School Vision

We believe that every child has the right to an education which lays the foundation for a world of peace. Bilingual Education provides an academically rigorous educational model which embraces human communication, understanding, empathy and appreciation of diversity. Our school will exemplify the qualities of global citizenship as we prepare children for the demands of an ever-changing world.

School Mission

Play English and the Bilingual School of Monza aim to develop caring, inquiring, and responsible world citizens who are highly competent in both English and Italian.
• We offer a Dual Language Immersion model of education to both local and international learners.
• Our approach to teaching and learning promotes critical thinking and intercultural understanding and respect.
• The school is committed to establishing collaborative and caring learning communities amongst children, teachers and parents.
• We strive to continually reflect on and assess our practices and progress.

Educational Philosophy

Play English and the Bilingual School of Monza offer a Dual Language Immersion model of Education in English and in Italian through which young learners can acquire a second language while developing and maintaining their mother tongue.
Our program of studies and model design are based on sound constructivist educational theories and scientific research.
We believe in the values of additive bilingualism and therefore aim to enable our learners develop high levels of both conversational competencies and academic language proficiency in the two school languages.
We believe that children best learn in an environment where they feel emotionally secure and safe and therefore we place particular importance at establishing caring environments and relationships amongst adults and children.
We consider the child’s family as partners in the educational process and as such we encourage them to be active members of our learning community.
We believe that all children have equal rights to the curriculum and as such we aim to differentiate our instructional and assessment practices in order to cater for the diversity of students’ learning styles, needs and levels of competencies.
Bilingual education lays the foundations for global citizenship and intercultural understanding and when enriched by an international programme of studies, it provides students with opportunities for learning which embrace and go beyond local and national significance, leading thus to a better understanding of human life.