Nursery Program

• Here at Le Petit Poucet Nursery our whole ethos is learning through play. We believe that all children are individuals who each develop at their own varying rate.
• We ensure that our students are ready to join the school of their parent’s choice, this being a French, IB or British School.
• At Le Petit Poucet we believe that children’s learning results from their interaction with people and their environment are more powerful than lectured learning. Children need a natural flow of affectionate, stimulating talk, to describe what is happening around them, to describe things that they can see, and to think about other people. This is critical for children’s language and cognition, their general capacity to engage with new people and new situations, and their ability to learn new skills. Children’s learning also depends on play and exploration.
• Longitudinal studies show how play enables children to develop flexibility of thought, and to build confidence to explore new possibilities. Our aim by enabling the environment and providing different play based learning opportunities is for children to learn seeing problems from different viewpoints, helping them to develop a generally positive and creative attitude to learning.
• At Le Petit Poucet our teaching methods are based on adult led activities and child initiated activities. We start with enabling the environment so children will play and explore covering the need of engagement. Then teachers will focus on active Learning – motivation. Our aim is to see children being involved and concentrating; to track their ability of continuous trying, and mostly to enjoy achieving what they set out to do.
• By leaving Le Petit Poucet children should acquire the below learning goals each based on his/her learning path.

To achieve this, we are adding few successful teaching methods to the French curriculum:

Each child is unique: A classroom is usually full of students who are about the same age, but it doesn’t mean that they are equally ready to learn a particular concept. So, when designing a lesson we will pay particular attention on children’s interest and build on it to help that child enhance and develop his/her skills.

Positive Relationships: secure relationships between parents and teachers will be a point of focus to ensure that there is continuity of the children’s progress.

Assessments: These will be individualised to each child. They will focus on the strengths and skills a child has achieved, and they will be supported with dated observations or pictures.

Inclusion: Le petit Poucet is an inclusive nursery and Kindergarten.  We will encourage and support a wide range of abilities, differing learning styles and competencies across our languages of instruction.