Not all of the teachers are native speakers, but they all have, at least a C1, English certification. Most of them are from Brasil and we also have teachers from different nationalities.

Yes we promote ELL classes when students with no english knowledge enroll in elementary school.

We offer spanish lessons starting from Year 3

Be.Living chooses to work with small groups:
Yellow Orange Group age 1-3 13 students
Green Group age 3-4 17 students
Red Group age 4-5 17 students
Blue Group age 5-6 22 students
Year 1 through 5 25 students

Yellow Orange- 12
Green- 14
Red- 14
Blue- 20
Year 1 through 5- 18 ( the school has recently started working with lower elementary and the number of students is increasing every year)

We have teacher assistants in most of the groups.
In the elementary school, there is a full time assistant for groups over 15 students and part time assistant for smaller groups.

We use technology to enrichen our project based program.

Yes, the school has quickly organized a new way of teaching and interacting with students. Our remote program is based on synchronous and asynchronous activities, always promoting interaction and meaningful learning.

No, be.Living is a non-religious school

They go through some of the Cambridge exames.

They have been achieving very good results .

Teachers from the Elementary Program do assign homework occasionally . It isn't an everyday task.

Around 30 minutes plus suggested reading.

be.Living focus on working with younger students, considering not only their academic, but also social and emotional development. We consider that a smaller environment is very important for young kids. For this reason our curriculum goes up to Year 5, (10-11 year olds)

Yes, being a small school helps us keep track of each and every student. We build special programes for different needs.

Close partnership with parents and specialists. Usually we build a "tailor made" programe in order to meet the student's need.

The work with differentiation is very alive inside the school environment. Our goal is to keep students interested and challenged throught their school experience.

No, the school doesn´t have an educational psychologist who is part of the team; however we have some close partners to suggest whenever we feel it is necessary.

We usually assess students who are enrolling in elementary school.

Students are invited to spend a day at the school. This gives the school educators, the family and the child the opportunity to get to know each other, before committing to the school year.

It depends on the grade level

Enrollments are usually done by october.

Yes, we do allow if there is still availability.

Pre-school- 8 am or 1 pm
Elementary- 8 am

Pre-school- 12 pm or 5pm
Elementary:
Year 1- 3pm
Year 2- 3:30pm
Year 3-5- mon, wed. fri at 3:30pm and tue and thu at 4:30pm

Yes we do

Yes

Yes

Yes, we adapt our menu whenever there is a special need.

We do have uniform and most of the students wear them; however the use is not mandatory.

We offer ballet, tennis, judo, capoeira, music, yoga, soccer and guitar lessons

Physical Education and Yoga

They compete only within the school environment and with other OEBi (Organização das Escolas Biliningues) schools.

There is a court, in each one of the schools

Being a small school, be.Living promotes the opportunity for its students to interact with different age groups, learning to understand, respect and look after each other. We consider there is no effective work without a close partnership with the families. For this reason we are very open to having the whole community being part of our school project. We believe there is no education without investigation, interaction, collaboration and love.

We work based on the Social- Constructivism conception of teaching and learning. The school works with the intention of facilitating the students process of building knowledge, independence, critical thinking, curiosity and protagonism. Although we aim to build very strong academic achievement, we consider buiding moral and social skill as important as learning content. What student's learn, is equaly important to how they learn, for this reason, the process of learning acquisition is very well taken care of throughout the 11 years boys and girls spend with us.