Social-Emotional Learning helps students develop the skills they need to thrive academically, socially, and emotionally.

Inspired by the Responsive Classroom Approach, this domain is one of our core educational program’s keystones. The Responsive Classroom Approach promotes success across all areas of the curriculum. For instance, children enhance their relationships with peers and develop self-awareness. They also learn to adapt to classroom rules, practice self-regulation, and collaborate effectively. As a result, they become more autonomous and accountable by taking an active role in the life of the class. 

Students enhance their body awareness, spatial awareness, coordination, and control through daily physical fitness activities. They also develop the hand-eye coordination and dexterity required for manipulating small objects during fine motor skills activities.

In all areas of our international preschool’s curriculum, children acquire a growing receptive and expressive new vocabulary in both languages. For example, they practice oral skills via meaningful communication during targeted language activities and spontaneous conversation. Then, over time, they improve syntax structure and understand and follow spoken directions.

The more they practice, the more our students demonstrate an understanding of the organization of print, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). Moreover, they display reading behaviors. Eventually, children read independently in English at the end of Kindergarten and are ready to begin the first grade’s formal French reading program. 

Additionally, in Kindergarten, students participate in a co-teaching class where they start working on comparative grammar, allowing them to deepen their understanding of both languages and their structures.