Educational Aims

Les Nouveaux Anges School is a bilingual (French - English) Montessori school.

It welcomes 3-9 year old children of all nationalities - offering them a passionate
discovery of the world.

The school aims to develop the talents and potential of each child by helping them acquire autonomy, independence, self assurance, and concentration - the qualities fundamental for learning.

We want the child's first experience of an educational environment to be one that is positive and impassioned, a place that stimulates the child's inherent sense of wonder and curiosity.

We aim to place the child in contact with passionate and inspired educators and invited speakers – individuals that are capable of relaying with sensitivity to the children their own talents and interests.

Rather than striving to fill the children's mind with knowledge, our work aims to help them acquire a love of learning and the tools to learn at their own pace. The educators and speakers are chosen according to their ability to ignite the children's curiosity and interests.

Each child is allowed the opportunity to partake in verbal exchanges and be fully engaged in language activities through real communication.

To introduce the child to the world of literature.

To converse and communicate in a variety of situations

Until the age of 6-7 years old, physical activity requires the body to be used as a tool of action, exploration, expression and communication. This movement is essential for the development of motor skills and the harmonious workings of both the emotions and the intellect. Children have a very real need for movement : each day physical activities are organised indoors and outdoors (games in the garden, mime and circus activities, corporal expression and folkloric dance).

The school offers the child an impassioned introduction to an abundant and wide variety of themes - organizing activities to transport the child on his/her own journey of discovery. Many activities are organized daily: gardening in the school's private garden, painting*, music, ladybug or Butterfly raising, art, bread making, singing and storytelling.

The 6 to 9 environment

The 6-9 environment is for children from CP, CE1 and CE2.

The children work individually or in small groups.

The Montessori program is created in a way to present to the children a coherent vision of the univers and the world where the different subjects are logically connected to each other.
The children play an active role during the learning process:
a Montessori teacher tries to satisfy the children's intellectual curiosity and their need and wish to understand with the best possible answers.

The priority in the 6-9 Montessori environment is of course also to fulfill the official national curriculum like reading, writing, grammar and mathematics.

The 6-9 environment is generally run in French and English

Topics in the 6-9 environment (program until Christmas)

LANGUAGE

Daily practice in reading and writing.

Emprovement of reading and writing different phonems.

Story of communication through signs which introduces the study of language (history of language, grammat...)

Study of words/word study: the aim is to approach the language intellectually and help the child in it's need I wish to understand.
Every language has its own structure which is syntax and grammar (latter plays an important role in the program.)

These exercices help to improve vocabulary, proper spelling and train reading abilities.

HISTORY

The story of the coming of life: the aim is to give the children a linear impression of the evolution of life beginning with unicellular creatures with the creation of man.

Time activities: the watch.

Approach to the measurement of time (hours and minutes) with help of manipulative activities and the acquisition of corresponding terms.

GEOGRAPHY

The great lesson to introduce geography and in particular the story about the nature of the elements:

- particles which are and which aren't attracted to each other
- the three states of matter
- attraction of the earth: gravity

The general aim is the understanding of the formation of the earth.

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHIE

Acquisition of vocabulary: the children learn a certain number of terms with help of nomenclature material.

MATHEMATICS

Revision of the basic operations in Arithmetic (to count and the 4 basic operations)

The story of numbers (quantity and nomenclature of numbers bigger than 1000)

Multiples and factors: to give a sensorial impression of the structure of numbers with help of manipulative activities.

Introduction of the idea that multiples and factors are in some way the constructors of numbers.

BIOLOGY

Botany: the needs of plants

Zoology: Introduction to the class of the vertebrates.

			We aim to place the child in contact with passionate and inspired educators and invited speakers – individuals that are capable of relaying with sensitivity to the children their own talents and interests. Rather than striving to fill the children's mind with knowledge, our work aims to help them acquire a love of learning and the tools to learn at their own pace. The educators and speakers are chosen according to their ability to ignite the children's curiosity and interests.

	The 3 to 6 environment An educational programme which respects the national curriculum. The national pre-school curriculum stresses the importance of the following activities :

			Language :
			Each child is allowed the opportunity to partake in verbal exchanges and be fully engaged in language activities through real communication. To introduce the child to the world of literature. To converse and communicate in a variety of situations

			Movement and corporal expression :
			Until the age of 6-7 years old, physical activity requires the body to be used as a tool of action, exploration, expression and communication. This movement is essential for the development of motor skills and the harmonious workings of both the emotions and the intellect. Children have a very real need for movement : each day physical activities are organised indoors and outdoors (games in the garden, mime and circus activities, corporal expression and folkloric dance).

			A discovery of the world :
			The school offers the child an impassioned introduction to an abundant and wide variety of themes - organizing activities to transport the child on his/her own journey of discovery. Many activities are organized daily: gardening in the school's private garden, painting*, music, ladybug or Butterfly raising, art, bread making, singing and storytelling.

			The encouragement of sensitivity, imagination and creativity :
			To follow : a summary of the Montessori method.

	The 6 to 9 environment The 6-9 environment is for children from CP, CE1 and CE2. The children work individually or in small groups. The Montessori program is created in a way to present to the children a coherent vision of the univers and the world where the different subjects are logically connected to each other. The children play an active role during the learning process: a Montessori teacher tries to satisfy the children's intellectual curiosity and their need and wish to understand with the best possible answers. The priority in the 6-9 Montessori environment is of course also to fulfill the official national curriculum like reading, writing, grammar and mathematics. The 6-9 environment is generally run in French and English
			Topics in the 6-9 environment (program until Christmas) LANGUAGE Daily practice in reading and writing. Emprovement of reading and writing different phonems. Story of communication through signs which introduces the study of language (history of language, grammat...) Study of words/word study: the aim is to approach the language intellectually and help the child in it's need I wish to understand. Every language has its own structure which is syntax and grammar (latter plays an important role in the program.) These exercices help to improve vocabulary, proper spelling and train reading abilities. HISTORY The story of the coming of life: the aim is to give the children a linear impression of the evolution of life beginning with unicellular creatures with the creation of man. Time activities: the watch. Approach to the measurement of time (hours and minutes) with help of manipulative activities and the acquisition of corresponding terms. GEOGRAPHY The great lesson to introduce geography and in particular the story about the nature of the elements: - particles which are and which aren't attracted to each other - the three states of matter - attraction of the earth: gravity The general aim is the understanding of the formation of the earth. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHIE Acquisition of vocabulary: the children learn a certain number of terms with help of nomenclature material. MATHEMATICS Revision of the basic operations in Arithmetic (to count and the 4 basic operations) The story of numbers (quantity and nomenclature of numbers bigger than 1000) Multiples and factors: to give a sensorial impression of the structure of numbers with help of manipulative activities. Introduction of the idea that multiples and factors are in some way the constructors of numbers. BIOLOGY Botany: the needs of plants Zoology: Introduction to the class of the vertebrates.