Kindergarten: A Reggio Emilia-Inspired & IB PYP Early Years Approach

Our Kindergarten program integrates the IB PYP framework with a Reggio Emilia-inspired approach, creating a dynamic, inquiry-driven, and child-centered learning environment.

Children engage in five to six transdisciplinary units of inquiry per year, fostering curiosity, collaboration, and critical thinking.

These units provide a balance between collaborative projects, small-group teacher-led experiences, and uninterrupted play, ensuring a smooth flow throughout the daily routine. The learning environment is carefully designed to promote exploration, creativity, and independence, allowing children to actively construct their understanding through hands-on experiences.

We embrace the image of the child as capable and competent, encouraging them to learn through observation, questioning, discussion, reflection, creation, and collaboration. Children express their thinking in diverse ways that honor their individuality, strengths, and creativity.

A strong foundation in literacy, numeracy, and scientific thinking is cultivated through stories, role-play, book exploration, reading, and writing, allowing children to develop essential skills in a meaningful and engaging way. The environment acts as the “third teacher,” inspiring children to inquire, experiment, and communicate their ideas through multiple forms of expression, in alignment with the Reggio Emilia philosophy and PYP enhancements.