The Pre-school offers a total immersion program, taught only in French, to establish a strong foundation at an early age. English courses are introduced in Kindergarten.
The harmonious development of your child is our goal. Our objective is to offer our students a way of life that meets their physiological, affective, and intellectual needs. Our teaching, in French, is organized in the areas described below; they are adapted to the age and the learning style of your child.
Living Together
Learning to live together is the student's first experience. At school they share common spaces and activities such as organized play, board games, or project work. The sharing of responsibilities, listening to, and the respect of others are emphasized at all times.
- Carrying out conversations with an adult or another student, describing simple facts for the youngest, more complicated events for the oldest,
- Telling of distant or imaginary situations (tell news or a story),
- Making language an object of interest with games of nursery rhymes, poems and songs,
- Discovering the structures and functions of different types of texts using newspapers, posters, recipes, magazines, etc.,
- Becoming aware of different phonemes with listening and cutting syllables games, and
- Noticing the relationship between oral and written words, by learning and recognizing them in a text.
Functioning in the world
Movement is an essential element of your child’s development. During Physical Education sessions, he/she will develop skills, such as running, jumping, climbing, throwing, and balancing with the use of balls, hula-hoops and other equipment. This helps students become aware of time and space, judge distances and react to a signal in team games. Students learn to express themselves through physical movement, alone or with other children, or while doing skits.
Discovering the world
Your child discovers the world around him/her a little more every day. He/she strives to know and respect his/her environment. We aim to teach our students never to stop observing, questioning and finding answers. We try to accomplish this through activities, in several domains including:
- Objects: construction games, building and taking objects apart, creating projects,
- Matter: (discovering the properties of natural elements and materials such as water, wood, earth, stone…,
- The Living World ( the human body, as well as the main elements of life: birth, growth, movement, nutrition),
- Natural and Human Spaces (observing and describing: plants and animals, gardening, country, ocean, forest, rivers, roads, houses, recycling, noises and smells),
- Hygiene (the role of sleep, the importance of good nutrition, the main rules of hygiene, the five senses, an awareness of traffic rules, of dangerous objects and chemicals) and,
- Time (discovering the days, years, seasons and learning to use a calendar).
Imagine, Feel, Create
In school, our students develop sensitivity, imagination, and creativity. Through music and arts they learn to feel and express themselves.
- Music: vocal games, discovery of simple music instruments, listening to different types of music, perception and reproduction of rhythms and melodies,
- Arts : drawing, clay, painting, collages, building objects in three dimensions.
Learning Tools
While enriching their knowledge, our students acquire essential tools to develop their intelligence. It is in Preschool and Kindergarten that they start to use them methodically.
- Hand-writing: by regular and appropriate exercises, our students learn at the youngest age to control the movement of their hand, to hold a pencil, to write more precisely. The older students are prepared for cursive writing,
- Mathematics: classifications (classify using a given criterion), numeration (estimating quantities, instantaneous recognition of numbers, learning number rhymes, small additions and subtractions, ordering), geometry, (open and closed figures, inside and outside, recognizing geometrical shapes) and organization of space (above /below, right /left, near/far, here/there).
