by susiep23 » Tue Sep 13, 2011 9:48 pm
Great idea! the only thing i would suggest is that will you be running it as english with spanish or a spanish system with english?? u will have to look into this as in uk education system is EYFS so you will need all staff to have good knowledge of this system or train them to be so.
I worked for a short time in a billingual nursery (french/english) and whilst the concept and ambiton was good it was very hard to get everyone singing form the same him sheet if you get what i mean??
Pre-school seemed to be teaching solely in french with a french teacher, and very little idea of the engligh early years foundation stage wich was my area of expertise and when ofsted came they had lots of changes they wanted to make to bring the nursery in line with eyfs goals and every child matters and mnay staff at thats time found this vey hard to cope with being used to the french teaching system which i found very difficult being it was a billingual nursery but england where the eyfs is the leading system in nursery and preschool unless a specialist registed nursery i.e waldorf, montessori but even montessori i think has to show how it complements the statutory eyfs. Also staff can be problematic as u will need french and english speakers but ofcourse if students etc you may not keep them for long when returning home this can be detrimental to getting things doen, continuity for the children.
However.. a well organised billingual setting would be a great addition to any neighbourhood and a great education for all children
Great idea! the only thing i would suggest is that will you be running it as english with spanish or a spanish system with english?? u will have to look into this as in uk education system is EYFS so you will need all staff to have good knowledge of this system or train them to be so.
I worked for a short time in a billingual nursery (french/english) and whilst the concept and ambiton was good it was very hard to get everyone singing form the same him sheet if you get what i mean??
Pre-school seemed to be teaching solely in french with a french teacher, and very little idea of the engligh early years foundation stage wich was my area of expertise and when ofsted came they had lots of changes they wanted to make to bring the nursery in line with eyfs goals and every child matters and mnay staff at thats time found this vey hard to cope with being used to the french teaching system which i found very difficult being it was a billingual nursery but england where the eyfs is the leading system in nursery and preschool unless a specialist registed nursery i.e waldorf, montessori but even montessori i think has to show how it complements the statutory eyfs. Also staff can be problematic as u will need french and english speakers but ofcourse if students etc you may not keep them for long when returning home this can be detrimental to getting things doen, continuity for the children.
However.. a well organised billingual setting would be a great addition to any neighbourhood and a great education for all children :)
