Early Years - Primary Years Programme — Transcript

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1. 0:09[music]
2. 0:10Hi, my name is Nikki and I'm the early
3. 0:12years coordinator here at ISF. [music]
4. 0:14So the early years at ISF is comprised
5. 0:17of three years. There's the tadpoles who
6. 0:19are in our first section, [music] then
7. 0:21froglets in our second section, and then
8. 0:23the children who are fully fledged frogs
9. 0:26move on to foundation. So the foundation
10. 0:28program, it's a bridge between the early
11. 0:30years 2 [music]
12. 0:32and first grade. We've got a very
13. 0:34intense full day for them, but fun uh
14. 0:37and exciting.
15. 0:40At ISF, [music]
16. 0:41there is value not just for kids, but
17. 0:43also for family. I could see in my
18. 0:45daughters, both of them during the year,
19. 0:48they grew a lot in terms [music] of
20. 0:50responsibility, respect for other people
21. 0:53and proactivity.
22. 0:54>> [music]
23. 0:54>> We are an Italian family both me and my
24. 0:56husband but we picked this kind of
25. 0:59school because we want them to be part
26. 1:01of the world and not only from the
27. 1:04language point of view but also to uh
28. 1:06[music] know different cultures,
29. 1:09different habits, try different tasties
30. 1:11and that will open their mind. [music]
31. 1:13>> In the early years we love being
32. 1:15outdoors and we spend lots and lots and
33. 1:17lots of time engaging in nature. We try
34. 1:20to use nature as a [music] teacher
35. 1:22bringing back into the classroom
36. 1:24children's discovery
37. 1:25>> for what regards the Italian in the
38. 1:26early years. Uh I'm their teacher and
39. 1:29what I do is simply I speak Italian the
40. 1:32whole day with the children so that it
41. 1:34nurtures their home language for the
42. 1:37Italian native speakers. Same thing for
43. 1:39the nonItalian native speakers. We also
44. 1:42do like lots of fun things in Italian
45. 1:44and we don't only take the Italian from
46. 1:46the language itself point of view but we
47. 1:49also try to [music] uh teach them about
48. 1:51the culture. Something I really
49. 1:53appreciate about working at ISF is the
50. 1:57possibility [music] to work with such
51. 1:59small class sizes where we can really
52. 2:01get to know every single one of our
53. 2:03students [music] so well and so
54. 2:05personally that we can respond to their
55. 2:07interests and we can follow [music]
56. 2:10their passions to be able to create
57. 2:12exciting learning experiences.