Primary School

To enter the first primary class, children must have turned six years of age before the calendar year in which they are enrolled.

In the primary school the focus is on mother tongue, mathematics and the first foreign language, but art, music, physical education, exploring our world and religion/ethics are important - as are the "European Hours", where mixed nationalities meet for a variety of activities.

The objectives of primary school are as follows:

• to continue the education started in the nursery, expanding, deepening and building on the learning processes initiated, by introducing formal systematic teaching and learning, focusing on literacy (linguistic activities, reading, writing, etc.) and numeracy (mathematical language, such as numbers, quantification – addition, subtraction, multiplication, introduction to division, etc.)
• to introduce learning to write and draw and to build on the skills acquired
• to ensure that in the different learning areas, pupils acquire the basic competences laid down in the respective syllabuses and defined in the pages of the school report
• to teach pupils how to learn effectively by themselves in all areas, by stimulating their interest in discovery, how to put clearly the questions relating to the problem and how to search for the appropriate answers and solutions with the help of present-day didactic resources (library, the internet, documents, etc.) and of the teachers
• to teach pupils how to ask essential questions and how to search for answers and solutions by themselves, to fix in their minds and remember the main knowledge and skills required
• to foster a European spirit in pupils through the mixing of nationalities and languages during common activities in European Hours
• to develop in pupils an interest in and attraction to other languages through the learning of a second language (L2)
• to encourage pupils to exploit their natural gifts in artistic and musical activities by following the progressive stages of the syllabuses in question
• to promote a sporting spirit in pupils by getting them to participate actively in the physical education activities described in the syllabus
• to help pupils experiencing learning difficulties by means of appropriate learning support measures
• to integrate SEN (special educational needs) pupils into mainstream classes as far as possible, by defining the integration means in an agreement signed between the educational partners, the parents and the school
• to promote, through internal differentiation within the section, the progression of pupils who learn differently in the sense that they are in advance of their peer group.

• mother tongue, mathematics, language 2 and exploring our world
• educational activities fostering self-expression: art and music
• physical education.
  

General introduction to the nursery and primary school curricula