El Llimoner offers the first stage or “cycle” of nursery school education, from age 0 to 3.  We are open from 7 o’clock in the morning to 8 o’clock at night.  This includes the holidays: summer, Christmas and Easter.

Nursery school provides a fundamental part of children’s education and we are proud to participate in this process.  It is during these early years that we are able to lay a solid basis for later maturity.  The children’s development is the centre of our project.

CURRICULUM
We consider the following to be priority:

• Nurturing the concept of self-esteem
• Identifying and nurturing a child’s natural abilities
• Ensuring that a child is happy at school and at home
• Co-educating with the families

Our activities are child-centred and based on the child’s own knowledge, experience and capacity for pleasure.  We can only work towards a child’s global development if there is a strong emotional bond between the child and the teacher.  It is this bond that guarantees is essential to a child’s personal development and to the acquisition of knowledge and values.

VALUES
When we talk about nursery school education we are talking about a period which is decisive for the rest of a person’s life.  We are talking about establishing the basis of a solid acquisition of basic skills but also of the acquisition of habits applicable to study and to work.  Sociability and respect for others play an important part in the acquisition of these habits.
An education that takes into account the development of values makes it possible for a person to participate fully in all activities which require respect for others and the active democratic cooperation of others, factors which form part of responsible participation in social activities.
Educating for values is a generalized central activity which permeates all the different specific learning activities at El Llimoner.  For this reason we attach special importance to group activities and to encouraging attitudes against inequality and discrimination.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Our own body is the most perfect tool we possess and it demands special attention.
We aim to ensure that children become more aware of their own bodies as they learn to coordinate their movements and as they gradually acquire greater autonomy.

INTELLECTUAL ASPECTS
We have a large amount of material to promote sensorial and perceptual development.  The material includes resources for symbolic play, imitation, etc.  Progress is made every day, little by little.
We ensure that children feel the need for verbal and non-verbal communication.

SOCIAL ASPECTS
In different ways and different circumstances, the children will have to integrate into the company of others.  This process requires self-esteem.  We pay great attention to their relationships with their companions in class and we begin the process of learning to collaborate among themselves and with adults.  In all this, the link between the school and the family is of vital importance.

AFFECTIVE ASPECTS
We teach the value of self-esteem and respect for themselves and we teach children to extend that self-esteem and self-respect to others.  We provide an environment in which they can be happy.