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Spanish Bilingual Program (Ok-12) | Language Packages | Program Choices | Packages

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Spanish Bilingual Program (Ok-12) | Language Packages | Program Choices | Packages



Spanish Bilingual Program (Ok-12)

​The Spanish Bilingual Program gives college students with the chance to amass the fundamental expertise for spe​aking, studying, writing, listening and speaking in each English and Spanish at a younger age. It’s a program wherein Spanish and English are used because the languages of instruction, starting in Kindergarten or Grade 1 and persevering with to Grade 12.

Who Can Register

  • Kids coming into kindergarten or Grade 1 can register. 

  • Earlier Spanish expertise isn’t required and oldsters don’t must know the language.

  • College students with earlier Spanish language expertise might begin the Spanish Bilingual program at different grade ranges. Within the case of alternate entry factors, the scholar, mother and father and principal of the designated faculty will meet to find out a personalised plan for profitable entry.

Advantages of Studying Spanish

  • Expands the mind

  • Teaches accountable citizenship

  • Develops enhanced emotions of shallowness and pleasure in having acquired a further language

  • Strengthens English literacy expertise

  • Encourages the enjoyment of lifelong studying

  • Promotes exploration, understanding and appreciation of the cultures of the Spanish-speaking world and contributes to multilingualism and multiculturalism

  • Permits college students to compete internationally

  • Supplies college students with extra selections for superior training and profession choices

  • Broadens college students’ cultural life by way of entry to literature, artwork, music and theatre in one other language

Advantages of Spanish Bilingual Program

  • In elementary, a 50/50 cut up in tutorial time between English and Spanish permits college students to construct fluency in each languages. Kids be taught to grasp and reply appropriately in Spanish in a variety of on a regular basis conditions.

Languages of Instruction


From Ok to grade 6:

  • Spanish Language Arts and Math are taught in Spanish
  • English Language Arts is taught in English
  • Different topics are taught in English or Spanish or bilingually as decided by faculties


From 7 to 9:

  • Spanish Language Arts and Math are taught in Spanish
  • English Language Arts is taught in English
  • Different topics are taught in English or Spanish or bilingually as decided by faculties


From 10 to 12:

  • Spanish Language Arts is taught in Spanish
  • Different topics are taught in English or Spanish as decided by faculties

Discover a Faculty

Each youngster in Calgary has a chosen faculty primarily based on their dwelling tackle and this system they select.

Discover your designated faculty with our discover a faculty instrument together with the varsity’s contact data and web site tackle. Be sure you use the drop down arrow for ‘Program Choices’ to pick out Spanish Bilingual’.​​

Students in a class

 

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