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Number of students |
280 |
Number of nationalities represented in the school |
40 |
Native English and French speaking teachers |
Yes |
Language support for students not fluent in English and French |
Compulsory language tutoring for children with insufficient knowledge of French / English. |
Additional language classes offered by the school |
German |
Max. number of students per class |
24 |
Does the school employ teaching assistants? |
Yes |
Use of technology in the classroom |
Yes |
Is the school ready to use virtual classrooms when needed? (e.g. teaching lessons online if the school is closed, e.g. during COVID-19 closures) |
Yes |
Do teachers assign homework to their students? |
Yes |
Approximate hours of homework given |
There is no homework before Grade 3P. A basic guideline to the time
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Dedicated staff/programs for students with special learning needs |
Yes |
Learning support offered |
Mosaic is an inclusive school. For children with special needs, there are many benefits to an inclusive learning environment. Regardless of their ability level, children learn from one another. In an inclusive classroom, children with special needs have the opportunity to observe their peers, who serve as positive role models by demonstrating the skills that the teachers and therapists are trying to teach. Being an equal member of a classroom community provides many important social benefits as well, including increased self-esteem and the formation of friendships. |
School start time |
8:00 |
School finish time |
16:00 |
Supervised care before/after school |
Before-school garderie from 7:30 to 8:00.
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School bus service available |
Yes |
School provided lunches |
Yes |
Extracurricular activities or clubs offered |
Yoga, homework club, hip hop, baseball, unihockey, circus and acro sport, football, art and craft, cooking, graffiti and street art, drums, guitar. |
Sports activities included |
Physical education |
Sports facilities at the school |
150 sqm room dedicated to physical activities (gym, theatre, dance, capoeira, hip hop). Mosaic also organises outside school activities such as swimming lessons (from Grade 3P to 6P) and sailing lessons (for the Grade 7P and 8P). |
Qualities and characteristics best defining the school |
Mosaic School is a private, bilingual school for children from age 2 1/2 to 12 years old. The mission of the Mosaic School is to contribute to the child’s global development in partnership with and in complement of the family. The school aims to stimulate and facilitate the child’s intellectual learning, artistic aptitudes, relational sensitivities, and emotional richness.
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Teaching approach of the school |
The curriculum is bilingual and based on the new PER (applied since 2011 in the canton of Geneva) and on the British national curriculum. Mosaic expects its students to have the same level in English and French at the end of their primary school period. They are not two programmes led jointly but they make up a single
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