At EMI Les Rayons de Soleil, the elementary program supports children aged 6 to 11 through a new stage of development. Learning becomes deeper, projects become more ambitious, and students gradually develop intellectual autonomy, reasoning skills, and self-confidence.
In a French-English bilingual environment, children build a more structured understanding of the world through French, English, mathematics, science, and general knowledge.
This stage naturally extends the foundations acquired in preschool, while giving increasing space to reflection, responsibility, and the development of independent thinking.
A new stage to deepen learning and gain autonomy.
Bilingualism that grows stronger in classroom life and learning.
Activities that encourage reasoning, research, and the desire to understand.
In elementary, bilingualism continues to shape the school’s daily life, but it also becomes more ambitious and more visible in the learning progression.
After gradual immersion in preschool, children strengthen their comprehension, linguistic flexibility, and ease in both languages.
This progression is built over time, in a spirit of continuity with previous years.
From everyday classroom life to structured learning, French and English gradually support students throughout their journey.
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The elementary program is based on a Montessori-inspired approach, with mixed-age groups, long work periods, and a focus on autonomy, concentration, and the child’s active engagement.
Our approach combines contributions from active pedagogies, including Montessori, with the core learning expected throughout schooling.
It makes it possible to go further in learning, while preserving what makes EMI Les Rayons de Soleil strong: a lively, human, and demanding framework, where the child learns to understand, explore, connect knowledge, and gradually build more organized and confident thinking.
The child is encouraged to manipulate, question, organize their thinking, and connect knowledge.
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The child learns to deepen their thinking, understand better, and connect knowledge.
They gain in organization, initiative and responsibility in their work.
The pedagogy encourages exploration, projects, research, and the desire to understand more deeply.
Bilingualism, activities, and the school environment nurture a lively relationship with the world and culture.
Long work periods and the Montessori framework support a more attentive approach to learning.
The child progresses in a demanding yet reassuring environment that helps them find their place with greater confidence.
At EMI Les Rayons de Soleil, elementary is not limited to academic time. Sports, the motor skills room, artistic activities, musical discovery, chess, the forest, and class outings enrich children’s daily life.
This environmental richness is one of the school’s defining features. It allows the child to learn differently, move, explore, and experience learning in a more concrete and enriching setting.
Move, practise, develop the body, and find better balance in learning.
A variety of activities to nurture creativity, concentration, logic, and expression.
Hands-on experiences to observe, explore, and better understand the world around the child.
Elementary is part of the continuity of the bilingual Montessori pathway offered by the school. This coherence gives the child more reference points, greater stability, and a clearer long-term progression.
It also strengthens one of EMI Les Rayons de Soleil’s major assets: offering a truly continuous pathway, from preschool to elementary, in a bilingual and international environment where French and binational families come together.
This cultural diversity nurtures children’s open-mindedness and allows them to grow with a natural understanding of the world around them.
From preschool to elementary, a stable framework to grow, learn, and gain autonomy.
