Les Enfants de Marsillon in Vessy
Les enfants de Marsillon is a bilingual Montessori school in Geneva for children aged 3 to 6, where learning extends far beyond the classroom. Each day, children move between a prepared indoor environment and a family farm, where they spend extensive time outdoors caring for animals, gardening, exploring, and engaging in real, meaningful work.
Here, nature is not a break from learning: it is the classroom. This daily immersion supports independence, resilience, and deep engagement, while research shows that outdoor learning enhances cognitive, emotional, and social development.
Rooted in Montessori principles, the school offers a unique educational experience in Geneva, where children grow through freedom, nature, and purposeful activity.
The school offers a truly distinctive model in Geneva: a bilingual Montessori education deeply rooted in daily outdoor life.
Children spend significant time in a countryside farm setting, caring for animals, gardening, and engaging in real, meaningful work. Nature is not an occasional activity but the core of the educational experience. This constant movement between classroom and countryside creates a unique rhythm that supports autonomy, responsibility, and a strong connection to the living world: something rarely found in traditional school settings.
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