Bell-lloc Nursery

The visual / plastic arts and music are very important in our educational project. Learning flows from children’s innate ability to be aware of beauty and their fascination with their surroundings.

At Bell-ar we work on the pictorial works of all the periods of humanity to admire the beauty, grow our values and approach the transcendent sense of life.

The hands-on and experiential work that we carry out cross-sectionally at the Workshop allows us to playfully shape the mathematical concept; The workshop, our classroom inspired by the Waldorf methodology and the schools of Reggio Emilia, offers us a space with elements of nature that the students themselves collect during the scientific walk that they go on every week through the school forests.

Music has also become a learning thread: we programme auditions with different objectives according to the activities, and in this way children consolidate their language acquisition.

Moved by art and culture, we have created the cycle “Som Gironins”, which brings artists from different fields closer to the school, achieving true enrichment for children and adults, and promoting civility, citizenship, responsibility and the common good.

The flexible organisation of learning enables personal rhythms other than teaching and learning to be fulfilled; we programme group and cooperative work to enrich each other’s contributions, and guide students and families to foster the vital development of each student, always respecting the fact that parents are the first educators.

We have ample methodological resources for working with cognitive processes: thought routines, key thinking and mental habits. We see them visually through the maps of understanding in the different spaces in the centre, and throughout the academic years they are broadened, revised and experienced.

The project “Som Girona” has as our city as the centre of interest, and it is where we are inspired and set off to work on more globalised aspects that allow us to reach the other side of the world.

Children 4 months to 6 years old learn with movement, listening, vision, touch and taste. In this way they become the centre of daily activities. We programme content through musical pieces and listening to improve attention, concentration, memory, perception and language.

Psychomotor work is important in these early years; starting with the basic patterns of crawling, in order to acquire good fine psychomotor skills, which flow naturally if they have been previously worked.

Stimulating finger precision and accuracy allows students to write fluently and achieve good spelling. The same is true for reading, which is one of the bases for future learning.

Listening stimulation facilitates good early learning of the vehicular language that is combined with learning the English language from the age of 4 months each day in the classroom and on average about seven hours a week from the age of three. It takes shape in role play, by native teachers, in the classroom and during the school’s dining room and playground educational resources.