Language Policy

As part of our mission to develop curious and critical thinkers, we provide a robust and immersive multilingual education experience. We celebrate and work to strengthen all the languages spoken by our students in order to better interact and understand our interconnected world.
What we believe:

• Creating a learner-centered environment is at the heart of all of our language teaching practices.

• Learning multiple languages opens doors to the world. It provides a deeper and more natural understanding of and curiosity about cultures and people.

• Being part of an immersion program from an early age develops sensitivity to other sounds and words very naturally from the beginning.

• Making connections between languages, including one’s home language(s), is beneficial to all the languages, whether familiar or learned.

• Learning a subject (such as literature, history, geography, and math) in another language taught by a specialist native speaker adds a natural cultural understanding while reinforcing the language.

• All teachers are language teachers across all subjects and develop the production (speaking and writing) and reception (listening and reading) of language.

• Maintaining a diverse community of speakers of different languages is a valued part of our school culture.

• Learning languages promotes healthy brain activity and encourages open-mindedness.

“A different language is a different vision of life” – Federico Fellini