The school’s philosophy is rooted on the Canadian bilingual model: children that have access to a second language from an early age (2 -3 years old) train their ear to it, get used to its music, repeat it and experience it without any inhibitions.

Instead of being a subject of study, language is a medium of communication used to learn maths or to practise physical, artistic or scientific activities.

Bilingualism “makes you clever”

Bilingualism leads to multilingualism : someone exposed to a second language from an early age on is much more likely to learn a third and then a fourth language before they finish school.

Bilingualism makes you open minded and aware of the world’s diversity

Learning languages teaches children about others, about different points of view, and this open mind helps them build their own identity (a phenomenon called decentration in sociology).

Bilingualism is not to the expense of the mother tongue

In today’s world where being able to communicate in an international context is a real asset and increasingly expected, we profess that early age language learning is an immense opportunity.

It does not happen to the expense of the mother tongue: studies show that results in their native language of bilingual immersion students are as good as or even better than children following a monolingual program.

Bibliography and links