This year at La Petite Ecole Bilingue we decided to combine our Easter egg hunt with our very own Wold Book Day... because there is no 'one day' to celebrate literature and EVERYDAY at our school IS a book day. Of course like many other schools we do DEAR time (drop everything and read)... pretty much any time when a pupil has finished a task we set the habit for him to grab a book and read. Teachers also do daily group reading as well. Why reading? Here are top reasons we fo

Anyone who practices meditation has probably wished at some pointed that they’d started sooner. Being taught these tools as children could have certainly relieved a fair amount of stress during our teenage years. However, whilst mindfulness and meditation are increasingly embraced by the education system, it is still far from being fully embedded within schools. As a trainee Primary school teacher in an inner-city state school in London in 2010, I had a beautiful vision that

La Petite Ecole Bilingue has over forty years of expertise in teaching languages. Originally, our first nurseries, founded in 1978, were mainly aiming to teach French to children living in London. But from the very beginning the school was including hours of English classes as well. Soon it became obvious we had to go bilingual. With families becoming more and more mobile, Lady Anne Henderon-Stewart, quite visionary, started looking at multilingualism as a necessity and intr

It is a tradition for many years now to invite the well renown puppet theatre Les Trois Chardons to our schools. At La Petite Ecole Bilingue we love theatre and have drama sessions with children weekly as part of our tailored bilingual curriculum. The choice of Les Trois Chardons is not random but is a reflection of what we, as a school, like to bring to our pupils, in terms of quality of education. The show is also an occasion for older pupils of KS2 to enter the world of pu