Toddler Section
The Toddler Section is designed for children between 24 and 36 months of age.
The two sections, Daisies and Butterflies, welcome children in dedicated spaces and classrooms structured to promote hands-on experiences and consolidate skills already acquired.
Children discover the world: they manipulate, assemble, and build when immersed in a positive and respectful environment that allows them freedom of movement. The approach to activities is slow-paced and brief in duration, allowing children to experience without fear and giving them time to understand what they are doing.
Virtual Open Day for Nursery and Toddler Section
Take a few minutes, make yourself comfortable, and join us in discovering the Nursery and Toddler Section of the Ada Bolchini dell’Acqua school. An environment where children learn and grow through play, music, sounds, and the exploration of themselves, others, and the world.
Experiences and Activities
In the Toddler Section, children discover the world: they manipulate, assemble, and build when immersed in a positive and respectful environment that allows them freedom of movement. The approach to activities is slow-paced and brief in duration, allowing children to experience without fear and giving them time to understand what they are doing.
Through play, exploration, and discovery, children learn to observe the reality around them and become aware of themselves. The development of sensory-perceptual skills is the foundation of all forms of intelligence. Each activity encompasses cognitive, expressive, social, and communicative areas.
Growth, Autonomy, and Discovery
The Toddler Section promotes:
- Maturation of identity (developing the capacity for security, confidence, and self-esteem, as well as relational and communicative skills).
- Achievement of autonomy (being able to do things independently, living with others, collaborating, expressing feelings).
- Development of competence (developing sensory-perceptual, communicative, motor, and creative abilities).
Learning Through Play
English language orientation is an aspect to which great attention is paid: the educator participates in section activities, collaborating with the educators throughout the day, using only English when communicating with the children. In this way, children become familiar with the English language while having fun, listening to songs, coloring, drawing, dancing, and carrying out usual routines. Discovering a new vocabulary makes them more attentive in learning and eager to know more.
To accommodate working parents, children can arrive at school at 7:30 AM and remain until 6:20 PM. Children can use the after-school service from 4:00 PM to 6:20 PM; during these hours, an educator guides the children in play and creative experiences.
A service managed directly by the school's qualified staff, which proposes a food and environmental education project each year, such as the "educational garden" or "the best menu."
and personal hygiene
Where Experience and Education Take Shape
The History
The “Ada Bolchini dell’Acqua” Institute in Milan is the latest acquisition of the Pio Istituto pei Figli della Provvidenza.
Since 1953, several families and women from the Milanese petite bourgeoisie and aristocracy, including Ada Bolchini dell’Acqua, have been committed to supporting mothers and their newborns. In 1956, they opened a Maternal Home to welcome about thirty mothers with children from 0 to 3 years old.
The Facilities
The Ada Bolchini Dell’Acqua campus is located in Milan’s Inganni district and was established with the contribution of renowned architect Marco Zanuso and artist Lucio Fontana: the decorations of the internal chapel and ceiling are his work, including the famous pink Via Crucis, now preserved at the Diocesan Museum of Milan, and the four cherubs on either side of the altar.
"Children's play is not play, and it should be considered their most serious activity."
