LTSM High School
High School Educational Pathway
Liceul Teoretic Școala Mea offers students an academic path of excellence, integrating the National Curriculum with the Cambridge international programmes. This stage is crucial for defining the academic and professional profile, providing students with the necessary tools to access prestigious universities worldwide.
LTSM: Achieving Excellence Together!
During the first two years of high school, students follow the Cambridge IGCSE programmes, the most popular international curriculum for 14-16 year olds. This lays the foundation for a deep understanding of chosen subjects and develops critical thinking and research skills.
In the final stage, students specialize through Cambridge International AS & A Level exams and sit the National Baccalaureate exam, obtaining a dual certification that opens doors to global success.
The programmes is complemented by language certifications (IELTS), standardized tests for university admission (SAT), and digital skills (ECDL), ensuring a holistic preparation.
Inquiry-based learning empowers students to develop the research skills necessary for their intellectual growth. Liceul Teoretic Şcoala Mea encourages high school students to embrace reflective learning, which involves building their own system of analysis and creation. The ultimate goal is the achievement of intellectual autonomy alongside a comprehensive and complex acquisition of knowledge.
LTSM develops students’ capacity to process the information they acquire, helping them to identify, understand, and establish logical connections between ideas and their own lines of reasoning. We empower them to detect fallacies in arguments and debates, while enabling them to construct and perceive the underlying justifications for various opinions or beliefs.
The diversity of opinions and the respect for them is a principle that LTSM students embrace through exposure to various cultures, supported by our exchange and partnership programmes organized in collaboration with schools from different countries.
Liceul Teoretic Școala Mea aims to foster students’ entrepreneurial spirit through a diverse range of entrepreneurship education programmes:
- Career Choices: a career counselling and guidance programme including:
- Vocational counselling activities – interest and skills assessment, vocational testing, and individual counselling sessions;
- “Future Job Experiences” – interactive work experience sessions across various fields: Debate, Technology, Literacy, Medical, and Media.
- “My Parent, My Hero” – an entrepreneurship education programme involving parent participation;
- Community-based learning programmes, through off-site activities supported by partners from various economic sectors (Financial education programmes supported by banking institutions, Volunteer Programmes, or Fundraising Events).
Social responsibility education guarantees the social integration of the student’s personality throughout their entire life. A vital component of this is moral education, which shapes personality through civic values such as autonomy, intrinsic motivation for action, human solidarity, and the valuing of integrity.
Cultural education provides awareness, knowledge, and competence, thereby fostering communication and cooperation within the community. Liceul Teoretic Școala Mea programmes utilise cultural and social concepts as indispensable elements in the instructional processes, as follows:
- The Peer Mentoring programme and the Student Council – these are community cohesion programmes for LTSM students, through which they share educational and cultural experiences while initiating and practicing community leadership skills.
- LTSM students are regularly involved in internal volunteering activities aimed at supporting charitable projects. These take place through traditional events such as: Drama Week, Cup of Good Hope, Christmas Fair, and the Talent Show.
- Volunteering programmes in partnership with various economic stakeholders or cultural bodies are also expressions of social responsibility (e.g., the “Bucurie la cutie” project, educational conferences, etc.).
- Assemblies, intercultural competitions, and the “Special Days” programme aim to promote LTSM values and respect for universal cultural values.
LTSM offers high school students a wide range of study options, starting from the core National Curriculum for the Real Profile (Natural Sciences specialisation) or the Human Profile (Social Sciences specialisation), combined with an extensive range of subjects studied for the Cambridge IGCSE and A Level certifications.
In the first two years of high school, students are required to study Mathematics according to the Cambridge IGCSE curriculum, plus two other subjects chosen from the following blocks, based on individual academic interest:
Biology, Physics, Geography, Sociology, Business
Chemistry, Computer Science, History, Psychology, English, Economics
In Year 11 and Year 12, students may opt for the exclusive National Curriculum pathway or continue the extended programme (National Studies + Cambridge Advanced Subsidiary AS & A Level) for 1–3 of their previously studied subjects.
- Nationally accredited study programmes: Natural Sciences, Real Profile.
- Nationally accredited study programmes: Social Sciences, Human Profile.
- Cambridge IGCSE and A Level exam preparation programmes (AS and A2).
- The Cambridge training programme facilitates the completion of the personal portfolio to meet the conditions for admission to educational institutions abroad.
- The Cambridge IGCSE and A Level exam preparation programme runs outside the national curriculum programme.
- Focused preparation programme for subjects included in the National Baccalaureate;
- Learning progress monitoring and support programmes for Cambridge exam preparation;
LTSM organises performance programmes for students who are passionate about subjects within their chosen profile. The performance preparation programme takes place consistently from 1st October to 31st May, for one hour per week. Students who have met the selection criteria, in accordance with the provisions of the School Regulations, are eligible to enrol in this support programme.
- A Course in American and British Literature (four years of study);
- Strategies for Taking IELTS (one year of study).
Throughout the four years of study, students, together with vocational counselors, undergo a complex process of identifying strengths that could determine a successful future professional career. In addition to the specific test batteries for the vocational counseling process, the “Future Job Experiences” programme complements this by offering 9th-grade students 6 study modules with specialists in the fields of Media, Medicine, 3D Printing, Debate, Mechanical Engineering, and Game Development . For 10th and 11th-grade students, it includes a career counseling and orientation programmme, supported in partnership with IntegralEdu.
LTSM offers a SAT (Scholastic Assessment Test) preparation programme – a standardized test for admission to international university environments in English and Mathematics, during the 11th grade. The preparation program lasts a minimum of 10 weeks, with the final duration determined by individual preparation performance.
