Educational Project Proposal 

At Agora Pipo Infant School the children learn languages through play, as they would in their mother tongue, with trilingual teachers and English, Catalan, and Spanish as vehicular languages. Through play, songs, and art activities, the children experience natural and effortless English language immersion and develop a positive attitude towards different languages and cultures.

We start at an early age when the brain is specially prepared to adapt to new learning due to its plasticity and offer them personal, cognitive and social advantages that will benefit them during their development.

• Development of Cognitives Skills: When a child learns a new language, his or her cognitive development is stimulated, leading to new ideas and new knowledge. In addition, studying more than one foreign language simultaneously improves creativity and flexibility.
• Communicative Development: Beginning English from an early age enables children to develop pronunciation and intonation which is similar to that of a native speaker of the language. In addition, there are benefits for memory and listening skills, facilitating the study of new languages.
• Personal Development: Thanks to the English language immersion, the children acquire skills which help them to be prepared for the future, laying the foundations to become true citizens of the world.
• Global Development: Learning a second language broadens the child’s perspective, as well as their reasoning. This is an age at which they are free to explore the richness of values and their perception of the world.

Through English language immersion, the children acquire a truly useful tool for understanding and facing new challenges in the future, and start to feel like citizens of the globalised world we live in.

At Agora Pipo Infant School, each child is the creator and protagonist of their own learning. We encourage and stimulate childhood creativity as something which will make them unique.

Childhood creativity is a key aspect in helping children to develop their abilities, since through imagination they can face the different challenges posed by life. Through activities such as games, music, art, and stories they learn to develop their creative side. Childhood creativity is also an aspect which can help the children to be more entrepreneurial in the future, since it is a capacity which enhances self-expression and the development of abstract thought, and helps them to solve problems and construct better relationships throughout their lives.

At Agora Pipo Infant School we love to learn through emotion management! To help our youngest children learn to build their identity, self-esteem and confidence. The objective of emotion management is for the children to recognise their own feelings as well as those of others, and for them to learn how to handle them. Our teachers will encourage their self-esteem, empathy, and other social skills, making the children feel loved and valued at all times, promoting self-control, and helping them to face the challenges of life.

During the first few years of life, the little ones have high neuroplasticity, and that’s why experience and learning become incredibly important aspects for successful cognitive and affective development. The latest studies confirm that the success of a person is associated with appropriate emotional development, one reason why it’s essential for children to start developing this ability to manage emotions at an early age.

Emotion management enables our pupils to have confidence in their abilities; to create and maintain satisfactory relationships; to communicate their needs and what they feel or think, considering the feelings of others; to be motivated to explore and face new challenges; to have the resources to provide solutions to conflicts, etc. which are all aspects which positively influence learning that will last them a lifetime. Through games, stories, and other activities, they’ll learn that there are no good and bad emotions if they know how to identify and manage them.

One of the pillars of the educational project at Agora Pipo Infant School is the integration of music into the pupils’ curriculum. We awaken in them a musical sensibility which they can continue to enrich in later years, forming part of the Liceu Conservatoire orchestra and choir group with which Agora Sant Cugat International School is linked.

It is scientifically shown that musical stimulation from an early age cultivates, in human beings, a sensibility which leads them to live by solid ethics in adult life. Through music, children learn to develop strategies to work on concentration, attention, self-discipline, auditory discrimination, and teamwork. It improves their language and their auditory discrimination, in the same way as another language. These foundations will facilitate their study of other languages. Thanks to music, children can begin to express themselves in another way and integrate actively into society, since musical stimulation enables them to be autonomous and broaden their world of relationships.

At Agora Pipo Infant School we provide musical stimulation which offers pupils intellectual, auditory, sensory, communicative, and motor development. Through auditions, instruments, games, studying musicians each month, and more, the children take their first steps in the world of rhythm, dance, singing, and instruments, establishing the foundations so that in their future music education at Agora Sant Cugat International School they can begin to play an instrument.

Throughout their time at the infant school the children will learn to:

• Improve their memory, attention and concentration.
• Communicate through body language.
• Improve their language and auditory discrimination.
• Interact with their classmates and teachers.
• Stimulate their imagination and creativity.
• Establish routines, creating associations between music and activities.

Musical stimulation plays an important role in daily life at our infant school!

Children’s psychomotor development during their first few years of life is essential for them to make the right progress in cognitive, linguistic, and social development, since children learn about and explore the world which surrounds them in a sensory way: children love to look, take, touch… in short, experiment! Psychomotor development achieves the development of motor functions, of movement and action, as well as psychological functions, between which there is a close parallel. Through psychomotor activities, the children acquire understanding of space, time, their bodies, objects, situations, etc. and they develop their abilities. This is a fundamental stage in which the children discover, learn, explore, evaluate, act, participate, learn routines, feel, get excited… That’s why psychomotor development becomes a vital aspect of their daily life at the infant school.

For our pupils’ psychomotor development, at Agora Patufet Infant School we use an active, creative, and comprehensive methodology which makes our day-to-day life into an experiential environment in which the pupils learn competencies, skills, habits, and attitudes which facilitate their later adaptation to Primary Education. We educate through play and movement, with spaces for free play where they can express themselves and recognise their emotions and feelings. At Agora Patufet we don’t direct their learning: the children are the masters of their own path, discovering their environment, their own abilities, and their relationships with others and with themselves. Psychomotor development enables them to cultivate their perceptive capacity, to create and develop their body image, and express themselves through creative action and emotions.

Thanks to psychomotor development, the children establish the foundations of the entire educational process. In our infant school, the children will live through one of the most fundamental educational stages, which they’ll experience as active people who are the protagonists of their own development, people who are listened to, and whose potential is encouraged so that they can discover the world. Through psychomotor development we take into account the needs of every pupil and every age group, with activities adapted to each group and each child, to guide and accompany them in their personal and educational growth.