, corporeal, ethical and religious dimensions, alongside the acquisition of fundamental and indispensable knowledge. Ours is a bilingual primary in which:
a broad set of multidisciplinary resources are utilized to promote and develop each individual’s critical thinking;
all cognitive styles of learning are recognized and valued, a wide variety of teaching styles are valued and implemented;
confident students acquire and develop skills to become competent citizens at both a national and international level. Primary School Curriculum: 24h, several in English.
School Hours
08.00 - 18.00
Classes in English
Up to 27
School Labs
4
Extracurricular Activities
10+
Lower Secondary school/Middle school (11 to 13 y/o)
Secondary School
St Philip Lower Secondary School offers a heavily-integrated multidisciplinary educational path aimed at ensuring our students acquire and develop the necessary skills and competences to be key players in tomorrow’s society.
As our students progress in their educational journey we expand one grade level each year to ensure they pursue their academic and educational growth here at St Philip. In 2020/21 we activated year 6 (grade 6/prima media), in 2023-24 we are launching our High school offering.
We constantly strive for the right synergic balance among humanities, STEM, visual arts, music and drama.
Our Lower Secondary School focuses on helping our students successfully acquire the necessary knowledge and skills so that they can realise their full educational potential.
Multilingual and intercultural education is key to fostering diversity and academic success; it is fundamental in promoting social inclusion and democratic participation. In learning how to love studying and how to learn, not only do our students make all-important progress on a successful lifelong learning journey, but they also acquire a method which will see them through to a successful adult life.
Our teaching staff expertly provides pastoral care and guidance to meet our pupils’ deepest needs, foster their empowerment, instils self-reliance and nurtures critical thinking We build and re-arrange flexible timetables to provide a balanced curriculum experience and ensure we best meet the needs of our students.
The synergic educational balance we deploy is aimed at fostering and promoting:
academic critical thinking;
real-life critical thinking and skills; ethical responsibility; tidiness and organizational skills; manual craftsmanship; practical knowledge and understanding of materials and tools; our ultimate objective is to ensure the transition from factual knowledge and skills to competences. Lower Secondary School Curriculum: 30 Hours, several in English.
As our students progress in their educational journey we expand one grade level each year to ensure they pursue their academic and educational growth here at St Philip. In 2020/21 we activated year 6 (grade 6/prima media), in 2023-24 we are launching our High school offering.
We constantly strive for the right synergic balance among humanities, STEM, visual arts, music and drama.
Our Lower Secondary School focuses on helping our students successfully acquire the necessary knowledge and skills so that they can realise their full educational potential.
Multilingual and intercultural education is key to fostering diversity and academic success; it is fundamental in promoting social inclusion and democratic participation. In learning how to love studying and how to learn, not only do our students make all-important progress on a successful lifelong learning journey, but they also acquire a method which will see them through to a successful adult life.
Our teaching staff expertly provides pastoral care and guidance to meet our pupils’ deepest needs, foster their empowerment, instils self-reliance and nurtures critical thinking We build and re-arrange flexible timetables to provide a balanced curriculum experience and ensure we best meet the needs of our students.
The synergic educational balance we deploy is aimed at fostering and promoting:
academic critical thinking;
real-life critical thinking and skills; ethical responsibility; tidiness and organizational skills; manual craftsmanship; practical knowledge and understanding of materials and tools; our ultimate objective is to ensure the transition from factual knowledge and skills to competences. Lower Secondary School Curriculum: 30 Hours, several in English.
School Hours
08.00 - 18.00
Classes in English
Up to 12
School Labs
4
Extracurricular Activities
10+
Photo Gallery
What our Classrooms and Laboratories are like
Here are a few snapshots of our School; do pay us a visit and check out our 5000 sqm School area and its facilities: 15 classrooms, 6 laboratories, 5 sports grounds, 1 Theatre. From 2020-21 the entire second floor and its new Science and ITC Lab are entirely dedicated to the Lower Secondary
Our Staff Team
At St Philip we are proud of our passionate and talented Staff Team. To get to know more about us, you can either book an Open Day Tour or visit the Staff dedicated page at stphilipschool.it under the header STAFF.
Our School Uniform
The Official St Philip Uniform
Crafts projects Gallery
It may prove a difficult task to provide even a narrowed down selection of the thousands of crafts projects made by our children. Please see below a small gallery of photos portraying a few. On an Open Day Tour you can get to experience what we mean by “knowing how to do”.
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