COULD A BILINGUAL NURSERY BE A SUCCESS? Post Reply

[cantabra75]

Hello everyone!!
I have been working in childcare for more than 12 years, I am a qualified teacher and I have a little childcare bussiness fromm home.
I have this idea at the back of my mind but I need to do some research I guess...
I would like to open a bilingual nursery (anglo- spanish) in Clapham, Wandsworth or Battersea areas.I know there is already one called Peques (clapham common) and i know is got a waiting list, so maybe there is a demand???
I would like your opinion MUMs!!! Do you think is a good idea in the area??
Thanks for your time!!

[mlm]

That would be a great idea. I have been making the daily commute to the one off Clapham Common which is not always so fun in the rain, dark, etc. (btw its called Anglo Spanish Nursery. Peques is in Fulham). They are sometimes full depending on ages and ratios. Good luck.

[Mama]

That would be a great idea. Lots of demand for language nurseries.

[philippefraser]

Hi,

I have been thinking for a long time that I'll open a French-English bilingual nursery in this area.

If anyone has information about suitable premises, I'd be very interested to hear about it.

You can contact me on: philippe@marsmontessori.com

www.bilingualnurseries.com

[shaneleone]

I would ABSOLUTELY be interested in a Spanish/English nursery!

[frenchlyric]

I would have sent my son to you if you'd been operating whilst I was looking ... x

[ckwmum]

Yes, yes, yes! French or Spanish, I'm sure both would be a huge success round here. What sort of premises would you need?

[lalectrice]

I would definitely be very keen on a French/English nursery!

[bcn82]

SPANISH/ENGLISH!!!

[susiep23]

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

[philippefraser]

If I were to do one it'd be French-English following the EYFS in English and probably following the French curriculum in French.

My other nurseries in north London do really well with "Good with outstanding" Ofsted ratings. But you're right, the Ofsted inspectors are very demanding (as they should be!)

Seriously though, if anyone knows of a nursery that's closing, or other community space with a playground, let me know!

Philippe
philippefraser@gmail.com or 07930 378 563
www.bilingualnurseries.com