Belgium, Brussels
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Dance & Folklore and Creative Workshop are offered as extracurricular activities. Through crafts, painting and dancing, children are immersed in the target language. Teaching methods are playful and creative, and extracurricular learning is active, lively and differentiated rather than academic.
Language workshops are available in German, English, Chinese, Spanish, French, Italian and Dutch. Workshops run in Saint-Gilles and in Uccle with age-based groupings and time slots. The language teaching prioritizes spoken language, with trainers who teach their mother tongue or the language in which they were schooled from an early age. A minibus transport service takes children from neighbouring schools to Tutti Frutti in Saint-Gilles.
Yoga workshops, Dance & Folklore, and Creative Workshop are part of the weekly after-school activities. Wednesday Workshops are reserved for students already enrolled. Weekly language workshops are offered in Saint-Gilles and Uccle.
Yoga workshops promote movement and relaxation as part of wellbeing. Dance activities support physical activity and social engagement. Extracurricular learning is described as active, lively and differentiated.
Tutti Frutti Primary is a private, non-subsidized ASBL in Belgium that combines language learning with an active, open pedagogy. The elementary program is organized into three bilingual sections: French-English, French-German, and French-Italian, with an average of about 12 students per class. Immersion is achieved through exposure to two or three languages, and the curriculum emphasizes explicit reading, writing and mathematics alongside multi-disciplinary, multi-sensory, creative activities. Instruction uses lively, participatory, differentiated methods and practical tasks such as cooking workshops to foster autonomy. Children are registered with the Vlaamse Gemeenschap, and at the end of the sixth year take tests in French to obtain the CEB. The school operates across several premises in Saint-Gilles and Uccle, and offers weekly language workshops plus a range of arts, cultural and wellbeing activities. Extracurriculars include Dance & Folklore, Creative Workshop and language sessions, with small groups and a modular program including inclusive activities for all.