Mother Tongue

CIS offers a Mother Tongue Program for students who wish to further engage in and develop their native language. The program is designed to facilitate learning on a native level and build on already established language skills.

The Mother Tongue Program is offered to students from kindergarten to grade 10, and may include a wide range of languages. Classes are created based on demand - a class is established after a minimum of three sign-ups. For students from grades 2-10 special arrangements can be made for one or two students in the class, at an accordingly adjusted fee. Early years classes (kindergarten - grade 1) will be play-based. This is in line with our early years philosophy and means the children will practice their language skills through play with each other and the teacher and not through formal instruction. Beginning in grade 2, children will receive more formal instruction in their native language. 

The program is offered in the following periods:

• Season 1: September 25, 2023 – February 2 , 2024

• Season 2: February 19, 2024 – June 7, 2024

The tuition fee for one season is 2300 DKK per student in the standard class, 3450 DKK with only two students in the class and 6900 DKK in one-on-one class, excluding learning materials, which will be advised by the teacher at the beginning of the season.

Classes run once a week, from 15:00 to 16:00 for Primary students and 16:00 to 17:00 for Secondary students at the CIS Nordhavn Campus. We will offer French and Spanish MT classes on Tuesdays, German and Danish MT classes on Wednesdays and all the other language classes will be arranged on Thursdays. Days can not be changed, so please double check your child's after school activities before you sign them up.

Information about sign up:

• To sign up your child for the Mother Tongue Program, please follow this link: Sign ups 2023-24

• The sign ups are open until August 28th and classes start on the 25th of September. 

• If you sign up the child at the beginning of the school year for season 1, your child will be re-enroll for season 2 automatically. 

• If you wish to discontinue, you need to inform Aleksandra Achiam (Mother Tongue Coordinator) before December 11th.

• To sign up for season 2, please e-mail Aleksandra Achiam before December 11th.

Practical information:

• Parents are responsible for escorting their children to the designated classroom if students are not able to do it on their own. 

• In case the teacher has an unscheduled absence, a make-up or replacement lesson will be arranged, and therefore, no refund will be made.

• Once the class is confirmed, the link for payments will be sent, and at that point it will no longer be possible to withdraw your child and cancel the payment.

• Classes are scheduled to take place regardless of parent-teacher conferences, activity weeks, etc, and possible rescheduling needs to be arranged with the teacher. 

• The only days when classes will not take place are the days marked in the calendar as “no school for students” which are:

  • In season 1: Oct 16-23, Dec 18-Jan 8

  • In season 2: Mar 25-April , Apr 26, May 9-10, May 20, Jun 5

Aleksandra Achiam
Substitute Teacher Coordinator, Mother Tongue Coordinator