United High School

United High School (UHS) is a secular, co-educational school in the Belgrano Chico neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, with more than 30 years of experience. It is bilingual in English and covers kindergarten, primary and secondary, from the one-year-old class to the fifth year of secondary school. Kindergarten takes children from 18 months to five years in morning and afternoon shifts, with a compulsory double shift from the five-year-old class. Primary pupils follow the Cambridge Primary programme in language, maths, science, global perspectives and arts, and secondary students take the Cambridge Secondary 1 programme, IGCSE and the ICE certificate, and in fifth year AS and A Level subjects towards the AICE diploma. The school works through project-based learning and a reading programme, and its stated goal is to give each student individual attention within a framework of ethics, perseverance and respect for diversity.

Sport at UHS is social and participatory, and the school takes part in all the activities of the L.I.D.E. student sports league. Kindergarten includes curricular swimming lessons, and the curricular sports programme in primary starts with tennis, gymnastics, athletics and multi-sports in first grade and moves on to hockey, rugby, football and athletics from third to sixth grade. Secondary students continue with hockey, rugby, football and athletics. Art, music and physical education are taught by specialist teachers from kindergarten, and primary adds curricular workshops in drama, technology, computing and chess, with a choir from third to seventh grade. In secondary, extracurricular workshops include a drama club and a choir. Open classes, educational outings, camps, sports tours and study trips run through the year.