Age: 14-16

An advanced house focused on nuanced expression, critical thinking, academic and professional registers, and near-fluent comprehension and production.

Project-Based Learning Methodology & Assessment: Involves authentic, long-term projects such as community research, multimedia documentaries, and simulated professional tasks that emphasize autonomy, critical inquiry, genre awareness, and persuasive communication. Instruction supports research methods, advanced vocabulary, and rhetorical strategies with mentor-style feedback. Assessment is performance- and evidence-based, using holistic and analytic rubrics, public exhibitions, peer and expert critiques, comprehensive portfolios, and reflective evaluations tied to CEFR descriptors for higher-level skills.