Skills and activities

In our Centre, English and Italian are spoken throughout the day, during meals as well as during evening entertainment. Native qualified teachers take care of the academic components with an exclusive methodology, getting the students to use English and Italian languages while participating in many activities (sports, arts & crafts, and leisure). During the day the following different language learning guideline is observed: - a continuous full immersion: all members of staff speak and communicate with the students in English and Italian all the time - 6 hours a day of lessons, recreational sport activities or art activities in English and Italian divided into 4 sections (each one for 1 hour and a half) supervised by 4 different mother tongue teachers -all activities have a theoretical part which focuses on the vocabulary related to the children’s activities and a practical part. All follow a common thread and are linked to each other - constant repetition of simple concepts connected with a couple of habitual idiomatic expressions in real-life situations throughout the day by all Baby Lou staff, so that it leads to a strong learning by example (repetitive use in different contests). Examples of sports activities at this Centre are: tennis, swimming, water aerobics, volleyball, basketball, table-tennis, five-a-side soccer, aerobics, rafting, competitions. Examples of recreational activities are: arts & crafts, treasure hunt, karaoke, film night, pajama-party, theatre...