Early Childhood
We are what we live is the project dedicated to the Sezione Primavera and the Early Childhood School.
This project is designed to give children the opportunity to come into contact with the language through the routine organized by the curricular teachers, who alternate moments in English and others in Italian.
The children, therefore, find themselves facing different types of activities in the language: creative, musical and psychomotor.
The teacher, through the learning by doing method with games, rhymes and everyday activities, leads the child to assimilate new sounds and understand their meanings.
Each year a theme of the year is developed, presented in different learning units; this path helps children broaden their horizons, as it does not only concern everyday life.
The school’s educational offer is completed with the proposal of afternoon workshops that adopt intuitive techniques to convey linguistic content effectively, involving all the child’s senses.
To stimulate language learning in young children, play is certainly the most appropriate tool!
Available to the children, moreover, is a small section of books in English at the Rigolateca.
During the summer period, moreover, the school offers an English Summer Camp lasting one week within the school premises: the different types of activities proposed give children the opportunity to interact in an English-speaking environment, also thanks to the presence of external guest collaborators.
Primary School
In Primary School, eight hours are dedicated to English and language learning continues to be linked to the experiential areas of the pupils; the curricular teachers set themselves the objective of developing the 4 Skills (Use of English, Listening, Speaking and Writing) through the use of different methodologies, including Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and storytelling.
The teachers, in addition to the ministerial textbook, adopt a series of texts belonging to the international catalogue of Cambridge Press, which have been designed for an audience not necessarily of Italian mother tongue.
Technology and art and image projects are carried out entirely in English; some in-depth studies of civic education are, moreover, conveyed in English.
The offer is completed with curricular preparation for the Cambridge A1 Movers certification during the final year.
The school’s extracurricular educational offer, instead, is completed with the proposal of an afternoon workshop, Cambridge Young Learners.
The path starts from the Cambridge University for young learners approach and sets itself the objective of acquiring real linguistic skills (understanding basic instructions, taking part in simple conversations and writing short notes) through the use of engaging and interactive material. The aim is to develop and strengthen the 4 language skills, in preparation for the A1 Movers certification at the end of Year 5.
During the summer period, moreover, the school offers an English Summer Camp, lasting one week, within the school premises: Be an active participant is the main objective. Thanks to this immersive proposal in an English-speaking environment, participants are given the opportunity to express themselves in the language, through a wide range of activities, proposed with different teaching methodologies.
Secondary School
Also at the lower Secondary School, pupils are offered an enhanced English curriculum that includes eight weekly hours dedicated to the foreign language: five of teaching-learning with the use of different methodologies, including Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), flipped classroom and cooperative learning; one hour of interdisciplinary projects including in-depth studies of civic education and two of technology.
The curriculum is designed, moreover, to offer continuity to the Cambridge certification path: during the first two years, preparation for the Cambridge A2 KEY certification is carried out as part of the curriculum.
During the third year, instead, extracurricular preparation for the Cambridge B1 PET certification is offered.
The school also offers an extracurricular afternoon path to develop and strengthen the 2 language skills of oral comprehension and production: Listening and Speaking through interactive, collaborative and engaging activities.
The enhanced English path is completed with a summer proposal: Summer School: two weeks of study holiday in the United Kingdom during which students can experience an educational experience from different points of view: linguistic, personal and cultural.
