St Leo's Catholic School

At St Leo’s Catholic School, as in all schools, learning includes the academic, physical, aesthetic and spiritual domains.

The Reggio Emilia approach incorporates these domains in the following way:

•    The Collaborative Nature of Learning
•    Personal Strength
•    The Struggle
•    The Value of Questions and Research
•    The Pedagogy of Listening.
•    The Hundred Languages of Children.
•    The Environment as the Third Teacher
•    The Value of Documentation

Reggio Emilia was introduced in Italy during the last century and has a strong following in preschool institutions.

The teacher’s role within the Reggio Emilia approach is complex.

The role of the teacher is first and foremost to be that of a learner alongside the children.

The teacher carefully listens to, and observes the children’ at work and develop programmes that are individual to each child.

The teachers at St. Leo’s are committed to reflect about their own teaching and learning in order to be better teachers for the children.

Reggio Emilia schools like St. Leo’s, pay great attention to the look and feel of the classroom.

Our teachers carefully organize the classroom space for small and large group projects.

The children’s work is displayed both at the children’s and adult eye level.

Click here for more details on of the main dimensions of the Reggio Emilia Approach