WE EDUCATE IN WELL-BEING
We deeply believe in the importance of offering each child the necessary experiences to grow and develop fully in all areas of their life. We want to accompany them on the path of learning to take care of themselves, others and the world around them.
Through support based on respect, love and conscious presence, and a living pedagogy based on direct and active experience, we aspire to enable each being to unfold with authenticity and fullness. We understand each child as a whole, and for this reason we promote holistic development that embraces the physical, emotional, social, cognitive and spiritual dimensions.
We place special emphasis on the deep connection with oneself, respecting individual rhythms, as well as the relationship with the natural and social environment of which we are part. We believe that it is in this bond where meaningful and transformative learning is born.
FOREST SCHOOL
At Nial, we offer children the opportunity to discover themselves, to explore their surroundings and to open up to the world through experience. Nature becomes an essential, rich and inspiring space, which offers infinite possibilities for learning through experience and emotion. Each group goes out once or twice a week to the estate's forest, and on Fridays we visit different nearby natural places - mountains, beaches, rivers and lakes - to observe and feel the changes of the seasons throughout the year.
FESTIVALS AND RITES
Throughout the school year we celebrate several festivals linked to the wheel of the year, connected to the four changes of the seasons and their intermediate moments. They are spaces of celebration and awareness, where we stop to honor the passage of time, to reconnect with natural cycles and to live them with meaning and community.
KITCHEN
At Nial, cooking becomes a living and significant pedagogical tool. Through it, children integrate different aspects of science into their daily lives in a practical and transversal way. It is a space for experimentation, autonomy, creativity and cooperation.
LIBRARY
One Wednesday a month we visit the town library. Visiting this municipal space and the resources it offers them gets them used to maintaining an
attitude of focus and calm, while we spend a long time
among books, looking, rummaging, discovering and leafing through new readings.
