Our Early Years Programme aims at creating an environment where children can experience the fundamental touchstones of the Edmund Rice Schools with joy and from a very early age. The Programme is thus a paramount development stage for 3 to 5-year-olds.
Our educational environment helps children to both socialise with others and boost their individual growth process, with emphasis on games as a didactic methodology. In a safe space run by professionals, the right conditions are created to foster confidence and the will for self-improvement.
Our Charter seeks to create a community where joy, hope, honesty and effort can flourish; where each individual is valued and respected. We are committed to reaching our full potential in everything we undertake, and we thus aim at encouraging each child to be willing to reach, within his or her capacities, their own potential as well.
The Early Years Programme focuses on the learning process as of 3 years of age. The main elements that guide our daily activities include: affection, creativity, physical movement, participation in the classroom, respect for each child’s timing, coping with time and using the space around us.
We are a team of teachers working together with a psychologist, an educational psychologist, a speech therapist and a specialist in psychomotricity. Each child’s learning process and his or her accomplishments are monitored, stimulated and systematically appraised.
We work on the main development areas (language, mathematics, motor, social and emotional areas) to guide each child so that they can deploy those competencies as best they can. Our early prevention approach helps us detect the need for necessary and timely intervention.
Our integral education comprises a set of curricular areas: Spanish language, English language, Religious Education, Artistic Expression (music and corporal expression), Psychomotor Skills, Physical Education and IT. Linguistic, mathematical, scientific and social skills are learnt through meaningful project-based activities.
Our staff is made up of certified professionals who, as a School requirement, undergo regular professional development sessions with local or international experts.
YEAR LEVELS
Early Year Education facilities have been purposefully designed with ample and pleasant premises, separate access and their own playground.
Explorers: children who, by September 31 of the year prior to the beginning of the school term, have reached the age of 3 years.
Morning shift: 8:00 am to 12:00 pm
Afternoon shift: 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Kinder: children who, by September 31 of the year prior to the beginning of the school term, have reached the age of 4 years.
School hours: 8:00 am to 3:30 pm
Prep: children who, by September 31 of the year prior to the beginning of the school term, have reached the age of 5 years.
School hours: 8:00 am to 3:30 pm