My Kid 6-10 Primary School
Primary School My Kid 6–10 welcomes children into a dynamic and stimulating environment where knowledge grows from curiosity, hands-on experience, and the desire to understand the world.
The entire educational journey is designed to support harmonious growth, ensuring that each child remains the protagonist of their own learning. They are guided by qualified educators and teachers with diverse expertise in languages, pedagogy, and the arts. Through age-appropriate activities tailored to developmental needs, every proposal becomes an opportunity to foster critical thinking, independence, the joy of discovery, and a sense of belonging to a community.
A year-round service. Our Extra School Service, available 49 weeks a year from 7:00 to 19:00, offers, in addition to pre-school and after-school care:
- My Weeks: themed weeks during cantonal school holidays;
- My Summer Camp: a summer camp during the summer months.
The Extra School Service maintains the high educational standards and pedagogical principles that characterise the entire institution, ensuring continuity of care and learning even outside the curricular calendar.
The Campus
Learning spaces and environments. The school’s spaces are designed to support concentration, research and dialogue. Each environment is orderly, welcoming and thoughtfully arranged, offering children a place where they can feel safe, motivated and free to learn.
Classrooms are spacious, bright and equipped with large windows that create a natural continuity with the surrounding landscape. Each class includes areas dedicated to exploration across the different fields of knowledge: language, mathematics, science, history, geography and storytelling.
The school also features:
- two language laboratories for English (introduced from the first year) and French (from Year 3, in line with the Cantonal Curriculum);
- a modern, fully equipped STEM room where children can explore science, technology, robotics and coding, guided by specialised teachers. This space represents a true extension of outdoor learning experiences, connecting digital and hands-on activities;
- an auditorium, also used as a multifunctional room for music lessons, religious studies, presentations and Great Lessons.
For Physical Education, the school uses the outdoor spaces of the campus or nearby municipal sports halls, offering variety and movement throughout the school day.
Outdoor Education
Outdoor Education is also an integral part of the My Kid 6–10 experience. Learning extends to the outdoor spaces, where children can observe, explore and engage directly with the local environment.
Weekly outdoor activities include:
- lessons and break times surrounded by greenery,
- art ateliers in nature,
- woodland lunches,
- educational trips in the local area.
These experiences strengthen the connection with the environment, stimulate peer collaboration and enrich the school journey with emotions, movement and a sense of freedom.
Pedagogical project
My Kid Primary School 6–10 aims to support children in building their sense of self while developing cognitive, social and relational skills. Each proposal begins with attentive observation of the children’s needs and becomes an opportunity to explore themselves, others and the world.
The approach is founded on three integrated pedagogical pillars:
- Montessori Method, forming the basis of daily work organisation and classroom teacher training;
- Reggio Emilia Approach and the child’s “100 languages”, expressed mainly through atelier work;
- Outdoor Education, extending and deepening learning within the natural environment.
All activities take place in an Italian/English bilingual setting through immersion, making language learning natural, daily and fully integrated into school life.
How does this translate into everyday practice? In our approach, the role of the school—and of the adults who work within it— to promote the child’s natural development, accompanying them with respect, attention and expertise. This is achieved through targeted pedagogical actions:
- Preparing an environment-as-laboratory: rationally organised, welcoming and stimulating, where children can move freely, explore, build relationships and experience meaningful social interactions.
- Free access to developmental materials: carefully selected to support hands-on learning. Materials are always available and can be used autonomously, individually or in small groups, according to each child’s interests and rhythm.
- Constant presence of the adult-guide: a trained, attentive and non-judgemental educator who observes, encourages and supports each child’s personal path, fostering positive relationships and shared rules.
- Observation as an educational tool: a scientific approach that replaces traditional assessment and allows educators to identify the child’s real needs, intervening only to remove obstacles to their “self-construction”.
- A free work cycle of at least three hours a day: an uninterrupted period during which children can organise their own learning, follow their interests and develop self-discipline, concentration and a sense of self-efficacy.
- Mixed-age groups: a pedagogical choice that mirrors real community dynamics, where each child can take on different roles, receive help and offer support, learning through daily interaction.
- Hands-on experiences, research and educational outings: valuable opportunities to learn directly in the field through active observation and direct contact with the environment and the local territory.
Attentive to the needs of each age group, teachers also present Great Lessons, introducing topics designed to spark curiosity and the desire to investigate further through individual or group research and experimentation (the concept of the Great Lesson – or Cosmic Tale – is explored further in the curriculum section below).
A typical day
A typical school day is organised as follows:
7:30–8:15 a.m.: pre-school
8:15–8:30 a.m.: arrival
8:30–11:30 a.m.: classroom work with morning snack
11:30 a.m–1:30 p.m.: tidying up, table setting, lunch and outdoor play
From 1:30 p.m.: specialist activities (language laboratories, physical education, art, music, religious education)
4:00–4:15 p.m.: dismissal
4:00–7:00 p.m. and Wednesdays from 12:00 p.m. possibility to join the Extra School Service – after-school care
My Kid 6–10 throughout the year
Throughout the school year, My Kid 6–10 offers a range of special activities and cross-curricular projects—some well-established, others experimental and continuously evolving. Each occasion enriches the school experience with input from the local territory and supports emotional development. Moments of sharing with families and the community are also essential.
Here are some of the initiatives that characterise our educational year:
- Story Night
A national event promoted by the Swiss Institute for Children’s and Youth Media since 1991. On the same evening across Switzerland, stories inspired by a common theme are read aloud, celebrating the power of storytelling and the importance of listening. - Usborne Book Fair
A day open to the wider community, offering the opportunity to purchase English-language books with guidance from experts and our teachers. Part of the proceeds is converted into books donated to the school, enriching our internal library. - Theatre project
An experience bringing children closer to interdisciplinarity and to the use of multiple forms of expression: musical, artistic, linguistic, expressive and gestural. It helps them understand how to channel emotional resources. The project also offers opportunities to learn new rules, develop listening skills, cooperate, and recognise their own strengths and limitations as well as those of others. It concludes each year with a final performance open to all campus families. - Education for emotional and sexual development
Introducing age-appropriate programmes on emotional education, respect for oneself and others, and bodily awareness is a key element in preventing various forms of distress (bullying, abuse prevention, etc.). - Individual meetings with families
Four times a year, teachers meet parents for thoughtful and respectful dialogue. These moments are precious for sharing observations, experiences and reflections, ensuring educational continuity between home and school. - Charity collections
Special opportunities to raise awareness of solidarity and to support partner associations through simple yet meaningful initiatives. - Shared celebrations
Events linked to tradition and the seasons—such as International Day of Peace, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Carnival and Easter—experienced through games, creative activities and woodland treasure hunts. Joyful moments of community and togetherness that blend learning and emotion.
SCHOOL CURRICULUM
My Kid 6–10 primary school, officially authorized by the DECS, allows access to all Swiss and international secondary schools.
A detailed overview of the My Kid 6–10 curriculum, organised by subject areas, is available below.
Discover our team
Highly qualified educational staff in regular training, with native Italian and English speakers full time!
