Education as an aid to life. Happy Kids, a private Montessori school in Lancy (Geneva), welcomes children aged 3 to 6 in a bilingual, stimulating and caring environment, to give them the keys to tomorrow's world. Each child receives individual and caring support to help them develop their full potential and reveal all their talents. Happy Kids Montessori School is a school open to the world. Throughout the year, we offer educational activities for children and adults. What do we learn in a Montessori class? The Montessori Happy Kids school offers an active, solution-focused education, encouraging pupils' autonomy to build their own resources and collaborate on joint projects while respecting others and the environment. Montessori Happy Kids offers a wide range of activities to help children acquire all the fundamental skills (reading, writing, mathematics, etc.), as well as discovering the world through lessons in history, geography, science, technology and the arts. How does bilingualism work? Learning a foreign language from a very early age makes it easier to achieve bilingualism and promotes all aspects of cognitive development, while giving children a way of opening up to the world. ● The presence of 2 teachers per class, one French-speaking and the other English-speaking, enables pupils to follow the syllabus of the Plan d'Etude Romand in both languages. ● Fun activities in all areas of learning are offered in English, depending on the level of each child. The English-speaking teacher also participates in the children's daily life activities (mealtimes, dressing, naps) to anchor the learning of this language in concrete situations. ● Children are encouraged to speak English, through individual or small group interactions with the English-speaking teacher. Do you assess your pupils? In a Montessori school, assessment is not a tool used to classify children, still less to put them in competition with each other. Daily observation of the children by the teachers is a very powerful tool for adapting teaching to the specific needs of each child. The progress, difficulties and successes of each child are noted every day in order to define the most appropriate and effective work plan possible. Two parent/teacher meetings are organised each year to discuss each child's progress. What happens to children after a 3-6 Montessori? There is no single answer to the question of what happens to children after attending a 3-6 Montessori class, as this depends on a number of individual factors such as their aspirations, their subsequent school career and their environment. However, in general, children who have been educated in Montessori tend to develop skills such as autonomy, curiosity, the ability to learn independently and self-confidence, which can help them to succeed in their later school and working lives. Montessori education also encourages self-discovery and problem-solving, which can help children become critical and creative thinkers later in life. Children can continue their education in any type of school system (Swiss, French, international, etc.).

Tandem International Multilingual School has three premises on the northern shore of the lake of Zurich. We offer places to children starting from the age of 6 months going up to 6th grade of primary school. Our programmes are bilingual English-German or trilingual English-German-French. Tandem IMS is a school with high academic standards that provides individual care to each of our children. The school’s unique curriculum and philosophy are anchored in the Lehrplan of Kanton Zürich and are further supplemented, and ultimately enhanced by, the UK and international curricula. Children who attend Tandem IMS follow a rigorous programme and are assessed against local and international standards of attainment. With us, children will be challenged to perform academically whilst being able to develop a true love for learning and understanding the value in both collaborating and taking initiative.

The identity aspect of the Papal College is in fact guaranteed by the concern to introduce young people to a knowledge of the world, of life and of man, in which the spiritual dimension finds its place. Recurrences such as Christmas and Easter are emphasized with significant meetings that help students to reflect on issues such as solidarity with poor countries, the suffering of peoples at war, etc... Collegio Papio was founded in 1584 by Cardinal Carlo Borromeo thanks to a legacy bequeathal by Bartolomeo Papio, a patrician from Ascona who went Rome. The centuries-old history of the College has been very eventful; many different religious orders have succeeded each other in its running over the years, the last of which were the Benedictines of Einsiedeln (1924-1964) who ended the long papal era. In fact, in 1965, the College passed to the Diocese of Lugano. The origins of the present scholastic structure date back to the 1920s, when the Benedictine Fathers of Einsiedeln gave new impetus to the College and succeeded in obtaining the organisation of the Federal Secondary School ("Matura") Examination in Locarno. Currently the Collegio Papio has an equalized middle school and a high school that prepares for the Swiss Baccalaureate Examination. For some years now, it has also been offering a preparation course for the Passerella exam, aimed at students who have obtained the Professional Maturity Certificate and intend to continue their studies at university. The College also offers a personalized curriculum for talents, be they sportsmen, musicians or others. The only school in Canton Ticino to offer both male and female internships, the College has extended its schedule in recent years to also cover weekends, thus meeting the needs of the growing number of foreign students. In addition to the ancient parts of the structure, the Renaissance cloister and the seventeenth-century garden, the Collegio has added modern facilities for the benefit of students including a swimming pool, gym and technologically advanced science laboratory classrooms. The educational vanguard of the College is guaranteed not only by a qualified and continuously trained teaching staff, but also by a good supply of scientific and computer instruments and an exclusive range of offers: early English at the Middle School, language exchanges at private schools in the French and German-speaking area, international language certificates, participation in study weeks organized by the Science and Youth Foundation, Kangourou mathematics competitions, etc.. An offer, therefore, that stimulates talent, but also supported by support tools such as assisted studies, the time of introduction to the study and the Tutor in ninth grade. The Collegio Papio Foundation, established in 2008, guarantees the management of the company with careful financial, marketing and scholarship management, which ensures that families with low incomes also attend the Collegio. Particular attention is paid to the management of the staff; periodic individual interviews are aimed at fostering individual development and the consequently enrichment of the group. The Foundation is also engaged in infrastructure improvement; the start of the next school year will see the opening of the New Wing comprising kitchen and canteen facilities.