Appropriate methodology using games as a form of motivation.
“The way we apply our teaching method enables our children to learn the English language easily and effortlessly.”
Nursery
At the Nursery School and Reception stage, in a warm and personal environment, our pupils learn English using an innovative method that is natural and spontaneous. The first years in a child’s life are crucial and are the basis for everything that is subsequently learned.
The success of our schools is based upon encouraging and stimulating all aspects of our pupils’ learning in an appropriate way. We achieve this through a programme of activities tailored to the needs of each age group, and by adopting the correct teaching methodology, where fun and games are used to motivate. Moreover, it is precisely between the ages of 2 and 4 when humans consolidate language and communication processes and, therefore, this is the ideal moment to learn English, as well as Spanish, as a native language.
As a result of our teaching methods, and the way we implement them, our children learn English easily and effortlessly. For them, it’s just one more game, and their parents are surprised to see such unexpected progress when they hear them at home using spontaneous English expressions as they play. To achieve this, we concentrate on six basic areas of learning, which include the physical, intellectual and emotional development of each child.
The six major areas we promote are separate from one another but there is a perfect relationship between them:
- 1) Personal, Social and Emotional Development: Children learn to have self-esteem, to form positive relationships and to take an interest in the world around them.
- 2) Communication, Language and Literacy: Children begin to learn English through Nursery Rhymes, fairy tales, stories and songs. They start learning to read using the “Jolly Phonics” method (based on the teaching of phonemes and sound families). Speaking – Listening – Reading – Writing.
- 3) Mathemathics Development: Children are introduced to problem solving and numeracy. Our innovative method “Numicom” (based on the structures represented by numbers) is specially designed so that our pupils understand the concept of “number and quantity”, fundamental to the learning of mathematics.
- 4) Knowledge and Understanding of the World: Children begin to explore and get to know the world around them. They learn about different cultures and beliefs.
- 5) Physical Development: Children learn to coordinate their body movements through swimming and by developing their motor skills.
- 6) Creative Development: Children begin to develop their creative side through colours, textures, shapes and music, not to mention all the educational resources that the school provides.