(supervised by Monica Risso)

During the week from 4:45 pm “Cambridge Young Learner English Tests” courses are held with TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language) qualified teachers. The Cambridge Kids courses teach a language between the European A1-A2 levels. Through a communicative approach, the students develop all the skills: conversation, listening, reading and writing. The Cambridge YLE Tests are available on three levels – STARTERS, MOVERS and FLYERS – and are internationally recognized.

(Lab. by Andrea Chianelli)

Corporal expression is an effective tool to help emerge children’s personality and creativity, by promoting an environment of collaboration, joy and harmony. Furthermore, it creates interdisciplinary paths in which time, space, rhythm, psychomotricity, gestures and the education for the imagination are mutually reinforcing creating a singular trail. The teacher, through games, gives every child the opportunity to express themselves with their bodies, to discover something about them and about the others, to improve their concentration skills as well as their awareness, to coexist better inside of a group and at the same time, to feel free to canalise their fantasy and creativity within a guided path. Telling stories, play, express feelings and emotions not only stimulate and enrich the creativity, the fantasy and the imaginative world of every child but also, contribute to enlarge their cultural and social backgrounds and channel harmoniously the energy and sensitivity that belongs to each child, while sharing with others in a social environment. In the Corporal Expression Laboratory, children have the opportunity to be in a fun, creative, imaginative context and establish a dialogue between them and their own bodies.

(Teacher Olga Maximenko)

La Maisonnette-Eur, together with the cultural association MUSA RUSSA offers a musical laboratory for children based on the methods of the Russian Musical Pedagogical School, famous throughout the world for the exceptional results obtained. The general principles of teaching are as follow: start the musical study in the total variety of its components (solfeggio elements, rhythm, vocal art and audition); use the elements of the game as much as possible to allow children to assimilate musical knowledge quickly and with great solidity; discover the musical skills of children, including the elements of vocal art and the sense of rhythm, based on the presentation of the classical music masterpieces, using the music of Bach, Mozart, Vivaldi, Grieg and Ciaikovskij; enhance the artistic fantasy of children, developing in them the mental faculty of imageries.

(Teacher Federica Pedicini)

The introduction to Classical-Academic dance is born with the aim of bringing children closer to the world of dance and music through rhythm and movement that helps them get acquainted with their bodies. Anatomy concepts are transmitted in an ideal, simple method consistently with their age. The study of the body is essential to be self aware and in a second moment, be able to move no longer with a casual approach, but in a natural, felt, harmonious matter.

The swimming course is for children of the Kindergarten and takes place twice a week during the morning. Children have an innate predisposition to swim and to be in the water. Between the 2and half years to the 5 years old, in the sea or in the swimming pool, children learn spontaneously to dive, swim for a few meters using the dog paddle swimming style, enter and exit the water in complete autonomy. The ideal age to start a swimming class is around 3 years of age: in the swimming pool, the children starts to move using their legs and the board and then, gradually is able to be more in control of his/her own movements and coordination. Paediatricians advice swimming lessons during the winter so when the summer comes, children are more prepared to deal with the sea, the salt water, which is heavier and more difficult to manage, having the tools to live this experience with a more serene attitude.

In the month of July we offer SUMMER CAMPS in Italy and abroad for the children and their families. Between January and February the School organizes a SKI TRIP in the Dolomites to which all children and their parents are invited!