EXCELLENCE IN UK EDUCATION


START WHEN THEY’RE YOUNG In the TASIS England lower school, instruction in Spanish begins in kindergarten (age five) and continues through Grade 4 (age ten). The middle school offers French and Spanish at three levels – beginner, intermediate and advanced – to students in Grades 5–8 (ages ten to 14). Upper- school students may choose to study French, German, Latin, Mandarin or Spanish. IB Diploma students may also study literature in their mother tongue.


“Learners who acquire multiple languages from an early age are able to reach higher levels of cognitive development and develop stronger critical and creative minds than their monolingual peers. Multilingual learners are also more open to intercultural understanding, which is essential for living in our increasingly global society,” says Edward Spencer, of TASIS. ISL attracts both expat and local children to its schools, as more and more British families acknowledge that the world is international and seek a broader education for their children. ISL provides language learning in French and Spanish for native English speakers from the age of three. Mandarin is also available in secondary school. At ISL Surrey, teaching is in the form of role play, music and song. “Children develop an ear for languages at an early


age,” says Susan Stewart, head of languages. “The earlier they start, the better the connections they start to make between sounds and words.”


“As part of a literature review that ACS International Schools commissioned last year,” explains Jane Fox from ACS Cobham, “it is clear that developing early bilingualism in children has several cognitive benefits, including cultural insight and empathy, enrichment of one language by the


other, an expansion enhanced employability.”


CULTURAL AWARENESS Holmewood House, near Tunbridge Wells, in Kent, is


a coeducational day and boarding school for boys and girls aged from three to 13. It has welcomed children from the USA, China, Russia, Brazil and Europe, and helps pupils to become aware of cultures outside their own – an essential quality for the globally widening future in which children live and work, says the school.


Holmewood House follows a broad curriculum in which languages feature strongly. Children are taught French from nursery, with Spanish, Latin, Greek and Mandarin being available from prep school.


of one’s accessible world, and


EXTRAORDINARY LIVES BEGIN AT HOLMEWOOD...


In the last three years pupils have been awarded 70 scholarships including:


• 34 academic • 17 sport • 19 music, drama and art


Destination schools include: Benenden, Brighton, Eastbourne, King’s Canterbury, Sevenoaks, Tonbridge


HOLMEWOOD HOUSE SCHOOL


A day and boarding school for girls and boys aged 3-13 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent


welcome@holmewoodhouse.co.uk • www.holmewoodhouse.co.uk


IN 2017 We open our new £4.5million Learning Hub which includes classrooms, library, IT suite and learning support centre.


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