Choosing a bilingual preschool for your child is a real opportunity. Choosing bilingual teaching from preschool allows the child to learn two languages more easily and to discover several cultures, most often in a playful way.
This is also New School's project: to offer the child a dynamic school journey through a culturally and intellectually rich and varied learning experience in two languages.
Learning from the youngest age allows children to become bilingual more quickly
In French state schools, the teaching of a second language for a few hours a week is only introduced from Year 2. Nevertheless, some families choose to enrol their children in bilingual schools.
New School bilingual school offers English learning from preschool, and during half of the school time. Starting learning and discovering a second language from the youngest age is a real opportunity for children. This learning happens through listening, speaking in playful activities, and then progressively through reading, writing, and so on. From the youngest age, children learn to communicate in English through games and recreational, artistic, and cultural activities.
The earlier a child starts learning a new language, the more easily they will master both languages. It will also be easier for them to learn a third language later. Through bilingual teaching, the child adapts and gains a more flexible grasp of the meaning of words, which makes learning easier overall for many children.
Learning English
Teaching that follows two different educational programmes allows children to gain knowledge in both languages. This type of teaching is particularly rich.
Bilingual schools have a very specific educational project: they choose to deliver lessons in two different languages while following the official French school curriculum.
At New School, learning in both languages allows children to grow their general knowledge through complementary cultural themes in English and French.
Bilingual teaching fosters open-mindedness and international openness
Teaching a child about the existence of other languages, other cultures, and other countries fosters their curiosity and open-mindedness.
In bilingual schools, the language programmes for learning the second language are different from those of the national education ministry. They allow children to immerse themselves in the language and the other culture. This immersion supports memorisation. It then becomes clear that this is the best way to learn a foreign language.
Opportunities for international studies and careers
What's more, bilingual teaching opens up opportunities for international studies and careers.
In an era strongly marked by commercial and cultural exchanges, command of several languages - and especially English - is a real asset for one's future career and professional integration.
More and more companies are looking for bilingual or multilingual profiles, able to integrate and adapt. Allowing the child to learn a foreign language is the best way to open doors for their professional future.
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