Our preschool cycle is defined by five essential pillars. It is built on love for each child and respect for their sensitive periods. It offers personalized education by adapting each project to the specific needs of every student. It promotes motor development as well as autonomy.
Learning takes place through discovery, observation, and experimentation, using the Project-Based Learning (PBL) method as the main driver.
Finally, we educate both the mind and the heart.
A Preschool Founded on Core Values
Our Educational Strengths
Experiential Psychomotricity
We view the child’s psychomotor development as inseparable from their emotional and social growth, and we approach it with this unity in mind.
With this methodology, we offer the child a space, materials, time, and guidance so that through spontaneous movement and free play, they can discover their own body, their abilities, the surrounding space, and their relationships with others.
Language Stimulation Program
We work on several areas:
- Voice and articulation: development of articulation skills, vocabulary enrichment through stories, nursery rhymes, poems, and traditional tongue twisters.
- Oral language and expression.
- Pre-reading and writing: using a mixed method (global, analytical, and synthetic), adapted to the child’s developmental stage, for a gradual introduction to reading.
Emotional Development and Values Program
We promote social education through group integration, communication, collaboration, and responsibility.
We encourage the development of behavioral habits that combine reason, willpower, and emotions by providing opportunities for interaction with adults and peers, helping the child to step outside of themselves.
High-Level Academic Training
We aim for educational excellence within international standards, fostering stimulating learning where the child interacts with reality through play, hands-on activities, experimentation, and cooperative work.
This way, the student becomes the true protagonist of their own learning.
Educating with Love
When the key person in the classroom believes in you and shows it, an irresistible strength is created.
It creates a safe, affectionate, and trusting environment that guarantees learning.
Every educational act is an act of love, and this is how we experience it at Les Petits Matelots.
Languages
Our own language program, led by qualified teachers and supported by digital conversation assistants.
The goal is that by the end of the preschool cycle (age 5), our students are able to understand and speak fluently in multiple languages.
Central Role of Families
The relationship between families and teachers is a fundamental pillar of our educational vision.
Family involvement is essential in the life of the school.
Mathematical Logic Program
Using simple materials and dynamic games, we enable students to learn and enjoy doing mathematics, integrated into their daily lives.
We cover the following topics: numeration, sizes and measurements, logic, and geometry.
Personalized Education
Adapted to the individual characteristics, needs, and rhythms of each child.
We pursue a holistic education of the person, with a work approach based on observing the child in all areas of development: physical, neurological, cognitive, socio-emotional, emotional, and familial.