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Child psychologist, Alison Chowdhary, has recently opened a new practice in the region offering a range of support services for children with learning and emotional difficulties.
Helping children aged between 4 and 16, Alison’s practice is a welcome addition to the region, where it can often be difficult to find specialist support for children in English.
Alison told knowitall.ch, “My aim is to help children overcome their difficulties by teaching them strategies which can be applied both in the classroom and at home, and which will help to improve their self-esteem. However, these strategies will only work with the collaboration of parents, teachers and special needs staff, so I work closely with them also to ensure the best results for my young clients. Having lived in Switzerland for over 20 years, I am bilingual and work fluently in both English and French."
One of Switzerland's leading centers of further education, Ecole-club Migros, has just announced details of an exciting new opportunity for those of you who are struggling with old-style French lessons and are looking for more inspirational ways of learning the language.
By teaming up with the Golf Club of Signal de Bougy, Ecole-club Migros is offering a truly innovative way of learning French that is sure to appeal to students who are fed up trying to learn the language in stuffy classrooms with boring teachers.
The new “French & Golf: Do you Speak Swing?” classes will start on 23 September 2013, and will continue over 3 weeks with an intensive program of lessons that includes 60 hours of learning French combined with 30 hours of golf.
If your child is interested in science, and wants to find out more about the world we live in, then they are certainly not alone!
A number of workshops are now being set up in the region, to help children indulge their fascination in this broad-ranging subject, which covers everything from recycling through to nuclear physics!
One club that has been running for a number of years now, but which is moving to new premises in La Rippe is the Science workshop at Anhugar school for gifted children. Open to children aged between 5 and 15 years old, these workshops run throughout the Vaud school term on Wednesdays between 2 and 5 pm. With help from experts in subjects such as DIY, gardening, biology, chemistry, geology and physics, the workshops cover a wide range of extra-curricular topics with strong ties to science. Both theory and practice are covered in the sessions, which are run in French and in English, and also include trips to local museums and other places of scientific interest. Click here for more information on this club, and click here to see what has been covered in previous workshops at the school.
A new international school will open its doors next September in Etoy, a small village in Vaud, located conveniently between Geneva and Lausanne. Enrolments have now started for the first phase of the GEMS World Academy - Etoy, which will accommodate up to 1,000 students in a new, purpose-built building, already nearing completion.
Managed by GEMS Education, the largest K-12 private school operator in the world, the new school will teach students primarily in English. Currently applying to be a "Candidate school”, GWA Etoy aims to offer the International Baccalaureate (IB), Primary Years (PYP) and Middle Years (MYP) programs to children aged from 3 (pre-K) through to 14 (Grade 8), and will expand in the future to include children up to the age of 18 (Grade 12).
Rob Curtis, European Marketing Manager at GEMS Education, told knowitall.ch,
Is your child thinking about a career in one of the creative industries? Do you want to find out more about the career options available to them, and learn more about how they can develop skills that will enable them to stand out from the crowd?
If that’s the case, and your child is now at the stage where they are starting to think about career choices beyond school, then you have the opportunity to find out more about the creative industries at a special FREE event being held in Geneva on the weekend of 10th and 11th November.
Organized by local arts school, ALLMINDS, the 2-day Careers in Creative Industries Event will enable young people aged between 15 and 18, and their parents, to meet professionals working in these industries and participate in a series of workshops led by leading universities offering courses in these industries. NABA Milan, Webster University, and the Paris College of Art will be supporting the event.
