Cube School Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Bilingual Montessori pre-school for children aged 2 to 6 years old
Cube School Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 16ter rue Charles Rhôné, 78000 Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Pedagogical director: Sinead Heslin
Mobile: 07 49 80 87 77
hello.st-germain-en-laye@cube-school.com
Building on its experience as an international bilingual school, Cube School is setting up in Saint-Germain-en-Laye to allow international families to benefit from an individualized approach, in a truly bilingual environment.
Located in fully renovated former stables, the school benefits from an exceptional setting with three beautiful spacious rooms, designed by an architect, a garden, part of which has been converted into a vegetable garden.
Cube School Saint-Germain-en-Laye is a member of the Montessori Association of France.
Our school respects the 4 fundamental pillars of Montessori pedagogy:
- a group of children of mixed ages;
- an educator certified by the International Montessori Association (AMI) minimum in each environment;
- a complete set of equipment offered to children;
- a continuous working range of 2.5 to 3 hours morning and afternoon.
Level: Pre-School
Number of classes: 2 classes
Pedagogical Approach: Montessori Bilingual
Number of children: 48
Age of the children: 2 and a half to 6 years old
Surface of the premises: 200 m
School days: – Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday, from 8.20 am to 4.30 pm
After-School Care: every day from 4.30 to 6.30 pm
Meals: provided on site
Extra-curricular activities for children enrolled or not in our school:
Wednesday Club: every Wednesday, from 11.30am to 6.30pm
Holiday Camps: all school holidays (except Christmas and the first 3 weeks of August)
The school allows each child to fulfil his or her own potential thanks to our individual approach. Since not all children have the same needs at the same time, we must listen to them, pay attention to their needs, and take their own rhythm and personality into account. They can be involved in their own development through experiences they select themselves in a suitable environment.
“Explore to Learn», the educational programme of the school, fosters 4 key learning factors: Attention, active involvement, feedback, and knowledge reinforcement. It is based on an active learning method: the Montessori approach with activities divided into 4 themes (practical life, sensory life, mathematics and language) and many activities in science, art, cooking as well as concrete projects carried out by the children.
PRACTICAL LIFE
- Development of global motor skills
(motor skills exercises and team games for modern coordination),
work on fine motor skills
(exercises on gripping, preparing the hand to handling pencils) - Development of concentration
- Understanding the codes of his or her culture
- Developing social skills
Help me to do things by myself: becoming autonomous
SENSORY LIFE
- Differentiating and identifying concepts by using all sensory abilities (touch, smell, etc.)
- Abstract concepts materialised by setting them apart (by naming the concept), ranking them (comparison, grading), and generalising them (in their environment)
- Accumulation of mental images (concrete representations of shapes, sizes, colours, etc.)
- Refinement of the artistic sensibility
- Help with orienteering in the immediate environment
Indirect initiation to botanic, geography, arts, history, sciences, language, and mathematics.
EDUCATIONAL GOALS
Autonomy, independence –
Self-esteem, confidence –
Adaptation to the environment –
– Socialisation and collaboration
– Development of logical thinking
– Development of intelligence
LANGUAGE
- Development of vocabulary
- Symbolic representation of graphemes and phonemes
- Expression of the child’s personality
- Accessing culture via a common code
- Total reading: Long individual process allowing the child to progress to expressive and enjoyable reading
Direct preparation to culture
MATHEMATICS
- Sensory representation of various concepts
- Perfect knowledge of numbers from 1 to 99
- Awareness of the concept of the number zero
- Knowledge of the decimal system
- Preparation to big mathematical operations
- Accumulation of mental images
- Mental arithmetic
Direct preparation to logical thinking and development of the understanding of mathematical concepts
Bilingualism in immersion: school program given by English and French teachers. Learning is done progressively, without the need for translation or classes. Children learn English by repeating everyday activities with an English speaker who speaks only English.
Lab Cooking: introduces the children to accessible recipes, teaches them counting, writing, naming, measuring and fine motor skills in a fun way.
Every week, the children leave with the recipe and the prepared dish. Every other week in French and English.
Classroom open to the outside world: possibility to work with the material in the garden.
Sports: every week in small groups, supervised by a teacher specializing in the 2-6 age group
Coding: Colori method/materials available in the classroom
Art activities available in the classroom, work on famous artists or paintings/spring exhibition
Forest school once every 6 weeks, school morning in the forest with activities related to botany
Vegetable garden and compost: planting, growing and cooking
Fish/plants: taking care of living things
Family parties: 2 per year (winter and end of year fair)
Educational evenings for parents: 2 per year with an introduction to Montessori pedagogy
Parenting workshops: quarterly on themes chosen by the families
Events for children during school time throughout the year: winter festival, book festival, St Patrick’s day, spring vernissage, egg hunt, music festival
Registration fee (1st year): 530€
Registration fee (from the 2nd year): 390€
Deposit (1st year only): 871€
Full-time tuition fees: 8,715€
Half-time tuition (2-3 years only): 6,536€
Meals: 1,404€
Lunch box (PAI or special diet): 525€
After-School (4.30-6.30 pm):
4 days a week: 1,867€
3 days a week: 1,446€
2 days a week: 984€
1 day a week: 502€
Wednesday Club (11.30am-6.30pm):
Catered school meal (11.30am-1.30pm): 745€
Afternoon (1.30-4.30pm): 784€
End of the day (16h30-18h30) : 525€
Holiday Camps (8.30am-6pm):
1 week – full day (8.30am-6pm): 340€
1 day (8.30am-6pm): 85€
2 consecutive weeks – full day: 595€
Terms of payment :
– Due date: annual (July 1st), quarterly (July 1st, December 1st and March 1st) or monthly (1st due on July 1st then on the 1st of the month from September to May)
– Payment method: SEPA direct debit, bank transfer or cheque
Management fees: No management fees for SEPA direct debits, €25 for each payment by cheque or bank transfer
Company rates: consult the school
Possible tax credit for after-school care: 50% up to €3,500 per child
Any question ?
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