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Why Kindergarten is taught entirely in English

Young children pick up a language through immersion, the same way they learned their first words at home.

Parents often ask us why only English is spoken in our Kindergarten classes. The answer is simple: at that age, children learn a language best by living in it.

Learning by immersion

Through songs, rhymes, stories and play, children hear and use English all day long. They do not translate: they understand, then they speak.

French every day, from Primary

From Primary 1, pupils follow two full curricula, the French system and the English system, with a literacy period in each language every day. The English base built in Kindergarten makes that step much easier.

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